本书十分系统地探讨了中式英语这一非常普遍的现象。作者琼·平卡姆是美国人，毕生从事翻译工作。作者对书中中式英语实例逐一修改并加以分析。
《中式英语之鉴》有如下特点：中美资深翻译专家联手打造，众多业内知名人士倾情推荐分类列举中式英语常见顽疾，全面揭示词语句式典型误区深入浅出分析大量精选例句，循循善诱教你改正蹩脚表达即学即用丰富实例巩固记忆，循序渐进熟练掌握地道英语。
作者：(美国)平卡姆(Joan Pinkham) 注释 解说词：姜桂华
Joan Pinkham，美国职业翻译，毕业于哥伦比亚大学巴纳德学院 (Barnard College 0f Columblauniversity)，并在美 国著名文理学院明德学院(MidaeburyCollege)获硕士学位。攻读硕士期间获富布赖特(Fulbriqht)奖学金赴巴黎大学(University ofParls)学习。毕业后在世界卫生组织联合国总部联络处纽约工作十年，担任双语秘书。之后为自由职业翻译，翻译的很多重要著作和文章受到高度评价。曾在中国的外文出版社和中央编译局从事译文修改工作，参与审校周思来、邓小平、陈云等中国领导人的
著作译文。
姜桂华，中央编译局中央文献翻译室英文处处长、译审，全国人民代表大会法制工作委员会英文版法律汇编译审委员。1962年毕业于原北京外国语学院英语系翻译班，1983年赴美国马萨诸塞大学进修学习英语。长期从事英语翻译工作，并于2006年获“全国资深翻译家”称号，曾翻译《*选集》1～5卷，《周恩来选集》上、下卷，《聂荣臻革命回忆录》、1964年－1994年全国人民代表大会文件等，审核《中华人民共和国法律汇编》(1995-2009)以及《香港特别行政区基本法导论》等英译文。
To the Reader
Part One:Unnecessary Words
1.Unnecessary Nouns and Verbs
2.Unneccessary Modifiers
3.Redundant Twins
4.Saying the Same Thing Twice
5.Repeated References to the Same Thing
6.Summing it All Up
Part Two:Sentence Structure
7.The Noun Plague
8.Pronouns and Antecedents
9.The Placement of Phrases and Clauses
10.Dangling Modifiers
11.Parallel Structure
12.Logical Connectives
13.Summing it All Up
Part Three:Supplementary Examples
Key to Exercises
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