Unit1
1. However intricate the ways in which animals communicate with each other, they do not indulge in anything that deserves the name of conversation.
不管动物之间的交流方式多么复杂，它们不能参与到称得上是交谈的任何活动中。
2. Argument may often be a part of it, but the purpose of the argument is not to convince. There is no winning in conversation.
争论会经常出现于交谈中，但争论的目的不是为了说服。交谈中没有胜负之说。
3. Perhaps it is because of my upbringing in English pubs that I think bar conversation has a charm of its own.
或许我从小就混迹于英国酒吧缘故，我认为酒吧里的闲聊别有韵味。
4. I do not remember what made one of our companions say it ---she clearly had not come into the bar to say it , it was not something that was pressing on her mind---but her remark fell quite naturally into the talk.
我不记得是什么使得我的一个同伴说起它来的---她显然不是来酒吧说这个的，这不是她事先想好的话题----但她的话相当自然地插入到了交谈中。
5. There is always resistance in the lower classes to any attempt by an upper class to lay down rules for “English as it should be spoken .”
下层社会总会抵制上层社会企图给“标准英语”制定得规则。
6. Words are not themselves a reality ,but only representations of it ,and the King’s English ,like the Anglo-French of the Normans , is a class representation of reality.
词语本身并不是现实。正如诺曼底人讲的英格鲁--法语一样，标准英语是一个阶层用来表达现实的形式。
7. Perhaps it is worth trying to speak it, but it should not be laid down as an edict , and made immune to change from below.
或许试着去说它还是值得的，但是它不能被制定成法令，从而拒绝来自下层的变化。
8. There is no worse conversationalist than the one who punctuates his words as he speaks as if he were writing , or even who tries to use words as if he were composing a piece of prose for print.
如果一个人说出的话就像写出来的文字，或者试图使用那些创作书面散文的文字，那么没有比这样的交谈者更糟糕的了。
9. When E.M. Forster writes of “ the sinister corridor of our age,” we sit up at the vividness of the phrase , the force and even terror in the image.
当E.M.福斯特写到“我们这个时代的险恶长廊”时，其用语之生动及由其所产生的生动有力，甚至可怖的形象苦令我们拍案叫绝。
10. There would have been no conversation the other evening if we had been able to settle at once the meeting of “ the King’s English.”
那天晚上如果我们立刻解决了“标准英语”的含义，就不会有第二天晚上的谈话了。
Unit2
1.When you walk through a town like this - two hundred thousand inhabitants of whom at least twenty thousand own literally nothing except the rags they stand up in - when you see how the people live, and still more how easily they die, it is always difficult to believe that you are walking among human beings. 当你穿行于这样的城镇中—20万居民中至少有2万人除了一身勉强蔽体的破衣烂衫外，一无所有——当你看到这些人是如何生活，又如何轻易死亡时，你总是很难相信自己是行走在人类之中。
2.When you go through the Jewish quarters you gather some idea of what the medieval ghettoes were probably like.
当你穿过犹太人聚居区时，你就会了解中世纪的贫民区大概是个什么样子。3.Many of the streets are a good deal less than six feet wide, the houses are completely windowless, and sore-eyed children cluster everywhere i unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies.
很多街道远远不足6英尺宽，房屋根本没有窗户，眼睛肿痛的孩子成群结队，随处可见，像成群的苍蝇，数也数不清。
