| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-16页 |
| ·A brief introduction to Shui Hu Zhuan | 第11页 |
| ·Value of Shui Hu Zhuan and its different translations | 第11-13页 |
| ·Characteristics of J.H Jackson's translation | 第13页 |
| ·The purpose and significance of the study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Research questions | 第14页 |
| ·The layout of the study | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review and Theoretical Framework | 第16-35页 |
| ·Corpus-aided translation studies | 第16-18页 |
| ·Parallel corpus | 第17-18页 |
| ·Definitions of the passive voice | 第18-21页 |
| ·Passive auxiliaries: be, get and become | 第19-21页 |
| ·Historical views on the passive voice | 第21-25页 |
| ·The Transformationalists' studies on the passive construction | 第21-22页 |
| ·The Functionalists' studies on the passive construction | 第22-24页 |
| ·The Cognitive linguists' studies on the passive construction | 第24-25页 |
| ·Classification of passive voice | 第25-35页 |
| ·Types of passive voice in Chinese | 第25页 |
| ·Types of passive voice in English | 第25-35页 |
| Chapter 3 Research Methodology | 第35-38页 |
| ·A self-built parallel corpus | 第35-37页 |
| ·Collection of parallel texts | 第36页 |
| ·The compiling and aligning of parallel corpus | 第36-37页 |
| ·Application of the parallel corpus | 第37页 |
| ·Qualitative approach adopted in the research | 第37-38页 |
| Chapter 4 Analysis and discussion | 第38-64页 |
| ·The Chinese passive construction in Shui Hu Zhuan in general | 第38-41页 |
| ·The distribution of Chinese passive markers in Shui Hu Zhuan | 第38-40页 |
| ·Semantic Features of Chinese passives | 第40-41页 |
| ·The English translation of the Chinese markered passive sentences | 第41-58页 |
| ·Translation into English syntactic passive structure | 第41-47页 |
| ·Translation into English non-passive structures | 第47-58页 |
| ·The translation of chi sentence | 第58-60页 |
| ·The translation of meng sentence | 第60-64页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第64-66页 |
| ·Major findings | 第64页 |
| ·Implications of this research | 第64-65页 |
| ·Limitations of the study | 第65页 |
| ·Suggestions for further study | 第65-66页 |
| References | 第66-69页 |
| Appendices | 第69-91页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第91-92页 |
| Resume | 第92页 |
