【摘要】作为一部成功的商业片，黑客帝国因为其炫目的特效而吸引无数观众，然而它还因其深邃的思想而著名。这篇论文以电影符号学的角度分析黑客帝国中的象征符号及其象征意义。在黑客帝国中，每个角色的命名，不同的符号和很多场景都是宗教的隐喻，这些宗教包含了基督教，佛教和诺斯替教。而本篇论文主要分析引起广泛讨论的与基督教有关的象征符号。
【关键词】黑客帝国 宗教符号 象征学
【Abstract】As a very successful science fiction, The Matrix is famous for its deep ideas apart from the computer-generated special effects. This paper aims to analyze the symbolic signs and its symbolic meaning in the movie from the perspective of semiotics. In The Matrix, every character, every symbol and .many scenes have sorts of metaphor and allusion of religion, including Christianity, Buddhism and Gnosticism. While this paper mainly focus on the symbols of Christianity, which has 避免的。最常见的方法就是音译法。音译能够避免直译或者意译带来的误解，是一种以原语言发音为依据的翻译形式。许多中餐菜名在英语中难以找到对应的目标词汇，因而音译在菜名的翻译中十分常用，特别是翻译用地名、人名或地方语来命名的中国菜时，为了保持原有特色风味，往往可采用音译法，这种方法在某种程度上促进了中国饮食文化和语言在世界范围内的传播。比如：“麻婆豆腐”(ma po toufu)“东坡肉”(dongpo pork)“馄饨”(wonton)等。
(2)意译法。对于含有典故的中餐菜名，在翻译的过程中，很难找到对应的目的语表达形式时，一般采用意译法，用解释、删减、借用、改写等手段来翻译。比如，“芙蓉鸡片”译为“fried chicken slices with egg white”，就准确地将菜名翻译出来，还对菜的原材料做了简单的介绍，让读者能够明确地了解到“芙蓉鸡片”的原料和内涵，此意译的翻译方法直观而且通俗易懂。
(3)直译加注法。直译法是保持原文内容和形式的翻译方式，但简单的直译往往容易引起外国读者对中餐菜名的误解，从而达不到传播中国饮食文化的效果。为了避免这种情况，我们可以采用直译加注释的方法来翻译。对于本身含有典故，直译无法体现其食材和做法的，我们可以采用直译加注释的翻译方法。比如，“锅贴”，翻译为“Pan-Fried Dumplings”。
四、结论随着全球化的发展,中国的饮食文化在不断发展传播过程中又吸收了新的特点，正因为如此，中餐菜名的准确优美翻
attracted widespread discussions.
【Key words】The Matrix; Religious symbols; symbology
The Matrix，a science fiction thriller that full of tension, excitement and intelligence, is a very successful movie by using elements like gunfights, shadows, slow motion and quick cuts to excite the audience’ eyes and quicken their pulse. But what really makes The Matrix stand out in its field is its rich connotation of religious and philosophical thoughts. This essay will look at the religious symbolic aspects of the first movie of The Matrix, though it is a trilogy. As the last two films focus more on the philosophical aspects, only the first Matrix film will be concerned in this paper.
The holy scripture of Christianity is the Bible, which has two sections: Old Testament and New Testament. The Old Testament is what the Jews believe to have happened, they call it the Torah; it is their accounts of their history and of their God; it is the events 译显得更加重要也更加困难。要翻译好中餐菜名，必须要熟知中国菜系，了解中餐菜名的历史文化风俗传统，还必须要了解中西饮食文化的差异，找到中餐菜名与西方菜名的异同点，尽量让菜名的翻译越来越规范和标准化，从而准确地传达中餐菜名所赋予的深刻的文化内涵，充分考虑中美饮食文化观念的不同，进而使中国美食闻名世界。参考文献：
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【基金项目】2015-2016年度长江大学翻译研究中心创新基金项目：长江大学翻译硕士专业建设可行性研究，课题编号：2016fyy01，项目负责人：李阳堂。
作者简介：李阳堂(1992.6-)，女，湖北省荆州市，长江大学外国语学院硕士研究生，研究方向：翻译理论与实践。
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The film is about a futuristic world where the machine has controlled human. To keep them incarcerated, the AI created the Matrix, which is basically a computer program controlled by the machines, to which the humans are connected to through their brain. Within the Matrix there is a computer programmer Neo who is not satisfied with his existence and he is groping for an answer. Then Morpheus and Trinity find him and explain to him that the world he is used to is a fabrication. They believe that Neo is the One and he will free the mankind from the machine finally.
