English Influence On Chinese And English -chinese Translation

All languages are developing always, and being one of the major languages in the world, the Chinese language can not be an exception. After the adoption of the opening policy, the Chinese language is developing at a much faster speed, and the English influence is one of the important factors that accounts for the development of Chinese. This dissertation tries to explain the changes of the current Chinese language under English influence and studies the relationship between these changes and translation work. This dissertation contains five chapters altogether. The first chapter is an in- troduction, which gives some brief knowledge of language, and summarizes the content, the research methods and the significance of the dissertation. The second chapter clarifies the relationship between language and translation. The third chapter, which is also the main part of this dissertation, studies in detail the English influence on Chinese from three aspects of language: pronunciation, vocabulary and structure. The fourth chapter gives a discussion on the English-Chinese translation problems related with the English influence on Chinese, mainly focusing on the problem of the "Western-styled translation" And the fifth chapter is the conclu- sion of this dissertation.