| Acknowledgement | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| ·Motivation and Significance of the Present Study | 第11页 |
| ·Research Questions and Methodology | 第11-12页 |
| ·Thesis Structure | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第14-27页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Chinese Prose Translation | 第15-16页 |
| ·Verschueren’s Adaptation Theory | 第16-23页 |
| ·Using language—a process of choice-making | 第17-18页 |
| ·Three properties of language | 第18-20页 |
| ·Variability | 第18页 |
| ·Negotiability | 第18-19页 |
| ·Adaptability | 第19-20页 |
| ·Four angles of pragmatic investigation | 第20-23页 |
| ·Contextual correlates of adaptability | 第20-21页 |
| ·Structural objects of adaptability | 第21-22页 |
| ·Dynamics of adaptability | 第22页 |
| ·Salience of the adaptation processes | 第22-23页 |
| ·Significance and Liability of Adaptation Theory Approach to Translation | 第23-25页 |
| ·Previous Adaptation-theoretic Translation Researches | 第25-27页 |
| Chapter Three The Application of Adaptation Theory to Prose Translation | 第27-38页 |
| ·Prose Translation as a Process of Choice-making | 第27-28页 |
| ·Adaptation in Prose Translation Process from the Perspective of Adaptation Theory | 第28-38页 |
| ·Contextual adaptability in prose translation | 第28-33页 |
| ·Adaptability of communicative context | 第29-32页 |
| ·Adaptability of linguistic context | 第32-33页 |
| ·Structural objects adaptability in prose translation | 第33-35页 |
| ·Dynamics of adaptability in prose translation | 第35-36页 |
| ·Salience of adaptability in prose translation | 第36-38页 |
| Chapter Four The Analysis of Adaptability in Selected Modern Chinese Essays | 第38-62页 |
| ·Zhang Peiji and His Translation of Modern Chinese Essays | 第38-40页 |
| ·Adaptation to Intra-linguistic Aspects | 第40-51页 |
| ·Phonetic orientation | 第40-42页 |
| ·Lexical orientation | 第42-43页 |
| ·Syntactic orientation | 第43-45页 |
| ·Discoursal orientation | 第45-47页 |
| ·Stylistic orientation | 第47-51页 |
| ·Adaptation to Extra-linguistic Aspects | 第51-61页 |
| ·Adaptation to mental world | 第51-55页 |
| ·Cognition | 第52-53页 |
| ·Emotion | 第53-55页 |
| ·Adaptation to social world | 第55-58页 |
| ·Person deixis | 第55-56页 |
| ·Social institutions | 第56-57页 |
| ·Culture | 第57-58页 |
| ·Adaptation to physical world | 第58-61页 |
| ·Material dimension | 第59页 |
| ·Temporal dimension | 第59-60页 |
| ·Spatial dimension | 第60-61页 |
| ·Summary | 第61-62页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第62-64页 |
| ·Contributions | 第62-63页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions | 第63-64页 |
| Bibliography | 第64-67页 |
