中式英语问题解决概要.ppt

中式英语的特点 Unnecessary Category Words 促进和平统一事业 A: promoting the cause of peaceful reunification B: promoting peaceful reunification 中国经济现在还处在落后状态。 A: China’s economy is still in a state of backwardness. B: China’s economy is still backward. 中式英语的特点 Wrong Collocation 参加考试 take part in an examination take/sit for an exam 拥挤的交通crowded traffic busy/heavy traffic 他们的思想还年轻 A:Their brain is still very young. B:They are still very immature. “Why couldn’t they meet us at five o’clock?” “Because they were delayed by ________.” A. heavy traffic B. heavy traffics C. crowded traffic D. crowded traffics 中式英语的特点 Improper Rhetoric Application A: With the reform and opening to the outside world, TV advertising is developing rapidly like bamboo shoots after spring rain. B:With the reform and opening to the outside world, TV advertising is developing rapidly like mushrooms after spring rain. 中式英语的特点 Syntactic Error 请再给我两小时。 Please allow me more two hours. Please give me another two hours. 和他结婚以后，她的麻烦就开始了。 After marrying him, her trouble began. After marrying him, she began to have troubles. 中式英语的特点 Ambiguous Reference A: The doctor handed the child to the father with a smile on his face.(ambiguous) B: With a smile on his face, the doctor handed the child to the father.( clear) 中式英语的特点 Improper Word Order A: It’s estimated that our army will reach 5,500,000 at its peak next year. B: It’s estimated that at its peak next year our army will reach 5,500,000. Jacques Barzun says “the emphatic places in a sentence are beginning and end, the end being the more so.”(Pinkham 2000:250) 中式英语的特点 Personification 我们的事业从胜利走向胜利. Our cause has won victories one after another.(Chinglish) We have won one victory after another for our cause. 宗教不得干预政治. Religion must not interfere with politics.(Chinglish) It’s impermissible to interfere with politics in the name of religion. 中式英语产生原因 Cultural difference 自由恋爱 free love free choic