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1、ThedifferencesofsentencestructurebetweenEnglishandChineseTherearealotofdifferencesbetweenEnglishandChineseinmanyways,butthispapermainlydiscussesthedifferencesofsentencestructurebetweenthosetwolanguagesbyanalyzingexamples.Sentencestructureisoneoftheareasinwhichgreatdifferenc
2、esexist.Iwillanalyzethesedifferencesfromfollowingaspects.Firstly,themostbasicaspectisthatEnglishis“hypotactic”whileChineseis"paratactic".Accordingtoprofessionalexplanation,theso-called“parataxis”,isreferstothereisnoconnectionoflanguageformsbetweenwordsandclausesofthesentenc
3、e,themeaningofthewordsorclausesareusedtoexpressthegrammaticalmeaningandthelogicrelationshipinthesentence.Theso-called“hypotaxis”,isreferstowordsandclausesconnectedbylanguageformssuchasassociatedwords,toexpressthegrammaticalmeaningandthelogicrelationship.Inotherwords,theChin
4、esesentencestructurejustlikethebamboo-likestructure.Allsectionsareparallelandindependentfromeachother.Unlessisnecessary,Chinesesentenceseldomusecohesivedevices.Englishsentencestructureisgrape-likestructure.Thereisonetrunk,theremainingcomponentsarestretchfromthetrunkasmodify
5、,connectedbyparticipleorinfinitiveaswellassomeconnectiveslike"if,although,because,when,but".Forexample,thereareseveralcontrastswithonesamesentencewriteinthistwostructure.InEnglish:Frequently,hewouldspenddaysalone,onthesehuntingexpeditions,sleepingoutside,andeatingsmallgameh
6、ehadkilled.InChinese:他常常独自到远处去打猎，一连几天，露宿野外，以打到的小野味充饥。 InEnglish:Inthespringeveryable-bodiedman,andmanyasturdygirl,leavesAchillforEnglandorScotland,wheretheyselltheirstrongarmstoforeignfarmers.InChinese:到了春天，所有身强力壮的男子，还有许多健壮的姑娘，都离开阿基尔到英格兰或苏格兰去，把有力的双臂卖给外国的农场主。AmongEnglishsent
7、ences,affiliationsareperformedbynon-definingclausewhenmainclausesharesthesamesubjectwithclauses.Butthereisnofiniteorinfiniteformofverb,sothiskindofcohesivedevisedoesnotexistandbamboo-likestructurecomeintobeing.Secondly,thefocusesofEnglishsentencesareoftenplacedattheendofthe
8、sentence,andthecentersofChinesesentencesareoftenplacedinfrontofthesentence.Forinst
