Abstract
It is commonplace that knowledge of world plays a very big role in the process of communication and it may be a crucial issue in the process of translation also. It, according to Baker (1992), contributes to our success or failure to relate the information conveyed in the text to what one knows about the world. Though the area of world knowledge has been studied and searched by many scholars, but its role to connect dots and to infer the implied meaning with relation to metaphors has been largely ignored. Bridging the gap and integrating the information among different periods of time and different cultural environments to infer the hidden messages means venturing beyond the linguistic and textual level of connecting sentences and paragraphs together. The implied message is an elusive issue and it may hamper the process of communication. Furthermore, the situation may be more complex if such an implicit vague area via metaphorical views is displayed through the process of translation where more complicated factors can interfere. This paper highlights the importance of world knowledge to tie the strands of thought via allegorical symbolizations in different cultural mediums across a very long time gap to appreciate the hidden messages. This research is carried out to investigate the basic assumption underlying this study i.e. 'knowledge of world plays an important role to connect the dots across different cultural environments to infer the implied intended meaning via allegorical symbolizations'. This model of research is based on a contrastive analysis of the significance of world knowledge in four Arabic translated versions of the English article 'A cautionary fable'. The findings of this research show that the assumptions involved in the hypothesis of this study have been proved to be true