Translation Strategies of Metaphors in Waley's Version of “A Peacock Flew”

The translation of metaphor has always been attached great importance to by the translation circle. The strategic choice of foreignization and domestication in cross-cultural translation should always be considered rather than just a simple correspondence of the rhetorical phenomenon.Waley's version of A Peacock Flew fully applied the translation strategies of metaphors, adopted a combination of foreignization and domestication. Some unique Chinese culture factors are annotated or explained on the basis of literal translation; for examples that require a lot of explanations(those may interrupt the reading rhythm) or examples which no equivalence can be found in English, the translator chooses metonymy or omission.