高英Lesson3 Pub Talk and the King27s English

1、Pub Talk and the Kings English,Lesson Three,Contents,Background information Structural analysis Language features Words event; story 5. mixed metaphors 6. no big and abstract words 7. sentence fragments,Words Distinguished eminent people,The conversation was on wings.,As if frying; fast moving and f

2、lowing,The conversation soon became heated and lively,We ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant.,In the situation,Meaning to think as if one were in the position of a Saxon peasant,The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and its seeds multiplied, and floated t

3、o the ends of the earth.,The Elizabethans writers came into their own spreading the language far and wide through their literary writings. 伊丽莎白时代的人没费吹灰之力，使其影响日盛，遍及全球.,犹如吹蒲公英一般,I have an unending love affair with dictionaries,His eager interest in dictionaries is compared to having a love affair with

4、 someone.,It means that he has always had an intense interest in dictionaries.,the Kings English slips and slides in conversation.,alliteration,metaphor,Slide on a slippery surface, lose ones footing, in language that means to move away from accuracy and correct grammar, so the English one use is no

5、 longer absolutely correct.,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.,In our age people are traveling along a sinister road doing all kinds of evil things.,We suddenly become alter and interested b

6、ecause the phrase used is so vivid and the image created by the metaphor in ones mind is so strong and frightening.,Sit up,The language used here is characterized by colloquialism,Suddenly become alert,Otherwise one will bind the conversation, one will not let it flow freely here and there.,We would

7、 never have gone to Australia, or leaped back in time to the Norman Conquest.,The bother about teaching chimpanzees how to talk is that they will probably try to talk sense and so ruin all conversation.,Consulting the dictionary in the course of a conversation will restrain the conversation from mov

8、ing around freely, as if it were tied up with a rope.,否则，谈话便会受到妨碍，不能如流水般无拘无束地进行。,Describing how the conversation moved from talking about Australia to the language used during the Norman rule in England.,If people had started consulting their dictionaries at that time, we would never have talked about such an interesting range of subjects in the conversation.,A bitterly satirical sentence, ridiculing people who ruin good conversation by trying to talk “ sense” .,They behave just like chimpa