• 2021-04-14
    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)