ChatGPT has attracted a widespread attention from various fields since it was brought to life,which is both an opportunity and a challenge for foreign language teaching.A questionnaire survey was conducted to study the current situation of the use of ChatGPT by 41 translation majors in English translation class.The results show that ChatGPT can help teachers and students to provide reference translations,improve comprehensive literacy,and improve translation efficiency in English translation courses.However,there are also problems such as technology dependence between teachers and students,widening digital gap,and ethics of translation technology.Teachers and students need to strengthen translation practice,improve information literacy,and establish technical ethics norms in the industry to break through the dilemma.The enlightenment is as follows:both teachers and students can use this technical tool in English translation courses,but they need to maintain an objective attitude towards the translation generated by it,and finally conduct post-translation editing after the text is generated,forming a hu-man and technical cooperation model,so as to better improve the quality of translation.