Chinese ranslation of English attributive clauses.docVIP

第一种翻译成简单句，合二为一 第二种前置，因为位置不同。 第三种去掉连接词。重复先行词都可以。 第四种翻译成状语从句 The attributive clause is one of the most complicated clauses in English, and causes many difficulties to translators, because English and Chinese belong to different language families. and each of them has its own special syntactic characteristics. First, let’s have a brief review of Attributive clauses in English. Attributive clauses are used to modify noun. So they are also known as “adjective clauses”, but the place is different. Mostly, they are post-modifiers of nouns and are always introduced by relative words such as “who” “whose” “that” “which” “as” “when” “where” “why”. There are two types of attributive clauses in English, namely restrictive and non-restrictive attributive clause. The function of the attributive clause is to indentify and classify the preceding noun and non-restrictive attributive clauses are used to add extra information that readers may not know. clause.增加一些定语从句的信息。 though attributive structures exist both in English and Chinese, the concept of attributive clause does not exist in Chinese syntax. Chinese often use individual words or phrases as attributive elements or other types of clauses to perform similar functions. Since there is no attributive clause in Chinese. Being translated into simple sentences Sometimes the translator can rearrange the order of the English complex sentence and change the attributive clause into the predicate of a simple sentence (Song Tianxi, 2005). This method is frequently adopted in translating English “there be “structure. e.g.1 There are a man in the classroom who are waiting for you. (教室裏有人等.。) This was the period when Newton began the research which resulted in the creation of his famous Theory of Gravity.就在这期间，牛顿开始一项研究。经过这项研究，他创立了著名的重力理论。The way attributive clauses1?are formed is one of the clearest differences between Chinese and English grammar. Attributive clauses in English are right-branching, that is, follow the noun they modi