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Translation on Deixis in English and Chinese 　　Abstract： In pragmatics， deixis is a significant content. The passage induced the different categories of deixis in English. The author mainly utilized the method of analysis and induction and hopes that translators can master the usage of deixis in both English and Chinese and can make better in their translation. The creative point of in the paper is that deixis in English is induced systematically and the usage of deixis is analyzed， induced and translated. 　　【中图分类号】G640 　　1. Introduction 　　Deixis is an important content of pragmatics. It can mostly represents the close relationship between the language and context. By deixis the relationship can be reflected on linguistic structure. The typical deixis information in context involves denotational information， which includes the concept of space， time and movement[1]. These deixis information， based on a series of word phrases directly related to context can be expressed by their grammatical features. These words are called deixis in pragmatics， such as personal pronoun， tense， some modal words and adverb of place， adverbs of time and so on. 　　2. Translation on Deixis 　　On translation of deixis， above all， the context must be act as the essential basis because it is the critical factor to correctly understand and express deixis[2]. Secondly， it should be paid attention to different expression habits of same denotation between source language and target language and regulated in translation. 　　2.1 Person Deixis 　　Person deixis refers to using special words or phrases to express the roles that participants undertake in a speech event. 　　On translating person deixis， it must be realized soberly that the concept of pronouns in grammar， especially person deixis， may not be absolutely simplified to equate deixis in pragmatics. 　　2.2 Time Deixis 　　In language activity， time expression with indication meaning， calculates and understand as reference point from the m