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1、StylisticFeaturesoftheEnglishofScienceandTechnologyESTTheEnglishofscienceandtechnology(EST)isactuallyabigvariety.ItincludestheEnglishofchemistry,theEnglishofphysics,theEnglishofmathematics,theEnglishofbiology,theEnglishofmedicine,etc.But,generallyspeak
2、ing,theEnglishofallscientificfieldshavesomethingincommonandonwhichwebaseourstudies.Ofallthescientificfields,weusuallysubdividethemintotwomainvarieties:theEnglishofspecializedscienceandtechnology(ESST),andtheEnglishofcommonscienceandtechnology(ECST).Com
3、parethefollowingtwopassagesaboutmanWhatapieceofworkisaman!Hownobleinreason!Howinfiniteinfaculties!Informandmoving,howexpressandadmirable!Inaction,howlikeanangel!Inapprehension,howlikeaGod!Thebeautyoftheword!Theparagonofanimals!Manismetazoan,triploblast
4、ic,vertebratepentadactyl,mammalian,eutherian,primate...Themainoutlineofeachofhisprincipalsystemoforgansmaybetracedback,likethoseofothermammals,tothefishes.DifferenceinstyleGraphologically,inthefirstpassagethetypicalfeatureisthefrequentuseofexclamationm
5、arks(whichshowfeelings);whileinthesecondpassage,thefrequentuseofcommas(whichofferinformation).DifferenceinstyleLexically,inthefirstpassage,wecanseethefrequentuseoffavorableadjectivesandnouns,suchasnoble,infinite,express,admirable,angel,God,beauty,parag
6、on.Whileinthesecondone,wefindtechnicaltermsofbiologypredominatethewholetext,suchasmetazoan,triploblastic,choral,vertebrate,pentadactyl,mammalian,eutherian,primate,etc.DifferenceinstyleSyntactically,inthefirstpassage,wecanfindthefrequentuseofexclamatory
7、sentencesaswellastwoshortsentencefragmentsinordertoexpressfeelings;whileinthesecondpassage,bothsentencesarecompletedeclarativesentenceswiththepurposeofgivinginformation.DifferenceinstyleSemantically,inthefirstpassage,figurativelanguageusedinordertoshow
8、astrongfeeling,especiallytheuseofthemetaphor(pieceofwork),hyperboleandmetaphor(thebeautyoftheworld;theparagonofanimals),andsimiles(likeanangel;likeaGod).Asaresult,manisgreatlypraised.Whileinthesecondpassage,allthewordsareusedintheirconc
