Rhetoric专用课件.ppt

1）It would be a fine thing indeed not knowing what time it was in the morning. 早上没有时间观念还真是一件好事啊（真实含义是应该明确早上的时间观念） 2）Well, of course, I knew that gentlemen like you carry only large notes. 啊，当然，我知道像你这样的先生只带大票子。 1) Napoleon was astonished. “Either you are mad, or I am,” he declared. “Both ,sir!” cried the Swede proudly. “Both”一词一语双关，既指拿破仑和这位士兵都是疯子，又指这位战士参加过拿破仑指挥的两次战役。 2) A cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms. (Here arms has two meanings: a persons body; weapons carried by a soldier.) 1) Rome was not built in a day, nor in a year. 2) A friend in need is a friend to be avoided. 3) If you give a girl an inch nowadays she will make address of it. 1) How was it possible to walk for an hour through the woods and see nothing worth of note? 2) Was I not at the scene of the crime? 3) Shall we allow those untruths to go unanswered? 1) Speech is silver; Silence is golden. 2) You are staying; I am going. 3) Give me liberty, or give me death. 1) One man climbs up nimbly to a dizzy height to fasten ropes. 2) I spent sleepless nights on my project. 3) Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder 1.Simile 明喻 It is a figure of speech which makes a comparison between two unlike elements having at least one quality or characteristic in common.To make the comparison,words like as,as...as,as if and like are used to transfer the quality we associate with one to the other. eg.1.He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.2.I wandered lonely as a cloud.我孤单的像一片云朵3.Einstein only had a blanket on,as if he had just walked out of a fairy tale.爱因斯坦身上只有一条毛毯，好像他刚刚走出了童话世界。 2.Metaphor 隐喻 It is like a simile,also makes a comparison bteween two unlike elements,but unlike a simile,this comparison is implied rather than stated. eg. 1.The world is a stage.世界是一个舞台。 2.The diamond department was the heart and center of the store.钻石部门是这个商店的心脏。 3.Hope is a good breakfast,but it is a bad supper