高英2释义课件.doc

Lesson 1 Pub Talk and the Kings English Paraphrase: 1. And it is an activity only of humans. (para 1) 并且它是人类特有的一种活动。 And conversation is an activity which is found only among human being． 2. Conversation is not for making a point. (para 2) 交谈并不是为了表明一种看法。 Conversation is not for persuading other people to accept our idea．In a conversation, we should not try to establish the force of an argument or idea. 3. In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose. (para 2) 实际上，最好的交谈者，是那些准备输的人。 Actually, a person that really enjoys and is good at conversation will not argue to win or force other people to accept his idea. 4. Bar friends are not deeply involved in each others lives. (para 3) 酒吧友人没有深层次地涉及彼此的生活。 People meeting each other for a drink in the pub are not intimate friends, because they are not deeply absorbed in each other’s lives． 5. That would settle it, but conversation does not need to be settled, it could still go ignorantly on (para 6) 问题就这样解决了，但是聊天不需要解决什么问题，大伙仍旧可以糊里糊涂地扯下去，当做什么都没有发生过。 One could settle the right or wrong of an argument by looking up reference books. The reference books would prove or refute the allegation of the speakers that the King’s English is a term of criticism. However, it is unnecessary to decide who is right or wrong in a conversation. It could go on with anyone knowing who is right or wrong. 6. They are cattle in the fields, but we sit down to beef (boeuf). (para 9) 地里放牧着的牛叫cattle，席上吃的牛肉则叫beef。 When these animals are alive and feeding in the fields, we will call them “cattle”; but when we sit down at the table to eat, we will call their meat “beef”． 7. The new ruling class had built a cultural barrier against him by building their French against his own language. (para11) 新的统治阶级用法语来对抗农民自己的语言，从而在农民面前建立起一道文化壁垒。 By using French instead of English，the new ruling class made it difficult for the peasant to accept or absorb the culture of the rulers． 8. After five centuries of growth, of tussling with the French