The paper reveals that the primary standard of judging whether the method is selected properly is to see whether the translation purpose can be achieved by the translated version.

By comparing three English versions of The Analects of Confucius by Jacob,Willey and Pound,this paper discusses the in- fluence of translator s status,translation purpose and comprehension of the original language on versions.

This article, from the perspective of language style, explores the features, principles and techniques of headword translation in bilingual dictionaries.

Although there are different initiators,the two versions of Hongloumeng,one is translated by Yang and another by Hawks,achieve their own translation skopos because of their proper translation strategies.

Skopostheorie, which breaks with the equivalence-based translation theory and regards translation skopos as the most important factor determining the translational action, provides a new perspective for solving the dilemma of drama translation.

This thesis analyzes the influence of translation purpose(skopos)upon the two translators in their respective translation processes.

It is found by comparing with two Chinese versions of Lolita that the two translators do not translate completely according to skopos theory,and the theory can not instruct how to evaluate the versions either.