This paper is a phased achievement of the 2024 Graduate Education and Teaching Reform Project in Xi’an Tech-nological University, “Reform of Intelligent Translation Teaching for MTI Programs in the AI Era” (No. XAGDYJ240220), the 2025 Graduate Education and Teaching Reform Project in Xi’an Technological University, “Research and Practice on Multimodal Paths of ‘Ideological and Political Education in Curriculum’ in Postgraduate Public English Teaching” (No. XAGDYJ250216), and the 2024 Project for the Construction of School-Enterprise Joint Practice Courses (No. XAGDYJ240812)
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How to cite this paper
A Comparative Study of AI-powered and Human Translation of Metaphors in Political Discourse
How to cite this paper: Jinghua Zhang, Hua Lei. (2025). A Comparative Study of AI-powered and Human Translation of Metaphors in Political Discourse. Translation and Foreign Language Learning, 1(2), 330-334.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/tfll.2025.09.022