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E-C Translation (3) A Contrastive Analysis of English & Chinese Contents Hypotactic vs. Paratactic Hypotaxis (形合) Hypotaxis is the dependent or subordinate construction or relationship of clauses with connectives. e.g. I shall despair if you don’t come. Hypotactic vs. Paratactic Hypotaxis To clarify the relations between words, phrases or clauses, English more often resorts to overt cohesion (显性衔接), frequently using various cohesive ties such as relatives, connectives, prepositions, and some others. 英语注重句子形式,结构完整,以形显义。 Hypotactic vs. Paratactic Hypotaxis Relatives & Connectives When I try to understand what it is that prevents so many Americans from being as happy as one might expect, it seems to me that there are two causes, of which one goes much deeper than the other. 为什么如此众多的美国人不如想象中那样幸福呢?我认为原因有两个,且有深浅之分。 Hypotactic vs. Paratactic Hypotaxis Relatives & Connectives It had been a fine, golden autumn, a lovely farewell to those who would lose their youth, and some of them their lives, before the leaves turned again in a peacetime fall. 那是个天气晴朗的金秋,美好的秋色为那些年轻人送别。待到战后和平时期,黄叶纷飞的秋天再度来临时,当日的青年已失去了青春,有的已失去了生命。 Hypotactic vs. Paratactic Hypotaxis Prepositions The many colors of a rainbow range from red on the outside to violet on the inside. 彩虹有多种颜色,外圈红,内圈紫。 Change of information, if any, concerning the contents of this section will be found in the appendix at the end of this book. 本节内容如有更改,均见本书末附录。 Hypotactic vs. Paratactic Hypotaxis Others There is nothing more disappointing to a hostess who has gone a lot of trouble or expense than to have her guest so interested in talking politics or business with her husband that he fails to notice the flavor of the coffee, the lightness of the cake, or the attractiveness of the house, which may be her chief interest and pride. Hypotactic vs. Paratactic Parataxis (意合) Parataxis is the arranging of clauses one after the other without connectives showing the relation between them. e.g. The rain fell; the river floo