The phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower classes.
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- Explain the following sentences in your own words, bringing out any implied meanings. （请将答案写在作业本上，拍照上传） 1. And it is an activity only of humans. (Para. l) 2. Conversation is not for making a point. (Para. 2) 3. In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose. (Para. 2) 4. Bar friends are not deeply involved in each other's lives. (Para. 3) 5. That would settle it; but conversation does not need to be settled; it could go ignorantly on. (Para. 6) 6. They are cattle in the fields, but we sit down to beef (boeuf). (Para. 9) 7. The new ruling class had built a cultural barrier...his own language. (Para. 11) 8....English had come royally into its own. (Para. 13) 9. The phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower classes. (Para. 15) 10. The rebellion against a cultural domination is still there. (Para. 15) 11. There is always a great danger, as Carlyle put it, that “words will harden into things for us.” (Para. 16)
- Language has always been—as the phrase goes—the mirror to society. English is no ________. (2003.12) A: explanation B: excuse C: exception D: expectation
- John ________ things about and makes a mess of his room. A: has always been left B: has always left C: is always leaving D: has always been leaving
- He ______ conscious of his duties to his parents as a filial son. A: was and always will be B: has to be and always will be C: had been and always will be D: has been and always will be
- _________conscious of her moral obligations as a citizen. A: Marsha was and always will be B: Marsha has to be and always will be C: Marsha had been and will always be D: Marsha has been and will always be