Reference Answers for Comparative Study between English and Chinese
Do the following translations between English and Chinese.
涓�銆?/p>
Synthetic vs. Analytic
1 Translate the Chinese sentence into different English versions in the way of blank-filling.
Pay attention to the shifts in the word classes of certain words.
浠栬鍔ㄤ箣蹇护浜烘儕璁躲�?/p>
He moved astonishingly fast.
He moved with astonishing_rapidity_______.
His movements were astonishinglyrapid.
His movements __astonishedus by their rapidity.
2 She was with a child. ______
濂硅韩杈瑰甫鐫�涓�涓瀛愩�?/p>
She was with child. _______
濂规��瀛曚簡銆?/p>
3 They are students of our school.__
浠栦滑鏄湰鏍＄殑锛堜竴浜涳級瀛︾敓銆?/p>
They are the students of our school.
浠栦滑鏄湰鏍＄殑鍏ㄤ綋瀛︾敓銆?/p>
浜屻�?/p>
Compact vs. Diffusive
4
杩欏濞橀暱寰楁紓浜紝楣呰泲褰㈣劯锛屼袱鐪煎張娣卞張榛戙�?/p>
She is a pretty girl, with an oval face and deep dark eyes.
5
绱緱鎴戠珯涓嶈捣鏉ヤ簡銆?/p>
It is drizzling at the moment.
6
浠栨湁涓コ鍎匡紝鍦ㄥ寳浜伐浣滐紝灏卞凡缁忔墦鐢佃瘽鍘讳簡锛屽惉璇存槑澶╁氨鑳藉洖鏉ャ�?/p>
___He has a daughter, who works in Beijing. Someone has phoned her and it is said that she will
be backtomorrow.
涓夈�?/p>
Hypotactic vs. Paratactic
7 when I try to understand what it is that prevents so manyAmericans from being as happy as one
might expect, it seems to methat there are quite a few causes, of which one goes much deeper than
the other.
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涓轰粈涔堝姝や紬澶氱殑缇庡浗浜轰笉鑳藉鎯宠薄涓偅鏍峰垢绂忓憿锛熸垜璁や负鍘熷洜鏈変簩锛岃�屼袱鑰呬箣闂村張
鏈夋繁娴呬箣鍒嗐�?/p>