Table of Contents Acknowledgements i Abstract in English ii Abstract in Chinese iii Introduction 1 Ⅰ the significance of political news 1 Ⅱ the catalogy of the political news 1 Nations 1 Citizens 2 Ⅲ the linguistic features of the poem in the political news 2 the general feature 2 timeliness 3 proximity 3 3 . lexical features---------brevity 3 the syntactic feature of news English 4 using of simple present tense 4 using of the progressive tense 4 rhetorical features of news English 5 the use of pronouns in rhetoric 5 the special feature 6 political correctness 6 standing on correct political ground 6 possibly making the news easy for readers 7 4. the theory of the political news translation 7 5. strategy of the political translsation 8 identifying meaning in context 8 cultural elements contained 9 6. how to translate 9 Conlusion 9 Acknowledgment I would like to thank all those who have helped to make this thesis possible and better than it otherwise would have been. First, my sincere and special thanks go to my mentor, Professor zengling, who has helped me so much at every stage of my graduate life and guided me through the writing of this thesis over the past months. Soon after I entered jianghan university ,he suggested I conduct extensive reading to broaden my horizon and find out specific field that interests me most. Before the thesis topic was settled down, he suggested I focus down on the subject of study to a reasonable extent that I can handle well. During the process of thesis writing, I have consulted him so frequently that too much of his time gets occupied. I now sincerely thank him for the time and energy he has devoted, for his valuable suggestions given when I was confused and his thoughtful encouragement when I felt frustrated. I also wish to express my sincere thanks to other professors in jianghan university for their enli
