| Acknowledgement | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Research on Patterns of Thought | 第12-19页 |
| ·Definition of Patterns of Thought | 第12页 |
| ·The Research on Chinese and Western Patterns of Thought | 第12-15页 |
| ·Early Researches on Chinese and Western Patterns of Thought | 第13页 |
| ·Further Researches on Chinese and Western Patterns of Thought | 第13-15页 |
| ·Reasons for Different Thought Patterns Formation | 第15-19页 |
| ·Modes of Production | 第15页 |
| ·Historical Tradition | 第15-16页 |
| ·Geographic Conditions | 第16-17页 |
| ·Philosophy | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter 2 Major Features of Chinese and Western Patterns of Thought | 第19-26页 |
| ·The Integral Pattern of Thought and the Analytical Pattern of Thought | 第19-22页 |
| ·The Concrete Pattern of Thought and the Abstract Pattern of Thought | 第22-23页 |
| ·“Intuition”vs. “Logic” | 第22-23页 |
| ·“Ambiguity”vs. “Clarity” | 第23页 |
| ·The Circular Pattern of Thought and the Linear Pattern of Thought | 第23-24页 |
| ·Some Supplementary Remarks on Chinese and Western Patterns of Thought | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter 3 The Linguistic Expressions on the Differences of Chinese and Western Patterns of Thought | 第26-43页 |
| ·The Relation between Language and Thought | 第26-27页 |
| ·Differences between Chinese and English Languages | 第27-43页 |
| ·“Parataxis”vs. “Hypotaxis” | 第27-31页 |
| ·“The General-particular Order”vs. “the Particular-general Order” | 第31-35页 |
| ·“The Correlative Mode”vs. “the Detached Mode” | 第35-37页 |
| ·“Concreteness”vs. “Abstractness” | 第37-38页 |
| ·“The Cyclical Structure”vs. “the Linear Structure” | 第38-40页 |
| ·Some Supplementary Remarks on Chinese and Western Languages | 第40-43页 |
| Chapter 4 The Transfer of Thought Patterns in the Course of Translation | 第43-54页 |
| ·Transfer between Concreteness and Abstractness | 第43-46页 |
| ·Use of Category Words | 第43-44页 |
| ·Conversion of Parts of Speech | 第44-45页 |
| ·Use of Figurative Words | 第45页 |
| ·Proper Addition of Supplementary Words | 第45-46页 |
| ·Rearrangement of Word Order | 第46-47页 |
| ·Transfer between Covert Coherence and Overt Cohesion | 第47-50页 |
| ·Rearrangement of Sentence Stress | 第50-51页 |
| ·Transfer between the Subjective and the Objective | 第51-54页 |
| Conclusion | 第54-57页 |
| 8ibliography | 第57-58页 |
