| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-8页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第8-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-12页 |
| CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION | 第12-15页 |
| ·Background of the Study | 第12-13页 |
| ·Significance of the Research | 第13页 |
| ·Research Questions and Methodology | 第13页 |
| ·Thesis Structure | 第13-15页 |
| CHAPTER II AN OVERVIEW ON PROSE TRANSALTION | 第15-19页 |
| ·Concept of Prose | 第15-16页 |
| ·Classification of Prose | 第16页 |
| ·Characteristics of Prose | 第16-17页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Chinese Prose Translation | 第17-19页 |
| CHAPTER III THORETIC FRAMEWORK | 第19-30页 |
| ·Previous studies on Adaptation Theory in Translation | 第19-21页 |
| ·Making choices | 第21-22页 |
| ·Three properties of language | 第22-24页 |
| ·Variability | 第22页 |
| ·Negotiability | 第22-23页 |
| ·Adaptability | 第23-24页 |
| ·Four Aspects of Adaptability | 第24-30页 |
| ·Contextual Correlates of Adaptability | 第24-27页 |
| ·Structural Objects of Adaptability | 第27-28页 |
| ·Dynamics of Adaptability | 第28-29页 |
| ·Salience of the Adaptation Processes | 第29-30页 |
| CHAPTER IV ZHANG PEIJI AND HIS TRANSLATION OF SELECTED MODERN CHINESE ESSAYS | 第30-34页 |
| ·Zhang Peiji the Translator | 第30-31页 |
| ·Zhang Peiji’s Views on Translation | 第31-32页 |
| ·Zhang’s Translation of Modern Chinese Essays | 第32-34页 |
| CHAPTER V APPLICATION OF ADAPTATION THEORY TO ZHANG’S SELECTED MODERN CHINESE ESSAYS | 第34-63页 |
| ·Application of Contextual Correlates of Adaptability in the Selected Modern Chinese Essays | 第34-50页 |
| ·Adaptability of communicative context | 第35-44页 |
| ·The Mental World | 第35-39页 |
| ·The Social World | 第39-42页 |
| ·The Physical World | 第42-44页 |
| ·Adaptability of Linguistic Context | 第44-50页 |
| ·Contextual Cohesion | 第45-48页 |
| ·Intertextuality | 第48-49页 |
| ·Sequencing | 第49-50页 |
| ·Application of Structural Objects of Adaptability in the Selected Modern Chinese Essays | 第50-57页 |
| ·Overcarching Levels of Choice-making: Languages, Codes and Styles | 第50-52页 |
| ·The Choice-making of Basic Utterance-building Ingredients | 第52-54页 |
| ·The choice-making of Different Structural Types of Utterances and Utterance Clusters | 第54-55页 |
| ·The Choice-making of Different Utterance-building Principles | 第55-57页 |
| ·Application of Dynamics of Adaptability in the Selected Modern Chinese Essays | 第57-60页 |
| ·Application of Salience of Adaptability in the Selected Modern Chinese Essays | 第60-63页 |
| CHAPTER VI CONCLUSION | 第63-65页 |
| ·Summary and Findings | 第63-64页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions | 第64-65页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第65-68页 |
