高级英语第三版第二册张汉熙1-6-8课课后答案
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LessonOne
1.And it isan activityonlyof humans.
And conversation is an activity found onlyamonghumanbeings.
2.Conversation is not for making a point.
Conversation is notfor persuadingothers to accept our ideas orpoints ofviews.
3.In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared tolose.
Infact,people whoare good at conversation will not argue to winor force others to accepthis ideas.
4.Bar friends are notdeeply involved ineach other’s lives.
People who meeteachother for a drinkin the barofapub arenotclose fri ends fortheyarenot deeply absorbedin each other’s private lives.
5.....it couldstillgo ignorantlyon...
Theconversation couldgo on without anybody knowing who wasright orwrong.
6.There are cattleinthe fields ,butwesitdown tobeef.
These animalsare called cattlewhen they are alive and feed in the fields,but when we sitdown atthe table toeat,we calltheir meet beef.
7.The new ruling classhadbuilta culturalbarrieragainst him bybui
lding theirFrenchagainsthisown language.
The newruling class by using French instead of English made it hardfor theEnglish to accept orabsorb theculture of the rulers.
8.English had comeroyallyinto its own.
English receivedproper recognition and was used by the King once more.
9.The phrasehas alwaysbeenused a little pejorativelyand even facetiously
bythe lowerclasses.
The phrase, the King’s English,hasalways been used disrespectfully and jokingly b ythe lower classes.(The working peopleoften mock theproper andformal language ofthe educated people.)
10.The rebellionagainst a culturaldominanceis still there.
As theearlySaxon peasants , the working peoplestill haveaspiritof oppositi on tothe cultural authority of the ruling class.
11.Thereis always a great danger that“ words will hardeninto thingsfor us.“Thereis always agreatdanger ,as Carlyle put it, that wemight forget that wordsare only symbols and take them forthingstheyare supposed torepresent.
a.However intricate thewaysin whichanimalscommunicate witheachother,
they do not indulge inanything thatdeservesthe nameofconversation.
不管动物之间的交流方式多么复杂,它们不能参与到称得上是交谈的任何活动中。
b.Argument may often be a part ofit, but the purpose of the argument is not to
convince. Thereis no winning in conversation.
争论会经常出现于交谈中,但争论的目的不是为了说服。交谈中没有胜负之说。
c.Perhaps it isbecause ofmy upbringing inEnglish pubs thatI think bar
conversation has a charm of its own.
或许我从小就混迹于英国酒吧缘故,我认为酒吧里的闲聊别有韵味。
d.I donot remember what made one of our companions say it ---she clearlyhad not
come into the bar to sayit ,itwas not something that was pressingonhermind ---but herremarkfellquitenaturally into the talk.
我不记得是什么使得我的一个同伴说起它来的---她显然不是来酒吧说这个的,这不是她事先想好的话题----但她的话相当自然地插入到了交谈中。
e.Thereis always resistance in the lower classes to anyattemptbyan upper class
to laydownrules for “English as itshouldbe spoken.”
下层社会总会抵制上层社会企图给“标准英语”制定得规则。
f.Words are not themselvesareality,but onlyrepresentationsof it ,and theKing’s
English ,like theAnglo-French of theNormans ,is aclass representation ofrea lity.
词语本身并不是现实。正如诺曼底人讲的英格鲁--法语一样,标准英语是一个阶层用来表达现实的形式。g.Perhapsitis worth trying to speakit, butit should not be laid downas an
edict, andmade immuneto changefrom below.
或许试着去说它还是值得的,但是它不能被制定成法令,从而拒绝来自下层的变化。
h.Thereis no worse conversationalist than theone who punctuateshiswords as
he speaks asifhe werewriting ,or even who tries tousewords as if hew ere composing a piece of prose forprint.
如果一个人说出的话就像写出来的文字,或者试图使用那些创作书面散文的文字,那么没有比这样的交谈者更糟糕的了。
i.WhenE.M.Forster writes of“ thesinister corridor of our age,” wesit
up atthe vividness ofthe phrase , the force and even terror in the image.
当 E.M.福斯特写到“我们这个时代的险恶长廊”时,其用语之生动及由其所产生的生动有力,甚至可怖的形象苦令我们拍案叫绝。
j.Therewould havebeen noconversation theothereveningif we had been ableto settleatonce themeeting of “ the King’sEnglish.”
那天晚上如果我们立刻解决了“标准英语”的含义,就不会有第二天晚上的谈话了。
Lesson Two
1.The burying-ground is merely a hugewasteofhummocky earth,like a derelictb
uilding-lot.
The buring-groundis nothing more than a huge pieceof wasteland full of mounds
ofearth looking like a deserted and abandoned piece of land onwhich a building
wasgoing to be putup. ﻫ2. All colonial empiresare in reality foundedupontha tfact.
All the imperialists build up their empires by treating the peopleinthe colonies like animals(bynot treating thepeoplein the coloniesas humanbeings).
3. They riseoutof the earth,theysweat and starvefor a few years, and then the ysink backinto the nameless moundsofthe graveyard.
Theyare born.Then for a fewyears theywork, toil and starve.Finally they die and are buried ingraves without a name.