经验功能从属于韩礼德功能语言学三大纯理论功能之一的概念功能,是指人们用语言来谈论他们对世界(包括现实世界和内心世界)的经验,用语言来描述周围所发生的事情或情形。该文分析元代马致远的《天净沙·秋思》的几个英文译本,通过功能语言学中经验功能的分析来揭示关于诗歌中意象翻译的一些规律,为古诗意象翻译提供一些有益的探索。 Empirical Function Subordination to Halliday’s conceptual function of one of the three purely theoretical functions of functional linguistics is that people use their language to talk about their experience of the world (both the real world and the inner world), to describe what is happening around it, or situation. This paper analyzes several English translations of “Tianjing Sha · Autumn Thoughts” by Ma Zhiyuan in the Yuan Dynasty. Through the analysis of empirical functions in functional linguistics, it reveals some laws about the translation of images in poetry and provides some useful exploration for the translation of ancient poems.