In the history of Chinese traditional translation theory,Fulei 's "spirit resemblance" principle is one of the most famous translation standards,and in the western countries,Nida's dynamic equivalence theory has a tremendous influence on translation studies.This essay makes a comparison between these two standards and aims to find out the similarities and differences between the two.
Edward Hall offers us an effective means of examining cultural similarities and differences,that is the classification of high-context and low-context culture.The paper attempts to analyze a case of a Chinese refusal from the perspective of highcontext and low-context communication and explores the differences between the two types of communication.
