“天下”作为构建中国政治文化的核心词,有其丰富的文化内涵,在《道德经》中也意蕴丰富。通过对吴经熊《道德经》英译本中“天下”观念核心词语译文的梳理,既能凸显出道家思想构建“天下”观念所作出的贡献,又能初步勾勒出吴经熊译本的翻译策略及幕后的操控因素。 “World ” as the core of building Chinese political culture, has its rich cultural connotation, in the “moral” is also rich in meaning. By combing the translations of the core words in “The World” in Wu Jing Xiong’s English version of “Tao Jing”, it not only highlights the contributions of Taoism in constructing the concept of “world”, but also initially outlines the translation strategies of Wu Jing-xiong’s translation And behind the scenes control factors.