P2 英式英语与美式英语的差异.pdfVIP

Difference between British English and American English 语言与国家的关系 “法国语言是世界上最美的语言——最明白，最精确； 我们必须把它记在心里，永远别忘了它，亡了国当了奴隶 的人民，只要牢牢记住他们的语言，就好像拿着一把打开 监狱大门的钥匙。” （韩麦尔先生） ——法国作家都德 语言与文化的关系 要消灭一个民族， 首先瓦解它的文化； 要瓦解它的文化，首 先消灭承载它的语言； 要消灭这种语言，首 先先从他们的学校里 下手。 —— 阿道夫·希特勒 美式英语的出现背景 美国英语是英国 英语的一种区域语言 变体,它起源于17~18 世纪的英国英语｡英国 在北美地区曾先后建 立了13个殖民地,同时 英国殖民者也把莎士 比亚(Shakespeare)和 弥尔顿(Milton)的英语 带到了美洲。 美 国 最 早 的 13 Virginia is 个 named after 州 Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603). Indepedence War (1775-1783) America won political independence. But there was still a long way to go before they could win the economic and cultural independence. Thomas Jefferson(1743 －1826) the 3rd President of USA There are so many differences between us and England, of soil, climate, culture, productions, laws, religions and government, that we must be left far behind the march of circumstances, were we to hold ourselves rigorously to their standard…Judicious neology can alone give strength and copious to language, and enable it to be the vehicle of new ideas. 诺亚•韦伯斯特（Noah Webster, 1758-1843） Father of American Scholarship and Education However Americans may boast of Indepdence, and the freedom of their government, yet their opinions are not sufficently independent; and astonishing respect for the arts and literature of their parent country, and a blind imitation