| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-13页 |
| A List of Abbreviations | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第14-18页 |
| ·Research Background | 第14-15页 |
| ·Necessity and Significance of the Study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Research Purposes | 第16页 |
| ·The Structure of the Thesis | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第18-33页 |
| ·Brief Introduction to Metaphor of Mood | 第18-30页 |
| ·Grammatical Metaphor | 第19页 |
| ·Mood Types and Speech Functions | 第19-22页 |
| ·The Realization of Metaphor of Mood in Chinese and English | 第22-30页 |
| ·Related Studies on Six Chapters of a Floating Life and Its English Version | 第30-33页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第33-35页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第33页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第33-35页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第35-51页 |
| ·The Overall Distribution of Metaphor of Mood in the Chinese and English Text | 第35-39页 |
| ·Contrastive Analysis of Metaphor of Mood | 第39-51页 |
| ·From the Aspect of Syntactic Variations | 第39-42页 |
| ·From the Perspective of Contextual Dependencies | 第42-44页 |
| ·In the Use of Degrees of Modality | 第44-46页 |
| ·From the Perspective of Intonations | 第46-48页 |
| ·In the Situation of Discourse Markers | 第48-51页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第51-55页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Study | 第51-52页 |
| ·Implications of the Study | 第52-53页 |
| ·Limitations of the Study and Suggestions for Further Research | 第53-55页 |
| References | 第55-59页 |
| Publications | 第59页 |
