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l phonemic system, which cannot be replaced by other language. There are large differences between Chinese and English, and most of the pronunciations in one language do not have equivalent in the other language. Therefore, they can not be translated into the target language. For example: (1)“石诗士施氏，嗜狮，誓食十狮……” The author wrote the whole passage in homophone words. This is a typical example of untranslatability caused by phonemic system. See another example: (2)“Cat, cat, cat, catch the fat rat fast.” If translate it into: “猫，猫，猫，快抓住那只肥老鼠” that will lose the phonemic effect, and it only translates the meaning. 2.2. Untranslatability in character structure Chinese words consist of characters that have their meaning, but English words consist of alphabets that are meaningless. They are completely different in writing. Chinese has a writing skill of describing characters, for example: (3)“人曾为僧，人弗可以成佛，女卑为婢，女又何妨成奴”，“鸿是江边鸟，蚕是天下虫”，“琴瑟琵琶八大王，王王在上，魑魅魍魉四小鬼，鬼鬼靠边”。 They are all using the special feature of Chinese characters, to describe the character structure in poetry, also having their meaning. But English has no such structures in alphabetical system, so they are absolutely untranslatable. Some riddles that are relative to the structure of characters or English words are also untranslatable, for example: (4)“田头长草” （苗）, “What makes a road broad?”(The letter B). If the latter riddle is translated into:“什么使道路变宽？” （字母B）Everybody will fell ridiculous, and no one can understand that. 2.3. Untranslatability in figure of speech Most of the languages have their own figures of speech. Just because of the existence of figure of speech, the languages become vivid and interesting. In translation practice, if the target language can not show the figure of speech in source language correctly, it is not faithful to the content, thought and style of the source language. Although the meanings are similar, it will less the language influence of the source text. The people who speak Chinese and the people who speak English have large differences in the way of thinking and aesthetic, so when they express the same concept, they often use different figure of speech. These caused the untranslatability in Chinese- English translation. It has the following main aspects: 2.3.1. Puns Pun means humorous use of a word that has two meanings or of different words that sound the same. Puns pack several meanings into one word, and it is extremely unlikely that any other language will pack into the same set of meanings, so it is difficult to translate into the target language. Example one: (5)“杨柳青青江水平，闻郎江上唱歌声，东边日出西边雨，道是无晴却有晴” Here“晴”is a pun, and it also means “情”，Zhang Qichun translate it into “The willows are green, green, the river is serene. Thence is his song rafted to me. In the east the sun is rising, in the west the rain is falling. Can you see if it’s fair or foul?” In this translation, the translator did very well, especially in “green, serene, fair or foul”, but he can not translate the pun completely. Example two: (6)“She is too low for a high praise, too brown to a fair praise, and too little for a great praise.” The “low” and “fair” are all puns in this sentence. “Low” means short in height and low social status. “Fair” means pale skin, light in color and justice. There is no word or phrase in Chinese having the two meanings together, so the translator can not translate the two meanings into Chinese, only adapted one meaning, and will lose the oth