美国总统就职演说汉译课件.pptVIP

(1) Periodicity： The single sentence the selection contains is periodic in structure, beginning with a prepositional phrase, and having two present participle phrases embedded in different locations as parentheses. 精品 精品 第一节 第二节 精品 Original 21: Among the vicissitudes incident to life no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years – a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruption in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. （George Washington, The Experiment of the American People） 精品 1) Analysis of the original: A) Grammatical analysis B) Stylistic analysis C) Background knowledge 精品 A) Grammatical analysis: (1) Sentence structure (2) Additional complication (3) Notes (4) Paraphrase 精品 (1) Sentence structure： The selection consists of two sentences, of which the first is a complex sentence, composed of a main clause and a subordinate clause serving as the object of the preposition of; and the second is also a complex sentence, composed of a main clause and an attributive clause, with a parenthetic clause embedded in the predicate and another attributive clause embedded in the appositive nominal phrase at the end of the sentence. 精品 (2) Additional complication The first sentence begins with a prepositional phrase. The second sentence also begins with a prepositional phrase, and as mentioned before, it has a parenthetic attributive clause embedded in the predicate and an appositive phrase placed at the end of the sentence with another attributive cla