Ceremonial speeches,with their special stylistic characteristics and communicative functions,play a significant part in social as well as reception activities involving foreign affairs.Stemming from the differences in culture and mode of thinking,the Chinese and English ceremonial speeches exhibit their differences in style and expressions.College students who are beginners in learning interpreting ceremonial speeches tend to come up with inappropriate or incorrect interpretation.By means of comparative and contrastive studies,this paper aims to explore the problems encountered by Chinese students in C-E interpreting of ceremonial speeches,thereby proposing some strategies to address them.