英语意义被动句与汉语受事主语句的比较

Comparison of English Notional Passive Sentence and Chinese Patient-as-the-subject Sentence

英语意义被动句和汉语受事主语句都是形式上主动意义上被动,但二者又有各自的特点英语中意义被动句的使用较少且受较多限制,汉语受事主语句运用灵活广泛。究其原因,一是英汉民族思维模式对语言的影响,二是由英汉语言在类型学上的差异。英语是以主谓关系为基本句子结构的形态型语言,汉语是一种以语义为基础组字成句的语义型语言。

The English notional in form, passive in meaning. passive sentence and the Chinese patient-as-the-subject sentence are both active They also differ with each other and have their own features. In English, the notional passive sentence is used less frequently while the patient-as-the-subject sentence is used widely and flexibly in Chinese, which is decided by the different way of thinking between the English and the Chinese nationality and by the cross-linguistic characteristics of the English and Chinese languages.