《红楼梦》是中华文化的瑰宝,是中国古典小说的名篇巨著其语言更是达到了中国古典小说的高峰。它包罗万象内容丰富,这些特点要求译者具有深厚的文化知识和写作功底。这一点霍克斯和杨宪益、戴乃迭夫妇无疑具备,但是两者的译文却是大不相同各有所长。 “Dream of Red Mansions” is a treasure of Chinese culture, is a famous Chinese classical novel masterpiece of its language is reached the peak of Chinese classical novels. It contains a wealth of content, these characteristics require translators with profound cultural knowledge and writing skills. Hawkes and Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys are doubtless at this point, but the translations of the two are quite different and different.