In the recent decades,whenever the question of principles of translation is under discussion,the three characters,faithfulness,expressiveness and elegance formulated by Yan Fu in his Introductory Remarks are thought of and supported as the one and only maxim all translators must absorb.But the three principles for translation,especially some of the methods related with them,seem to be not one hunderd percent applicable to the work of translation today.It is necessary to make a re?evaluation of them.We should neither negate nor affirm them as a whole without any criticism or revision.The correct attitude towards them is to accept them critically and absorb what is still useful to us. In the recent decades, whenever the question of principles of translation is under discussion, the three characters, faithfulness, expressiveness and elegance formulated by Yan Fu in his Introductory Remarks are thought of and supported as the one and only maxim all translators must absorb.But the three principles for translation, especially some of the methods related with them, seem to be not one hunderd percent applicable to the work of translation today.It is necessary to make a re? evaluation of them.We should neither negate nor affirm them as a whole without any criticism or revision.The correct attitude towards them is to accept them critically and absorb what is still useful to us.