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The future of the English Paragraph 3 陈傲 Englishness: Relating to the unconscious Depending upon instinct and intuition Adhering to the past and deep long roots Not hostile to change and deeply suspicious of change for changes sake Rejecting being committed to some inevitable mechanical progress 英国人的六大性格特点 于地理、历史、文化等方面的原因，世界上的各个民族形成了不同于其他民族的性格特点。英国人也不例外，经过了几千年的社会变迁，他们形成了自己独特的思维和行为方式，有着与其它国家人民不同的品质和特点。概括起来，大致英国人的性格特点有以下六个方面： 1.大部分英国人具有与他人格格不入的孤傲特质。 2.大部分英国人有守旧而又不愿接受新生事物的保守思想。 3.大部分英国人具有讲究文明用语和礼貌的好习惯。 4.酷爱独居和个人自由的天性。 5.大部分英国人具有感情不外露的冷淡和缄默性格。 6.大部分英国人具有自我嘲笑的幽默 书名 英国人的言行潜规则 作者 凯特·福克斯(Kate Fox) 译者 姚芸竹 类别 丰富而且有趣的社会学书籍 页数 406 定价 ￥37.00 字数 375000 throw away：扔掉;浪费，错过;屏弃 feel at home：感觉舒适、自在 contemporary(adj.)：contemporary thing means something is modern and relate to the present time.当代的；现代的 accelerate (v.) ：cause to develop or progress more quickly加快，促进 “It demands bigness, and they are suspicious of bigness.” The contemporary world demands that everything should be done on a big scale and the English doubt bigness. And there is not only Industrial bigness; there is also Scientific bigness, needing more and more to discover less and less. Not only does industry enter an age of mass production, that is to say, producing on a large scale, but also scientific work becomes a big business based on more fund and more people. But the scientific discoveries now are as significant as before. ironic tone safe to say : it is safe to say something equal to it is certain to say something．可以肯定地说，可以保险地说 例： Whether he can get a high score in the exam，it is safe to say that he will pass it．不管他在考试中能不能拿到高分，但是可以肯定地说他能通过这项考试。 “They look all right in America, itself so large, but seem altoghter out of scale in England.” These big things fit well with America, because America, the country, itself is vast enough. But in the narrow land of England, they seem to to