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1、AProbeintoShiftingofPartsofSpeechinEnglish-ChineseTranslationⅠ.IntroductionPartsofspeecharethecorecontentofthetraditionalgrammar.Eachlanguagehasbeengreatlyaffectedbyitsownnaturalenvironment,geographicallocation,uniquehistoryandculturaltradition,whichleadtothegreatdistinctinvocabulary,sodifferen
2、tlanguageshavedifferentstandardstoclassifypartsofspeech.EnglishbelongstotheIndo-Europeanlanguagefamilyanditspartsofspeecharecategorizedaswordorder,lexicalmeaningandinflectionchanges.1Englishnouns,adjectives,verbsandadverbshavecomplexsystemofendingsorvowelchangesorboth.ButChinesebelongstoSino-Ti
3、betanlanguagefamilyanditspartsofspeechdividedbasedonsentencestructurefunction.2Whenwetranslateonelanguagetoanother,wecommonlyusethetechniqueoftheshiftingofpartsofspeechinordertomakethetranslatedversionmoreidiomatic.EugeneA,Nida,adistinguishedAmericantheorist,reformedthetraditionalpartsofspeecha
4、ndestablishedanewsystemwhichhasbeenappliedwidelyintopractice.Therearedifferentexpressionsexpressingthesamemeaning,thus,theshiftingofpartsofspeechisbasedonthepremisethatthetargetlanguagemustbefaithfultothesourcelanguage.Therefore,correctlyusingtheshiftingofpartsofspeechcanmaketheEnglishtranslati
5、onworksmorefaithful.Soit’snecessaryandimportanttomastertheskillsoftheshiftingofpartsofspeechinEnglishtoChinesetranslation.Thisthesiswillstudytheimportanceofshiftingofpartsofspeechanddiscusssomerulesoftheshifting.Ⅱ.TranslationandshiftingofpartsofspeechItisdifficulttogiveacleardefinitionfortransl
6、ation.Translationisjustunderstoodasalinguisticphenomenonwhichisaprocessoftranslatingbetween14sourcelanguage(SL)andtargetlanguage(TL).Differentdictionariesgivedifferentdescriptionontranslationas“interpretation”,“conversion”,“transformation”,“transference”,fromonelanguagetoanother.Andsomelinguist
7、sdescribetranslationwithsuchexpressions,“similar”,“comparable”,“equivalenttextualmaterial”,etc.RogerBell,aprofessoroflinguistics,saysthat:“Translationistheexpressioninanother,sourcelanguage,preservingsemanticandstylisticequivalenc
