基于及物性的认知视角，本文提出句子的及物性与思维的时空性是现象与本质的关系。通过对比英汉常用动词eat和“吃”的句法表现可见，英语句子的及物性更强，而汉语的及物性较弱，因为英语句子更注重表征能量传递的完整性、顺序性和连续性，汉语句子则更倾向于打破上述特性，突显事件的参与者。英汉句子之间的及物性差异可进一步说明英汉民族思维的时空性强弱差异。

Based on the cognitive perspective of transitivity, the present study proposes that the transitivity of a clause is symptomatic of its conceptual bias for temporality and spatiality. By contrasting the syntactic differences between two common verbs in English and Chinese, eat and chi (吃),we find that English clauses are more transitive than their Chinese counterparts, because English clauses are more concerned with preserving the completeness, sequentiality and continuity of energy transfer, while Chinese clauses tend to disrupt the completeness, sequentiality and continuity of energy transfer, and amplify the participants of the event. The differences of transitivity between English and Chinese clauses can further substantiate the underlying difference between the English national mode of pro-temporal thinking and the Chinese national way of pro-spatial thinking.