I. Introduction 引言
随着中国和世界其他地区之间的国际交流，语言学习正在成为人们日常生活中不可缺少的一部分。尤其是现在，英语已经越来越多地成为世界上广泛使用的语言，成为迫切需要的语言和更多的信息是以英语为使用方式的。
With increasing international exchange between China and the other parts of the world, language study is becoming an indispensable part in daily life. Especially nowadays, as English has increasingly come into world-wide use, there has arisen an acute need for more information on the language and the ways in which it is used. Reading English newspapers opens a special window for people to be dipped into new things and stories that come forward everyday, and gives people the opportunity of picking up language. They are the primary mass medium from which people receive new information. Newspapers have a rich mix of contents — news, advice, comics, opinions, puzzles and data. Some people go right for the stock market tables, others to sports or a favorite columnist. While unlike radio and television, people don't have to wait for what they want. Newspapers are important in people’s lives, and as a medium they adapt to changing lifestyles.
今天，有许多媒体报道新闻使用英语，但他们使用的是在国际上英语新闻的一个共同的模式，也就是新闻英语这个特殊的风格。然而，在英文报纸所用的语言在一定程度上是完全不同与一般英语。由于各种大众媒体，新闻在人们的日常生活中发挥着重要作用，并成为大量知识分子研究的课题。
Today, there are many media reporting news in English, but what they use is a common mode of English news internationally, that is, news English this particular style. However, the language used in English newspapers is quite different from general English to some extent. As a variety of mass media, news has played an important role in people’s daily life and become a study subject of a great number of intellectuals. News English is a special kind of English and it has several natures, one of which is simplicity. It is necessary to simplify news English on consideration of its features and functions. This paper studies the ways of simplifying news English from the angle of word and grammar. Thus the simplicity of news English and its ways is the focus of it.
The simplicity of news English is a necessity for news writing. It answers the requirement of all kinds of people — reporters, readers and publishers. The simplicity of news English saves their time, energy and help them to get or write news in a fast and easy way.
II. Understanding of News English 了解新闻英语
News English is a branch of English, and is not familiar to everyone, so it is necessary to understand what exactly news English is and what features make news English different from general English. The following two parts will introduce the definition of news English and its natures.
2.1 Definition of News English
To understand what is news English, one should know what news is at first. Ever since the news business appears, especially with the appearance of news research institutions and news universities, scholars, home and abroad, never stop seeking a scientific definition of news. The concept of news is rather elusive. There is no fixed, commonly accepted definition for news in the world up to now.
For example, many a columnist argue that news is supposed to be surprising, shocking and even abnormal. The famous line about news is that if a dog bites a man, it is not news; if a man bites a dog, then it is. And some reporters extend the definition for news so far that they claim anything of interest constitutes news. And according to several Chinese scholars, news is the special means that the mass media adopts to report or comment on the latest important facts to influence the public opinion.
Even though a universally accepted definition of news is not available, all the definitions are interwoven and mutually complementary. To serve for the purpose of this thesis, I adopt the combined notion of news that news is information that is published in newspaper and broadcast on radio and television and online about recent events in the country or the world or in a particular area of activity. However, news is not simply that which happens, but that which can be regarded and presented as newsworthy.
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