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Onsimilaritiesanddifferencesbetween

English-ChineseandChinese-EnglishtranslationThe

awarenessofmajordifferencebetweenChineseandEnglishare

thebasisforsuccessfultranslationbetweenthem.Asaresultof

it,weneedfirstmakecomparisonsandcontrastsbetweenthe

twolanguages.

Themostimportantdifferencebetweenthetwolanguages

liesinparataxisandhypotaxis.Chineselanguagetendstobea

parataxislanguage,thatis,connectivesbetweendifferentpartsof

thesentenceorbetweenclausesarenotcompulsory.Chinesehas

norelativewordsandusesfewerconjunctionsthanEnglish,while

Englishtendstobeahypotaxislanguage,whichusesalotof

complexsentencestructuresandrelationsbetweenclausesthat

mustbeexpressedbyconjunctionsorotherrelievewords.For

example,letusseeaChinesepassageanditsEnglishtranslation.1)

今天晚上，很好的月光。（《狂人日记》）Themoonisextremely

brighttonight.2）午后便步行至鹊华桥，雇了一只小船，荡起双

桨。朝北不远，便到了历下亭前。上岸进去，入了大门，便是一

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个亭子，油漆已大半剥蚀完了。亭上还悬着一幅对联，写的是：

历下此古亭，“济南名士多。”（《老残游记》）Afterlunchhewalked

tothesparrowFlowerBridge,wherehehiresasmallboatand

paddledalongtowardsthenorth.SoonhereachedtheLiXia

pavilion.Thenhesteppedashoreandwentin,andwhenhe

enteredthegatehesawanotherpavilion,thepaintoffwhichwas

practicallyallwornoff,andonitsfrontcolumnsweretwoscrolls

withthefollowingwords:“Thepavilionisancientashistory;Jinan

isfullofscholars.’’

Englishsentenceshaveco