| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-10页 |
| List of Tables and Figures | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter 1. Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| ·Introduction of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte and the Chinese Versions | 第11-13页 |
| ·Charlotte Bronte and Her masterpiece, Jane Eyre | 第11-12页 |
| ·Chinese Versions of Jane Eyre | 第12-13页 |
| ·Research Purpose | 第13页 |
| ·Significance of the Thesis | 第13页 |
| ·Structure of the Thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature review | 第15-25页 |
| ·Studies Concerning Chinese Translations of Jane Eyre | 第15-17页 |
| ·Translation shifts | 第17-23页 |
| ·Linguistic Methods in Translation Study | 第17-18页 |
| ·Translation shifts: the Concept of “Shift” | 第18页 |
| ·Studies on Translation Shifts in Foreign Countries | 第18-21页 |
| ·Studies on Translation Shifts in China | 第21-23页 |
| ·Validity of Catford’s Translation Shifts in This Thesis | 第23页 |
| ·Reasons for the Study of Different Versions of Jane Eyre | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter 3 Theory and Methods for Analysis | 第25-33页 |
| ·An Explanation of Translation Shifts | 第25-26页 |
| ·The Value and Limitation of Translation shifts | 第26-27页 |
| ·Level-Shifts | 第27-28页 |
| ·Category-Shifts | 第28-31页 |
| ·Structure-shifts | 第29页 |
| ·Class-shifts | 第29-30页 |
| ·Unit-shifts | 第30-31页 |
| ·Intra-system-shifts | 第31页 |
| ·Methodology | 第31-33页 |
| Chapter 4 Analysis and Comparison | 第33-54页 |
| ·Structure-shifts | 第33-44页 |
| ·Negative-affirmative shifts | 第33-38页 |
| ·Shifts from the passive voice to the active voice | 第38-40页 |
| ·Shifts from subject-prominent sentences to topic-prominent sentences | 第40-42页 |
| ·Shifts from non-animate subjects to animate subjects | 第42-44页 |
| ·Unit-shifts | 第44-48页 |
| ·Shifts from words or phrases to phrases or clauses | 第44-46页 |
| ·Shifts from simple or compound sentences to compound or complex sentences or sentence groups | 第46-47页 |
| ·Shifts from phrases or clauses or sentences to phrases or words | 第47-48页 |
| ·Class-shifts | 第48-51页 |
| ·Shifts from English abstract nouns to Chinese specific verbs | 第48-49页 |
| ·Shifts among other part of speech | 第49-51页 |
| ·Comparison of Translation Shifts | 第51-54页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第54-56页 |
| Works Cited | 第56-58页 |