英汉对比与翻译 语序王颖潇.pptVIP

3.2 Word Order ---王颖潇 人来了。 The person came. 来了人了。 A person came. 他三天就完成了。 He finished it in three days. 他完成三天了。 He finished it three days ago. 5毛钱买了两个馒头。 I paid 50 cents for two steaming breads. 两个馒头5毛钱。 The two steaming breads costs 50 cents. What is word order? Word order is the arrangement of sentence elements, reflecting the language organization and the linguistic method. Chinese is baboo-like sentence structure, and is orangnized by meanings. While English is tree-like sentence structure, following the grammatical rules. Four Conditions of Word Order 1. The inverted word-order 2. The position of attributive 3. The positions of adverbial 4. Word order and the way of perception Chinese is analytic language. Its sentence structure is fixed. Engish is a kind of synthetic language and its srtucture is more flexible. The inversion frequently appears in English. Subject +Adverbial +Predicate +Object Long live the Peoples Republic of China ! 中华人民共和国万岁！ adding some adverbs“才，只，仅仅，单，只有…才” Had the assumption been strictly compatible,the results would have been identical. 如果所做假定完全相同，结果也应一致。 1.The inverted word order  Now comes your turn. 现在该你了。 I am quite willing to help and so are the others. 我很愿意帮忙，其他人也都很愿意。 Talent, Mr. Micawber has, capital, Mr.Micawber has not. 论才华，麦考伯先生倒有，论财力，他可就不行。 Or adding some onomatopoeia or phrases to strengthen the tone Up went the arrow into the air. 飕的一声，箭射上了天空。 When onomatopoeia words appear in Chinese ,the sentence can be inverted. “嘎－”，传来一声水禽被惊动的鸣叫。 Quack! came the cry of a startled water bird. 2.The position of attributive In Chinese, the attribute usually appears in front of head word. In English, single word?is often set before head word; while the prepositional phrases, infinitive phrases, participle phrases, and clauses are put after the cen