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新编英语教程 5 (第三 版李观仪)Un it 1-8 课文及译文参考名师 优质资料 资料内容仅供您学习参考，如有不当之处，请联系改正或者删除 Unit 1 恰到好处 Have you ever watched a clumsy man hammering a nail into a box? He hits it first to one side, then to another, perhaps knocking it over completely, so that in the end he only gets half of it into the wood. A skillful carpenter, on the other hand, will drive the nail with a few firm, deft blows, hitting it each time squarely on the head. So with language; the good craftsman will choose words that drive home his point firmly and exactly. A word that is more or less right, a loose phrase, an ambiguous expression, a vague adjective （模糊的 形容词）, will not satisfy a writer who aims at clean English. He will try always to get the word that is completely right for his purpose. 你见过一个笨手笨脚的男人往箱子上钉钉子吗？只见他左敲敲，右敲 敲，说不准还会将整个钉子锤翻，结果敲来敲去到头来只敲进了半截。而 娴熟的木匠就不这么干。他每敲一下都会坚实巧妙地正对着钉头落下去， 一钉到底。语言也是如此。一位优秀的艺术家谴词造句上力求准确而有力 地表达自己的观点。差不多的词，不准确的短语，摸棱两可的表达，含糊 不清的修饰，都无法使一位追求纯真英语的作家满意。他会一直思考，直 至找到那个能准确表达他的意思的词。 The French have an apt （贴切的） phrase for this. They speak of “le mot juste,” (the exact word) the word that is just right. Stories are told of scrupulous （一丝不苟的） writers, like Flaubert, who spent days trying to get one or two sentences exactly right. Words 2 资料内容仅供您学习参考，如有不当之处，请联系改正或者删除 资料内容仅供您学习参考，如有不当之处，请联系改正或者删除 are many and various; they are subtle （微妙的） and delicate （细腻 的） in their different shades （色调） of meaning, and it is not easy to find the ones that express precisely （正是，恰恰） what we want to say. It is not only a matter of having a good command of language and a fairly wide vocabulary; it is also necessary to think hard and to observe accurately. Choosing words is part of the process of realization, of defining our thoughts and feelings for ourselves, as well as for those who hear or read our words. Someone