Abstract ：Eco-translatology provides a brand new angle for translation studies. This thesis aims to analyze the influence of translation eco-environment on the translation process and to prove the applicability of eco-translatology. Eco-translatology, which has been just emerging during the past few years, integrates translation and ecology together to analyze the translation process. This paper makes an analysis on the subtitle translation of film “Sherlock" and concludes that its subtitle translation realizes selection of “three-dimensional transformation” (Linguistic Dimension, Cultural Dimension and the Dimension of Communication), and proves that they are successful translation.

Key words: eco-environment; adaptation; selection; three-dimensional transformation; subtitles