Lesson 1 Pub Talk and the King's English
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Dictation--Lesson 1 Pub Talk and the King's English
1. The history of English：Three stages of English:
The Old English/ Anglo-Saxon English (449-1066)
The Middle English /French- influenced English (1066-1500 )
The Modern English (1500- the present):
Early modern English (1500-1800)
Late modern English (1800-the present)
2. 动物之间的信息交流，无论何等错综复杂，也称不上交谈。 However intricate
the ways in which animals communicate with each other, they do not indulge in
anything that deserves the name of conversation.
3. 引人入胜之处在于没有一个事先设定的话题。 The charm of conversation is
that it does not really start from anywhere,
4. 时而迂回曲折，时而奔腾起伏，时而火花四射，时而热情洋溢。 …it will go
as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows.
5. 要是有人觉得“有些话要说”，那定会大煞风景而闲聊无趣。 The enemy of
good conversation is the person who has "something to say."
6. 机遇转瞬即逝。 but in a flash the opportunity is lost.
7. 听之任之。 They are ready to let it go.
8. 从小混迹于酒肆茶楼的缘故。…because of my up-bringing in English pubs
9. 别有韵味。 …has a charm of its own.
10. 他们婚姻亮起了红灯、失恋、或碰到别的什么不顺心的事儿，但别人根本不
在乎这些。 The fact that their marriages may be on the rocks, or that their love
affairs have been broken or even that they got out of bed on the wrong side is
simply not a concern.
11. 从不过问彼此的私事，也不去揣摸别人内心的秘密。 …did not delve into each
other's lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings.
12. 漫无边际地东扯西拉。 …as the conversation moved desultorily here and there,
13. 那也不是什么非说不可的要紧话。 …it was not something that was pressing on
her mind.
14. 脱口而出。 …but her remark fell quite naturally into the talk.
15. 应该尽量避免使用。 One should not properly use.
16. 此语一出，讨论如火如荼起来。 The glow of the conversation burst into flames.
17. 有人赞成，也有人怒斥，还有人则不以为然。 There were affirmations and
protests and denials.
18. 大伙儿仍旧可以糊里糊涂地继续闲扯下去。 It could still go ignorantly on.
19. 得悉此情，有些人便说起刻薄话来了，说什么囚犯的子孙这样说倒也不足为
怪。 …which produced some rather tart remarks about what one could expect
from the descendants of convicts.
20. 制订一些条条框框。 …to lay down rules for
21. 闲聊依旧热火朝天。 The conversation was on wings.
22. 一个人所共知，但仍值得提出来发人深思的例子 …took one of the
best-known of examples, which is still always worth the reconsidering.
23. 为了装洋耍派头。 out of snobbery 24. 嗤之以鼻。 …turned up their noses at
25. 设身处地替当时的撒克逊农民想一想，…to think ourselves back into the shoes
of the Saxon peasant.
26. 后来的事实果然被她说中/言中/应验了。 …and it rings true.
27. 伊丽莎白时代的人不费吹灰之力，使其影响日盛，遍及全球。 The Elizabethans
blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the ends
of the earth.
28. 不过，那个澳大利亚人所作的解释也不无道理。 Yet there had been something
in the remark of the Australian.
29. 会管不住自己的舌头，而讲起平民百姓们的那种粗话。 …will lose his control
and speak with the vigor of ordinary folk.
30. 如果说标准英语就是所谓“规范英语”， 下层人民有时故意开玩笑地把它说
成是“规反英语”。 "English as it should be spoken," the claim is often mocked
by the underlings, when they say with a jeer "English as it should be spoke."
31. 一成不变 …made immune to change from
32. 忠贞不渝的爱情 …have an unending love affair with
33. 但并非至高无上。 …but it ought not to be an ultimatum.
34. 标准英语在交谈中也常常会离谱走调。…the King's English slips and slides in
conversation.
35. 其用语之生动及由此所产生的生动有力、甚至可怖的意象令我们拍案叫
绝。 …we sit up at the vividness of the phrase, the force and even terror in the
image.
36. 文人雅士（大文豪们）的高谈阔论 …the lofty conversations in which the great
minds（Great authors）are supposed to have indulged.
37. 他们之间的唯一差别只不过用心不一而已。 …the only difference between
her cook and the supreme chef, lay in their intentions.
38. 否则，谈话便会受到妨碍，不能如流水般无拘无束地进行。 Otherwise one will
bind the conversation, one will not let it flow freely here and there.
39. 教黑猩猩说话之所以很困难，其原因就在于它们往往可能尽想着要讲出些正
经八百（一板一眼）的话来，因而使得谈话失去意趣。 The bother about
teaching chimpanzees how to talk is that they will probably try to talk sense and
so ruin all conversation.
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