中国汉语的优势 (英汉对照).docVIP

中国汉语的优势 Chinese has been widely used in East Asia for thousands of years. It was supposed to be the leading global language, but an accident happened. English quite by chance took its place. Will Chinese seize the place? The answer is definitely YES! Because Chinese has many advantages over European languages including English.中国汉语已经在东亚地区被广泛的使用了数千年。它本应该是领先全球的语言,但随后发生了一些事件。英语很偶然取代了汉语的位置。新世纪汉语能够重新崛起吗?答案是肯定的!因为中文有着许多优点，而这些优点是包括英语在内的欧洲语种所没有的。 Chinese, especially Chinese characters, is more stable than European languages. An average student of higher schools in China can easily read the books, say Lunyu, Laozi et al, that were written 2000 years ago But a Ph D of native England can hardly read the books their ancestor wrote 500 years ago. In China a pupil of primary school can easily read The Romance of Three Kingdoms which was written more than 600 years ago. Because Chinese is a ideographic language in which the characters are generally true to their ideas while European languages including English are phonetic languages in which the words should be principally true to their pronunciations. For hundreds of years the pronunciation changed, as a result words of English changed; but characters of Chinese remained almost the same. In the next five hundred years, God alone knows what English will become. But Chinese, I predict confidently, will not change so much, especially its writing.汉语，特别是汉字，有着欧洲语种无可比拟的稳定性。一个普通的中国高中学生可以很容易的阅读书籍，如《论语》，《老子》。而这些文章都是在2000年前所写的。但是一个英国本地的博士生却很难能够阅读他们先辈500年前所写的文章。在中国，小学生们能够很容易的读懂600多年前所写的《三国演义》。因为汉语是一种表意语言，通过汉字就可以理解作者所思所想。然后包括英语在内的欧洲语种，是表音语言。只有通过发音，才能够理解当事人的所表达出的意思。数百年来，由于英语发音的改编，英语单词的意思也在改变；但是对于汉语来说，它依旧保持着固有的特点，千百年依旧稳定。我认为，只有上帝才知道未来的英语能演变成什么样子。但是对于汉语来说，我能很自信的预测，不会有多大的改变，尤其是汉字的写法。Chinese is more compatible especially the writing Chinese. Some experts in the ISO (international standard organization) classify Chinese as a language family which contains Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese Chinese, Minnan Chinese, Wu Chinese etc. In the speaking sense