大多数受过教育人说话或写作时使用英语就是正确....pptVIP

Lecture Thirteen;;1. Whatever from is used by the majority of educated speakers or writers is correct; or as Sweet puts it, “Whatever is in general use in a language is, for that reason, grammatically, correct.” 大多数受过教育的人说话或写作时使用的英语就是正确的英语，或如斯威特所说：“凡是语言中广泛使用的说法（仅仅这一理由）都可以认为在语法上是正确的。” 2. No one will deny that what we have been able to do in the past five years is especially striking in view of the crisis which we inherited from the previous government. 考虑到上届政府遗留下来的危机， 我们在过去5年里所能取得的成绩尤为显著，这是没人可否认的。; 3. It has been estimated that the weight of all the insects destroyed by spiders in Britain in one year would be greater than the total weight of all the human beings in the country. 据估计， 英国一年内被蜘蛛所消灭的全部昆虫的总量， 要超过这个国家所有人的重量总和。 4. He poured into his writing all the pains of his life and the conviction it had brought to him that the world could be made a better place to live in if the exploited would rise up. 他在作品里倾诉了自己一生的痛苦和这种痛苦个他带来的一种信念， 认为如果被剥削的人们起来反抗， 世界就会变得美好。 ; 5.There has long been a superstition among mariners that porpoises will save drowning men by pushing them to the surface, or protect them from sharks by surrounding them in defensive formation. 很久以来， 海员中有一种迷信， 认为海豚会把快死的人推到水面把他们救起， 或者在溺水人周围形成防御队形， 保护他们不受鲨鱼伤害。 6.My brother is not what he used to be. 我弟弟不是他从前的那个样子了。（我弟弟变了。） 7.What was once regarded as impossible has now become a reality. 过去认为不可能的事现在变成了现实。; 8.It isn’t much whether he works , the question is whether he works at all. 他干多少并不重要， 问题是他到底有没有干。 9.This is how they were defeated. 他们就是这样给打败的。 10. I wonder not whether we shall be in time for the last bus but whether we’ll be able to get front seats. 我知道我们赶上最后一班公共汽车是没有问题的，但不 知能否有靠前的座位。; ①In his classic novel, “The Pioneers”, James Fenimore Cooper has his hero, a land developer, take his cousin on a tour of the city he is building. ② He describes the broad streets, rows of houses, a teeming metropolis. ③But his co