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Abstract As a branch of linguistics, rhetoric can be divided into two sides: active rhetoric and passive rhetoric. Both of them play a very significant role in writing and communication. However, in translation, an important form of cross-cultural communication, most of the English learners pay more attention to the active one, and the indispensable role of the passive rhetoric has been ignored. It influenced English learner’s awareness and competence of the cross-cultural communication. In this thesis, by using examples to illustrate and contrast to analyze, the culture background and ex