【2017年整理】L13与Personalvs.Impersonal.pptVIP

A Contrastive Study between Chinese and English;Pre-test;Combining inanimate or impersonal subjects with animate verbs is prevalent in English, but the structure seldom occurs in Chinese languages except for personification. ;The subjects are usually Time Place, or nouns showing natural phenomenon or notions showing people’s physiological or psychological feelings, or nouns functioning as specific behaviors or actions.;1. Time The early 1600’s saw the beginning of a great tide of emigration from Europe to North America． 17世纪初期，移民的大潮流开始从欧洲流到美洲。 The 1970s brought a decline in eating out , but the 1980s , especially in homes where both parents were working , brought a big increase in the demand for many types of restaurants. 七十年代到外面就餐的人减少了, 但到了80 年代,特别是在那些父母双亲都在外工作的家庭中, 人们对多种形式餐馆的需求有了很大增长。 ;2. place The curiosity shop detained him for almost three hours． 他在古玩店呆了大约三个小时，因而耽搁了。 The very spot always reminded him of the accident which took away Sylvia’s life． 每回看到这个地方，他就会想起夺走西尔维娅生命的那次事故。 (compare这个地方总使／提醒他) ;3. Natural phenomenon The morning sun greeted us as we came out on the deck． 我们迎着朝阳来到甲板上。 Dusk found the child crying in the street. 黄昏时，小孩在街上哭了起来。 ;4. Physical or psychological feelings Astonishment deprived me of my power of speech． 我惊讶得说不出话来。 My conscience told me that I deserved no extraordinary politeness. 凭良心讲，你待我礼貌有加，我却受之有愧。 ;5. specific behaviors / actions His name escapes me for the moment. His words sent a quiver through my body. My patience ran out quickly and my ears began to complain. 我一时想不起他的名字。 听了他的话，我不禁打了个寒噤 。 我很快失去了耐性，也听不进去了。;A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who says that women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era and a major who says that they haven’t. （席间）一位年轻的女士同一位少校展开了热列的讨论。年轻女士认为，妇女已经有所进步，不再象过去那样一见到老鼠就吓得跳到椅子上；少校则不以然。 ;Practice My lack of imagination obliged me to set down quite straight forwardly what I have seen with my own eyes and heard with my own ears． (因为)我缺乏想象力，所以只能将亲眼所见、亲耳所闻直通通地记下来。