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University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China

ABSTRACT

Run-on sentences are used frequently in daily life and literature; however, there is no corresponding sentence pattern in English. Therefore, it is challenging for translators to render run-on sentences into idiomatic English. This paper introduces the definition, classification, and the translation of run-on sentences, aiming to summarize the common rules of its translation.

KEYWORDS

Chinese run-on sentences, Chinese-English translation, translation strategies

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Psychology Research, October 2022, Vol. 12, No. 10, 874-878

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