A Study on Chinese Continuous Four-character Collocations and Their Translation into English Strategies

The Chinese continuous four-character collocations (CCFCCs) are vivid, concise and aesthetic.They have rich meanings, gorgeous literal talent, consistency and strong rhetorical effect.The CCFCCs are embedded in different sentences.They make the discourse more concise, lively, humorous and thought-provoking.There are many papers concerning the techniques and skills of translating four-character collocations, therefore, the present paper mainly focus on the translation strategies of CCFCCs. Index Terms-Chinese continuous four-character collocations, idioms, translationTranslating something does not just mean to translate the language.Instead, it means to translate the culture into another language.This paper is a tentative study of the features and translation method of CCFCC.The research should not be limited in the technique aspect, but should develop onto the levels of words' structure, collocation, grammar and style.