| Introduction | 第1-13页 |
| Chapter One: Theories of Metaphor in the West and in China | 第13-30页 |
| 1．1 What is Metaphor | 第13-15页 |
| 1．2 Studies on Metaphor in the West | 第15-23页 |
| 1．2．1 The period of rhetorical study on metaphor | 第16-18页 |
| 1．2．2 The period of semantic study on metaphor | 第18-19页 |
| 1．2．3 The period of interdisciplinary study on metaphor | 第19-23页 |
| 1．3 Studies on Metaphor in China | 第23-30页 |
| Chapter Two: Theories On Metaphor Translation | 第30-41页 |
| 2．1 The Metaphorical World | 第30-33页 |
| 2．2 Theories of Metaphor Translation | 第33-41页 |
| Chapter Three: The Translation of Metaphor in the Perspective of Cross-cultural Communication | 第41-65页 |
| 3．1 Metaphor Translation as a Cross-cultural Phenomenon | 第42-49页 |
| 3．1．1 Metaphors reflecting the native socio-historical backgrounds | 第43-44页 |
| 3．1．2 Metaphors reflecting the local customs and habits | 第44-46页 |
| 3．1．3 Metaphors reflecting religious, legendary and mythological Origins | 第46-48页 |
| 3．1．4 Metaphors reflecting people's daily life | 第48-49页 |
| 3．2 The Translatability of Metaphor | 第49-50页 |
| 3．3 Strategies to Translating Metaphor as a Cross-cultural Phenomenon | 第50-65页 |
| 3．3．1 Cultural image in the object-sense-image complex | 第51-53页 |
| 3．3．2 The strategy: domestication vs． foreignization | 第53-54页 |
| 3．3．3 Cultural Overlapping and the Strategy of Substitution | 第54-56页 |
| 3．3．4 Moving the SLC to the TLC: domestication | 第56-58页 |
| 3．3．5 Moving the TLC to the SLC: foreignization | 第58-61页 |
| 3．3．6 Cultural conflict: domestication vs． foreignization? | 第61-65页 |
| Conclusion | 第65-68页 |
| Bibliography | 第68-74页 |
