精品英语专业毕业论文 On the Translation of English Preposition.doc

On the Translation of English Preposition ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to my supervisor, Xu Qin, for her inspiring guidance and constant encouragement during the process of writing this thesis. She labored patiently through drafts of this work and pointed out defects in my theorizing. My cordial and sincere thanks is also extended to all the teachers in the Department of English, whose interesting and informative courses have benefited me a lot during my five years of college life. What I have learned from their profound knowledge, remarkable expertise and intellectual ingenuity will be of everlasting significance to my future life and career. Finally, I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to my family. They have shared with me my worries, frustrations, and hopefully my ultimate happiness in eventually completing this paper. CONTENTS Chapter 1 Brief Introduction to English Prepositions 2 Chapter 2 Grammatical Features of Prepositions 3 2.1 Forms of Preposition 3 2.1.1 Simple Prepositions 3 Complex Prepositions 3 2.2 Use of Preposition 4 2.2.1 Prepositions of Spatial Relations 4 2.2.2 Prepositions relating to time 9 2.2.3 Prepositions relating to tools, means, materials 12 2.2.4 Prepositions relating to reasons 13 2.2.5 Prepositions’ meaning equal to Chinese “Chu Le” 13 Chapter 3 Skills on Prepositions Translation 14 3.1 Conversion 14 3.2 Word Adding 16 3.3 Deconstruction 17 3.4 Omission 19 3.5 Reverse Translation 20 Chapter 4 Conclusion 21 REFERENCES 22 On the Translation of English Preposition MA Miao Abstract: As a kind of function word, the preposition can not be used as a grammatical component in a sentence, but it has a great flexibility in collocation with other words. It can be used to convey various meaning and indicate different grammatical role and tense by coming together with noun (phrase),pronoun, gerund, adjective, adverb, numeral and so on, hence it has been taken as one of the most ac