Amplification vs. Omission增词和减词Amplification vs. OmissionⅠ. Amplification in English-Chinese translationAmplification means to add necessary words, phrases, clauses or sentences to the translated text in purpose of making it consistent with the target language in meaning, grammar and culture connotation（内涵）.Amplification does not add new information to the message and only help understand the text.In this part we will analyze how to use amplification to achieve equivalence in English-Chinese translation in these three levels：syntactic（句法）, semantic（语义）, and rhetorical（修辞）.1. Syntactic amplificationTo make syntactic amplification, two cases are quite often involved, filling out elliptical （省略的）expressions and adding more explicit（明确的）indication of relations.In English there are more elliptical sentences by the omission of the subject, predicate, object, attribute, adverbial modifier and the like. The purpose is to make the sentence succinct（简洁的）and stress the main points.But in Chinese people may prefer to use explicit word to express implicit meaning.So some redundant（多余的）information should be added in certain context in English-Chinese translation.1). Addition of noun after the possessive caseHer tone was more friendly than Davi d’s (tone).她的语气要比大卫的语气友好。
