5.2StudytheOriginalInformationCarefully……………………………………………………146.Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………………15Bibliography………………………………………………………………………………………………16Acknowledgements……………………………………………………………………………………17AbstractEugeneA.Nida,theAmericaneminentHYPERLINK"app:ds:theoretician"\t"_self"theoreticianontranslationproposedthestandardoftranslation--"functionalequivalence".Headvocatedthetranslationsandtheoriginalsfortheequivalenceonfunctionofthelanguage,ratherthanontheformalofthelanguage.PeterNewmark,theEnglisheducatorandtheoristontranslationalsomentionedthat"Inmyview,'equivalent'isnotsomuchthepurposeofanytranslation,butadesirableresult."Bothofthetranslationscholarsmentionedabovehaveindicatedtotheneedfortranslationof"equivalent",butinrealityitisverydifficulttograsp,becausethetranslationisoneofthemostcomplexandmostdifficultactivities,itinvolvespeople'scognitive,aesthetic,language,culturalawareness,translationknowledgeandmanyotherfactors.Equivalentisjustanidealstateweareinthepursuitofinthetranslationofpractice,whichcouldnotachieveinourreality.Inthisessay,IdescribetheinequivalenceinEnglish-Chinesetranslationfromfouraspects--thevocabulary,partofspeech,thinkingdifferencesandculturaldifferences,andputforwardthemethodthathowtohandletherelationshipbetweeninequivalenceandequivalencetoachievethebestresultsbyanglicizingconcreteexamples.Keywords:Chinese-Englishtranslation；inequivalence；中文摘要美国当代著名的翻译理论家尤金.奈达（EugeneA.Nida）提出了“功能对等”（functionalequivalence）的翻译标准，他主张让Translation和原文在语言的功能上对等，而不是在语言的形式上对应。英国翻译教育家和理论家彼得.纽马克（PeterNewmark）也曾提到“在我看来，‘等效’与其说是任何翻译的目的，还不如说是一种可取的结果。”这两位翻译学者都提及翻译中需要“对等”，但是在现实当中却是很难把握的，因为翻译是人类最复杂、最困难的活动之一，它涉及人的认知、审美、语言文化素养、对翻译的认识等诸多因素，这种“对等”只是人们在翻译实践活动中所追求的一种理想状态，要达到绝对的对等是不可能的。本文主要先阐述英汉翻译中不对等性的定义，从词汇、语序、思维差异、文化差异等4个方面阐述了英汉翻译中存在的不对等现象，而且以具体实例为切入点,提出在翻译过程中如何处理好对等与不对等的辩证关系,以求达到最佳的翻译效果。关键词：汉英翻译；不对等性；解决1.IntroductionAsweallknow,translationisakindofcross-language,cross-culturalcommunicativeactivitythatuse