• 2022-06-09
    In every cultivated language there are two great classes of words which, taken together, comprisethe whole vocabulary. First, there are those words 61 which we become acquainted in dailyconversation, which we learn, that is to say, from the 62 of our own family and from our familiarassociates, and which we should knowand use 63 we could not read or write. They concern the common things of life,and are thestock-in-trade (惯用言辞) of all who 64 the language. Such words may be called "popular,"since they belong to the people 65 and are not the exclusive possession of a limited class.On the other hand, our language includes a multitude of words which are comparatively 66used in ordinary conversation. Their meanings are known to every educated person, but there islittle 67 to use them at home or in the market-place. Our first acquaintance with them comes notfrom our mother’s lips or from the talk of our school-mates, 68 from books that we read,lectures that we hear, or the more formal conversation of highly educated speakers who arediscussing some particular 69 in a style appropriately elevated above the habitual level ofeveryday life. Such words are called "learned," and the 70 between them and the "popular" wordsis of great importance to a right understanding of linguistic process.
    A: in public
    B: at most
    C: at best
    D: at large
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