这部分的错误是因为中文直译所引起的普遍的句法错误。很明显，中文和英文的句法和词序有许多不同，因此，当中国学生用汉语的思路去思考并且直接译成英文时，就会出现错误。这里列出了很多诸如此类的错误。我们先给出中文句子和错误的英文翻译，以便读者能看到这两种句型的类似点，找到产生错误的根本原因。

Example 16:

图片上有…(of/ about)

下面的句子有一个细微的错误,较易改正。A minor mistake that is easy to correct is the following:

Incorrect English:

“I want to take a picture about him.”

Correct English:

“I want to take a picture of him.”

如果我们要表达图片中有什么,我们说 “a picture of ___ ”,空格处写明你要表达的内容,在这里不用“about”。但是有些词如“movies , stories , poems , novels , speeches, classes”等需要使用, “about”。例如：

When we want to say what is in a picture, we say we have“a picture of ___”, and fill in the blank with what is in the picture. We do not use the word “about”. We use this word for the content of movies, stories, poems, novels, speeches, classes, etc.

Let’ s look at more examples:

“I took a photograph of Bill Clinton when I went to the White House in 1995.”

“I have a picture of Michael Jordan running down the basketball court.”

“That book is about the history of Ireland. It has many pictures of the Irish people struggling for peace. ”

注意:

如果我们把一张照片作为一件工艺品来谈论的话,我们可以说“a picture about ___”.

Note:

If we want to treat the photograph as a work of art, and we want to talk about its meaning , then we can say “a picture about ___”.

Example:

“look at this picture of this poor woman working so hard . It’s a picture about suffering, oppression, poverty, and inequality.”