英语新闻标题_翻译.pptVIP

0 1 2 3 4 0 1 2 3 4 3 Attention PLEASE Translation of English News Headlines Differences Between Chinese and English News Headlines We can study the difference from the lexical, tense, rhetorical, punctuation, structure and semantic level. Lexical difference From the point view of lexical, Chinese news headlines prefer to verbs while English news headlines prefer nouns. （1）开放 搞活 改革 致富（连用四个动词） （2）Britain “Flagship” Detention Center Abandoned (连用四个名词) In the first example, Chinese news headline uses four verbs. In the second example, English news headline uses four nouns. Tense difference From perspective of grammar, English news headlines often use the present tense, the present progressive tense and the future tense. The tense marker is obvious. While Chinese news headlines also use the past tense except the above tense. The tense mark is not obvious, but it can be used to replace the past tense. There are not non-finite verbs in Chinese, but it can use the structure modification. The omission in Chinese is a little different with English. The subject can be omitted in Chinese headlines, but not in English news headlines. Chinese news headlines do not often use function words and link verb “是”,and there is not article. All these can be omitted in English news headlines 1）北有煤海（暗含一般现在时） （2）明天必将美好（将来时） （3）十年后重访国外（省略主语,英语新闻标题不可以） （4）America Will Not Curb Arms for Israel(一般将来时) 美无意削减对以武器援助 （5）Women Are Becoming Experts at Home Repairs（进行时） 妇女正在成为家庭装修能手 From the above examples, we can see that the tense marker is obvious in English news headlines while in the Chinese news headlines the tense marker is not obvious. Rhetorical difference The Chinese news headlines pay more attention to literary grace, antithesis and rhyme, while English news headlines pay more attention to the fact and simplicity. Chinese headline writers use more figures of speech than English ones. Chinese people get