parataxis-verse-hypotaxis-in-chinese-and-english(存儲(chǔ)版)
【正文】 ve, we can find that “B” is better than “A”. Why? Because in “B”, we omit the connectives such as: “but” “if” ”when”, so the translated Chinese vision in” B “is nature, simple and smooth. However, there are also some Chinese sentences carry the hypotactic features, thus, we might as well retain the original words. Most of these kinds of words are connectives which represent causes and results, purposes or conditions. Here are examples.1. If anyone should call, please let me know.A. 有人打電話，請(qǐng)告訴我一下。 楊柳枯了, 有再青的時(shí)候。(Like) Chiang Tai Kung fishing , they have cast the line for the fish who want to be caught . But he (who) swallows food handed out in contempt will get a belly ache.In the three examples, We add different kinds of connectives into the sentence so as to make it confine to the rigid English structure.3. The development in both English and ChineseAs time goes by, more and more English sentences carry the characteristics of parataxis. From a research, we find that the paratactic sentences in the novel A Tale of Two Cities is 57 percent and in the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is 62 percent. If we look the works of the 20th century, such as For Whom the Bell Tolls, Gone with the Wind, we can find more .Here are examples Outside, the late afternoon sun slanted down in the yard, throwing into gleaming brightness the dogwood trees. Gone with the WindHe had left his wife sitting on the sofa in the drawing room, her hands crossed in her lap, manifestly waiting for him to go out. This was not unusual. It happened, in fact, every day. The Forsyte SagaThe bustle in a houseThe morning after deathIs solemnest of industriesEnacted upon earth, The sweeping up the heart,And putting love awayWe shall not want to use again The Bustle in a House From the sentences and poem above, we can
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