Chapter Three 语言学 第三章 大学英语语言学.pptVIP

Donation donate Difficulty difficult Greedy greed Onomatopoeia ONOMATOPOEIA is a way of creating words by imitating the sounds of the outside world. The following example comes from the poem “How Does the Water Come Down at Lodore” written by the English poet Robert Southey罗伯特·骚塞 (1774-1843),in which more than twenty onomatopoetic words are used in succession: Here it comes sparkling(起泡沫的 ), And there it lies darkling (在暗中 ) … Eddying (起漩涡) and whinking (闪烁), Spouting (喷水) and frisking (活蹦乱跳), . . . And rattling (作嘎嘎声) and battling, . . . And guggling (水流的潺潺声) and struggling, . . .  An