新編英語教程-6-unit-(編輯修改稿)
2025-09-01 22:10 本頁面
【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 No. Things do not have real names. Names can be changed. But since we have been using the name for a long time, we are most probable / gradually e to establish a kind od association, particularly in semantics, between the two. . When we call the animal ‘pig’, we tend to think it fat, stupid, eating and sleeping, etc. Because of this semantic association, we have the expressions as make a pig of oneself (eat too much), buy a pig in a bag (buy without checking it up), etc. Inreading Interpretation: Para. 2 ? 3. This is all because what we call things affects how we will perceive them.(= Things will take on a different look when named differently. The name we give to something affects our perception.) It is not only harder to ... the horse mackerel. 鳳爪，龍虎斗，牛鞭 , Goldlion 金獅，金利來，山水豆腐 Inreading Interpretation: Para. 2 ? 4. It would appear ... of the thing itself. ? It seems that mankind is predisposed to regard things as being inseparable from the labels they bear. This is a most intriguing delusion. We naturally think that things and their corresponding names are the same, but this is the illusion. ? There is some truth in this illusion. ? With the change of the names of things, you have changed their images in the eye of people, which, in effect, means a change in what the things really are. If you change the names of things, you change your way of perception, and you, in effect, change the nature of the things. Inreading Interpretation: Para. 2 ? 5. Do you agree with P on this point? (36) ? This may sound a bit dubious. While the 1st change (change in the way people regard things) has been evidenced, the 2nd change (change in the nature of the thing itself) has not. ? 6. Main idea: A change in name leads to a change in nature. Inreading Interpretation: Para. 3 ? 1. All sorts of scoundrels ... they are promoting. ? The scoundrels give a charming name to the dirty thing they are mitting to hide its real dirty or illegal nature, to make us believe they are doing something good. 搶劫－交保護(hù)費(fèi) Inreading Interpretation: Para. 3 ? 2. Euphemizing ... of perceiving things. ? Giving a new name to some thing by using euphemism will generate a new way of perceiving things. This is the same as What we call things affects how we will perceive them. ? . The man who wants us ... notice or respect. The status of a garbage man is considerably raised in the eye of the public from a ‘man’ to ‘a(chǎn)n engineer’. ‘Garbage’, a word with bad connotations is replaced by ‘sanitation’, a shift focus from what he disposes of to what he preserves. Inreading Interpretation: Para. 3 ? 3. The teacher who ... be attended to. ? It is true that the teacher is euphemizing when he has us use ‘culturally different children’ in place of ‘slum children’, but what he is doing is to try to turn our attention to an aspect of life that might easily be neglected. ? 4. Main idea: euphemism a method of generating new and useful ways of perception Inreading Interpretation: Para. 4 ? 1. Euphemizing itself is not contemptible. It is contemptible only when it tries to hide something true, esp. the dirty nature.
法律信息相關(guān)推薦
鄂ICP備17016276號(hào)-1