LPersonalvsImpersonal.pptVIP

A Contrastive Study between Chinese and English Personal Subject Impersonal Subject Pre-test 1. Modesty becomes youth. 2. A decade of the traffic police job in the city center has hurt his hearing. 年轻人应该彬彬有礼。 因为在市中心当了十年交通警察，他的听力受到了损伤。 Combining inanimate or impersonal subjects with animate verbs is prevalent in English, but the structure seldom occurs in Chinese languages except for personification. The subjects are usually Time Place, or nouns showing natural phenomenon or notions showing people’s physiological or psychological feelings, or nouns functioning as specific behaviors or actions. 1. Time The early 1600’s saw the beginning of a great tide of emigration from Europe to North America． 17世纪初期，移民的大潮流开始从欧洲流到美洲。 The 1970s brought a decline in eating out , but the 1980s , especially in homes where both parents were working , brought a big increase in the demand for many types of restaurants. 七十年代到外面就餐的人减少了, 但到了80 年代,特别是在那些父母双亲都在外工作的家庭中, 人们对多种形式餐馆的需求有了很大增长。 2. place The curiosity shop detained him for almost three hours． 他在古玩店呆了大约三个小时，因而耽搁了。 The very spot always reminded him of the accident which took away Sylvia’s life． 每回看到这个地方，他就会想起夺走西尔维娅生命的那次事故。 (compare这个地方总使／提醒他) 3. Natural phenomenon The morning sun greeted us as we came out on the deck． 我们迎着朝阳来到甲板上。 Dusk found the child crying in the street. 黄昏时，小孩在街上哭了起来。 4. Physical or psychological feelings Astonishment deprived me of my power of speech． 我惊讶得说不出话来。 My conscience told me that I deserved no extraordinary politeness. 凭良心讲，你待我礼貌有加，我却受之有愧。 A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who says that women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era and a major who says that they haven’t. （席间）一位年轻的女士同一位少校展开了热列的讨论。年轻女士认为，妇女已经有所进步，不再象过去那样一见到老鼠就吓得跳到椅子上；少校则不以然。 Practice My lack of imagination obliged me to set down quite straight forwardly what I have seen with my own eyes and heard with my own ears． (因为)我缺乏想象力，所以只能将亲眼所见、亲耳所闻直通通地记下来。 The thick undergrowth of the woo