汉语典籍蕴含着丰富的中华文化色彩,在弘扬中华文化、推进中华文化走向世界的进程中起着至关重要的作用。近年来,对典籍英译的研究出现了多学科交叉学习、研究方法多元、追踪其传播影响力的新态势。但是,研究题材受限,研究者多,成果多,创新少。本文选取李约瑟的《中国科学技术史》的第六卷第一分册《植物学》为研究对象,运用统计和例证分析的方法,探究其中引用的汉语典籍,并对其进行了领域分类,从中探究文化专有项,分析李所采用的翻译方法与策略。本文的主要发现包括:李约瑟在介绍中国植物学时,主要引用了哲学、文学、诗歌及植物学领域的典籍;其次,李约瑟在翻译文化专有项时,主要采用音译和绝对世界化这两种翻译策略。 Chinese books contain a wealth of Chinese culture and play a crucial role in promoting Chinese culture and advancing Chinese culture to the world. In recent years, there has been a new trend of multi-disciplinary cross-study, diversified research methods and the tracking of the influence of its spread in the study of English translation of Chinese classics. However, there are limited research topics, many researchers, many achievements and few innovations. In this paper, Joseph Needham’s “Volume 6 of the history of Chinese science and technology” in the first volume “Botany” as the research object, the use of statistical and case analysis methods to explore the reference of the Chinese classics, and its classification of the field, from which to explore Culture-specific items, analyzing the translation methods and strategies adopted by Lee. The main findings of this paper include: Needham introduced Chinese botany mainly in the fields of philosophy, literature, poetry and botany; secondly, Needham translates both transliteration and absolute globalization in the translation of culturally- Strategy.