Abstract:With the development of economy and technology, advertising plays more and more important role in our daily life. Advertising language as a special kind of language is very different from common language. It has its own features in morphology, syntax, and rhetorical devices. Based on that, we should choose proper words to express the advertising` meaning when we translate the four groups -Consumer Advertising, Business Advertising, Service Advertising, and Public Interest Advertising.
This paper will be presented in four parts. The first part is the introduction and the last is conclusion. The focus of this paper is laid on the middle parts which respectively approach to the features of advertisement language, the cultural difference in Chinese and English advertisement translation, the principle of advertisement translation.
Key words: Translation; English Advertisements; Principle; Cultural difference
摘要:随着经济的发展，广告已经渗透到人们生活的各方面,而作为广告重要组成部分的广告语言文字，也脱颖而出，具有自己独特的风格和说明力。
广告英语经过长期的发展，在用词、造句、修辞等方面具有一定的特点。根据不同的特点，在翻译消费广告、商业广告、服务性广告及公益广告这四类主要广告时，也要同样注意使用恰当的词汇、修辞，来表现广告应有的含义。
本文共分为四个方面着重探索广告的特征，以及广告翻译过程中的文化差异， 广告翻译的原则。
关键词：翻译；英语广告；原则；文化差异
