This article aims to explore the application of big data technology in modern translation, with the background of a new liberal arts course. This article analyzes the challenges and opportunities that big data technology brings to translation, and discusses possible methods and approaches to integrating big data into translation practice. Through comprehensive literature review and case analysis, this article concludes that big data technology has great potential to promote the development of modern translation, and recommends that more attention be paid to and efforts be made to explore and utilize the role of big data in translation research and practice.