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r  tendencies  in  choosing  a  macroscopic perspective  and  employing  a  purely  rational  methodology  or  bibliographical  method, thus  neglecting  the  empirical  study  of  microscopic  facts,  including  the  differences  in the frequency and occasions of using passive voice in English-Chinese sci-tech texts. Oriented  to  the  practice  of  sci-tech  translation  between  English  and  Chinese  and EFL sci-tech writing, targeted toward the problems in the comparative study of English and Chinese sci-tech texts, the present study has attempted to compare the English and Chinese  sci-tech  texts  in  terms  of  the  frequency  and  situations  of  their  use  of  passive constructions under the guidance of the common views regarding the difference in the thinking  patterns  between  the  West  and  the  East  accessible  in  comparative  cultural studies,  linguistics  and  translation  studies,  on  the  basis  of  the  theories  about  the differences  between  English  and  Chinese  available  in  contrastive  studies  of  the  two languages,  employing  the  Scientific  American  and  its  Chinese  counterpart  Huan  Qiu Ke Xue as data, and through a methodology of theory-based case study integrating both quantitative  and  qualitative  analysis.  Through  data  analysis  and  discussion,  this  study has  arrived  at  the  following  conclusions:  (1)  English  and  Chinese  sci-tech  texts  are different  in  terms  of  the  frequency  of  using  passive  constructions.  English  sci-tech texts  are  more  abundant  with  passive  sentences  than  Chinese  ones  though  Chinese sci-tech texts have more agented passive sentences than English ones. (2) English and Chinese  sci-tech  texts  are  different  in  terms  of  the  occasions  of  using  passive constructions. English sci-tech texts employ passive constructions both in emphasizing and in neglecting the agent whereas Chinese ones utilize passive structures only when the agent is not highlighted. (3) The differences between English and Chinese sci-tech texts in the frequency and occasions of using passive constructions are consistent with the differences between Western and Chinese thinking patterns. While Western thought is characterized by nature-orientation, objectivity, rationality, analysis and abstraction, Chinese thinking possesses the features of self-centeredness, subjectivity, intuitiveness, synthesis and imagination. 

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conclusion

This  study  may  be  both  practically  and  academically  significant  to  the  EFL writing  and  translation  of  sci-tech  texts  in &n本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。