中医病名术语英译探究

——基于“消渴”病名的英译对比分析

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中图分类号：H315.9；R2-03文献标识码：A

文章编号：2096-4110（2025）12（a）-0015-05

Discussionon TCMDisease Name Translation

—Basedon TranslationComparisonofXiaoke-RelevantNames

LIMengru，LI Yiran， ZHOUKailin

5chool ofHumanities，Beijing UniversityofChineseMedicine，Beijing，1Ooo29，China

Abstract： Xiaoke disease intraditional Chinese medicine is usually regarded as diabetes in modern medicine.Records about Xi 1 aokedisease hadalreadyappeared intheTCMclasicHuangdi Neijing.Therearetennamesrelatedto Xiaokediseaseandhree closesttodiabetes（Pidan，Xiaoke，Xiaodan）arechosenfortranslationcomparisonandanalysis，andthe"transliteration + clinical manifestation + free translation" patern is thus proposed to translate the Xiaoke-relevantnames or other disease names in TCM.In thiswaytheTConnotatiosareotainedwilecicalmeaningsareelpfulforEnglisheaderstounderstandthenambeter. Hopefully TCM culture and research findings could be beter spread globally with less translation obstacles.

Key Words： Xiaoke; Name of disease; Term translation; TCM; Translation comparison; Global dissemination

中国是世界上最早认识消渴病的国家，中医药学对消渴病的认识源远流长。（剩余7175字）