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1、StudyofSyllepsisinEnglishThesisstatement:SyllepsisisaspecialfigureofspeechinEnglish.OutlineI.IntroductionII.AttributesofsyllepsisA.FormsofsyllepsisB.FormingconditionsofsyllepsisC.CharacteristicsofsyllepsisIII.ComparisonofsyllepsisandzeugmaA.SimilaritiesofsyllepsisandzeugmaB.Di
2、fferencesbetweensyllepsisandzeugmaIV.TranslationofsyllepsisA.DifferentwaysoftranslationfromEnglishtoChineseB.ApplicationofsyllepsistothetranslationfromChinesetoEnglishV.ConclusionStudyofSyllepsisinEnglishI.IntroductionSyllepsisoriginatedfromtheGreekword“sullepsis”whichmeans“pu
3、ttingtogether”.Withregardtothedefinitionofsyllepsis,therearetwodifferentopinionsinthefieldofEnglishlinguistics:OneisrepresentedbyWebster’sNewWorldDictionaryoftheAmericanLanguage,holdingthatsyllepsisis“agrammaticalconstructioninwhichasinglewordisusedtomodifyorgovernsyntacticall
4、ytwoormorewordsinthesamesentence,thoughitcangrammaticallyagreewithonlyoneofthem”.1Butjudgingfromthepracticaluseofsyllepsisandtheexamplesgiveninmanykindsofrhetoricalworksanddictionarieswhenreferringtothisfigureofspeech,thecollocationbetweenwordandwordinsyllepsisconformstogramma
5、ticalrulesintermsofgrammaticalrelations,whichdoesnot“grammaticallyagreewithonlyoneofthem”.Hereisanexample:(1)Hetooktheoathandhisseat.Thisexampleistakenfromtheentryof“syllepsis”intheEnglish-ChineseDictionary,soitcanbesaidthatitissomewhatauthoritative.Theword“take”separatelycoll
6、ocateswith“oath”and“seat”andthusforms“taketheoath”and“takeone’sseat”,andbothofthemconformtogrammaticalrulesandlogic.Therefore,it’simpossibleforustothinkthat“take”canagreewithonlyoneof“oath”or“seat”toformgrammaticalcollocation.FromthiswecanseethatWebster’sNewWorldDictionaryofth
7、eAmericanLanguagedosenotgraspthebasiccharacteristicsofsyllepsisfirmlyandthereforeitisinaccurate.Anotheropinionthinksthat“syllepsisisafigurebywhichakeywordmayrefertotwoormorewordsinthesamesentence,applyingtoalloftheminsyntaxandmeaning,butindifferentliteralandfigurativesenses,so
8、astoachieveconcisenessandawittyeffect.”2Thisstatementclearlyp