Abstract
In the times of big data, culture-loaded expressions are of great significance in the research of translation and cross-cultural communication. This paper makes use of big data to study a group of culture-loaded expressions related to “Lantern Festival”, which is a representative of Chinese traditional culture, retrieves the data about them in the largest free online English database of corpus “Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)”, and makes use of quantitative research method to analyze the data frequency of these expressions, hopefully to find out data about the influence of “Lantern Festival” on English-speaking world and more appropriate translation versions of these expressions, so as to deduce the influence of Chinese traditional cultures in these areas and the better way of translating these expressions, and to meet the needs of the era of big data.
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