英汉翻译的方法——直译、意译和归化、异化一.直译和意译：在谈到直译和意译时，人们常常用英文词语literal translation 和freetranslation。
此时人们关心的是语言层面的技术处理问题，即如何在保持原语形式的同时，不让其意义失真；而意译则认为语言有不同的文化内涵和表达形式，当形式成为翻译的障碍时，就要采取意译。
直译和意译之争的靶心是意义和形式的得失问题。
在中国的翻译史上，赞成直译和意译的均有人在，初期佛典翻译中的文质说，唐代玄奘的“求真”和“喻俗”，近代有严复的“信达雅”及鲁迅的“宁信而不顺”和赵景深的“宁顺而不信”等，都是从直译和意译的角度来探讨翻译的原则。
1．直译 (literal translation)英、汉语的结构有相同的一面，汉译时可照译，即直译。
直译既忠实原文内容，又符合原文的结构形式。
直译有不少优点，例如能传达原文意义，体现原文风格等。
但是，直译具有一定的局限性。
例如译文有时冗长罗唆，晦涩难懂，有时不能正确传达原文意义，有时甚至事和愿违。
Literal translation is where the forms of the original are retained as much as possible, even if those forms are not the most natural forms to preserve the original meaning. Literal translation is sometimes called word-for-word translation (as opposed to thought-for-thought translation). A more accurate, but less well-known, label for this approach is formal equivalence translation. Because literal translation focuses on forms of language, it sometimes misses some of the meaning of those forms, since meaning is found not only in the forms of individual words, but also in relationships among words, phrases, idiomatic uses of words, and influences of speaker-hearer, cultural, and historical contexts. Words often have different meanings in different contexts, but a literal translation often does not account for these differences. So literal translation often is not the most accurate form of translation.直译的五大误区：①否定句型中的直译误区英语中有一些不同的否定句型，其中有一些句型不能完全采用直译法进行翻译，否则，就会造成误译，甚至和原意背道而驰，下列几种否定句型值得注意：A. 部分否定句型，这种句型不同于汉语的思维形式。
