Through this research, on the basis of English-Chinese and Chinese-English parallel corpora, the following conclusion tries to be drawn: In English, the perfect may not be used together with the specific time of the ...Through this research, on the basis of English-Chinese and Chinese-English parallel corpora, the following conclusion tries to be drawn: In English, the perfect may not be used together with the specific time of the past situation. In contrast to English, Chinese does not have perfect constructions. English perfective aspect is an actual aspect indication: duration and completion of an action or situation. According to different reference time, the actual aspect can be divided into past actuality, present actuality and future actuality. This paper will undoubtedly contribute to the study of tense-aspect in Chinese. The study of English perfective aspect is conducive to the comparative study and translation of aspect in English and Chinese.展开更多
reexa- mines the formulation'the masses are the makers of history'and shows in terms of textual and logical analysis that this is a distortion of the ideas of both Marxand Lenin.The phrase actually originated ...reexa- mines the formulation'the masses are the makers of history'and shows in terms of textual and logical analysis that this is a distortion of the ideas of both Marxand Lenin.The phrase actually originated in the Short History of the CPSU(B)published in the Soviet Union in the late 1930s.It was subsequently inter-preted as meaning that the production of material values constituted the wholeof historical development,In China the phrase was later amended into'themasses are the masters of history'and construed as implying that the mass ofthe people consistently played a leading role in the historical process.Li Shushows that logically the former argument represents a reductionist view of his-tory which neglects the larger,multi-faceted historical process in favor of thepremise of the making of history,viz.the making of material values.In similarfashion he demonstrates that the productive activities of the masses are the objectivebasis for historical development, but nonetheless the oppressed and exploited massescould often only play a passive role.Their historical role as'masters of history'began only in recent times.Li concludes with a presentation of Marx,Engels andLenin on the question of how'men make their own history.'He shows they spokein a more nuanced fashion and always with emphasis on the limitations of objectivecircumstances.展开更多
文摘Through this research, on the basis of English-Chinese and Chinese-English parallel corpora, the following conclusion tries to be drawn: In English, the perfect may not be used together with the specific time of the past situation. In contrast to English, Chinese does not have perfect constructions. English perfective aspect is an actual aspect indication: duration and completion of an action or situation. According to different reference time, the actual aspect can be divided into past actuality, present actuality and future actuality. This paper will undoubtedly contribute to the study of tense-aspect in Chinese. The study of English perfective aspect is conducive to the comparative study and translation of aspect in English and Chinese.
文摘reexa- mines the formulation'the masses are the makers of history'and shows in terms of textual and logical analysis that this is a distortion of the ideas of both Marxand Lenin.The phrase actually originated in the Short History of the CPSU(B)published in the Soviet Union in the late 1930s.It was subsequently inter-preted as meaning that the production of material values constituted the wholeof historical development,In China the phrase was later amended into'themasses are the masters of history'and construed as implying that the mass ofthe people consistently played a leading role in the historical process.Li Shushows that logically the former argument represents a reductionist view of his-tory which neglects the larger,multi-faceted historical process in favor of thepremise of the making of history,viz.the making of material values.In similarfashion he demonstrates that the productive activities of the masses are the objectivebasis for historical development, but nonetheless the oppressed and exploited massescould often only play a passive role.Their historical role as'masters of history'began only in recent times.Li concludes with a presentation of Marx,Engels andLenin on the question of how'men make their own history.'He shows they spokein a more nuanced fashion and always with emphasis on the limitations of objectivecircumstances.