A Study on English Translation of Implicit Meanings in Chinese Political Discourse: Spatial-Temporal Differences

This study focuses on the translation of Chinese political discourse, with second-year translation students at Zhejiang Yuexiu University as the research subjects.The research explores their understanding and translation of implicit meanings embedded within Chinese political chunks.Through the analysis of translations of five typical sentences, the study identifies varying levels of meaning explicitation-Zero Explicitation, Partial Explicitation, Exceptional Explicitation, and Complete Explicitation.Based on the Chinese-English Spatial-temporal Differences Theory, this study analyzes the reasons behind students' explicitation failures and proposes corresponding teaching strategies to enhance their abilities in translating political discourse from Chinese to English and promoting crosscultural communication.