Part One 3
CHAPTER 1 Introduction 3
CHAPTER 2 The Characteristics of the Chinese Language 10
CHAPTER 3 The Characteristics of the English Language 22
CHAPTER 4 The Comparative Study in Phonetics and Phonology 34
CHAPTER 5 The Comparative Study in Lexicology,Morphology & Semantics 56
CHAPTER 6 The Comparative Study of English & Chinese Sentence Patterns 70
CHAPTER 7 The Comparative Study at the Text Level 79
CHAPTER 8 The Comparative Study in Rhetoric 91
Part Two 103
CHAPTER 9 Translation of Official Documents 103
CHAPTER 10 Translation of Science Variety 113
CHAPTER 11 Translation of Narration 123
CHAPTER 12 Translation of Description 139
CHAPTER 13 Translation of Exposition 152
CHAPTER 14 Translation of Argument 161
CHAPTER 15 Translation of Fiction 171
CHAPTER 16 Translation of Drama or Play 183
Appendix:Key to exercises 191