中国的翻译实践活动历史悠久,各种关于翻译的观点、思想和理论也随之产生,本文通过对中国翻译史上的一些翻译家的翻译理论的分析,并与尤金·奈达的“等效翻译”理论相对比,进而指出中国翻译史上也是出现过“等效翻译”思想的,只是当时由于各种原因并没有在中国译界引起过多的重视。 China’s translation practice has a long history and various opinions, thoughts and theories about translation have also come into being. This article analyzes the translation theories of some translators in the history of Chinese translation and compares it with Eugene Nida’s Efficiency translation “theory, and then points out that” the equivalent translation "also appeared in the history of Chinese translation, except that due to various reasons, it did not cause too much emphasis on Chinese translation community.