The Translator’s Guide to Chinglish 《中式英语之鉴》Joan Pinkham 外语教学与研究出版社.docxVIP

— PAGE \* Arabic 1 — The Translator’s Guide to Chinglish 《中式英语之鉴》Joan Pinkham 外语教学与研究出版社 The Translator’s Guide to Chinglish 《中式英语之鉴》Joan Pinkham 外语教学与研究出版社  Unnecessary nouns:  1) redundant (the meaning is included or implied in other parts of the sentence)  A: to accelerate the pace of economic reform  B: to accelerate economic reform  A: there have been good harvests in agriculture  B: there have been good harvests  A: living standards for the people in both urban and rural areas continued to rise  B: living standards in both urban and rural areas continued to rise  2) category nouns  A: promoting the cause of peaceful reunification  B: promoting peaceful reunification  A: this, coupled with the factor of price instability, caused……B: this, coupled with price instability, caused……  Unnecessary verbs:  A:It is impossible for us to accomplish the transformation of the whole society overnight.  B: It is impossible for us to transform the whole society overnight.  A: they should conduct a careful examination of ….  B: they should carefully examine…..  A: until China realizes industrial modernization  B: until China modernizes its industry  More unnecessary verbs:  To give guidance to = to guide  To provide assistance to = to assist  To carry out the struggle against = to struggle against  To conduct reform = to reform  To engage in free discussion of = to discuss freely  To place stress on = to stress  To exercise control over = to control  Unnecessary verb phrases  A: it is especially necessary to make great efforts to assimilate the achievements of other cultures  B: it is especially necessary to assimilate the achievements of other cultures  A: all enterprises must pay attention to promoting excellent workers  B: all enterprises must see to it that excellent workers are promoted Unnecessary modifiers  A: that theory too is a