《红楼梦》中有达官贵人、纨绔子弟,也有底层奴仆、村野农户,书中不同阶层人物的谈吐,在原著中略有风格上的差异,而在霍克思(Hawkes)译本中,风格和语域(register)变化幅度更大,而且有些语言特征更是译者自行增添,“无中生有”。本文以“纨绔子弟”和“底层人物”为切入点,剖析霍译本中人物的语言特征,并尝试解释翻译家为什么要增添那些特征。本文的讨论,有助于说明翻译学上的“忠于原著”不必等于依样画葫芦,在翻译大师笔下,译本有可能在逼真感和艺术效果上更胜于原作。 In “A Dream of Red Mansions”, there are dignitaries, sons and daughters, as well as minor servants, village farmers, and different class characters in the book. There is a slight difference in style between them. In Hawkes’ version, the style and register ), And some language features are more translators to add their own, “nothing has ”. In this paper, we will analyze the linguistic features of the characters in Huo Yi Ben and try to explain why the translators should add those features, starting from “Children” and “Bottom Characters”. The discussion in this article helps to explain that “loyalty to the original” in translation studies does not have to be equal to what it is. In the translation master’s handwriting, the translation may be more realistic than the original in artistic and realistic effects.