与书面体相比，英语口语体的句子较简短，结构也要松驰及灵活得多。

1. 英语的口语体一般不用分词短语的形式，而用支句或以单独分句代之。如下面几例：

1) (书面体）Chinese competitors have figured prominently in aeromodels and sports parachuting, having won several world titles and chalked up a number of world records.

(口语体) Chinese competitors have attracted much attention in aeromodels and sports parachating; they have won several world titles and made a number of world records.

2) (书面体) Written in great haste while the author was preoccupied with family troubles, the book tends to be rather faulty.

(口语体)While the author was preoccupied with family troubles, he wrote the book in great haste, and so, there are many faults in it.

3) (书面体) The large families gradually began to divide into smaller extended families and stem families, with the trend pointing toward the gradual emergence of more nuclear families

(口语体）The large families gradually began to divide into smaller extended families and stem families. The tendency now is that there are more and more nuclear families.

2. 过于冗长或结构过于复杂的句子，口译时总是可以分成若干简短的单句来表达同样的意思。如下面几例：

4) (书面体）Having suffered aggression and oppression for over a century, the Chinese people will never again allow themselves to be humiliated as they were before, nor will they subject other nations to such humiliation.

(口语体）As the Chinese people have suffered aggression and oppression for over a century, they will never again allow themselves to be humiliated as they were before. And they will never subject other nations to such humiliation either.

5) (书面体）With support and protection, from US hegemonists, Israel has outrageously occupied Palestine and carried out repeated armed aggression against Arab countries, posing threat to peace in the Middle East and the world as a whole.

(口语体）As Israel is supported and protected by the US hegemonists, it has outrageously occupied Palestine and carried out repeated armed aggression against Arab countries. This has posed threat to peace in the Middle East and the world as a whole.

6) (书面体) The Constitution stipulates that every ethnic minority has the free-dom to keep or change its customs and habits without interference from outsiders. To ensure its implementation, the people's government has adopted many measures, such as fixing holidays for traditional festivals, for different ethnic groups, discouraging pig–raising among minority groups that abstain from eating pork, establishing restaurants in cities with Muslim inhabitants, opening separate canteens for Muslims in their work places, and manufacturing and supplying special commodities for the minorities.

(口语体) According to the Constitution, every ethnic minority has the freedom to keep or change its customs and habits without interference from ontsiders. To ensure this, the people's government has taken many measures. For example, it has fixed holidays for traditional festivals for different ethnic groups and discouraged pig–raising among minority groups that do not eat pork.

Furthermore, the government has set up restaurants in cities with Muslims and opened separate canteens for them in their work places. It has also manufactured and supplied special commodities for the minoritjes.

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