PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH THE COMPONENT-SOMATISM IN L.N. TOLSTOY’S NOVEL “ANNA KARENINA” AND THEIR TRANSLATIONS INTO CHINESE

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the semantic analysis of somatic phraseological units and their translation in the work of fiction from Russian into Chinese. Examples from the novel by L.N. Tolstoy “Anna Karenina” are analyzed as well as their translation into Chinese. Two notable translations are chosen: Zhou Yan’s translation published in 1989 and Li Gang’s translation published in 2015. The purpose of this work is to analyze difficulties faced by the translator and the methods of translation using the example of phraseological units with a somatism component in the work of fiction. Special attention is paid to the context as a significant factor that influences the transmission of the semantics of phraseological units. The author comes to the conclusion that the translator should not only pay attention to the phraseological unit itself, which corresponds to the norms of the translation language, but also to the translated text in accordance with the context of the original.