习语往往运用形象的联想来使语言变得更为生动有力,但习语翻译时这些具有强烈文化蕴意的影象的转换却是翻译中的一个难点。本文比较了汉英两种语言形象性习语的形象异同,探讨了其共性和异性所反映出的文化内涵,并就翻译中习语形象的处理提出了几种可行的措施。 Idioms tend to use the image of the association to make the language more vivid and powerful, but the conversion of idioms with these strong cultural implications is a difficult point in translation. This article compares the similarities and differences between Chinese and English image idioms, probes into the cultural connotations reflected by commonness and heterosexuality, and puts forward several feasible measures to deal with idioms in translation.