《三国演义》是我国文学史上第一部优秀的长篇历史小说,文化内涵丰富。罗慕士在将这部中国古典文集译介给与我们文化渊源不同的英美读者时,采用增译、意译等灵活多变的翻译手法,对其中的文化意象进行了创造性翻译。本文通过译者对历史传统词语、习语和形象说法、典故三方面翻译实例分析来展示译者优美、灵活创造性翻译手法。 The Romance of Three Kingdoms is the first excellent long historical novel in the history of Chinese literature with rich cultural connotation. When translating and introducing this Chinese classical collection to Anglo-American readers who have different origins in our culture, Rousseau creatively translated the cultural images by using such flexible translation techniques as translation and free translation. This article shows the translator’s beautiful, flexible and creative method of translation through the translator’s analysis of historical traditional words, idioms and images, and allusions.