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1、ThedifferencebetweenEnglishandChinesetranslationEnglishandChinesebelongtotwodifferentlanguagefamilies:English,theIndo-EuropeanfamilyandChinese,theSino-Tibetanfamily.Thetwolanguagesalsohavedifferentculturalbackgrounds.Translationisaninterlingualandintercultura
2、ltransferandmulti-dimensionalcontrastivestudiesofthetwolanguageandculturesarethereforeessential.Therefore,beforetranslation,weshouldpayattentiontotheculturalelements.AccordingtothedifferencebetweenEnglishandChinesetranslation,therearetenpairsoffeatureswhichwe
3、shouldtakeintoconsiderationwhenwetranslateEnglishtoChinese.1SyntheticandAnalytic(綜合語和分析語)Asyntheticlanguageischaracterizedbyfrequentandsystematicuseofinflectedformstoexpressgrammaticalrelationships.Ananalyticlanguageismarkedbyarelativelyfrequentuseoffunctionw
4、ords,auxiliaryverbs,andchangesinwordordertoexpresssyntacticrelations,ratherthanofinflectedforms.ModernEnglishhasbecomeaanalyticlanguage,butChineseisatypicalanalyticlanguage.Inflection(變化詞形),wordorder（安排詞序）andtheuseoffunctionwords(運(yùn)用虛詞)areemployedasthethreegra
5、mmaticaldevicesinbuildingEnglishsentences.1.1Inflectionalvs.Non---inflectionalInEnglish,nouns,pronounsandverbsareinflected.Suchgrammaticalmeaningaspartsofspeech,gender,case,person,tense,aspect,voice,moodandnon--finiteverb,canbta,expressedbytheuseofinflectedfo
6、rmswithorwithoutthehelpoffunctionwordsandwordorder,whereasinChinesethisisgenerallynottrue:theabovegrammaticalmeaningsaremostlyimpliedincontextsorbetweenthelines,thoughoftenwiththehelpofwordorderandfunctionwords,e.gTheytoldmethatbytheendoftheyeartheywouldhaveb
7、eenworkingtogetherforthirtyyears.他們告訴我，到（那年）年底，他們?cè)谝黄鸸ぷ骶陀腥炅恕?.2WordsOrder:Flexiblevs.InflexibleWordorderinEnglishisnotsorigidasinChinese.Morewaysofinversiongrammaticalorrhetorical,areoftenseeninEnglish.e.gInterrogativeinversion(疑問倒裝)（1）Whatintheworlddoyoumea
8、n?你的意思究竟是什么??？（2）Exclamatoryinversion(驚嘆倒裝)Whatabeautifulvoiceyouhave!你有多么好的嗓音??！TheflexiblewordorderinEnglishismainlytheresultofthegrammaticalconcordofwordsinthesentencewhichisachievedbyin
