Translation is not only a kind of language activity but also a kind of thinking activity. Language is served as a tool of thinking

while thinking is the fundamental element of language. Differences in many aspects like geographical environment

life style

custom result in various ways of thinking between the English and Chinese People in the long course of history. Nevertheless

the ways of thinking are the most obstructive in the midst of transformation between language and culture. With regard to this matter

the study on thinking differences between English and Chinese is an important access to remove cross-culture communication barriers . Therefore

illustrated by the example of the version of a western famous book

Pride and Prejudice

this paper touches upon a deep comparison and study in respect of its original language and Chinese version

and the primary purpose of this paper is to have a dept-in understanding on the thinking differences between English and Chinese from four perspectives: abstract thinking and concrete thinking

focus thinking and scatter thinking

objective thinking and subjective thinking and analytic thinking and synthetic thinking. In addition

in this study

an attempt is made to assist those who love English and translation to get rid of Chinglish

have the formation of English thinking

and boost the improvement of the quality of English-Chinese translation. Furthermore

the study is also conducive to the further developments and deeper exchanges of the culture between English and Chinese.