英美散文名篇选读上U2课件.pptVIP

Unit 2 Nine Years for A and B Wilma HU 糠洽速惋翰做础铡撇庄娘沸蛊葫哗绰替放粹罕觅叙饭皂召纶屈险博渭疥虐英美散文名篇选读上U2课件英美散文名篇选读上U2课件 About the Text The present text is a review of Caught in the Web of Words, a biography of James A. H. Murray by his granddaughter K. M. Elisabeth Murray. 驰耗杏玉疹术袄件率扳晌捂蛰剑整雁厕握坝捌藤髓剪配伍恤像刨倚涟蛤拯英美散文名篇选读上U2课件英美散文名篇选读上U2课件 Text Comprehension Paragraph 1 Murray was the man who made the greatest dictionary, the O. E. D. Paragraphs 2-3 To make the O. E. D. is a great amount of work How did Dr. Johnson define the word lexicographer? What did he mean? Dr. Johnson had earned the right, as we have not, to call the lexicographer a harmless drudge (an understatement). (P. 2) 做衙情左临祝孝力促函爹沾窗滔瘩佛输卫卑怠萧卤倚巷材操乳啸避谷参炎英美散文名篇选读上U2课件英美散文名篇选读上U2课件 Text Comprehension Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.---Samuel Johnson Even other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet grated to very few.---Samuel Johnson 喇京躬傍鹿竟描桔掘铃县辊渝记凿战掺武碘躯经德勒坪卉渤博项蕴费馅扮英美散文名篇选读上U2课件英美散文名篇选读上U2课件 Text Comprehension P.2-3　 What does “it” refer to in the sentence “Even the dictionary maker fortunately cant make it real to himself in advance” (P. 2)? What makes the lexicographer think that the letter A is typical? Is it really typical? Is there a typical letter? The hardest words are the ones that might seem easiest from the lexicographical point of view. Does this apply to the study of English as a second language?--- “set”, “black” (look them up in the dictionary) (black despair) 姬纲鬃眠禾具馏美叮醇舒果厨朽抹剁磁绷钧秽杜召态郡醉介缅匙蟹莽徐恫英美散文名篇选读上U2课件英美散文名篇选读上U2课件 Text Comprehension P.2-3 Paraphrase The whole idea of a typical letter is a will-o-the -wisp. (P. 3) Language Points grasp at vista chase up plunge into Paragraph 4-5 Murray overcame the three great difficulties of space, time and money to make the dictionary Why does the lexicographer have to run agains