Pub Talk and the King’s English.pptVIP

13-15 Vocabulary tussle: struggle or fight to obtain sth; wrestle 扭打，争斗 dandelion: 蒲公英 pejorative: expressing criticismor scorn 轻蔑的 facetious: intended to be amusing, often inappropriately 乱引人发笑的 underling: person in a subordinate and inferior position 走卒，喽啰 Paraphrase English had come royally into his own.（13） → The English language received proper recognition and become the country’s official language. The phrase had always been used a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower classes. （15）→ The King’s English, has always been used disrespectfully and jokingly by the lower classes. The working people very often make fun of the proper formal language of the educated people. The rebellion against a culture dominance is still there. （15）→ A spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class still exists in the working people, as in the early Saxon peasants. 人们也许可以这样认为，该类习语应该是在那个时期被创造出来的。经过五个世纪的发展，同时与诺曼人，安茹人和金雀花王室所使用的法语相竞争，最终将其吸纳，被征服的一方最后战胜了征服者。英语得到认可，成为了官方语言。 Translation 由此便出现了一种人们引以为豪的“标准英语”。在伊丽莎白时代，人们不费吹灰之力便使其影响日盛，遍及全球。“标准英语”已经不再一种带有种族歧视色彩的语言形式了。 然而，那个澳大利亚人所做的评论也有一定道理。这类习语通常都为底层阶级所用，带有一些贬义和戏谑的味道。有人会发现，即便是快嘴桂嫂这样一个侍婢也会说，她的主子卡厄斯医生会管不住自己的嘴说出些平民所讲的粗话。如果有人声称“标准英语”就是所谓的“规范英语”，常常就会被下层人民所嘲笑，那些人会故意将其奚落为“规反英语”。下层民众对于文化专制始终是极为反感抵触的。 Grammar and structure *After five centuries of growth, of tussling with the French of the Normans and the Angevins and the Plantagenets and at last absorbing it, the conquered in the end conquering the conqueror. *If the King’s English is “English as it should be spoken,”条件状语从句 the claim is often mocked by the underlings, when they say with a jeer “English as it should be spoke时间状语从句.” *“The King’s English” was no longer a form of what would now be regarded as racial discrimination. 表语从句 Rhetorical devices *After five centuries of growth, of tussling with the French of the Normans and the Angevins and the Plantagenets and at last absorbing it, the conquered in the end conquering the conqueror. Synecdoche the con