张汉熙高级英语第二册讲义3(3)

2. Point out the literary and historical allusions used in this piece and comment on their use.

3. What is the function of para 5? Is the change from "pub talk" to "the King's English" too abrupt?

4. Do the simple idiomatic expressions like "to be on the rocks, out of bed on the wrong side, etc., " go well with the copious literary and historical allusions the writer uses? Give your reasons.

5. Does the writer reveal his political inclination in this piece of writing? How?

IV. Paraphrase:

1. And it is an activity only of humans. (para 1) 2. Conversation is not for making a point. (para 2)

3. In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose. (para 2)

4. Bar friends are not deeply involved in each other's lives. (para 3) 5. it could still go ignorantly on (para 6)

6. There are cattle in the fields, but we sit down to beef (boeuf). (para 9) 7. The new ruling class had built a cultural barrier against him by building their French against his own language. (para11)

8. English had come royally into its own. (para 13)

9. The phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower classes. (para 15)

10. The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there. (para 15)

11. There is always a great danger that "words will harden into things for us. " (para 16)

12. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King's English slips and slides in conversation. (para 18)

V. Translate paras 9--11 into Chinese.

Ⅵ Look up the dictionary and explain the meaning of the italicized idiomatic phrases: 1. their marriage may be on the rocks (para 3) 2. they got out of bed on the wrong side (para 3) 3. the conversation was on wings (para 8)

4. the Norman lords of course turned up their noses at it (para 10)

5. we ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant (para 11)

6. English had come royally into its own. (para 13) 7. we sit up at the vividness of the phrase (para 18)

张汉熙高级英语第二册题目：Pub Talk and King`s English内容：单词,短语,课文翻译,课后习题答案及本课练习

Ⅶ. Discriminate the following groups of synonyms: 1. ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlearned 2. jeer, scoff, sneer, gibe, flout [SRB]

1. Webster' s New World Dictionary of the American Language 2. Webster' s New Dictionary of Synonyms 3. Reader' s Digest, Use the Right Word

Ⅷ Give ten synonymous and/or related words of the word conversation (meaning 'communication'). Give words of the same part of speech. [SRB]

1. Roget ' s International Thesaurus 2. Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus

Ⅸ. Give ten antonymous and/or contrasted words of the word intricate. Give words of the same part of speech. [SRB]

1. Roget's International Thesaurus 2. Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus

X. Look up the dictionary, find out from what languages the following words are borrowed, and then put them into Chinese: 1. buffet 8. soireé 15. attaehé 2. cuisine 9. cloisonné 16. liaison 3. lemonade 10. omelette 17. déjàvu 4. liqueur 11. restaurateur 18. encore 5. déjeuner 12. repertoire 19. discothèque 6. menu 13. coup d'état 20. chandelier 7. salon 14. corps de ballet

Ⅺ. The following sentences all contain metaphors or similes. Explain their meaning in plain, non-figurative language:

1.no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows.

2.they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern.

3.They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side by side with each other, did not delve into each other's lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings.

4.suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place 5.The glow of the conversation burst into flames.

6.we ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant. 7.The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the ends of the earth.

8.I have an unending love affair with dictionaries

张汉熙高级英语第二册题目：Pub Talk and King`s English内容：单词,短语,课文翻译,课后习题答案及本课练习

9. Otherwise one will bind the conversation, one will not let it flow freely here and there.

10. We would never have gone to Australia, or leaped back in time to the Norman Conquest.

Ⅻ. Study the model given below. Then read the next two paragraphs and show how coherence and unity is improved by the use, of transitional devices.

Model: But this is only one aspect of the problem. Another, no less essential, is the wider gap between generations since the rate of social development has speeded up. The tastes and habits of young people today differ markedly from those of the young people of the thirties, let alone of the twenties. Still influenced by the tastes and habits of their own youth, the "fathers" are inclined to think these habits and tastes are absolutes and to deny their children the right to independent creativity which they demanded from their own parents. Hence the artificial conflicts, in which a dance or the width of trousers is elevated to the dignity of crucial issues. The writer uses the following transitional devices: 1) Transitional words and expressions but another still hence 2) Pronoun reference those their these they

3) Repetition of important words tastes and habits young people

1. And since we (teenagers) are so new, many people have some very wrong ideas about us. For instance, the newspapers are always carrying advice-columns telling our mothers how to handle us, their "bewildered maladjusted offspring, " and the movies portray us as half-witted bops (hoodlums-ed. ); and in the current best sellers, authors reca …… 此处隐藏：7631字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……