高级英语第二册L3中英文对照.docxVIP

高英 II-3（中英） 3 Pub Talk and the King s English 酒吧闲聊与标准英语 Henry Fairlie 亨利.费尔利 　　1 Conversation is the most sociable of all human activities. And it is an activity only of humans. However intricate the ways in which animals communicate with each other, they do not indulge in anything that deserves the name of conversation. 人类的一切活动中，只有闲谈最宜于增进友谊，而且是人类特有的一种活动。动物 之间的信息交流，不论其方式何等复杂，也是称不上交谈的。 　　 2 The charm of conversation is that it does not really start from anywhere, and no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows. The enemy of good conversation is the p