重读“50篇文章记忆高考单词”之02
这篇文章讲“英语语言”在世界各地的传播，最后借用两个句子来讲到英式英语和美式英语的区别。去年的原贴在：50篇文章记高考单词02（高考倒计时-156）
Different countries have different kinds of English 不同的国家有不同的英语
Voyages of people from England play an important part in spreading the English language. At present, English is frequently spoken as an official or common language in many countries, such as America, Singapore, Malaysia and some African countries. All based on British English, the English spoken in these countries can be well understood by native English speakers. But actually, these Englishes have been gradually changing in accents, spellings, expressions and the usage of vocabulary.
Because of this fact, you can make use of the differences to tell which country the foreigners of your block are from. For example, if a boss fluently commands his driver, “come up straight to my apartment by elevator and take some gas for my trucks and cabs”, instead of requesting, “please come to my flat by lift and take some petrol for my lorries and taxis”, you can recognize his American identity, while the latter suggests that he is British.
新解：
- voyage: /ˈvɔɪ-ɪdʒ/ n. a long journey in a ship or spacecraft 这个单词原来只表示“航海”，可现在词义扩充了，也指成宇宙飞船的“航行”。<补：The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage (= first journey). 泰坦尼克号首航便沉没了。> <bon voyage /ˌbɒn vɔɪˈɑːʒ/ 一路平安>
- play a part/role: to have an effect or influence on something 在……中起作用/在……中扮演角色
- play a part in doing sth: 其中in doing sth句子成分是“状语”，也有人理解为“宾补”。（语法成分的分析是为语言理解服务的，理解没有问题的情况下可以忽略这个“环节”，留给语言学家和“老师”去分析吧！）
- 把英语作为母语的国家包括：英国，人口6020万，美国3亿（最新数据），加拿大3000万，澳大利亚2100万左右，爱尔兰400万（尽管爱尔兰也有自己的语言-盖尔语，但它却是欧洲除英国之外唯一一个英语国家）。加一起也就4.152亿左右。<English is the principal language of Great Britain, the US, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and many other countries. There are some 400 million native speakers, and it is the medium of communication for many millions more; it is the most widely used second language in the world. It belongs to the West Germanic group of Indo-European languages, though its vocabulary has been much influenced by Norman French and Latin>
- All based on British English：独立主格，这里based是过去分词。
- Englishes: English作为“英语”的含义通常是不可数名词或“集合名词mass noun”, 这里加es表示遍及世界各国的不同“种类”的英语。
- tell: not used in progressive tenses, [+ object] : to see or understand the differences between two people or things识别；区分；辨认 <I can definitely tell a/the difference between the two sauces.我肯定能分出这两种酱汁的差别。They look exactly the same. How can you tell which is which?他们看起来一模一样。你怎么辨别哪个是哪个？I can't tell who is who with their uniforms on.他们穿上制服后我分辨不出谁是谁。He is old enough to tell right from wrong. [=to know what things are good and what things are bad]他这么大了，足以分得清是非对错。>
- come up straight to: 径直走过去，也可以说come straight up to.
- 英式英语和美式英语的相关帖子我之前也发过，可以去看看：美国英语和英国英语
- suggest: 这里不表示“建议”，而是：to say (something) in an indirect way暗示；言下之意是说 <Are you suggesting [=implying] (that) he deliberately cheated?你在暗示说他故意骗人？I think he's suggesting that we shouldn't have helped them.我想他在暗示说我们本不该帮助他们。>
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