语用前提对翻译有指导作用。由于文化差异,目的语读者与原语作者不一定拥有共同的语用前提。这可能导致交际失败。因此,翻译时必须想办法克服。本文首先说明什么是语用前提,并简述语用前提对翻译活动的指导意义,以杨宪益、戴乃迭和霍克斯的《红楼梦》翻译版本为例,比较《红楼梦》第二十八回和第三十四回两个版本的翻译。 Pragmatic preconditions have a guiding role in translation. Due to cultural differences, target readers and original authors do not necessarily share the same pragmatic premise. This may lead to communication failure. Therefore, the translation must find ways to overcome. This article first explains what is the pragmatic premise, and briefly describes the pragmatic premise of translation activities of the guiding significance to Yang Xianyi, Gladys and Hawkes’s “A Dream of Red Mansions” as an example, compared “Dream of Red Mansions” twenty-eighth And the thirty-fourth back two versions of the translation.