| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Contents | 第9-10页 |
| List of Tables and Figures | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| ·Research Background | 第11-12页 |
| ·Necessity and Significance of the Study | 第12-13页 |
| ·Research Objective and Research Questions | 第13页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第14-21页 |
| ·The Relevant Studies in China | 第14-16页 |
| ·The relevant studies abroad | 第16-18页 |
| ·Previous studies on The Grass is Singing | 第18-21页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第21-28页 |
| ·Feasibility of the theory | 第21-22页 |
| ·Adaptive transformation from three dimensions | 第22-23页 |
| ·Adaptive transformation from the linguistic dimension | 第22页 |
| ·Adaptive transformation from the communicative dimension | 第22页 |
| ·Adaptive transformation from the cultural dimension | 第22-23页 |
| ·Key terms | 第23-28页 |
| Chapter Four Case Studies | 第28-61页 |
| ·Comparative studies in terms of linguistic dimension | 第28-45页 |
| ·Comparative studies at the level of language form | 第28-32页 |
| ·Comparative studies at lexical level | 第32-35页 |
| ·Comparative studies at syntactic level | 第35-38页 |
| ·Comparative studies at stylistic level | 第38-40页 |
| ·Comparative studies in terms of language expression | 第40-43页 |
| ·Causes leading to the differences | 第43-45页 |
| ·Comparative studies in terms of communicative dimension | 第45-56页 |
| ·Differences in terms of understanding communicative intention | 第45-48页 |
| ·Differences in terms of conveying communicative intention | 第48-50页 |
| ·Causes leading to the differences | 第50-56页 |
| ·Comparative studies from cultural dimension | 第56-61页 |
| ·Differences in terms of cultural dimension | 第56-58页 |
| ·Similarities in terms of cultural dimension | 第58-59页 |
| ·Causes leading to the differences and similarities | 第59-61页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第61-64页 |
| ·Major findings of the thesis | 第61-62页 |
| ·Limitations and suggestions for further studies | 第62-64页 |
| Works cited | 第64-67页 |
| Publications | 第67页 |
