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Chapter 2 Abstract Concrete February,2011 Introduction English native speakers are used to think in an abstract way and good at expressing concrete things by means of abstract concepts. Such as awareness, flexibility,embarrassment, satisfaction and so on. The translation of abstract nouns is a bit complicated, and their correspondent Chinese versions should be determined according to contex. 性：-ty,-ness,-ce (necessity必要性,correctness正确性,　dependence依赖性) 化：-ization, -tion, (modernization现代化, abstraction抽象化) 度：lengh　长度, intensity强度 主义：-ism, -ness (patriotism, capitalism ) Chinese----concr