| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-13页 |
| ·Research Background | 第9-10页 |
| ·Research Questions and Significance of the Research | 第10-11页 |
| ·Research Methodology and Data Collection | 第11-12页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第13-20页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Translation of English News Leads | 第13-16页 |
| ·Literal Translation and Liberal Translation | 第16-18页 |
| ·Principles for Translation of English News Leads | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter Three General Survey of News Leads | 第20-28页 |
| ·Review of "News" | 第20-21页 |
| ·Text Type of News | 第20页 |
| ·Organization Pattern of News | 第20-21页 |
| ·Origin and Development of News Leads | 第21-23页 |
| ·Definition and Origin of News Leads | 第21-23页 |
| ·Development of News Leads | 第23页 |
| ·Classification of News Leads | 第23-27页 |
| ·Requirements of News Leads | 第27-28页 |
| Chapter Four Linguistic Features of English News Leads | 第28-42页 |
| ·Lexical Features | 第28-32页 |
| ·Shortened Forms | 第28-29页 |
| ·Neologisms and Loanwords | 第29-30页 |
| ·Concise Nouns and Colorful Action Verbs | 第30-32页 |
| ·Grammatical Features | 第32-33页 |
| ·Tense | 第32页 |
| ·Voice | 第32-33页 |
| ·Syntactical Features | 第33-35页 |
| ·Expanded Simple Sentence S-V-O | 第33-34页 |
| ·Direct Quotation vs. Indirect Quotation | 第34页 |
| ·Pre-attribute | 第34-35页 |
| ·Rhetoric Features | 第35-37页 |
| ·Metaphor | 第35页 |
| ·Metonymy | 第35-36页 |
| ·Rhetorical Question | 第36-37页 |
| ·Pun | 第37页 |
| ·The Differences Between English and Chinese News Leads | 第37-42页 |
| ·Simplicity | 第38页 |
| ·Attribution and Time Expression | 第38-40页 |
| ·Logic Thought Pattern | 第40-42页 |
| Chapter Five Main Strategies for Translation of English News Leads | 第42-53页 |
| ·Literal Translation | 第42-44页 |
| ·Liberal Translation | 第44-46页 |
| ·Flexible Translation | 第46-53页 |
| ·Reconstruction | 第47-49页 |
| ·Backgrounding | 第49-51页 |
| ·Adjustment of Reporting Angles | 第51-53页 |
| Chapter Six Integrated Analyses of Typical Examples | 第53-58页 |
| ·Analysis of Excellent Examples | 第53-55页 |
| ·Analysis of Poor Examples | 第55-58页 |
| Chapter Seven Conclusion | 第58-61页 |
| ·Findings | 第58-59页 |
| ·Limitations | 第59页 |
| ·Suggestions | 第59-61页 |
| Notes | 第61-64页 |
| Bibliography | 第64-67页 |
