文档介绍：【投稿英文期刊】中国人常犯的错误

【编者按】如今要取得博士学位必需要有SCI 文章,许多人因此纷纷投稿英文期
刊。许多人在投稿英文期刊时会遇到这样或那样的问题,生物通将就这个问题为
大家提供系列的文章。首先介绍的是一位审阅过200 余篇稿、以英语为母语的审
稿人写的中国人常范的错误,相信这些错误具有一定代表性,希望能够帮助各位
正在为 paper 奋斗的莘莘学子们。
如果你是以英语为母语,那么下面所讲的问题可能不会成为问题。但是,对于学
中文出身的人有一个非常麻烦的语法问题,那就是冠词(article)。这之所以
会成为一个问题也是非常容易理解的,因为中文里面根本没有与之相对应的部
分,同理,外国人也对量词感到费解。学英语最初接触的就是"a, an, the",但
是,学到最后发现被难住的也是这三个简单的词。
单数前的"a, an, the"是最容易被忽略的。冠词意味着后面将出现一个名词,在
冠词余名词之间的修饰词语都是针对这个名词的(如:a big blue bicycle/the first
award),a 和 an 是不定冠词,the 是定冠词。下面将举几个错误的例子:
Incorrect Figure 2 shows the distribution of relative velocity on surface of main and
splitter blades.
Correct Figure 2 shows the distribution of relative velocity on the surface of the main
and splitter blades.
Incorrect The software PowerSHAPE is chosen to be a 3D modeling tool; it is
good at dealing with free surfaces and curves.
Correct The software PowerSHAPE is chosen to be the 3D modeling tool; it is
good at dealing with free surfaces and curves.
因为在文章中仅提到一次“3D modeling tool”,因此 3D modeling tool 是特指且
唯一的,需要用定冠词 the。
Incorrect A theoretical method for calculating the inner flow-field in centrifugal
impeller with splitter blades and investigation of the interactions between main and
splitter blades is presented in this paper. The vortices are distributed on the main and
splitter blades to simulate the effects of flows. Systematical study of number and
distribution of vortices is conducted.
Correct A theoretical method for calculating the inner flow-field in a centrifugal
impeller with splitter blades and an investigation of the interactions between main and
splitter blades is presented in this paper. The vortices are distributed on the main and
splitter blades to simulate the effects of flows. A systematical study of the number
and distribution of vortices is conducted.
Incorrect Theoretically, remanufacturing could fully take advantage of resources
contained in EOF product thereby minimizi