校园英语(中旬)
校園英語(中旬)
교완영어(중순)
English on Campus
2015年
3期
229-230,231
,共3页
contrastive analyses%impersonal%personal%stative dynamic
Through a contrastive analyses of the English novel A Tale of Two Cities and its two Chinese versions, this paper observes some differences between English and Chinese and generalizes some of their characteristics, in the hope to help language learners aware the importance of the differences and to provide a good way to learn a second language, that is, to learn on the basis of comparison.Two types of differences are discussed in this paper.One is impersonal vs.personal and the other is stative vs.dynamic.The differences between English and Chinese languages become vivid by drawing examples from the novel and its two different Chinese versions.Each type of difference is analyzed in detail and in a systematic manner.