本文拟从文化交流的宏观角度来研究译者的身份。文章认为 ,翻译的过程是一个译者不断在两种文化间进行选择的过程 ,而译者作为这一过程的活动主体 ,应是一位文化操作者。因为译者的文化背景、文化倾向、文化能力无时不影响着整个翻译过程中的理解、抉择及信息传递 ,进而影响原语文化和译语文化。 This article intends to study the translator’s identity from the macro perspective of cultural exchange. The article argues that the process of translation is a translator’s constant choice between the two cultures. As the main body of the activity, the translator should be a cultural operator. Because of the translator’s cultural background, cultural tendency, cultural ability all the time affects the entire translation process of understanding, choice and information transfer, thereby affecting the original language culture and target language culture.