| DECLARATION | 第1-4页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第4-5页 |
| CHINESE ABSTRACT | 第5-6页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第6-9页 |
| CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION | 第9-14页 |
| ·BACKGROUND | 第9-10页 |
| ·BASIC NOTIONS AND THESIS STRUCTURE | 第10-13页 |
| ·Brief on Translation Aesthetics | 第10-11页 |
| ·A word on "aesthetic representation" and "imitation" | 第11页 |
| ·Methodology and thesis structure | 第11-13页 |
| ·SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY | 第13-14页 |
| CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW | 第14-33页 |
| ·TRANSLATION AESTHETICS IN CHINA | 第14-23页 |
| ·Aesthetics and Chinese traditional translation theories | 第14-15页 |
| ·Some influential Chinese aesthetic translation propositions | 第15-19页 |
| ·"Xin da ya" by Yan Fu | 第16-17页 |
| ·"Resemblance in form" and "Resemblance in spirit" | 第17-18页 |
| ·"Transmigration" | 第18-19页 |
| ·The Chinese aesthetic translation methodology | 第19-20页 |
| ·Some latest researches on Translation Aesthetics in China | 第20-23页 |
| ·Researches on integration of translation and aesthetics | 第20-21页 |
| ·Researches on Translation Aesthetics theories | 第21-23页 |
| ·REVIEW OF RESEARCHES ON IMITATION IN TRANSLATION STUDIES | 第23-30页 |
| ·"Mimesis" in Western Aesthetics | 第23-24页 |
| ·Imitation in Western translation theories | 第24-28页 |
| ·"Resemblance" | 第28-30页 |
| ·LV SHUXIANG AND ETHAN FROME | 第30-33页 |
| ·Lv Shuxiang and his translation | 第30-31页 |
| ·Major researches on Lv Shuxiang's translation of Ethan Frome | 第31-33页 |
| CHAPTER 3 AESTHETIC REPRESENTATION AND "IMITATION" | 第33-45页 |
| ·AESTHETIC REPRESENTATION IN TRANSLATION | 第33-37页 |
| ·Three levels of beauty in literary works | 第33-34页 |
| ·The general principle of aesthetic representation in translation | 第34-36页 |
| ·Fundamental requirements for aesthetic representation | 第36-37页 |
| ·IMITATION: THE BASIC MEANS FOR AESTHETIC REPRESENTATION | 第37-45页 |
| ·Adhesion and objective conditioning in translation | 第37-41页 |
| ·Adhesion | 第37-39页 |
| ·Objective conditioning | 第39-41页 |
| ·Three kinds of imitation in aesthetic representation | 第41-45页 |
| CHAPTER 4 CASE STUDY: | 第45-67页 |
| ·THE PLOT OF ETHAN FROME | 第46-47页 |
| ·SL-ORIENTED IMITATION IN ETHAN FROME | 第47-53页 |
| ·Imitation in sentehce structure | 第47-49页 |
| ·Imitation in wording | 第49-50页 |
| ·Imitation in image-building | 第50-53页 |
| ·TL-ORIENTED IMITATION IN ETHAN FROME | 第53-61页 |
| ·Appropriateness of language | 第54-58页 |
| ·Use of four-character expressions | 第58-61页 |
| ·DYNAMIC IMITATION IN ETHAN FROME | 第61-67页 |
| CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSION | 第67-72页 |
| ·SUMMARYAND FINDINGS | 第67-68页 |
| ·IMPLICATIONS AND ENLIGHTENMENT | 第68-70页 |
| ·LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY | 第70-72页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第72-77页 |
