语言是思维的表达工具,它用文字来固定和记录人们思维的结果和认知的成果,反映和描述现实;但另一方面,语言和思维又有所不同,“是可分的”(G.W.Turner,1973),而且二者之间并非一对一的对应,一种思维内容往往可用多种语言形式来表达。或者,用EugeneA.Nida的话说,“Languages possess variousways of communicating essentially the samepropositional information.”(语言具有能基本上传达同一命题信息的种种方式。)而作为用一种语言传递另一语言的思维内容的翻译,其表 Language is an expression tool for thinking. It uses words to fix and record the results of people’s thinking and cognitive achievements, and reflects and describes reality; but on the other hand, language and thinking are different and “differentiable” (GW). Turner (1973), and there is not a one-to-one correspondence between the two, and one kind of thinking content can often be expressed in multiple languages. Or, in the words of Eugene A. Nida, “Languages ​​standing various channels of communication essentially the same propositional information.” (Language has various ways of basically communicating the same propositional information.) As a way of conveying the thinking content of another language in one language. Translation, its table