History of English Literature and American Literature英国文学与美国文学史.pptVIP

5. Even in the cases in which most people agreed on the fact that there is a linguistic defect, almost no society in the world seem to find the ways in which rectifications can be made and accepted by all the social members. 6. We can suppose that we are writing something, or even worse, that we are talking to others, and that we want to tell them what happens when people are doing something together and knowing well why they should do so, but they all are not willing to tell their own motives to others probably because they think what they are doing brings harm to the others’ interests. On all these occasions, we have the problem of “word-finding”. 7. We can certainly begin to imagine how despairing these people must be and how little hope they must have because they know they can almost never find the fitful word they are looking for. Para.6 Let me touch upon one other way in which we are equipped somewhat less than ideally to say what we want to say. 让我从另一方面谈谈我们并不充分具备想表达什么就表达什么的能力。 Let us pretend that we are writing something or —— worse —— that we are in the middle of a conversation, and we want to refer to what goes on when people are doing something together in full knowledge of each others motives but seem unwilling to disclose those motives to others, perhaps because their activity is harmful to other peoples interests. 假若我们正在写什么或者——更糟糕的是——正在谈话过程中，我们想找到一个词表达如下情况：即当一群彼此了解各自动机，但顾及其活动会有损他人利益而心照不宣地共事。 We may turn over in our minds some such long-winded paraphrase of what we want to say and even at the end not feel satisfied that the paraphrase has in it all that we mean. Paraphrase （v. / N.) a statement that expresses in a shorter, clearer, or different way what someone has said or written释义 我们会翻来覆去思考这样一些绕来绕去的解释性词语，最后又对该解释不能涵盖我们之意而感不满。 Collaboration, plotting, co-operation, conspiracy, partnership, we fish around and reject each of these in turn because they either say too much or not enough. 如协作、策划、合作、谋划、搭档，我们选来选去，又一一排斥，因为它们要么意思太甚，要么词力不足。 It i