新时代核心英语教程综合英语4教学课件U10.pptxVIP

;10;;;;;;Joseph Addison Joseph Addison (1672-1719), English essayist, poet, and dramatist, who, with Richard Steele, was a leading contributor to and guiding spirit of the periodicals The Tatler and The Spectator. His writing skill led to his holding important posts in government while the Whigs were in power.;;;1. Let brevity despatch the rapid thought. (Para. 1);2. For my own part I look upon it as a peculiar blessing that I was born an Englishman. (Para. 2);3. Among many other reasons, I think myself very happy in my country, as the language of it is wonderfully adapted to a man who is sparing of his words, and an enemy to loquacity. (Para. 2) ;4. As I have frequently reflected on my good fortune in this particular, I shall communicate to the public my speculations upon the English tongue… (Para. 3);5. Our discourse is not kept up in conversation, but falls into more pauses and intervals than in our neighbouring countries…(Para. 4);6. …for, to favour our natural taciturnity, when we are obliged to utter our thoughts we do it in the shortest way we are able, and give as quick a birth to our conceptions as possible. (Para. 4);;7. As, first of all, by its abounding in monosyllables, which gives us an opportunity of delivering our thoughts in few sounds. (Para. 5);8. …as it generally happens in most of our long words which are derived from the Latin, where we contract the length of the syllables, that gives them a grave and solemn air in their own language, to make them more proper for despatch, and more conformable to the genius of our tongue. (Para. 6);9. The same natural aversion to loquacity has of late years made a very considerable alteration in our language… (Para. 7);10. I think we may add to the foregoing observation, the change which has happened in our language by the abbreviation of several words that are terminated in “eth,” by substituting an “s” in the room of the last syllable, as in “drowns,” “walks,” “arrives,” and innumerable other words… (Para. 8