中文的竹式、波式结构与英文的树式结构

句子结构千变万化，中英文差异较大，下面专业翻译公司列举对照他们的差异：

中文竹式结构

从前这里有一个小村庄，村里住着十户人家，这十户人家全靠打鱼、种地 为生，生活艰苦，但很安宁。

Once upon a time, there was a small village here. The village had ten households. The ten households all lived on fishing and farming. The life was hard, but very peaceful.

Once upon a time, there was a small village here. The village had ten households who all lived on fishing and farming. Their life was hard, but very peaceful.

The chunks of a Chinese sentence seem to be connected and yet separated, like sections of a bamboo linked by the joints and yet relatively independent and self-contained.

中文波式结构

开始我和母亲是不让父亲抽烟的，得了绝症后，想开了，抽吧，拣好的买，想抽就抽。

At first Mother and I wouldn’t let Father smoke. After (    ) contracted the fatal disease, (   ) thought differently. (     ) Just (    ) smoke, (     ) buy the best cigarettes, (   ) smoke whenever (    ) liked to.

At first Mother and I wouldn’t let Father smoke. After ( Father ) contracted the fatal disease, (we ) thought differently. (We would) Just (let him) smoke, (and we would) buy the best cigarettes, (and let him) smoke whenever (he) liked to.

节奏感强的语言或文字（指汉语），浪峰、浪谷似分似合，彼此相像，又各不相同；隐含着某些规律，但却过于复杂，难以分析或表述；这些规律规范着波浪与波浪、波浪与大海、词组与词组、词组与语段之间的各种关系。

英文树式结构

As a nation of gifted people who comprise about one-fourth of the total population of the earth, China plays in world affairs a role that can only grow more important in the years ahead.