This thesis analyzes the translations of the names of fantastic beasts in Harry Potter series with the purpose of exploring the thinking pattern of Chinese translation of the words with great cultural differences, unveiling the process of translators, and providing the similar translating problems with another perspective in the future．

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Enormous comments on the Chinese versions of Harry Potter series have been made from many sources since the appearance of the Chinese version published by China Literature’s Press. One relevant paper is The Translation of the Nouns in Harry Potter Books and their Meaning Expression of the Pronunciation (Qin Shengyong, 2007: 50-52). By using the achievements in psychological linguistics, this paper proves the natural links between phonetic property and the meaning evoked accordingly and further proposes that the meaning evoked by the phonetic property cannot be neglected in translation. The priority on meaning conveyed by the phonetic property is helpful to the analysis of transliteration in this thesis, but the paper doesn’t make detailed analysis of how the meaning evoked by the phonetic property can be reflected and it doesn’t investigate translators’ thinking patterns．