Errors in meaning are sometimes inevitable when interpreting. By presenting examples, this paper will categorize the mistranslations that appear in consecutive interpretation, and further analyze possible reasons for mistranslations, suggest methods to reduce mistranslation, and propose remedies for mistranslation. First, I will analyze the common types of mistranslations seen when undergraduate university students majoring in Japanese perform Japanese to Chinese consecutive interpretation, using materials collected from in-class practice sessions in the undergraduate Japanese-Chinese interpretation course I teach. Second, I raise examples of mistranslation by professional interpreters, and through these examples I analyze the reasons behind mistranslation by undergraduate interpretation students and professional interpreters. According to preliminary findings, the reasons undergraduate students suffer from mistranslation include false friends, homonyms, unfamiliar terms, errors in sentence structure analysis, and failure to understand the topic or setting. These mistranslations tend to arise from linguistic reasons. For professional interpreters, the reasons for mistranslation commonly include homonyms and errors in predicting content. Misjudgment of homonyms arises from interpreters' preference for commonly used terms, familiar terms, or modern pronunciation. It arises from an over reliance on the interpreter's familiarity with terms, and an under reliance on the coherence between terms and the subject of the speech. Interpreters are limited by their own background knowledge, and undergraduate interpretation students suffer from insufficient background knowledge as well as limited language skills. When a mistranslation is detected, the interpreter can apologize and provide the correct translation, and can also use the pragmatics concept of "canceling" to remedy the mistranslation, correcting the translated output with natural language usage.