Due to differences in environment,religion,tradition and cultural images between English and Chinese culture,it seems difficult to achieve complete equivalence in translating culture-loaded words.

The consideration is fairly positive when Hawkes pays attention to readers cognition and thinking way and communication customs,yet likely negative when the attention goes to their religious faiths and cultural backgrounds due to the inappropriate handling of culture-loaded words.

It is written in the style of dialogue,but it is a book with political,ethical as well as philosophical nature,which,together with its translation purpose,determines the principle and then the strategy for translating the culture-loaded words in it,that is,the academic feature of the original version and the popularity of the translated version should be both concerned simultaneously.

This paper attempts to compare and contrast the translation strategies used in translating those culturally-loaded words in three English versions of HongLouMeng from the perspective of Peter Newmark s semantic and communicative translation theory.

Taking the Book of Rites translated by James Legge as an example to analyze the translation of culturally-loaded words,this paper summarizes that Legge mainly adopts the method of literal translation,liberal translation,footnote,transliteration and paraphrase in translating the culturally-loaded words of the Book of Rites to achieve his translation purpose.

Therefore,there inevitably exist specific culturally-loaded words to reflect the particular culture in different countries.

By analyzing the case of how the dialect word"cí"is rendered in Turbulence,the paper concludes that precision in understanding and subtlety in expression are especially important in the translation of culture-loaded words.

This paper analyses the translations of some culture-loaded words in the three English versions of Hongloumeng through comparation.

"Lucky Cloud": an Indisputable Design and an Inadequate Translation——On the Translation of Olympic Culturally-loaded Words Based on Skopostheorie;

Since culture-loaded words express the customs,attributes,allusions,the way of thinking,the values and the religious beliefs of a certain nation,translating them may pose some difficulties.