Lesson1 Pub talk and the King’s English
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1. And it is an activity only of humans.
And conversation is an activity which is found only among human beings．
2. Conversation is not for making a point.
Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view．
3. In fact, the best conversationalists are tho who are prepared to lo.
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 other's 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 engrosd in each other’s lives．
5. 天地成语It could still go ignorantly on.
The conversation could go on without anybody knowing who was right or wrong．
6. They are cattle in the fields, but we sit down to beef (boeuf).
The animals are called cattle when they are alive and feeding in the fields；but when we sit down at the table to eat．we call their meat beef．
7. 上海大世界The new ruling class had built a cultural barrier against him by building their French against his own language.
春节的来源The new ruling class by using French instead of English made it difficult for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the rulers．
8. English had come royally into its own.
The English language received proper recognition and was ud by the King once more．
9. The phra has always been ud a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower class.
The phra，the King’s English，has always been ud disrespectfully and jokingly by the lower class． The working people very often make fun of the proper and formal language of the educated people．
10. The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there.
山楂茶的功效与作用There still exists in the working people，as in the early Saxon peasants，a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class．
11. 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 suppod to reprent．
Lesson 2 Marrakech
1. 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 derted 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 ri 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.
通天飞瀑Sitting with his legs crosd 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 the poor Jews looked on the cigarette as a piece of luxury which they could not possibly afford.育龙
7. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.
However, a white-skinned European is always quite noticeable.
贪吃的变色龙
8. In a tropical landscape one's eye takes in everything except the human beings.
If you take a look at the natural scenery in a tropical region, you e everything but the human beings.
9. No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distresd Areas.
No one would think of organizing cheap trips for the tourists to visit the poor slum areas (for the 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 people．With 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.
