The present study reports four experiments that investigated whether the shared syntactic representation is based on the grammatical role assignment. We used within- and cross-linguistic structural priming methods in both translation-equivalent verbs (TEV) and translation-non-equivalent verbs (T-non-EV) conditions, respectively. We employed two types of Mandarin passive structures (bei-passive & rang-passive) and one type of English passive structure (by-passive). 216 Mandarin (L1) and English (L2) speakers participated in these experiments. Experiment 1 tested the priming effects of L1-L2 (bei-passive - by-passive) and L2-L2 (by-passive - by-passive) in the TEV condition; Experiment 2 tested the priming effects of L1-L2 (bei-passive - by-passive) and L2-L2 (by-passive - by-passive) in the T-non-EV condition. Experiment 3 and Experiment 4 tested the priming effects of L1-L2 (rang-passive - by-passive) in the TEV and the T-non-EVcondition, respectively. We find cross-linguistic priming between passive sentences with different word orders when they involved both translation-equivalent verbs and translation-non-equivalent verbs. We conclude that a shared syntactic representation of transitives that is not dependent on shared word order but may instead be based on shared voice and assignment of grammatical roles related to verbs. This finding implies that sentence production is based on both verbs and constructions, which is consistent with construction grammar. If you have any questions and advice, please contact me and let me know. I am looking forward to chatting with you. Best Regards, Yue