Lesson 1
1．And it is an activity only of humans.
And it is a human unique activity．
2．Conversation is not for making a point.
Conversation is not to convince others．
3．In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to be lose.
In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are willing to be lose.
friends are not deeply involved in each other’s lives.
Bar friends are not deeply concerned with each other’s private lives.
5....it could still go ignorantly on...
The conversation could go on without anybody knowing who was right or wrong．
6. There are cattle in the field, but we sit down to beef.
These animals are called cattle in English, when they are alive and feeding in the fields；but when we sit down at the table to eat, we call their meat beef in French．
7. The new ruling class had built a cultural barrier against him by building their French against his own language.
The new ruling class had caused the cultural contradictions between the ruling class and native English by regarding French superior to English.
had come royally into its own.
English had gained recognition by the King．
9．The phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower classes.
The phrase, the king’s English has always been used disrespectfully and made fun by the lower classes.
10. The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there.
There is still opposition to cultural monopoly.
11. There is always a great danger that “words will harden into things for us”
We tend to make the mistake that we regard the things as they represent.
12. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King’s English slips and slides in conversation.
Even the most educated and literated people will not always use the formal English in their conversation．
Lesson 2
1. The burying--ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot.
The burying-ground is just a huge piece of wasteland full of mounds of earth, looking like a deserted construction land.
2.All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that fact.
All colonial empires are built by exploiting the local people.
3. They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard.
They are born. Then they work hard without enough food for a few years. Finally they die and are buried in the hills graves without any mark to identify them.
4. A carpenter sits crosslegged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lighting speed.
