U7-B2复习

7. 起源于
8. 提出
9. 向西漂泊
come up with drift west pass on to us enjoy oneself rear/raise a child the Normans conquered England
10. 留传给我们
11. 日子过得开心
12. 抚养孩子
13. 诺曼人征服英国 14. 平民百姓
英语可能成为人们了解世界、开启机遇大门、扩展思路、 接纳新思想的一种工具。 5. 而演说中使用我们语言中的古词汇具有直接拨动心弦的效 果。 Yet there is something direct to the heart that speaks to us from the earliest words in our language.
这种乐意包容的精神，这种不管源自何方都来者 不拒的精神，恰好解释了英语为什么会这样丰富， 解释了英语缘何在很大程度上成了第一种真正的 国际语言。
2. A systematic study revealed that many modern languages descended from a common parent language, lost to us because nothing was written down. 系统的研究显示，许多现代语言起源于一个共同的母语， 但由于没有文字记载，该母语已经失传。
Useful Expressions
1. 排行榜
2. 严格地说 3. 对我们真正至关重要的事 4. 发表演说 5. 为了加强效果 6. 系统的研究
a hit parade strictly speaking the things that really matter to us make a speech for effect a systematic study descend from
8. 世界正处于变革之中，英语将会出现新的形式。 The world is in transition, and the English language will take new forms.
Difficult Sentences
• T4: Para. 17.
• The English language would not have been what it is if the English had not been for centuries great respecters of the liberties of each individual and if everybody had not been free to strike out new paths for himself.
6. 希腊罗马经典著作的译文纷纷印成书册。
Translations of Greek and Roman classics were poured onto the printed page.
7. 到2010年，将英语作为第二语言或外语使用的人数将超过 以英语为母语的人数。 By 2010, the number of people who speak English as a second or foreign language will exceed the number of native speakers.
a respecter of the liberties of each individual
20. 个人自由的崇尚者
21. 开拓新路 22. 培育了…的准则 23. 人权 24. 知识精英
strike out new path nourish the principles of …
the rights of man
• 译： • 最初的根芽在英格兰萌发，接着在美国生长壮大。 • The English-speaking peoples have defeated all efforts to build fences around their language. • The English-speaking nations have defeated all efforts to protect English by isolating it from other languages. • 译：
common people
15. 印刷机
a printing press a wealth of new thinking the European Renaissance be out of control
16. 大量新思想
17. 欧洲文艺复兴
18. 失控
19. 付诸实施
put into practice
Unit 7 The Glorious Messiness of English
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Difficult Sentences
• Para. 18.
• The first shoots sprang up in England, and they grew stronger in America.
Unit 7 The Glorious Messiness of English
• 英语国家的人民挫败了各种欲意建立语言保护的企图。
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an intellectual elite
Sentence Translation
1. That happy tolerance, that willingness to accept words from anywhere, explains the richness of English and why it has become, to a very real extent, the first truly global language.
3.
The English language would not have been what it is if the English had not been for centuries great respecters of each individual and if everybody had not been free to strike out new paths for himself.
如果不是多少世纪以来英国人一向崇尚个人自由，如果不 是人人都能自由地为自己开拓新的道路，英语就不会成为 今天的英语。
4. English may become one tool that opens windows to the world, unlocks doors to opportunities, and expands our minds to new ideas.
• 译： • 如果不是多少世纪以来英国人一向崇尚个人自由，如 果不是人人都能自由地为自己开拓新的道路，英语就 不会成为今天的英语。
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Difficult Sentences
• T5: Para. 18. • Consider that the same cultural soil producing the English language also nourished the great principles of freedom and rights of man in the modern world. • 译： • 想想吧，孕育英语的文化土壤也同样为现