Abstract-Linguistic humor has long been considered untranslatable because of the fact that its linguistic features can never be duplicated in another language. The thesis views this long-debated issue with the Skopos theory and Translation Variation Theory and arrives at the conclusion that what has been hindering the humor translation includes not only the outward form-linguistic features of humor, but also something in ideological aspect-the conventional idea about the nature of translation and translation criteria.
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