Abstract
Bei Ying, written by Zhu Ziqing, is one of the best lyrical proses in China. Bei Ying is embellished with plain, simple language as well as fluent writing style to show readers the author's true story in his life. Mr. ZHANG Pei-ji, a translator of Bei Ying, confronts readers with accurate words, colloquial language, and an easy and spontaneous writing style. This paper aims to analyze Mr. Zhang’s version(The Sight of Father’s Back) in terms of lexical level, syntactic level and discoursal level.
Key words: Bei Ying, lexicon, syntax, discourse
Contents
1. Introduction1
2. Demonstration 2
2.1 The lexical features of the English version of Bei Ying 2
2.1.1 Acquiring a correct understanding of the specific words in modern times -2
2.1.2 The application of rhetorical devices in terms of the lexical features  3
2.1.2.1 Irony4
2.1.2.2 Line drawing-4
2.1.3 Using colloquial words instead of obscure words 5
2.2 The syntactic features of the English version of Bei Ying -5
2.2.1 Parataxis of Chinese and hypotaxis of English -6
2.2.2 Using most simplified English sentences in the process of translation 7
2.3 The discoursal features of the English version of Bei Ying 8
2.3.1 Discourse coherence -8
2.3.2 Discoursal conjunctions 10
3. Conclusion10
Works Cited- 11
Bibliography12