本文首先梳理了制约外文新闻可读性的语言和非语言因素,随后以文化语境为切入点,以法国主流媒体《费加罗报》(网络版)的新闻为语料,从词汇和篇章两个层面分析了文化语境在词汇文化内涵、篇章衔接和连贯中扮演的重要角色;通过定性的研究方法,阐释了文化语境对中国读者正确理解外文报刊具有不可忽视的重要影响。 This paper firstly sorts out the linguistic and non-linguistic factors that constrain the readability of foreign news, and then takes cultural context as the starting point. Taking the news of Le Figaro newspaper (online version) of the mainstream French media as the corpus, This paper analyzes the important role that cultural context plays in the connotation of vocabulary, cohesion and coherence of the lexicon at different levels. Through the qualitative research method, it explains that the cultural context has an important and unavoidable influence on Chinese readers’ correct understanding of foreign newspapers and periodicals.