英语专业高级英语2课后翻译.docVIP

1. However intricate the ways in which animals communicate with each other, they do not indulge in anything that deserves the same of conversation.无论动物之间的交流有多么复杂，它们都称不上聊天。2. Argument may often be a part of it, but the purpose of the argument is not to convince. There is no wining in conversation.争吵可能经常是它的一部分，但争吵的目的并不是要说服他人。聊天中没有输赢之分。3. Perhaps it is because of my upbringing in English pubs that I think bar conversation has a charm of its own.或许是我自小常去英国酒吧的缘故，我认为酒吧聊天拥有自己独特的魅力4. I do not remember what made one of our companions say it —— she clearly had not come into the bar to say it, it was not sth. that was pressing on her mind —— but her remark fell quite naturally into the talk我不记得是什么使我们的一个伙伴提前了这个话题——她显然不是特意来酒吧说这件事的，那也不是什么她非说不可的事——但她十分自然的在聊天中说出了这句话5.There is always resistance in the lower classes to any attempt by an upper class to lay down rules for English as it should be spoken .每当上流社会想给“规范英语”制定一些规则时，总会遭到下层社会的抵制。6. Words are not themselves a reality, but only representations of it, and the Kings English, like the Anglo-French of the Normans, is a class representations of reality.词语本身并不是现实，仅仅是现实的代表，而标准英语就像诺曼人的盎格鲁式法语一样，也是现实的一种阶级代表7. Perhaps it is worth trying to speak it, but it should not be laid down as an edict, and made immune to change from below也许它值得人们试着去说，但他不应该被作为一种法令制定出来，也不该使它排斥来自下层社会的改变8. There is no worse conversationalist than one who punctuate his words as he speak as if he were writing, or even who tries to use words as if he were composing a piece of prose for print如果有人在说话时也像写文章那样标点分明，或者甚至像写一篇要发表的散文那样咬文嚼字，那他是最糟糕的聊天者9. When E.M Forster writes of the sinister corridor of our age , we sit up at the vividness of the phrase, the force and even terror in the image当E.M福斯特写出“我们这个时代的险恶的长廊”时，描述的生动性及其塑造的有利甚至恐怖的形象引起了我们得注意10. There would have been no conversation the other evening if we had been able to settle at once the meaning of the Kings English 如果我们那天晚上当场就弄清了“标准英语”的意思，也就不会有接下来的谈话11. We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom, sy