本文试图运用社会语言学、风格学的观点,对小说中人物的语言由于受社会诸因素(如说话人的社会地位,职业、受教育程度等)的影响而产生的风格变异进行了探讨,并着重讨论了小说翻译如何再现原文人物语言风格变异的问题。本文从中英文学名著中选择了一些例句及以相应的译文,对这些例句中的某些重要的风格特征进行了分析,并有选择地讨论了译文如何再现原文这些风格变异的问题。 This article attempts to use the perspectives of social linguistics and stylistics to explore the variation of style of characters in novels due to the influence of social factors (such as the social status of the speaker, occupation, education, etc.) It mainly discusses how the fiction translation reproduces the variation of the language style of the original characters. In this paper, we select some examples from English and Chinese literary works and analyze them with some corresponding important translations, and discuss some important variations of the original texts.