Abstract：This paper makes a comparative analysis of differences of subjects in English and Chinese translation, which mainly manifest in the following 4 aspects: subject ellipses in Chinese are used more frequently than in English ( including contextual ellipses, water-flowing ellipses, fuzzy ellipses and syntactic empty categories) ; inanimate subjects are used more frequently in English than in Chinese; inanimate subjects in Chinese are restricted by the predicates and generally collocated with inanimate predicates; inanimate subjects are mainly implemented to be rhetoric and objective. For these reasons, complex and diverse subjects in Chinese, which is regarded as a topic-prominent language, are chosen much more freely; while the form of predicate verbs in English depends on the subject of the doer.

Keyword：subjects;English;Chinese;subject ellipses;inanimate subjects;