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浅谈英语无灵主语句 On the English Inanimate-Subjects Sentences 班级: 姓名: 学号: 得分: 摘 要：英语无灵主语句是英语书面语中常见的一种典型句型和独特的语言现象。由于中西文化，思维方式以及英汉语言之间的差异，给中国学生在理解和运用这类句子带来困难。本文首先探究英语无灵主语的主要类型，它们分别是表示思想情感的名词做主语；表示和身体部位的名词做主语；表示时间和地点的名词做主语。然后文章通过运用具体实例重点分析无灵主语句的以提高中国学生的翻译水平。无灵主语翻译 Abstract: English sentences with inanimate subjects are a kind of common and typical sentence pattern and a unique language. Due to cultural and linguistic differences between English and Chinese and differences in ways of thinking between East and West, it is not easy for Chinese students to understand and use. This paper firstly explores the categories of inanimate subjects, which are nouns of feeling and thought; nouns of action and part of body; nouns of situation and natural phenomenon; nouns of time and place respectively. Secondly, it analyzes the techniques of sentences with inanimate subjects’ translation through concrete examples to improve Chinese students’ abilities of translation. Key words: inanimate subject；categories；translation 1 Introduction Inanimate subject is a kind of english syntactic structure. The subject in english can be expressed in two types: personal and impersonal. When expressed in impersonal way, this sentence does emphasize the thing happening on the person, while in Chinese it can be translated into什么人怎么样了. Furthermore, the impersonal subject also can be divided into two types: inanimate subject and animate subject . This article mainly talks about the inanimate subject. 2 Animate verb The impersonal subject sentence with inanimate subject usually indicate the abstract concept , psychological feeling , concrete subject or time and place and so on,however, the predicate in this sentence usually is animate verb which indicate the persons or groups action and behaviour, like see, desert, find, bring, witness, give, escape, surround, kill, deprive, serve, send, know, tell, permit, invite, take, drive, prevent from and so on, and this kind of sentence is often