Figures of speech: rhetorical question simile, Parody metaphor, personification, synecdoche, anticlimax, metonymy, repetition, exaggeration, euphemism, antonomasia, parody. periodic ntence irovy etc.
Lesson1
1)You pass from the heat and glare of a big,open square into a cool,dark cavern which extends as far as the eye can e,losing itlf in the shadowy distance.—metaphor
2)The din of the stall-holders crying their wares,of donkey-boys and porters clearing a way for themlves by shouting vigorously,and of would-be purchars arguing and bargaining is continuous and makes you dizzy.-- parallel construction
3)Bargaining is the order of the day,and veiled women move at a leisurely pace from shop to shop,lecting,pricing,and doing a little preliminary bargainging before they narrow dowen their choice and begin the really rious business of beating the price down.—metaphor
4)It grows louder and more distinct,until you round a corner and e a fairyland of dancing flashes,as the burnished copper catches the light of innumerable lamps and braziers.—metaphor personification
5)In the background,a tiny apprentice blows a big charcoal fire with a huge leather bellows worked by a string attached to his big toe—the red of the live coals glowing bright and then dimming rhythmically to the strokes of the bellows.--consonance
6) Little monkeys with harmoniously tinkling bells thread their way among the throngs of people entering and leaving the bazaar.--metaphor
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7)The dye-market ,the pottery-market ,and the carpenters’ market lie elwhere in the maze of vaulted streets which honeycomb this bazaar.--metaphor
8) Every here and there, a doorway gives a glimp of a sunlit courtyard, perhaps before a mosque or a caravanrai, where camels lie disdainfully chewing their hay, while… personification
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leverage9)It is a vast ,somber cavern of a room ,some thirty feet high and sixty feet square , and so thick with the dust of centuries that the mudbrick roof are only dimly visible.--metaphor
Lesson2
氓翻译1 Hiroshima—the”Liveliest”City in Japan.—irovy
2 That must be what the man in the Japane stationmaster’s uniform shouted,as the fastest train in the world slipped to a stop in Hiroshima Station.—alliteration
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I had a lump in my throat and a lot of sad thoughts on my mind that had little to do with anything in Nippon railways official might say.—metaphor
4 Was I not at the scene of crime?—rhetorical question
5 The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt.—synecdoche,metonymy
6 Quite unexpectedly,the strange emotion which had overwhelmed me at the station returned,and I was again crushed by the thought that I now stood on the site of the slain in one cond,where thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people had been die in slow agony.—parallelism
7 Each day that I escape death,each day of suffering that helps to free me from earthly cares,I make a new little paper bird,and add it to the others.—euphemism
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8 There were fresh bows ,and the faces grew more and more rious each time the name Hiroshima was repeated .—synecdoche
9 “Seldom has a city gained such world renown, and I am proud and happy to welcome you to Hiroshima, a town known throughout the world for its-oysters”. --anticlimax
10 But later my hair began to fall out , and my belly turned to water .I felt sick ,and ever since then they have been testing and treating me .—alliteration
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Lesson3
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1 We were anchored in what ud to be the most productive fishing site in all of central Asia,but as I looked out over the bow,the prospects of a good catch looked bleak.—弱化
2 Also called natural gas,methane is relead from landfills,from coal mines and rice paddies,from billions of termites that swarm through the freshly cut forest-land,from the burning of biomass and from a variety of other human activities.—parallelism ntence
3 This way I look at them and congratulate mylf on the good fortune that my illness has brought me.--ironyholdon
4 Acre by acre ,the rain forest is being burned to create fast pasture for fast-food beef --.alliteration
5 According to our guide ,the biologist Tom Lovejoy, there are more different species of birds in each square mile of the Amazon than exist in all of North America-which means we are silently thousands of songs we have ever heard .--metonymy.
