| ABSTRACT | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-8页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅰ INTRODUCTION | 第8-12页 |
| ·General description of the research | 第8-9页 |
| ·Purpose of the research | 第9-11页 |
| ·Research methodology | 第11页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第11-12页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅱ LITERATURE REVIEW | 第12-27页 |
| ·A survey of topic structure | 第12-13页 |
| ·Definition of topic | 第13-15页 |
| ·General properties of topic | 第15-20页 |
| ·Syntactic features | 第15-18页 |
| ·Semantic features | 第18页 |
| ·Discourse features | 第18-20页 |
| ·Distinctions between topic and subject | 第20-27页 |
| ·English subject | 第20-21页 |
| ·Chinese subject | 第21-22页 |
| ·Differences between topic and subject | 第22-24页 |
| ·Correlation between topic and subject | 第24-27页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅲ COMPARISON OF TOPIC STRUCTURE BETWEENCHINESE AND ENGLISH | 第27-37页 |
| ·Characteristics of Chinese topic structure | 第27-29页 |
| ·Characteristics of English topic structure | 第29-31页 |
| ·Comparison of topic structure between Chinese and English | 第31-35页 |
| ·Differences between Chinese topic structure and English topic structure | 第31-35页 |
| ·Similarities between Chinese topic structure and English topic structure | 第35页 |
| ·Summary | 第35-37页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅳ EXPERIMENTS OF C-E AND E-C TRANSLATION FROMTHE PERSPECTIVE OF TOPIC STRUCTURE | 第37-62页 |
| ·Purpose of experiments | 第37-38页 |
| ·Subjects | 第38页 |
| ·Pilot | 第38-39页 |
| ·Methods | 第39-40页 |
| ·Results | 第40-47页 |
| ·Analyses | 第47-62页 |
| ·Ignorance of English expletive or dummy subject | 第48-51页 |
| ·Double nominatives in English | 第51-53页 |
| ·Chinese topic translated as English subject | 第53-54页 |
| ·Pro-drop in English | 第54-57页 |
| ·Pseudo passive | 第57-58页 |
| ·Wrong word order | 第58-62页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅴ IMPLICATIONS FOR C-E AND E-C TRANSLATIONTEACHING AND LEARNING | 第62-67页 |
| ·Implications for translation teaching | 第62-63页 |
| ·Implications for translation learning | 第63-67页 |
| ·Choice of right subject | 第63-64页 |
| ·Choice of proper word order | 第64页 |
| ·Choice of proper transformation of the Chinese topic | 第64-67页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅵ CONCLUSION | 第67-70页 |
| ·Summary of the research | 第67-68页 |
| ·Significance of the thesis | 第68页 |
| ·Limitations of the thesis | 第68-70页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第70-73页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间发表的论文 | 第73-74页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第74-77页 |
| APPENDIX Ⅰ | 第77-78页 |
| APPENDIX Ⅱ | 第78页 |
