本文从巴斯奈特的文化翻译观出发,通过比较杨宪益戴乃迭夫妇和大卫·霍克斯的《红楼梦》第三回英译本,从文化的不同类型——物质和精神文化,阐明翻译的对等就是原文与译文之间文化功能的对等。以探讨两译本在物质和意识方面文化信息处理中的长处与不足,揭示与总结文化翻译观对汉英翻译中文化信息处理的启示。 This article starts from the perspective of Basnett’s cultural translation. By comparing the third version of “Dream of Red Mansions” between Yang Xiangyi, Gladys and David Hawkes, this article explicates the different types of culture - material and spiritual culture The equivalence between the original and the translation of the cultural function of the equivalent. To explore the strengths and weaknesses of the two translations in material and ideological aspects of cultural information processing and to reveal and summarize the enlightenment of cultural translation on the processing of cultural information in Chinese-English translation.