Modern hermeneutics mainly deals with the relationship among author, text and reader involved in the process of understanding and interpretation. Different schools of hermeneutics focus on different aspects. Influenced by this difference, translation studies also experience constant shift of research perspective, which changes from the persistent pursuit of the author’s original meaning to emphasizing translator’s subjectivity and finally to text analysis. The most obvious change can be seen from its influence on the translation criterion, which develops from “faithfulness” and “equivalence” oriented towards the author’s original meaning to a pluralistic standard that advocates individual differences.