英语综述论文.docVIP

1. 萧伯伦“英美是被英语分割的两个国家和民族”如何理解？ As the famous Irish writer George Bernard saying, “England and America are two countries separated to the same language”, English is the official and common language of Britain and America; English spread around the world by the British colonial activities; while English also appeared differences in the evolution, resulting in two branches: American English and English English. While they are standard English, there are some differences in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. In terms of pronunciation, firstly, American English is more conservative in the phonology, secondly, pronunciation differences are also reflected by some words where there is no certain rules. thirdly, for some two-syllable words ending with -ary and -ory, the accent in American English is the first syllable, while British English puts the accent on the second one. As for vocabulary, because of the influence in the development, the differences between American English and English English are showed on the spelling. First of all, some same words show different meaning, such as billion (十亿/万亿)、biscuit(软饼/苏打饼干) and so on. Secondly, the American English and British English are represented the same concept with different words respectively, for instance, baggage/luggage(行李) and can/tin(罐头);The third one is he spelling,such as analyze/analyse(分析)、center/centre(中心)、defense/defence(保卫)、dialog/dialogue(对话)、inflection/inflexion(弯曲)、instal/install(安装)、kilogram/kilogramme(公斤)、labor/ labour(劳动) and so on。 For grammar,when using the same grammar system, in some cases, especially in the expression providing news, American English generally uses the preterite, while British English uses the perfective. For some words, American English generally uses plural form, but British English uses the singular, such as sports/sport(运动).When represent some place noun with the abstract concepts, American English uses the definite article, but British English not. For English learn