Negative Constructions in English and Chinese：A Comparative Study and Its Application to Translation.pdfVIP

·学术探讨 · 双语学习 　　　　　20 07年 7月 Nega t ive C on str uction s in En glish an d C h in ese: A Com par a t ive Study an d It s App lica t ion to Tr an sla t ion ( ) 范群 　郭萍 　 中国地质大学外 国语学院 　湖北 　武汉 【Ab str act 】　Th is paper gives a detailed analysis of the means of negat ion and of some common id iomatic negative exp re ssions in Eng2 l ish The paper, ba sed on translation stud ie s, conduct s a contra stive and comparative study of negation in English and C hine se and trie s to find sim ilar itie s and dissim ilar itie s, aim ed at illum inating the p roblem and h ighligh ting common error s in the translat ing of ne 2 gation in English 【K ey w or d s】　 negation ; compari son ; tran slation 　　1　 In tr odu ct ion Th e structu re of ‘u n iversal word s⋯ + N ega tor ⋯ ”in th is sen2 N egat ion in lingu istics i s, ba sically sp eak in g, to deny th e p res2 ten ce, an d th e negator nor is attrac ted to the p redica te“i s gold”, ence of ob jec ts, p rop e rty, act ion , re lat ion sh ip , state, or to d eny the w h ich mak es the sen tence seem to b e in comp le te n ega tion, a s if au then tic ity o f a p ropo sit ion N egat ion may exp ress th e con cep t s o f m ean in g“所有闪光的都不是金子 。“Bu t in fac t, wh