An Analysis of the Two Translations of The Border Town Based on the Differences between the Active and Passive Voice in English and Chinese
Abstract
In the process of English-Chinese translation, there are many differences in sentence structure, grammatical features, rhetorical devices, methods of expression, ways of thinking, and socio-cultural factors, making it difficult to translate. In particular, the differences and similarities between the English and Chinese translations regarding active and passive usage can easily cause things to go wrong in translation. In English, the passive voice is more considered a common grammatical phenomenon, compared to Chinese where the active form expresses the passive meaning is more dominant. This paper selects the translation of The Border Town by Dai Naidie & Yang Xian Yi and Jeffrey C.Kinkley as examples to understand more about the similarities and differences between the two languages through the analysis of the passive and active in the two different structures of English and Chinese to promote the improvement of translation quality.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v6i5.4357
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