摘要：This paper intends to demonstrate the differences in space-time cognition by contrasting the English translations of Chinese plant metaphors composed by English and Chinese *** materials used for analysis are two English versions of the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Mansion translated by David Hawks and Yang *** paper hypothesizes that Chinese is more space-oriented in plant conceptualization,while English is more *** analyzed the cognitive reasons behind different translation strategies adopted for the same plant metaphor and verified the deduction from example analysis in the *** typical plant metaphor analyzed in the research is the“root”*** results indicate that most Chinese“root”metaphors are“double-imaged”metonymic metaphors,which rely on the hierarchical correlation between plant components and the accumulation of spacial characteristics through multiple metonymies embedded in metaphorical *** the contrary,the conceptualization of“root”and“plant”in English pay more attention to the dynamic growth of the plant rather than the spacial relations between different parts.