Translating Chinese university mottos into English primarily aims at publicizing the information about the education aim and spirit of a university, ensuring the target readers’full understanding of the sense of the source motto and its beauty in form. To achieve this purpose, the translator should pay attention to both the differences between English and Chinese and the common features of languages. Based on Adaptation Theory, this paper aims to probe into some translation principles of univer-sity motto under the theoretical framework of Ada...
