Contrastive Analysis and the Translation of Passive

English and Chinese differ in so many ways from lexical to syntactic and to textual levels. The differences can be attributed to various causes such as different language families, different social cultures and different history of development. These differences have posed obstacles in translation. The translation of passive is a typical example.This article will focus on the translation of passive and use the research results of contrastive linguistics to provide some strategies in the translation of passive.