One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy./ Everyone’s business is nobody’s business.
一个和尚挑水吃，两个和尚抬水吃，三个和尚没 水吃。
He was in the seventh heaven last night. 他昨晚欢天喜地，兴高采烈。 Lock the stable door after the horse is stolen. 贼去关门,为时太晚 。（与亡羊补牢不大相同） Shakespeare put his hometown on the map. 莎土比亚使他的家乡声名远扬。
The definition of literal translation
Literal translation takes sentences as its basic units and the whole text into consideration at the same time in the course of translating.
Literal translation strives to reproduce both the ideological content and the style of the original literary work, it does not mean word-for-word translation, i.e, neither a word more nor a word less.
The definition of free translation
Free translation aims at the communicative effect of the translated version. It is also called communicative translation or assimilation
