英汉思维差异.pptVIP

English and Chinese 1.英语重形合（hypotactic），汉语重意合（paratactic） Some linguists say English sentence is like bamboo joint, it refers to write English sentence by kinds of connectives. While they say Chinese sentence is like running water. It means Chinese sentence is still fluent with few or without connectives. 你来，我就走。 跑得了和尚，跑不了庙。 e.g. If you come, I’ll go. The monks may run away, but the temple can not run away with them. 2. 英语重前心，汉语重后心 In English, conclusion, assertion, result and fact are usually put at the beginning of sentence, but in Chinese, at the end. 生活中既有悲剧，文学作品就可以写悲剧。 Tragedies can be written in literature since there is tragedy in life. 揭穿这种老八股、老教条的丑态给人民看，号召人民起来反对老八股，老教条，这就是五四运动时期的一个极大的功绩。 A tremendous achievement of the May 4th Movement was its public exposure of ugliness of old stereotype and the old dogma and its call to the people to rise against them. 3.英语：静态（static）汉语：动态（dynamic） In English, present participle, past participle and infinitive and preposition, noun and so on are usually used to express action, while, in Chinese, verb is usually used. I fell madly in love with her, and she with me. 我疯狂的爱上了她，她也疯狂的爱上了我。 A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump marries whom she likes. 一个女人只要不是十分驼背，而且机会好，想嫁给谁就嫁给谁。 That would be the confirmation that it was in general use. 这将证实它的使用是十分普遍的。 4. 英语重物称（impersonal）汉语重人称（personal） In English, inanimate thing is used as subject, but in Chinese person is usually used. Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh. 这位曾使全世界人发出笑声的人自己却饱尝辛酸。 “Hi! Hi!” said the cab driver, whose door popped open at the very sight of a traveler. 嗨！嗨！出租车司机嚷道，他一瞅见顾客就“砰”地一声打开车门。 5. 英语多被动（passive）汉语多主动（active） 6.英语多复合长句，汉语多简单短句。 As we lived near the road, we often had the traveler of stranger visit us to taste our gooseberry wine, for which we had great reputation, and I confess, with the veracity of a historian, that I never knew one of them to find fault with it. 我们就住在路边。过路人或外乡人常到我们家，尝尝我们家酿的酸果酒。这种酒很有名气。我敢说，尝过的人