新闻英语的语法特征PPT课件

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❖ The new post, undersecretary-general for administration and management, involves overall responsibility for budget and personal matters and is one of eight deputy positions created by Mr. Butros Ghali in a restructuring of the Secretariat announced on Friday, the officials said.
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❖ 1.2 the disagreement of tenses时态的不一致性
❖ 在一般文体中，按照传统英语语法规则，宾语从句中谓语动 词的时态要受制于主句中谓语动词的时态，这被称之为时态 的一致或呼应。同样，当间接引语被改为直接引语时，动词 形态也要做相应的调整。英语新闻一般也应该遵循这种时态 的变化规则。然而，在实际的新闻报道中，起时态常常并不 拘泥于这种语言规则，而是按照实际情况，根据新闻事实发 生的时间变化与顺序，酌情灵活使用各种时态。例如：
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❖ (2) Stars rock Bangkok for tsunami relief
❖ World entertainment giant, MTV Asia, will hold a star-
studded concert today to raise money for the tsunami relief
句。英语新闻经常使用分词短语、介词短语、名词
短语、不定式短语等代替从句，使句子的结构更加
简单、明了，使新闻的叙述更加清楚，从而使听、
读新闻的人思路更加清晰，这样可以使新闻在短时
间内被听众或读者理解和接受。例如：
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❖ (1) Screaming and weeping mourners clambered around the flag-draped coffin carrying the body of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri as hundreds of thousands of people turned out for his burial Wednesday, two days after a huge bomb killed the man credited with rebuilding post-civil war.
example:
❖ （1）Hillary Clinton suffers collapse
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US senator and former first lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton has collapsed during a pubic
appearance in Buffalo, New York state
❖ 另一方面，记者为迅速、有效地抓住读者的注意力， 有时不得不采用被动语态，这可谓是英语新闻文体 的特征之一，因为它恰如其分地掌握了读者阅报时 的普遍心理。人们阅读时都是处于漫不经心的状态， 只有当念到感兴趣部分时才会集中注意力。为此， 被动语态将动作的承受者移至句首，正好起到这一 作用。例如
❖ A brief case containing highly sensitive documents
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❖ 2. Passive voice is frequently used 频繁使用被动 语态
❖ 被动语态在英语新闻中使用得相当广泛，起使用频 率往往多于其他英语文体。其原因主要有两方面。 一方面是因为新闻报道最重要的作用是向大宗报道 最新的，有重大意义的事件和信息。为了能突出重 点，新闻报道中常用被动语态强调事件或行为的结 果，突出强调新闻事实或动作的接受者而不是执行 者。例如：
about British operations in Saudi Arabia was
stolen. It was revealed last night to the press. But
no details were provided..
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❖ 3. complexity and variety in sentence pattern.复杂 多样的句式
新闻英语中的语法特 征
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Grammatical features of news English
❖ 1. flexible usage of the tense时态运用灵活
❖ 1.1 tense in news headline
❖ 时态的运用在英语新闻文体中有其独特之处，在标 题中尤为突出。为了给读者一种现实感和新闻的及 时感，标题中常用一般现在时、不定式或现在分词 分别表示过去、将来或正在进行的动作。For
❖ (1) More than 50 million acres of farmland have
been submerged and grain stores damaged.
Thousands of peasants have been shown on
television trying to save their grain by loading
❖ 3.1 simple sentences are more frequently used than complex sentence 单句多于复合句
❖ 要较好地达到英语新闻的告知和传播功能，适应并
迎合各层次读者的口味，英语新闻的句式结构要尽
力做到简洁。人们读报就是为了在最短的时间内获
得最多的信息，因此，英语新闻中的句子多用简单
sacks into boats or trying to move them to higher
ground.
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❖ (2) At least 26 people were killed at the weekend in a new army offensive in which the army fired rockets, artillery and mortars at targets around the town as air force made repeated strikes.