英汉两种语言属于不同的语系。语言之间的差异,地理环境、历史背景、社会习俗和文化典故的不同,给翻译带来了巨大的困难。引申是众多翻译方法中常用的一种。使用引申的手法,能使译文通顺、流畅、忠实地再现原文意义和风格。本文主要从词义引申、修辞引申和文化典故引申三个方面阐述了引申手法在英汉翻译中的运用。 English and Chinese belong to different languages. The differences between languages, geographical environment, historical background, social customs and cultural allusions have brought tremendous difficulties to translation. Extended is a commonly used in many translation methods. The use of extended techniques can make the translation fluent, fluent and faithful to reproduce the original meaning and style. This article mainly elaborates the application of the extended tactics in English-Chinese translation from three aspects: extension of speech, extension of rhetoric and extension of cultural quotation.