Abstract
China is a country boosting a large number of well known translators dedicated to conducting translation activities toward foreign literatures such as Lu Xun, Fu Lei, and Wang Daoqiao. Their existence and accomplishments have provided previous and immeasurable amount of treasure for historical research regarding EC translation. However, EC translators are much smaller in number than CE translators especially when it comes to Mr. Yang Xianyi who is considered to be the world-class translator in Chinese translation field. Yang Xianyi has dedicated to introducing classical Chinese literatures to foreign readers through applying his expansive and profound understanding of western literature and proficiency in Chinese culture. Indeed, Yang Xianyi has managed to convey to the international readers the abundant amount of Chinese cultural images based on his miraculous translating attitude. Selected from the anecdotes of Yang and his translation works are the translation pieces from Yang’s the Dream of the Red Mansions as the subject for detailed analysis. Summarization of Yang’s translation style will be coupled with the comparison between Yang Xianyi’s translation and the The Story of the Stone by Hawkes.
Keywords   Yang Xianyi   translation style   culture   Dream of the Red Mansions

中国拥有许多外国文学翻译名家，鲁迅、傅雷、王道乾等等。他们的存在为“外译中”的历史研究提供了非常宝贵的财富，然而与“外译中”相比“中译外”就相对比较单薄，尤其是像杨宪益老先生这样堪称翻译界国宝级人物，更是少之又少。杨宪益老先生用他自己在西方文学方面的博学，中国文化的精通，将中国古典名著原汁原味的介绍到国外。确实杨宪益用他严谨的翻译态度将《红楼梦》中丰富的中国文化意象传播给了所有热爱中国文学的外国读者。文章从分析杨宪益老先生的生前事迹，翻译作品，并从中选取杨宪益《红楼梦》中的翻译作品作为详细解析对象并对比霍克斯翻译的《石头记》，从而总结杨宪益老先生的翻译风格。
关键词   杨宪益   翻译风格   文化   《红楼梦》  

1 Introduction
Translation companies can be found everywhere in China, however, the number of translators is rather limited. Moreover, these translation companied are operated under a family or workshop pattern. The quality of these translations varies and differs. A majority of translators have no experience and pursue the quantity over quality, centering on gaining benefits. In the class, the English teacher always tells us that translation is an art. The fact is that nowadays many people are treating translation as an object exchangeable for financial gains. They have even abandoned the artistic essence in the translation process. As a result, this paper endeavors to conduct detailed analysis toward Yang’s The Dream of the Red Mansions based on his translation work, translation style while bearing in mind the problems occur in translation.