Based on Newmark s theory of invariant elements , Fryes symbol theory and Nida s principle of dynamic equivalence , the thesis illustrates the clashes between paraphrasing translation and image equivalence-- "paraphrasing translation" not only changes the images of the original poem, but also violates other basic translation theories.

By analyzing the English translations of The Zither and the shortcomings of hermeneutic standpoint in translating classical Chinese poetry which advocates the plurality of interpretations,this paper puts forward that the method of image equivalence should be applied to the translation of classical Chinese poetry in order to maintain the artistic effect and the aesthetic space of the original poem.

The analysis of phenomenology indicates that“self”belongs to the sense of intentional object which is created by consciousness;the concept of self -existence is established as the original belief in the sense of intentional object.

However,the former adopts some contrasting images to denote Isabel s change from a happy girl to a miserable lady after marriage while the latter vividly describes Qiqiao s mental madness with repetitious images.

With close study Sartre s theory,the paper analyzed the connotations and relation of the self-consciousness,object-consciousness and reflective-consciousness.

It has to be by means of language sign to differentiate people s demands and opposite regularity When human being taking self-motive activities up, hence engenders object-consciousness and self-consciousness.

But academic circles have very different comprehension to pre-flective cogito: some advocate that it is only self-consciousness, and some think it’s just object-consciousness.

Human consciousness is the unity of the object consciousness and the self consciousness.