接受美学理论确立了读者的中心地位,体现了读者的主动性。文学研究的重心从原作者和作品转移到读者的审美体验和审美接受上来的研究方法对翻译产生了深刻影响。本文从接受美学视域下对比分析刘禹锡《竹枝词》的两个英译本,突出了翻译过程中译者的主体性,以及由此产生的诗歌翻译多元化、开放性特点。 Aesthetic theory has been accepted to establish the reader’s central position, reflecting the reader’s initiative. The focus of literary studies shifted from the original author and works to the reader’s aesthetic experience and aesthetic acceptance of the research methods have a profound impact on translation. This essay contrastively analyzes two English versions of Zhu Zhi Ci by Liu Yuxi from the perspective of reception aesthetics and highlights the translator’s subjectivity in the process of translation as well as the resulting diversified and open features of poetry translation.