| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-10页 |
| Table of Contents | 第10-12页 |
| I Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| ·Background of the study | 第12-13页 |
| ·Purpose of the study | 第13页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第14页 |
| ·Lexical choice of the thesis | 第14-16页 |
| II Basic Concepts of Metaphor and Simile | 第16-29页 |
| ·Definitions of metaphor and simile | 第16-20页 |
| ·Definition of simi1e | 第17-18页 |
| ·Definition of metaphor | 第18-20页 |
| ·Formation of metaphor and simile | 第20-21页 |
| ·Types of metaphor and simile | 第21-26页 |
| ·Types of simile | 第21-23页 |
| ·Types of metaphor | 第23-26页 |
| ·Contemporary theories on metaphor | 第26-29页 |
| III Literature Review and Theoretical Basis | 第29-41页 |
| ·The Theoretical Basis | 第29-37页 |
| ·Nada’s equivalence theory | 第29-32页 |
| ·Vermeer’s skopos theory | 第32-35页 |
| ·Catford’s linguistic translatability and cultural untranslatability | 第35-37页 |
| ·Previous research on the translation of Honglou Meng | 第37-39页 |
| ·Researches on the translation of metaphor and simile in Honglou Meng | 第39-41页 |
| IV Comparison and Translation of Metaphor and Simile in HongLou Meng | 第41-61页 |
| ·Comparison of metaphor and simile in Honglou Meng | 第41-50页 |
| ·The similarity of vehicle in Chinese and English | 第41-44页 |
| ·The difference of vehicle in Chinese and English | 第44-46页 |
| ·The vacancy of vehicle in English whereas existence in Chinese | 第46-50页 |
| ·Methods for the translation of “vehicle” | 第50-61页 |
| ·Reproduction of the same image in the TL | 第50-54页 |
| ·Replacement of the SL image with an accepted TL image | 第54-58页 |
| ·Omission of the SL image to obtain original meaning | 第58-61页 |
| V Discussion on the Translatability of Metaphor and Simile | 第61-63页 |
| ·Major findings | 第61-62页 |
| ·Translatability of metaphor and simile | 第61页 |
| ·Relative translatability of metaphor and simile | 第61-62页 |
| ·Untranslatability of metaphor and simile | 第62页 |
| ·Explanation of findings | 第62-63页 |
| VI Conclusion | 第63-65页 |
| Bibliography | 第65-68页 |
| Publications during Postgraduate-program Research | 第68页 |
