Euivalence is an essential requirement of translation and the main task of translation activity is to establish equivalence between the source text and the target text. Such being the case, different principles of translation equivalence have been put forward, of which the principle of dynamic equivalence put forward by Nida is the most familiar to and has the greatest influence on Chinese translation circle. It has its own features and boasts a lot of merits, which will be discussed in this

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... er. Yinhua Xiang was born in Chongqing, China in 1966. He received his M.A degree in translation from Sichuan International Studies University, China in 2000. He is currently a lecturer in the School of Foreign Languages, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, China. His research interests include theory and practice of translation, teaching theory and method of English and lexicology.