英国翻译学者蒙娜.贝克提出的社会叙述理论把翻译与叙事理论相结合,为翻译研究提供了新的思路。严复翻译的《天演论》无论从翻译角度或是社会学角度,都具有极高的研究价值。本文尝试从社会叙事理论的角度分析严复是如何通过翻译建构并促进叙事及主流话语的传播,进而产生巨大的社会意义的。 The theory of social narration proposed by Mona Baker, a British translation scholar, combines translation and narrative theory, which provides a new way of thinking for translation studies. Yan Fu’s translation of “Evolution and Ethics” has a high research value both in translation and in sociology. This article attempts to analyze how Yan Fu constructs and promotes the spread of narrative and mainstream discourse through translation from the perspective of social narrative theory, which in turn leads to great social significance.