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1. 将下列矛盾修饰语译成汉语 Old news 旧新闻 student teacher 实习教师 light heavyweight 轻重量级 Peace offensive 和平攻势 growing small 越变越小 negative growth 负增长 Half naked 半裸 open secret 公开的秘密 loose tights宽松的紧身裤 Tight slacks 紧身的宽松裤 awful good极好的 same difference同样的区别 Sight unseen 看不见的景象 darkness visible看得见的黑暗 2. Point out the rhetorical devices of the following sentences 1) A hundred bayonets were marching down the street.----metonymy借代 2) She borrowed his wheel for a spin out to town. ----synecdoche 提喻 3) Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.---personification 拟人 4) The scent of the rose rang like a bell through the garden.----simile 明喻 5) Constant dropping wears the stone.----metaphor 隐喻 6) His voice sounded like a thunder in the hall.—simile明喻 7) When industry comes in at the window, poverty goes out of the door.----personification.拟人 8) We are creating a nation once again vibrant, robust and alive. But there are many mountains yet to climb. ----mataphor隐喻 9) You can not change his mind any more than you can change the orbit of the moon. ----simile明喻 10) That fut coat would be beyond his miserable pocket. ----metonymy借代 11) There are hundreds of sails in the harbour. ----synecdoche提喻 12) He was such an auful teacher that whenever he recognized a spark of genius you could be sure he’d water it. ---metaphor隐喻 13) Sharp words may occasionally be spoken by unguarded or ignorant tongues. ---synecdoche提喻 14) When guns speak it is too late to argue.---personification拟人 15) A major lesson Americans need to learn is that life consists of more than cars and television sets. ----synecdoche提喻 English Idiom 1. What is an idiom? An idiom is a fixed group of words or a single word, or even a sentence, with special meaning that cannot be guessed from its structure. That is to say, the meaning of an idiom must be learned as a whole. e.g. “to spill the beans” is not at all concerned with beans; it means “to tell sth that is secret” ; “kick the bucket