论汉语主题句的英汉转换

汉语的“主题 -评论”句与英语的主谓结构有本质不同。“主题 -评论”句的话题可以是一个事物或几个事物的串联 ,因此主题语可能是一个词、一个词组、一个分句 ,甚至是并列或复合结构 ,而且主题语并不仅跟评论语句中的动词相联系 ,而是跟整个评论语相关。所以 ,要将汉语“主题 -评论”句转化为英语的主谓句 ,特别要处理好汉语主题语与英语主语的关系并注意整个汉语主题语的转化。

How to Convert Chinese Topic-commentary Sentence into English Subject-predicate Sentence

There's a substantial differentiation between Chinese topic-commentary sentence and English subject-predicate sentence. The topic in the topic-commentary sentence may refer to one matter, or to a blending of several matters, so the topic is very likely to be represented by a word, a phrase, a subordinate sentence, or even some coordinate and compound structure. Moreover, the topic links not only with the verb(s) in the commentary, but also with the whole commentary. For these reasons, it is therefore of vital importance to understand fully the disparity between Chinese topic-commentary sentence and English subject-predicate sentence, and to make correct reciprocal conversion between them.