本文通过对霍克斯与杨宪益和戴乃迭夫妇的《红楼梦》第三回两种英语译文的对比,发现了霍克斯对原文文化意蕴理解的一些偏差,具体地证明了译者的生活阅历、学养对其译文取向无意识中的影响,也说明了翻译更多的是一种文化的传达,而不止于语言层面。因此我们必须注意外文翻译中的文化陷阱并由此进一步认识到译者文化学习的无有止境。 By comparing the two English translations of the third couple of A Dream of Red Mans by Hawkes with Yang Hsien-Yi and Gladys, we find some deviations from Hawkes’s understanding of the original cultural connotations and concretely prove that the translator’s life experience , The impact of academic support on the unconsciousness of their translational orientation also shows that translation is more of a cultural transmission than linguistic level. Therefore, we must pay attention to the cultural traps in foreign language translation and further realize that the translator’s cultural learning is endless.