英文阅读的感受(tasting of reading in english).doc

英文阅读的感受(Tasting of reading in English)

often read western novels, and of course it has already been translated into chinese. i didn’t think there were a lot differences between english novels and chinese novels. but during this winter holiday i read some novels in english and i found them very interesting. why did not i find that before? as i did not want to spend a lot time in studying----- i always thought reading in english is a kind of studying ----- when i want to read some novels from england i would prefer to read the ones translated into chinese. as we all know, translating can never be perfect, it would bring some mistakes and the translator’s own feelings. so when i read a novel in english, i found it was terrific and i could clearly know the difference between the two writing skills.

as to most of the english novels, they prefer to tell the result first. even in some paragraphs that describe the scene, they would use the skill. this situation would never be met in reading chinese novels. we chinese like to make attractive plot: after the readers have been brought into the story the writer would say “if you want to know what will happen in the end read the next chapter please.”when we read the novels in english, we would be tired of the scene describing. there is a great number of scene describing in english novels. they use this skill to make the readers know how the characters feel at the moment. they prefer to describe the situation using special grammar and combined words. it does not go with the language usage and it is difficult for translators to translate it into chinese without losing the feelings which the writer wanted us to know. for example, in the book “jane eyre” there were a great many situations telling how jane felt at time. it can 第1 2 页下一页