Examination into corresponding translation of two-part allegorical sayings in the multi-cultural background;

This paper studies the understanding of two-part allegorical sayings by using the theoretical frameworks of explicit-implicit expression from the perspective of cognitive pragmatics,so that we can find out the mental mechanism that influences human beings understanding.

It hardly finds its corresponding expressions,and so the translation of enigmatic folk similes becomes a great challenge for the translators.

This thesis has conducted a qualitative study of enigmatic folk similes(xie hou yu ) within a cognitive pragmatic framework aiming at unmasking the cognitive mechanisms behind the construal processes of enigmatic folk similes.