Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, 2023, 6(14); doi: 10.25236/AJHSS.2023.061415.
Dong Yufang, Cheng Fengping
Fuzhou Technology and Business University, Fuzhou, 350715, China
It has been allegedly acknowledged that personal subjects are more used in the Chinese language while impersonal subjects more in the English language. Attempts are made, with translated sentences by some freshmen, to analyze their misuses of impersonal and personal subjects in C-E translation, with an aim to probing into ways to help them avoid thinking familiarity and to help them improve their translation so that they could translate better based on the expression habits in the English language.
impersonal subject; personal subject; misuses; thinking familiarity; expression habits
Dong Yufang, Cheng Fengping. Freshmen’s Misuses of Impersonal and Personal Subjects in C-E Translation. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2023) Vol. 6, Issue 14: 88-93. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2023.061415.
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