汉英对比语言学第10单元.docx

判断题language is alwayssubjective as it reflects how the speaker looks at the world.（T）Chinese philosophy is dominated by oneness of heaven and man(T)Chineseusually keep a distancebetween the objective world and themse lves.(F)English speakers often proceed fromthe subjective viewpoint in their observation and description.(F)Chinese sentence is a statement from an objective (objectified) perspective.(F)English emphasizes the distinction between thesubjective and the objective while Chinese does not care about this.(T)The passive voice itselfis a way of emphasizing objectivity in ones thinking.(T)Translations will typically be domesticated,thereby producing natural and idiomatic Chinese(T)Many sentences in Chinese haveinanimate subjects (also called impersonal subjects.(F)In the minds of most English speakers, lifeless thingscan be agents, which Chinesethink only people can perform.(T)The family is an important social unitor community in theminds of the Chinese people.(T)Westernerslay much more stress in exploiting theessence of the universe.(F)The active voice is usually used in depicting mental activities.(F)14.Translations are usually not used as authentic language data inproving any argument or laws.(T)The zero-subject sentence inChinese reflects a kind of covert subjectivity.(T)填空题Traditional Western philosophy is dominated by subject-object_______(dichotomy)East Asian thought is viewing everything as a whole whilethe Western way of thinking is_______thinking.(analytical)Chinese philosophy emphasizes_______so as to follow the willof Heaven .(comprehensiveness)NativeEnglish speakers would unconsciously be more objective and seem to bemore_______.(polite)5.Human beings are considered the center of the_______ intraditional East Asian philosophy.(universe)6.In translating zero-subjectsentences into English, the adoption of the_______ voice can switch the focusfrom the subjective to the objective.(passive)7.The large number of sentences taking objective things or pheno