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areas being flooded. Literally millions of civilians are involved in this enormous human effort. Ⅲ． Personal and Non-Personal Subject If making a comparison between English and Chinese, we can sense that most of subjects in Chinese are living and concrete noun or pronoun, whereas in English it is common to use lifeless and abstract noun as the subject. In translation, bearing this principle in mind is helpful to the production of good sentences. (1)不同的人对退休有不同的态度。 * Different people have different attitudes towards retirement. Attitudes towards retirement vary from person to person. (2)我永远不会忘记这个教训。 * I will never forget the lesson. The lesson will be rooted in my memory. (3)由于计划不周，我不仅浪费了时间，而且浪费了所有的钱。 * Because of poor planning, I wasted all my money as well as my time. Poor planning wasted all my money as well as my time. The first sentences of the examples above share the same structure with the Chinese sentences by using the personal subjects, while the second sentences take non-personal words as the subjects, which belong to the habitual expression in English. The differences between Chinese and English can be explained from differences in the ways of thinking. The traditional Chinese philosopher considers people as the center, which can be reflected in the great works of Confucius. Chinese are strongly influenced by this philosophical thought. They enjoy strong senses of subject. While the English attach more importance to the sense of object. They are inclined to study the influences coming from objective world. With the disparity in thinking styles reflected in the language expression, Chinese tend to use the personal words and English tend to use non-personal as the subjects. Qian Gechuan confirmed this point of view. (1) Despite months of anticipation, nothing could have prepared me for the impact of the actual day. 尽管我期待了好几个月，但我没有任何心理准备应付那一天对我的冲击。 (2) Years later, financial difficulty forced my high school to close its doors for good. Although going back is impossible, it’s comforting to know I can revisit my special memories any time. 几年后，迫于经济上的困难，我就读过的那所中学关闭了。虽然再去访问母校是不可能了，但是想到我能随时回忆这些特殊的往事，我感到十分的宽慰。 (3) Because of their intelligence and refusal to conform to society’s and intellectual values, many are deprived of a chance to learn adequate social skills and acquire good communication tools. 许多孩子由于智力高，不愿迎合社会上反知识的观点，而被剥夺了学习足够的社交技能和获得良好交际手段的机会。 (4) After a hundred yards or so I tried to speak, to offer some great words of wisdom and motivation, but my words and my breath failed. 跑了有一百码，想说些幽默和鼓励的话，但我气喘吁吁说不出话来。 (5) An evening with him was an evening spent in listening to a monologue…The slightest hint of disagreement from anyone, on the most trivial point, was enough to set him off on a harangue that might last for fair. 整个晚上和他在一起，就是听他一个人讲，任何人只要稍微有点和他不同的看法，哪怕是琐事，也足以使他几个小时不停地驳斥。 The reason why Chinese tent to use the personal words as subjects also reflects people’s thinking Process. The concrete subjects such as “I, you, he and people” first come to speakers’ mind, and then followed by the action of the speakers. So it is common to see the words signifying person always acts as subject. On the other hand the main concern of English is the completion of structure. So non- personal structure abounds in English. (6) It never occurred to him that he and his doing were not of the most intense and fascinating interest to anyone with whom he came in contact. 他从来没有想到过，他和他的言行并没有使和他接触的任何人感到有趣。 (7) However, it is