文化缺省是指作者在与其意向读者交流时对双方共有的相关文化背景知识的省略。近年来,“文化缺省”吸引了越来越多国内外学者的关注,国外学者主要从认知心理学和人工智能的角度对其进行分析。而国内学者则更加关注文化缺省对翻译的影响。由于文化缺省具有鲜明的文化特性,其翻译好坏将直接影响交流的顺畅性,因此,如何处理文学翻译中的文化缺省显得至关重要。林语堂作为一位自译者,对于自身作品中的文化缺省现象,也采取了不同的翻译策略,例如他在《伦敦的乞丐》一文中便采取了删除、归化和文内补偿的翻译策略对文化缺省现象进行了补偿。 Cultural default refers to the omission of the relevant cultural background that the author shared with both readers when communicating with readers of his intention. In recent years, “cultural default ” has attracted more and more scholars’ attention at home and abroad. Foreign scholars mainly analyze it from the perspectives of cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence. Domestic scholars pay more attention to the influence of cultural default on translation. Due to its distinctive cultural characteristics, its translation will have a direct impact on the smoothness of its communication. Therefore, it is of crucial importance to deal with the cultural default in literary translation. Lin Yutang, as a self-translator, also adopted different translation strategies for cultural defaults in his own work. For example, he adopted the translation strategy of deleting, naturalizing and compensating in the “Beggar in London” Cultural defaults have been compensated.