English and Chinese belong to different language families and possess fundamental differences in text construction and sentence organization embodied in hypotaxis and parataxis. English attaches importance to hypotaxis

constructing syntactic logic by virtue of explicit grammatical devices such as conjunctions and morphological changes. Chinese lays stress on parataxis

connecting clauses through semantic relevance and internal logic

thus featuring flexible and loose sentence structures. Such essential linguistic differences constitute the core motivation for adopting amplification and omission strategies in English-Chinese translation. Based on a comparison of linguistic features between hypotaxis and parataxis and abundant examples of English-Chinese and Chinese-English translation

this paper systematically explores the applicable scenarios

operational rules and practical approaches of the two translation strategies

and elaborates on the driving mechanism of hypotaxis-parataxis differences behind amplification and omission. This research aims to avoid problems including stiff sentence patterns

redundant meanings and missing logic in translation

so as to achieve faithful

smooth and pragmatically appropriate target texts. Meanwhile

it offers referential ideas for translation teaching and practice in application-oriented undergraduate colleges.