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1、英譯漢教程2ContrastiveStudiesofEnglishandChinese2.3Englishvs.Chinese:TenPairsofFeatures2.3.1Syntheticvs.Analytic(綜合語(yǔ)與分析語(yǔ))Asyntheticlanguageischaracterizedbyfrequentandsystematicuseofinflectedformstoexpressgrammaticalrelationships.Ananalyticlanguageismarkedbyarelativelyfrequentuseoffunction
2、words,auxiliaryverbs,andchangesinwordordertoexpresssyntacticrelations,ratherthanofinflectedforms.ModernEnglishhasbecomeanalyticbutstillfrequentlyusessomehereditaryinflectionsfromOldEnglish(asyntheticlanguage).Itisthereforeasynthetic-analyticlanguage(綜合-分析語(yǔ)).Chineseisatypicalanalyticla
3、nguage(分析語(yǔ)).Whenthewordsofalanguageareinflectiveinform,theyaresaidtobeassociativeinqualityandthereforesyntheticinconstruction.Ontheotherhand,wordsnotinflectiveinformareconsideredasisolatinginqualityandthereforeanalyticinconstruction.Inflection(變化詞形),wordorder(安排詞序)andtheuseoffunctionw
4、ords(運(yùn)用虛詞)areemployedasthethreegrammaticaldevicesinbuildingEnglishsentences.2.3.1.1Inflectionalvs.Non-inflectionalInEnglish,nouns,pronouns,andverbsareinflected(theendings-er,-est,denotingdegreesofcomparison,arebetterregardedasnon-inflectionalsuffixes).Suchgrammaticalmeaningsaspartsofs
5、peech,gender,number,case,person,tense,aspect,voice,mood,andnon-finiteverbs,canbeexpressedbytheuseofinflectedformswithorwithoutthehelpoffunctionwordsandwordorder,whereasinChinesethisisgenerallynottrue:theabovegrammaticalmeaningsaremostlyimpliedincontextsorbetweenthelines,thoughoftenwit
6、hthehelpofwordorderandfunction(orother)words,e.g.1.Hemovedastonishinglyfast.Hemovedwithastonishingrapidity.Hismovementswereastonishinglyrapid.Hisrapidmovementsastonishedus.Hismovementsastonishedusbytheirrapidity.Therapidityofhismovementswasastonishing.Therapiditywithwhichhemovedastoni
7、shedus.Heastonishedusbymovingrapidly.Heastonishedusbyhisrapidmovements.Heastonishedusbytherapidityofhismovements.(Jespersen1924)他的行動(dòng),快得驚人。他行動(dòng)的速度快得令人驚訝。他行動(dòng)速度之快,令人驚訝。他的快速行動(dòng)使我們感到驚訝。我們對(duì)他的快速行動(dòng)感到驚訝。2.Theytoldmethatbytheendoftheyeartheywouldhavebeenworkingtogetherforthirtyyears.他們告訴我,到(那年)年底
8、,他們?cè)谝?/p>