这（这些语法现象）让初学汉语的西方人很兴奋，认为很幸运地躲过了如法文般难啃的动词时态变化。

This grammatical phenomenon made the beginner excited at first, thinking that he was lucky enough not to have to bother about such irregularities of verbs as in French.

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从句法层面上看，英语动词有时态变化，名词有数的变化，而汉语则没有这些变化；

Syntactically, English is a synthetic language, with ample variations in terms of tense, aspect, number and case.

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