最新高级英语第三版第二册张汉熙1-6,8课课后答案

Lesson One

1.And it is an activity only of humans.

And conversation is an activity found only among human beings.

2.Conversation is not for making a point.

Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our ideas or points of views.

3.In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are

prepared to lose.

In fact , people who are good at conversation will not argue to win or force others to accept his ideas.

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 close friends for they are not deeply absorbed in each other’s private lives.

5.....it could still go ignorantly on ...

The conversation could go on without anybody knowing who was right or wrong.

6.There are cattle in the fields ,but we sit down to beef. These animals are called cattle when they are alive and feed in the fields , but when we sit down at the table to eat, we call their meet beef.

7.The new ruling class had built a cultural barrier against him

by building their French against his own language.

The new ruling class by using French instead of English made it hard for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the rulers.

8.English had come royally into its own.

English received proper recognition and was used by the King once more.

9.The phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and

even facetiously by the lower classes.

The phrase , the King’s English ,has always been used disrespectfully and jokingly by the lower classes.(The working people often mock the proper and formal language of the educated people.)

10.The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there.

As the early Saxon peasants , the working people still have a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class.

11.There is always a great danger that “ words will harden into

things for us. “

There is always a great danger , as Carlyle put it , that we might forget that words are only symbols and take them for things they are supposed to represent.

a.However intricate the ways in which animals communicate

with each other, they do not indulge in anything that deserves the name of conversation.

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 of it, but the purpose of the

argument is not to convince. There is 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 is because of my upbringing in English pubs that I

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 do not remember what made one of our companions say it

---she clearly had not come into the bar to say it , it was not something that was pressing on her mind---but her remark fell quite naturally 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.There is always resistance in the lower classes to any attempt

by an upper class to lay down rules for “English as it should be spoken .”