英语泛读教程3上课文+译文(Unit 1-7).docVIP

Unit 1 1 Text Invented Words ??? New words appear in English every day. Do you know how these words are born? Read the following passage to find various ways English words are invented.? ??? Scholars guess that English has about 600 000 words, but there are probably more. New words continue to come into the language at such a rate that no dictionary could possibly keep up with them. The old words which were born centuries ago in the Anglo-Saxon, Germanic and French languages make up four fifths of the English language. The other one fifth is made up partly of borrowed words and partly of three other kinds of words: words from the names of peoples and places; imitative words; and invented words.? ??? Ampere, volt and watt are all units of electricity, and they are named for the men who discovered them; Andre M. Ampere, a French physicist; Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist; and James Watt, a Scottish engineer and inventor. Nowadays we all drink pasteurized milk, that is, milk which is clean and purified. Pasteurized gets its name from Louis Pasteur, a French doctor who invented the process for purifying milk. There are many words like this in the English language.? Imitative words are words that sound like the thing or action they stand for. Here are some examples: ??? buzz click bang mumble chirp bawl? ??? crash clap mutter giggle hum gulp ??? There is no need to say anything else about these words, for they speak for themselves. You can probably think of many more.? Then there are the invented words. English-speaking people have always made up words as it suited them, and they continue to do so every day. One kind of invented word is one which is made up of two other words. Dictionaries call this kind of word a compound. If you put play and thing together, you get the compound, plaything. How many can you add to this list?? ????? raincoat milkshake upstairs standstill headlight ???shutout sailboat downstairs income headline ??? As well as putting two whol