“忠实”和“对等”在翻译界引起的争议长达几个世纪之久。翻译要应忠于原文语言形式、原文内容、原作者意图、译入语读者?译者在翻译中应该实现何种层面的对等?形式对等?意义对等?风格对等?这些争论至今尚无定论。“忠实”和“对立”’是否是两个独立的概念?本文将从法译版《红楼梦》中方言翻译着手,试图阐述翻译对等与忠实之间的关系。译者应该寻求语言间的词语对应,还是意义对应?奈达(Nida)认为“翻译就是在译语中再造出首先在意义上,其次 ”Faithfulness“ and ”Equality“ The controversy in the translator community has been for centuries. The translation should be loyal to the original language form, the original content, the original author’s intention, into the language reader? Translator in the translation should be achieved at what level of equivalence? Equivalence? Equivalence? Equivalent style? These controversies so far No conclusion. Whether ”faithfulness“ and ”contradiction“ is ”two independent concepts“ or not? This article will start from the dialect translation in the French version of A Dream of Red Mansions, trying to explain the relationship between equivalence and faithfulness in translation. Should translators seek the correspondence between words in words or in terms of meaning? Nida believes that ”translating is to reconstruct the translated word first in meaning, secondly