Translating Chinese multi-clause sentences into Vietnamese

Abstract

Clauses are the basic units that make up a complex sentence in Chinese, they are marked by clause break, each clause has its own expressive function. A sentence with two or more clauses is considered a multi-clause sentence. On translating from Chinese multi-clause sentence into Vietnamese, there are often phenomena of adding conjunctions, increasing clauses in the target language, adding actor or subject to help make the meaning of the sentence complete, clear, and the connection in the sentence is tight. Through comparing in translation, the aim of this article is to find out the differences between Chinese and Vietnamese, and to propose a new perspective on how to translate from Chinese into Vietnamese.