本文依据双语平行语料库中抽出的499个例子，考察了汉、英本源概念的翻译模式。据考察，翻译敏感类文本（sensitive texts）中本源概念的主要翻译策略是直译，而小说类文本的翻译模式则较为灵活，呈现出“意译>直译>换译>省略”这样的分布倾向，即意译手法多于直译，直译又多于换译，换译又多于省略。这为理解从原文到译文之间的概念意旨整合过程提供了具体的证据。

It is a long-standing issue in translation as to how to understand the transfer of indigenous concepts from source to target. Being source-bound, these concepts do not have ready interpretations in the target system and therefore are foreign or alien to the target community. This paper approaches the issue from a cognitive perspective. 499 examples are retrieved from English-Chinese and Chinese-English parallel corpora and are examined for how they are actually translated. The resulting patterns show that while trans-coding is the dominating strategy for sensitive texts, a more flexible pattern including paraphrasing, substitution and deletion is observed for fictional texts. From the cognitive perspective, such outcomes are not so much ad hoc, piece-meal or random as one might think, but rather are determined by the constraints on how the cognitive systems (of the translator) may process bilingual data.