This paper gives a detailed analysis of the means of negation and of some idiomatic negative expressions in English. The paper, based on translation studies, conducts a contrastive and comparative study of negation in...This paper gives a detailed analysis of the means of negation and of some idiomatic negative expressions in English. The paper, based on translation studies, conducts a contrastive and comparative study of negation in English and Chinese and tries to find similarities and dissimilarities, aimed at illuminating the problem and highlighting common errors in the translating of negation in English.展开更多
文摘This paper gives a detailed analysis of the means of negation and of some idiomatic negative expressions in English. The paper, based on translation studies, conducts a contrastive and comparative study of negation in English and Chinese and tries to find similarities and dissimilarities, aimed at illuminating the problem and highlighting common errors in the translating of negation in English.
