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mulate readers’ imagination finally. The following is another example from Bells Ringing In The Rain: “今宵酒醒何处？杨柳岸晓风残月。Xu Yuanchong ‘s translation is Where will you be found at daybreak From wine awake? Moored by a riverbank planted with willow trees Beneath the waning moon and in the morning breeze. The poem asks where he will be when he wakes up tomorrow morning. “willow trees” and “Beneath the waning moon and in the morning breeze.” stimulate the readers’ imagination, and make the readers imagine the scene by themselves. For example: how is the poet’s condition when he awake? And what will he be think? Different people have different images. People can image the scene of the poet awaking in the morning according to their own understanding of the poem. “Moored” give the readers large space of imagination that is the need to transmit artistic conception to readers. From the author’s point of view, stimulating imagination plays a quite important role in transmission of artistic conception. Many translators notice the point in the process of translation. For instance, there are two verses in the renowned poem "Song of a Pipa Player" (琵琶行)by Bai Juyi：“大弦嘈嘈如急雨，小弦切切如私语；嘈嘈切切错杂谈，大珠小珠落玉盘。” The two verses describe the music by the Pipa. “It is difficult to describe abstract music in words, but Bai Juyi compares it in turn to a patterning rain, to pearls dropping on a plate of jade”[28] which greatly stimulate the readers’ imagination, “so that you can not only hear it but sometimes even see it before your eyes”. [29] Here are two versions respectively translated by C.Gaunt(A) and Xu Yuanchong(B) A The great strings with a crash resound, As when the rain-storm strikes the ground; The small strings whisper manifold, Like secret confidences told; And then the vibrant chords outfling A mingled crash and whispering, Like shower of pearls, some large some small, that on a jade-dish pattering fall. B The thick strings loudly thrummed like the pattering rain; The fine strings softly tinkled in a murmuring strain When mingling loud and soft notes were together played ‘Twas like large and small pearls dropping on plate of jade C.Gaunt’s‘the rain-storm strikes the ground’; ‘whisper’‘ like shower of pearls, some large some small,’and Xu Yuanchong’s ‘pattering rain’‘murmuring strain’ ‘murmuring strain’all stimulate the readers’ imagination and convey artistic conception of the poem in source language as well. The original poem does well in stimulating imagination, so does the translation. Stimulating imagination is a part of the conveyance of artistic conception, we get artistic treat through abundant association and fantasy, which achieve the effect of artistic conception. As we analyze above, the translation that arouse the imagination of readers convey artistic conception effectively. There is a point we are sure that even if the translations cannot achieve the charm of the poem perfectly, we should exert our great efforts to resemble the effect. 4. Conclusion We can find that the conveyance of artistic conception is not easy. However, through the three means, we still can effectively transmit artistic conception by experiencing the emotion and imaging the image of original poems. The author discusses three strategies: expressing feelings and ideas; unearthing images; stimulating imagination. They are three effective ways but not the absolute means. In addition, there is one point tha