Antithetic couplet is one of the unique arts in Chinese culture,however,the translating couplets,as an act of cross-cultural communication,involves two kinds of different languages and reflects two kinds of distinct cultures.As a result,couplet translation constitutes one of the most challenging and the most difficult kinds of Chinese-English translation in Chinese cultures.In order to achieve the maximal equivalence between the original texts and the translation,the translators may boldly use e...