第二讲 英语新闻标题特点

第二讲英语新闻标题特点

一、标题的结构

主题（headline）+辅题(sub-headline/subhead)

1. 主题：揭示新闻最主要的、读者最关心的核心问题。

2. 辅题：

1）引题：眉题、肩题：突出说明新闻事件的背景、原因、结果、新闻来源等内容。置于主题上方

2）副题：子题、次题：对主题进行补充、解释和印证。置于主题下方

例1：

Draft Law Business groups say move to ban discrimination on basis of race, gender and disability is bureaucratic threat to free

enterprise

South Africa National Assembly backs

“equality bill”

(Jan.27, 2000 Financial Times)

例2：

Spent fuel shipments Germany to lift ban on transport of

N-waste

(Jan.27, 2000 Financial Times)

例3：

July 13, 2011 China Daily

CNOOC’s new oil spill in Bohai Bay Control system failure at oilfield blamed for third leak since June

例4：

March 6-7, 2010 China Daily

Pledge to narrow gap welcomed

Addressing social divide takes govt

priority

二、标题的类型

1. 陈述式

例: 1) Girls Die in Blaze

2) Taiwan Recognizes Mainland Currency

2. 设问式

例：1)Oil Price to Rise?

2) Korea Unity in Five Years?

3) Murder on Campus: Can It Be Averted?

3. 引语式

例：1)“We Have to Save Our People”

2) UN Chief: Talks Here “Positive”

三、标题的语言特点

1. 简练（Briefness）

例：1）Starstruck (Time)

2) Battle for Brains (Financial Times) 2. 直白（plainness）

例：1)Taiwan Recognizes Mainland Currency (South China Morning Post)

2)Girls Die in Blaze

3. 缩略词(abbreviation)

例：1)EU’S Future: The Vision and the Slog

2) University Entry Hard for Would-be Vets

3) Put the Sci Back in Sci-fi

4) Euroland

5) Euromat

4. 省略(omission)（省去虚词，如冠词和动词to be, 介词、连词、助动词和代词、有时实义词、主句）

例：1）Woman Kills Husband, Self

=(A) Woman Kills (Her) Husband (and) (Her) Self

2) No Survivors in Gulf Air Crash

=(There Are) No Survivors in (the) Gulf Air Crash

3) Have Dollars, Will Sell

=(If You) Have Dollars, (They) Will Sell

4）U.S. ATTACKED

Hijacked Jets Destroyed Twin Towers and Hit Pentagon in Day of Terror =U.S. (WAS) ATTACKED

5) China ‘biggest victim’of cyber attacks

=China (is) (the) ‘biggest victim’of cyber attacks

6) Mao: We Should Support Third World

Countries

=Mao (Says) (That) We Should Support (the) Third World Countries

5. 名词短语(noun phrase)

例：1)Shotgun Death Riddle Drama

2) Zoo Escape Drama

3)Global Probe of Bomb Suspect

6. 时态及语态(tense & voice)

1）常用现在时

例：①13 Die as Crowded Van Crosses M4

②Longevity Star Dies at 110

2) 动词不定式表将来时

例：①Peking to Fire Test Rocket to South Pacific

②Japan to help elderly jobless

3)被动语态

--突出强调事件或动作的接受者

比较：①500 Reported Killed in S. Korean Building Collapse

②Collapse Claims 500 Lives in S. Korea

例：①Girl of 18 Raped after Threat with