w relationship between people, which gives expression to more quality, liberty, relaxation and harmony, it also embodies the newly-formed idea of people foremost. With an analysis objective corpus and survey oh the functions and features on full scale, the paper analyses the evolution process, improvement and the present condition of different meanings of the character “lao”. During the process of translating “lao”, it can be concluded that when Chinese character “lao” is translated to “old, aged, of long standing, outdated, overgrown” as a adjective, “old people, parents” as a norm, “be old, get old” as a verb and “very, always, for a long time” as a adverb.РKey words: the Chinese character “lao”; the functions and features of the word; meaning; grammaticalization;Translating into English
全文预览
