【Abstract】With the rapid development of the Internet and online social media， there have been increasingly more network communication language. The paper will make an exploration of the Chinese – English translation of the present catchwords on the internet， enabling the target language readers to have a better understanding of the Chinese network communication language.
　　【Key words】Internet communication language； translation
　　Introduction
　　With the rapid development of Internet， some net friends create a large number of network catchwords in the internet environment. At present， China has conducted a wider range of international communication and cooperation， so there is an sharp increase of the use of English language， which demands that the Chinese communication language on the Internet be translated into English excellently. The author of the paper tries to analysis the skills of the translation of communication language on the Internet so as to promote an online communication with foreign friends.
　　1. The definition of communication language on the Internet
　　Different scholars have different explanation of communication language on the Internet. According to Chen Juan （2013）， it referred to the commonly used words on the Internet or the words that are relevant to the network. Cai Aichun