Abstract：Based on a self-built monolingual corpus consisting of 21 full Chinese translations of Pride and Prejudice, this paper aims to describe the diachronic changes of translation norms on syntactic level.Average sentence length, connectives, direct speeches and some special sentence patterns are the focus of this paper.Statistical result shows that translations of the first period are much closer to the original text while translations of the second period have shown opposite performances on most of the parts in the four aspects, that is, much closer to the target text.However, translations in the third period are between those in the first and second periods, with mixed features of the original language and the target language, but there is a trend of closeness to the original text as a whole.

Keyword：corpus;syntactic norms;Pride and Prejudice;dynamic changes;