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1、科技英语文体特征StylisticFeaturesofESTWhatisEST?TheEnglishofscienceandtechnology(EST)isactuallyabigvariety.ItincludestheEnglishofchemistry,theEnglishofphysics,theEnglishofmathematics,theEnglishofbiology,theEnglishofmedicine,etc.Ofallthescientificfields,weusuallysubdividethemintotwomain
2、varieties:theEnglishofspecializedscienceandtechnology(ESST),专门用途科技英语andtheEnglishofcommonscienceandtechnology(ECST)科普英语ESTisusedinscientificworks,academicthesis,researchpapers,experimentalreports,thedescriptionorexplanationofnaturalphenomena.InoneworditisavarietyofEnglish,deali
3、ngwiththetheoriesandapplicationsofscienceandtechnology.But,generallyspeaking,theEnglishofallscientificfieldshavesomethingincommonandonwhichwebaseourstudies.ThecommonelementsinvariousESTarticles,papersandthesiscanbeanalyzedintermsoftheirsimilaritiesinlinguisticfeatures.Thiskindo
4、fwritingisusuallyformalinstyleandseriousintone.Itdoesnottakeartisticbeautyoflanguageasitsgoal,instead,ittriestoachieveclarityinlogicandaccuracyinmeaning.Ittiestoavoidsubjectiveopinionsorevaluations,ambiguouswordorexpressions.GeneralstylisticfeaturesofESTIttendstoemploywordswith
5、thedevelopmentofscienceandtechnology.Thesentencesareusuallylongandcompleteandsubordinateappositive(同位语从句)andparentheticalclauses（插入语从句）areoftenused.Logicalconnectors,suchashence,insummary,asaresult,appearinESTmorefrequentlythaninothertypesofwriting.First,letuscomparethefollowin
6、gtwoparagraphsabout“man”:Whatapieceofworkisaman!Hownobleinreason!Howinfiniteinfaculties（天赋）!informandmoving,howexpressandadmirable!inaction,howlikeanangel!inapprehension,howlikeaGod!Thebeautyoftheword!Theparagon(典范)ofanimals.………WilliamShakespeare:HamletManismetazoan[metә`zәuәn]
7、（后生动物,多细胞动物）,triploblastic[triplә’blæstik]（三胚层的）,vertebrate[‘vә:tibrit]（脊椎动物）pentadactyl[pentədæktil]（adj.有五指的）,mammalian[mæ‘meiljәn]（哺乳动物）,eutherian[ju:θiəriən]（真哺乳亚纲的(动物),primate[‘praimit]（灵长目动物）....Themainoutlineofeachofhisprincipalsystemoforgansmaybetracedback,likethoseofot
8、hermammals,tothefishes.FromatextbookofbiologyOfthetwop
