Compensation and Its Application in English-Chinese Translation

Due to linguistic and cultural distinction between English and Chinese , there exists intranslatability, to which compensation is an effective solution . This paper clarifies intranslatability as phonetic and phonologic intranslatab ility, morphologic intranslatability, semantic intranslatability and cultural in translatability. With a study on compensation and many examples, it analyzes con crete application of compensation in respective intranslatability.