高英一修辞手法

Advanced English Book I

Lesson One The Middle Eastern Bazaar

Travel notes/ itinerary: a guide book for travelers; an account or a record of a journey.游记

The style: description

Do you like going windowshopping in Zhengzhou? Where do you always do shopping? What is a bazaar?

bazaar—coming from the Persian word (波斯语) ―bazar’：

A market consisting of a street lined with shops and stalls, esp. one in the Middle East.

In 1461; in 1880: 4399shops, 2195 living rooms, 1 mosque, 12 strong rooms for keeping objects of value; 10 houses of prayer, 2 fountains, 116 drinking-water posts; 8 wells for the use of fire-pumps, 1 school

Tailors, traders in skins, knife sellers, makers of belts and bags, specialists in hand painting on cloth, shoe-makers, polishers, makers of looking-glasses, paper-makers, makers of jewel-boxes, money-changers, jewelers, armchair-makers, tent-makers, engravers, sculptors, etc.

Where is the Middle East? (Note No. 2)

Middle East—

region of Southwest Asia and Northeast Africa, stretching from Turkey through Iran, Iraq and Arabia to the Sudan and the countries bordering the East Mediterranean.

Iran Afghanistan Cyprus, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman(阿曼), Qatar（卡塔尔）, Saudi Arabia, Syria（叙利亚）, the United Arab Emirates（阿联酋）, Yemen

The middle east in the world map

Cf: Far East: countries in Asia east of India: China, Japan, Korea, etc.

Near East: countries around Eastern Mediterranean Sea.

Paragraph 1

Q:

1. What is mainly described in this paragraph?

The entrance of a bazaar:

2. What is your impression on this particular bazaar?

old, long history, dark, noisy, busy, narrow, crowded, etc.

3. How are the characteristics of this bazaar shown by the writer?

History: How is the long history shown?

the topic sentence. It is built possibly centuries ago.

ancient architecture: Gothic arched (Note3)

Gothic buildings were popular style in Western Europe in the 12th-16thc, characteristics are:

pointed arches, tall thin pillars, arched roofs, and stained and colored glass windows. (show pictures of a gothic styled church)

arched—拱形 vaulted, curved roof structure of, like church, bridge, gateway, etc.

1.aged stone and bricks

Orleans（奥尔良(法国中部城市)） Church

Darkness How is the darkness shown?

2.glare: n. unpleasant brightness, bright sunlight : strong, fierce, unpleasant light, not agreeable and welcome 灼热耀眼

Eg. There is the glare of the sun on the water in summer.

Cf. brightness

3.cavern—a large-sized underground cave.洞穴

Here: a long narrow dark street of workshops and shops with some sort of roof over them.有顶棚的集市

4.shadowy—adj. dim, indistinct, full of shadow or shade模糊的

Notice the contrast made between the outside and the inside: heat vs cool glare vs dark open square vs cavern

Q: What is the writer’s pr eference here? How do you know?

(glare—unpleasant light, disagreeable sunlight)

5.losing itself in the shadowy distance:

the place is dark, so when the street is long, objects in the distance become unclear and indistinct.

6.eye—man’s power of seeing or eyesight

Eg. She has an eye for beauty.

(she is able to appreciate beauty.)审美力很强

He has an ear for music.

(he is sensitive to music.) 能欣赏音乐

to turn a blind eye to sb. or sth.

视而不见, 对….熟视无睹

to turn a deaf ear to sb. or sth.

根本不听, 对… 置若罔闻

Narrowness How is it shown?

7.thread the way

thread one’s way: to make one’s way care fully through a crowd, a street or a forest. Eg. He threaded dark alleys in those years.

Girls threaded through the throng.

8.throng: a stronger implication of movement and of pushing with density

Cf. crowds eg. a throng of people

赶会时成群的人流推着你往前自动走。--

Throngs of people force you to walk forward automatically in a fair.

little donkeys….. the donkeys went in and out among the crowds of people cautiously and from one side to another, they could not walk straight