汉英两种语言系统在许多方面存在着差异，社会指示便是其中一个方面。相比之下，汉语有各种各样的社会指示，而英语只有两种很不典型的社会指示，严格地说是没有社会指示的。这表明与汉语相比，英语中存在社会指示的空缺，这一空缺使得英译难以保存汉语社会指示语中的文化因素，因此所采取的方法应该是语用上的。本文分三种不同情况提出了具体的话用方法。 There are many differences between the two Chinese and English language systems, and social instruction is one of them. In contrast, there are a variety of social instructions in Chinese, whereas there are only two very non-typical social instructions in English. Strictly speaking, there is no social instruction. This shows that compared with Chinese, there is a vacancy in social instructions, which makes English translation difficult to preserve the cultural elements in Chinese social deixis. Therefore, the method should be pragmatic. This article is divided into three different situations proposed specific words method.