chapter 9 writing style课件.pptVIP

gray skills;Writing Style ; Do you think your English writings read much like translations of Chinese ? ;Both Chinese and English writing are similar in stressing in –depth knowledge of one’s subject, well thought-out ideas, careful choice of materials, and presentation with sincerity , directiveness and simplicity. ;Three major differences in writing styles ; Professor Duan Liancheng (段连城) commented on these two versions as 中文读起来，似乎亦无不可。但一读其英文译稿，效果却大不一样。……译者可算煞费苦心。我特意请了一位美国新闻工作者看看并坦率写出它的评语。他说：Full of hyperbole (充满了极度夸张)，不仅不知所云，而且令人发笑。（Quoted from 关世杰，1995）;But screw your courage to the sticking place, and we’ll not fail. 只要你鼓足你的勇气,我们决不会失败。 A poor player/ That struts and frets his hour upon the stage/ and then is heard no more. 一个在舞台上指手画脚拙劣的伶人,登场片刻就在无声无息中悄然退下。;2.Chinese and English speaking people seem to look differently on the use of set phrases and expressions. He slept like a log and woke up at the crack of dawn, fresh as daisy. last but not least, it goes without saying, by leaps and bounds. In our day and age, as busy as a bee, as happy as a lark.;Good English writing discourages what are called clichés or trite expressions. Chinese, on the other hand, gives its approval to well-known four-character expressions. A native English speaker would frown on this sentence: He slept like a log and woke up at the crack of dawn, fresh as a daisy. The reason is that it contains three clichés: slept like a log, at the crack of down, and fresh as a daisy.;While English proverbs are part of the oral culture in the United States, they are not often used in writing. Good writers in Chinese often begin an essay with a Chinese proverb. It shows knowledge of the past, an important Chinese value. But Americans do not value the past as much as the Chinese do. They think it is more important to think of something new and original. So a good writer in English will try to explain ideas in a new way and not use English proverbs if possible.;3. In persuasive w