本文运用翻译适应选择论,以译者对需要的适应/选择为视角,分析韦利英译《道德经》时译者主体性的体现。旨在说明20世纪30年代韦利英译《道德经》是当时西方世界对汉语文学作品的渴求,而韦利在翻译过程中的翻译策略更体现了译者在翻译活动中为实现翻译目的而表现出的主观能动性。 This article uses translation adaptation selection theory, with the translator ’s need / adaptation as a perspective, analyzes the embodiment of translator’ s subjectivity in the translation of “moral classics” by. The purpose of this article is to illustrate that the “moral classics” translated by Wiley in the 1930s was the thirst for Western literature in the Chinese literature at the time, and that Wylley’s translation strategies in the translation process reflected the translators’ performance in translating activities for the purpose of translation The subjective initiative.