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feat(baoyu-translate): add figurative language analysis and meaning-first translation principles

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@@ -63,10 +63,26 @@ For each identified challenge, note:
2. Why it may confuse target readers
3. A concise plain-language explanation to use as a translator's note
### 1.7 Translation Challenges
### 1.7 Figurative Language & Metaphor Mapping
Identify all metaphors, similes, idioms, and figurative expressions in the source. For each:
1. **Original expression**: The exact phrase
2. **Intended meaning**: What the author is actually communicating (the idea behind the image)
3. **Literal translation risk**: Would a word-for-word translation sound unnatural, lose the connotation, or confuse target readers?
4. **Target-language approach**: One of:
- **Interpret**: Discard the source image entirely, express the intended meaning directly in natural target language
- **Substitute**: Replace with a target-language idiom or image that conveys the same idea and emotional effect
- **Retain**: Keep the original image if it works equally well in the target language
Also flag:
- **Emotional connotations carried by word choice**: Words like "alarming" that convey subjective feeling, not just objective description — note the emotional effect to preserve
- **Implied meanings**: Sentences where the surface meaning is simple but the implication is richer — note what the author really means so the translator can convey the full intent
### 1.8 Structural & Creative Challenges
- Complex sentence patterns (long subordinate clauses, nested modifiers, participial phrases) that need restructuring for natural target-language flow
- Structural challenges (wordplay, ambiguity, puns that don't translate)
- Passages where literal translation would lose meaning
- Content where the author's voice or humor requires creative adaptation
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@@ -95,8 +111,12 @@ Implicit assumptions: [unstated premises]
- [term/passage] → [why confusing] → [proposed note]
- ...
## Translation Challenges
[structural issues, creative adaptation needs]
## Figurative Language & Metaphor Mapping
- [original expression] → [intended meaning] → [approach: interpret/substitute/retain] → [suggested rendering]
- ...
## Structural & Creative Challenges
[sentence restructuring needs, wordplay, creative adaptation needs]
```
## Step 2: Assemble Translation Prompt
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- Use the terminology decisions from Step 1 consistently
- Match the identified tone and register
- Break complex sentences into natural target-language patterns
- Break complex sentences into natural target-language patterns; restructure freely when the source sentence order doesn't work in the target language
- Interpret figurative language by meaning: translate what the author means, not the literal image, following the metaphor mapping from Step 1
- Preserve the emotional tone and connotations of word choices, not just their dictionary meanings
- Preserve all formatting and structure
- First occurrence of technical terms: translated term (original in parentheses)
- Add translator's notes for comprehension challenges identified in Step 1: use parentheses with a plain-language explanation, e.g., `译文（English original，通俗解释）`