A Humble Discussion on EC/CE Translation of Some Commonly-used Multi-Collocating Verbs from the Inter-cultural Perspective

Abstract

The present paper aims to enumerate and analyze the EC/CE translations of some multi-collocating verbs that frequently appear in Chinese and English everyday languages from the perspective of cross-culture according to the weak hypothesis theorem of linguistic relativity (also called Sapir-Wolff hypothesis), which is to provide a new angle for language beginners and teachers, so that language beginners can start understanding multi-collocating verbs from the differences of thinking and language between Chinese and Western peoples, improve their ability to acquire and use such verbs of the same kind, and language teachers can better classify and summarize some more multi-collocating verbs in teaching practice and provide effective guidance for language beginners by following the laws of language acquisition and use.