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Lesson1 Pub talk and the Kings English1. And it is an activity only of humans.And conversation is an activity which is found only among human beings2. Conversation is not for making a point.Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view3. In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose.In fact a person who really enjoys and is skilled at conversation will not argue to win or force others to accept his point of view 4. Bar friends are not deeply involved in each others lives.People who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not intimate friends for they are not deeply absorbed or engrossed in each others lives5. It could still go ignorantly on.The conversation could go on without anybody knowing who was right or wrong6. They are cattle in the fields, but we sit down to beef (boeuf).These animals are called cattle when they are alive and feeding in the fields；but when we sit down at the table to eatwe call their meat beef7. The new ruling class had built a cultural barrier against him by building their French against his own language.The new ruling class by using French instead of English made it difficult for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the rulers8. English had come royally into its own.The English language received proper recognition and was used by the King once more9. The phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower classes.The phrase，the Kings English，has always been used disrespectfully and jokingly by the lower classes The working people very often make fun of the proper and formal language of the educated people10. The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there.There still exists in the working people，as in the early Saxon peasants，a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class11. There is always a great danger, as Carlyle put it, that words will harden into things for us.There is always a great danger that we might forget that words are only symbols and take them for things they are supposed to representLesson 2 Marrakech1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot.The burying-ground is nothing more than a huge piece of wasteland full of mounds of earth looking like a deserted and abandoned piece of land on which a building was going to be put up.2. All colonial empires are in reality founded upon this fact.All the imperialists build up their empires by treating the people in the colonies like animals.3. They rise out of the earth，they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard.They are born. Then for a few years they work, toil and starve. Finally they die and are buried in graves without a name, and nobody notices that they are dead.4. A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed.Sitting with his legs crossed and using a very old-fashioned lathe, a carpenter quickly gives a round shape to the chair-legs he is making.5. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews.Immediately from their dark hole-like cells everywhere a great number of Jews rushed out wildly excited.6. Every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury.Every one of these poor Jews looked on the cigarette as a piece of luxury which they could not possibly afford.7. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.However, a white-skinned European is always quite noticeable.8. In a tropical landscape ones eye takes in everything except the human beings.If you take a look at the natural scenery in a tropical region, you see everything but the human beings.9. No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distressed Areas.No one would think of organizing cheap trips for the tourists to visit the poor slum areas (for these trips would not be interesting)10. For nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless back-breaking struggle to wring a little food out of an eroded soil. life is very hard for ninety percent of the peopleWith hard backbreaking toil they can produce a little food on the poor soil only with hard backbreaking toil.11. She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say as a beast of burden.She took it for granted that as an old woman she was the lowest in the community，that。she was only fit for doing heavy work like an animal12. People with brown skins are next door to invisible.People with brown skins are almost invisible13. Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki uniforms.The Senegalese soldiers were wearing ready-made khaki uniforms which hid their beautiful well-built bodies14. How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?How much longer before they turn their guns around and attack us?15. Every white man there had this thought stowed somewhere or other in his mind. Every white man had this thought hidden somewhere or other in his mindLesson3 Inaugural Address1. And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebears fought is still at issue around the globe.Our ancestors fought a revolutionary war to maintain that all men were created equal and God had given them certain unalienable rights which no state or ruler could take away from them. But today this issue has not yet been decided in many countries around the world. 2. This much we pledge-and more.We promise to do this much and we promise to do more. 3. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures.United and working together we can accomplish a lot of things in a great number of joint undertakings.4. Our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace.The United Nations is our last and best hope of survival in an age where the instruments of war have far surpassed the instruments of peace.5. To enlarge the area in which its writ may run.We pledge to help the United Nations enlarge the area in which its authority and mandate would continue to be in effect or in force.6. Before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.Before the terrible forces of destruction, which atomic bombs can now release, overwhelm mankind; before this self-destruction, which may be planned or brought about by an accident, takes place.7. Yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankinds final war.Yet both groups of nations are trying to change as quickly as possible this uncertain balance of terrible military power which restrains each group from launching mankinds final war.8. So let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness.So let us start once again .We must bear in mind that being polite does not mean one is weak.9. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.Let both sides try to call forth the wonderful things that science can do for mankind instead of employing it to bring frightful destruction.10. Each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty.Americans of every generation have been called upon to prove their loyalty to their country (by fighting and dying for their countrys cause).11. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love.We will lead the country we love, knowing our sure reward will be a good conscience, and history will finally judge whether we have done our task well or not.Lesson4 Love is a Fallacy1. A nice enough fellow, you understand, but nothing upstairs.He is a nice enough young fellow, you know, but he is empty-headed.2. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason.A passing fashion or craze, in my opinion, shows a complete lack of reason.3. I should have known theyd come back when the Charleston came back.I ought to have known that raccoon coats would come back to fashion when the Charleston dance, which was popular in the 1920s, came back.4. All the Big Men on Campus are wearing them. Whereve you been?All the important and fashionable men on campus are wearing them. How come you dont know?5. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear.My brain, which is precision instrument, began to work at high speed.6. With one omission, Polly fitted these specifications perfectly.Except for one thing (intelligence) Polly had all the other requirements.7. She was not yet of pin-up proportions, but I felt that time would supply the lack.She was not as beautiful as those girls in posters but I felt sure she would become beautiful enough after some time.8. In fact, she veered in the opposite direction.In fact, she went in the opposite direction, this is, she is not intelligent but rather stupid.9. In other words, if you were out of the picture, the field would be open. Is that right?If you were no longer involved with her (if you stopped hating her) others would be free to compete to get her as a girl friend.10. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning.His head turned back and forth (looking at the coat then looking away from the coat). Every time he looked his desire for the coat grew stronger and his resolution not to give away Polly became weaker.11. This loomed as a project of no small dimensions.To teach her to think appeared to be a rather big task.12. Admittedly it was not a prospect fraught with hope, but I decided to give it one more try.One must admit the outcome does not look every hopeful, but I decided to try one more time.13. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.There is a limit to what any human being can bear.14. I was not Pygmalion; I was Frankenstein, and my monster had me by the throat.I planned to be Pygmalion, to fashion an ideal wife for myself, but I turned out to be Frankenstein because Polly (the result of my hard work) ultimately rejected me and ruined my plan.15. Frantically I fought back the tide of panic surging through me.Desperately I tried to stop the feeling of panic that was overwhelming me. Lesson 9 The Loons1. with a face that seemed totally unfamiliar with laughter who looked badly serious, rarely laughed2. sometimes old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get mixed up in a Saturday-night brawl sometimes old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get involved in a rough fight at night of Saturday after getting drunk. 3. her attendance had always been sporadic and her interest in school-work negligible she often missed her classes and was not interest in schoolwork 4.she existed for me only as a vaguely embarrassing presence he presence would make me feel uneasy 5. she dwelt and moved somewhere within my scope of vision. She was always within my range of sight(I saw her, but I paid little attention to her) 6. If it came to a choice between Grandmother MacLeod and Piquette , Piquette would win hands down, nit or not If my mother had to make to choice between Grandmother Macleod and Piquette , there it certain that my mother would choose the latter on without hesitation, whether Piquette had nits or not.7 My acquaintance with Indians was not extensive. I didnt know many Indians.8 .she remained both a reproach and a mystery to me. But all that summer ,I blamed myself (for being unable to make Piquettes response warmer) and at the same time found her mysterious.9. Her defiant face, momentarily, became unguarded and unmasked, and in her eyes there was terrifying hope At that time, we could see an expres