范文评析(翻译类).doc

Contrast and Transformation Between Typical English and Chinese Sentence Patterns 作者: 钱垂君 校对者: 李丽霞 黄 涛 Abstract：The British people have a tendency towards analytical，lineal and abstract thinking mode, separating subjects from objects, while the Chinese are prone to synthetic，spiral and concrete thinking mode, unifying the subject and the object. The difference in thinking mode has contributed to different typical sentence patterns：in English，the typical sentence pattern is S=NP+VP；in Chinese，it is S=Topic+ Comment. The two formulas pose contrasts to each other in such aspects as thematic，preference for sentence style，syntactic unit and the nature of subject. Knowledge about those contrasts can provide insight into and offer guidance on the transfor- mation of sentence patterns between the two languages. During transformation from Chinese into English, hypotaxis can be preferred to, while parataxis is usually favored during transformation from English into Chinese. (点评：由摘要中的选词、择句可以看出论文作者的英语基本功很扎实) Key words：typical sentence patterns, contrast, transformation Introduction Eugene A. Nida (1983:12) once remarked, “Translation consists in the receptor language the closet natural equivalence of the source language.” Fully aware of the notion as translators are, they have always found elusive the approach to achievement of such “closest natural” equivalence. The difficulty has defied much attempt at complete solution because of innate differences between cultures and languages, among which the difference between sentence patterns is most frequently confronted. The reason resides in the fact that while trans1ating, the translator takes sentence as the translation unit consciously, sentence patterns between languages can directly influence, or even determine the quality of a piece of trans1ation．In this book Syntactic Structures published in 1957，Chomsky proposed that a sentence has two levels of structures：the deep structure and the surface structure．(胡壮麟，2001：235)Th