III 2.2 “SI XIAO LONG” 5 
In China, this word is often used to refer to the four districts in far east Asia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, that have the strongest economic system and the farthest social developing speed. Many a mainstream media translates it into “four little dragons”. Of cause, that is inappropriate. As far as I am concerned, we can use the indirect way to translate this expression.” “The four developed districts in far east Asia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, that have the strongest economic system and the farthest social developing speed” or even put it into “the four little tiger of Asia”. Because the word “tiger” symbolize the image of energy, vigor and hardworking both in China and western world. (In China, we have a phrase called “hu hu sheng wei 7”. We use it to describe the teenagers’ active behavior, which is full of power, just like tiger.) We can also use the metaphor way to put this into English.
III 2.3 “LONG TOU QI YE” 5
Talking about the expressions “long tou qi ye”, of cause, we can not put it word by word .In China this is a honor given by the local government that the company has the largest working structure and the highest income through the commercial business. Here, “long” means, “leading the top, the first”. So, we can put it into “the leading enterprise, the top enterprise, or the number one enterprise in this area” would be better.
IV. Conclusion
After the brief introduction of Chinese “long”, and western country’s “dragon”, I can find out that the word “dragon” is totally different from “long” in Chinese, due to the different culture background. When we want to put the Chinese character “long” into English, we should take the culture information gap into consideration, paraphrase the expression according to the original meanings listed in the previous part, instead of using the “dragon” directly.
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Appendix:
①在《易。乾》(Yi. Qian)中，有“飞龙在天”的说法。在《礼记。礼运》(Liji. Liyun)中，有“麟，凤，龟，龙谓之四灵。”的说法。
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