| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract in English | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第7-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Purpose and Scope of the Study | 第11-21页 |
| ·An Overview of the Grammatical Hierarchies of English and Chinese | 第11-19页 |
| ·The grammatical hierarchy of the English language | 第11-14页 |
| ·The grammatical hierarchy of the Chinese language | 第14-17页 |
| ·Revised grammatical hierarchies of English and Chinese | 第17页 |
| ·Definition of “sentence” | 第17-19页 |
| ·Scope and Purpose of the Study | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter 2 A Brief Description of Chinese and English Clauses | 第21-32页 |
| ·Generalization | 第21页 |
| ·English Clauses | 第21-23页 |
| ·Chinese Clauses | 第23-29页 |
| ·Difference between the Chinese and English Clause | 第29-30页 |
| ·Cause for the Different Clause Structures | 第30-32页 |
| Chapter 3 English Clause Complexes | 第32-39页 |
| ·Classification | 第32-34页 |
| ·Syntactic Characteristics of the English Clause Complex | 第34-39页 |
| ·Closedness and compactness of the syntactic structure | 第34-35页 |
| ·Formal cohesion within a clause complex | 第35-39页 |
| Chapter 4 Chinese Clause Complexes | 第39-58页 |
| ·Classification | 第39-45页 |
| ·Hypotactic clause complexes | 第39-41页 |
| ·Paratactic clause complexes | 第41-45页 |
| ·Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Characteristics of the Chinese Clause Complex | 第45-53页 |
| ·Linear spread of phonetic-semantic chunks | 第45-47页 |
| ·Semantic coherence | 第47-51页 |
| ·Iconicity | 第51-53页 |
| ·General Tendency in the Use of Chinese Clause Complexes and Its Causes | 第53-58页 |
| ·General tendency in the use of Chinese clause complexes | 第53-55页 |
| ·Causes for the tendency | 第55-58页 |
| Chapter 5 Causes for the Differences between the Chinese and English Clause Complex | 第58-64页 |
| ·Cause from the Perspective of Morphology | 第58-59页 |
| ·Cause from the Perspective of Syntax | 第59-61页 |
| ·Cause from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics | 第61-64页 |
| Chapter 6 Techniques of Translating Chinese Clause Complexes | 第64-71页 |
| ·Clarifying the Semantic Relations among Phonetic-Semantic Chunks | 第64-65页 |
| ·Identifying the Semantic “Fulcrum” | 第65-66页 |
| ·Grasping Syntactic Features | 第66-68页 |
| ·Rearranging the Word Order | 第68页 |
| ·Dividing the Clause Complex into Several Semantic Units | 第68-69页 |
| ·Adjusting Grammatical Units | 第69-71页 |
| Conclusion | 第71-73页 |
| BIBILIOGRAPHY | 第73-78页 |
