| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-8页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-22页 |
| ·The Purpose and Significance of the Present Research | 第14-16页 |
| ·Literature Review of the Previous Study | 第16-21页 |
| ·The Scope and Research Methods of the Thesis | 第21-22页 |
| Chapter 2 The Nature of Sound Symbolism | 第22-37页 |
| ·The Sound/Meaning Relationship | 第22-26页 |
| ·The Naturalist Overgeneralization | 第23-24页 |
| ·The Conventionalist Overgeneralization | 第24-25页 |
| ·The Combination of Arbitrariness and Non-Arbitrariness | 第25-26页 |
| ·Sound Symbolism | 第26-34页 |
| ·The Definition and Representations of Sound Symbolism | 第26-28页 |
| ·Types of Sound Symbolism | 第28-32页 |
| ·Corporeal Sound Symbolism | 第30页 |
| ·Imitative Sound Symbolism | 第30-31页 |
| ·Synaesthetic Sound Symbolism | 第31页 |
| ·Conventional Sound Symbolism | 第31-32页 |
| ·Sound Symbolism in Chinese | 第32-34页 |
| ·Sound-symbolic Form | 第34-35页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第35-37页 |
| Chapter 3.The Losses in Translating Sound Symbolism and the Compensation Strategies | 第37-57页 |
| ·The Translators' Dilemma | 第38-42页 |
| ·The Uniqueness of Literary Language | 第39-40页 |
| ·The Losses in Translation | 第40-42页 |
| ·Sound Effect and its Translation | 第42-48页 |
| ·The Decision-Making Process | 第44-45页 |
| ·Sound in Poetry Translation:A Way Out? | 第45-48页 |
| ·Translation Compensation | 第48-53页 |
| ·The Definition of translation Compensation | 第49-50页 |
| ·Types of Compensation | 第50-53页 |
| ·The Compensation Strategies for Translating Sound Symbolism | 第53-56页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第56-57页 |
| Chapter 4 Onomatopoeia and its Translation | 第57-77页 |
| ·The Definition of Onomatopoeia | 第57-58页 |
| ·Classifications of Onomatopoeia | 第58-61页 |
| ·Onomatopoeia Produced by Human | 第59页 |
| ·Onomatopoeia Produced by Animals | 第59-60页 |
| ·Onomatopoeia Produced by Other Things | 第60-61页 |
| ·Onomatopoeia in Chinese | 第61-64页 |
| ·Characteristics | 第62-63页 |
| ·Reduplication | 第63-64页 |
| ·The Translation of Onomatopoeia | 第64-75页 |
| ·Transliteration | 第64-66页 |
| ·Substitution | 第66-68页 |
| ·Adaptation | 第68-69页 |
| ·Reduplication | 第69-71页 |
| ·Four-character Phrases | 第71-73页 |
| ·Generalization | 第73-74页 |
| ·Omission | 第74-75页 |
| ·Amplification | 第75页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第75-77页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第77-79页 |
| Bibliography | 第79-81页 |
