文章通过分析自建的由100 篇英文散文及其汉语译文组成的平行语料库和由100 篇当代原创汉语散文组成的参照语料库及当代汉语平衡语料库，探讨当代散文翻译规范。研究发现，在具体词语使用上，译者采取的操作规范主要体现的是传统化期待规范趋向，在句子、段落、篇章等结构形式上，译者采取的操作规范主要体现的是陌生化期待规范趋向。另外，研究还发现译文的确是“第三符码”，具有独特的语言特征，主要翻译单位是句子。

The author constructs a parallel corpus consisting of 100 pieces of contemporary English-Chinese translation prose，and a comparable corpus composed of 100 pieces of contemporary original Chinese prose．By analyzing these two corpora on the vocabulary，sentence and discourse level，with reference to LCMC which acts as a balanced corpus for the 100 translated Chinese prose，the researcher tries to explore the norms governing the contemporary English-Chinese prose translation．With the help of Wordsmith and other analytical tools，the research finds out the linguistic features of these corpora，from which we conclude that in the usage of specific words，the operational norms the translators adopt indicate a trend toward conventional expectation norm，while in the structure of sentences，paragraphs and textual arrangement，they indicate a trend towards foreignness expectation norm．Besides，the research also finds that translation is indeed a“third code”，which has its distinctive features．What's more，the paper finds out the basic unit of translation is sentence．