The Matrix is related to Christianity in a variety of ways. One example is that they talk about Neo as the ONE. This can be seen in the Old Testament where God foretold about the coming of the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth. Neo’s name in the Matrix is Thomas Anderson. Thomas means “twin”, implies about his double roles. And Anderson means “son of man” in Hebrew language, which is a messianic tile, and “son of man” is another name for Christ. There is also a scene when Neo has to decide whether to find out the truth of the Matrix or be blissfully ignorant, he chooses the red pill. The choosing of the red pill represents Eve’s choosing to eat from the fruit of the forbidden tree (the tree of knowledge).
Film’s real world can be related to our real world, too, and the concept of Heaven. Humans are trapped in the Matrix as we perceive the same, and going up to heaven is like being freed from the Matrix. Another corresponding example is when Neo is finally freed from the Matrix, he comes out naked and through a canal, representing the birth canal and, thus, rebirth. Biblically when you receive Christ as your Savior you are considered born again. Neo’s way of leaving the Matrix represents him finding the truth as it does in Christianity.
In film, the characters drive the plot and the characters in this film had impacting symbolism accompanying them. For the first powerful character there is Morpheus, captain of the hovercraft Nebuchadnezzar. Morpheus believes in The Oracle's prophecy, and he believes he will finally found the One. He acts as Neo's mentor and is the one of the persons who never doubts Neo as the One. We can find the same character in the Bible as John the Baptist that John never doubted Jesus as the Messiah. And when
Morpheus chose to give his life as a sacrifice to Neo, we can see that John did the same thing for Jesus.
With Trinity being the prominent female figure, there is also a correlation to the Bible. It is said Jesus had a love interest with his disciple Mary Magdalene. And Trinity was the one who was the first to see Neo come back to life, Mary Magdalene was the first to see Jesus when He rose from the dead. As for her name trinity, the reference here is to the biblical trinity—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
Agent Smith, the main adversary to Morpheus' plan, is a sentient program in the Matrix; Smith is able to do almost everything Neo can. Agents are supremely powerful, and no one has ever survived before except Neo. Agent Smith could possibly symbolize Satan who is the enemy of Christ and thus the enemy of Neo. In the beginning of the film he tricks Neo into believing that Morpheus is a criminal that should not be trusted. But Neo doesn’t fall for this deception. Yet this can be correlated to Christ roaming through the desert for 40 days and nights, being tempted by the devil, but rejecting him. Agent Smith is the antagonist throughout this film as Satan is throughout the Bible.
Cypher is the classic betrayer, the Judas Iscariot. The word refers to a mathematical symbol denoting an absence of quantity, a zero and someone with no value, a nonentity. It's also potentially related to Satan as it is a shortened version of “Lucifer”. Cypher also has a goatee and wears red early in the film, which relate to the popular images of Satan. So this character represents the Judas’ betrayal of Christ
As the story goes along we confirm more illustrations connecting the film and Christianity, so more works should be worked on. More semiotic elements are reflected in the film like Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, Edwin Abbott’s Flatland, the experiment of Brain in Vats hypothesis, Descartes’ Evil Genius and Nietzsche’s Overman and so on. The combining of philosophy and religion is always a great challenge for a movie. In this movie, the characters, dialogues and even the scenes are sorts of metaphor and allusion of philosophy and religion. Thus its rich symbols will inspired more and more people to examine this movie.References:
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