2010版中石油職稱英語(yǔ)選讀(全）.doc

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2010版中石油職稱英語(yǔ)選讀(全）.doc

1.English is a Crazy Language 英語(yǔ)是一門(mén)瘋狂的語(yǔ)言

1.Let's face it-English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England nor French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads,which aren't sweet,are meat.

1.讓我們接受現(xiàn)實(shí)吧--英語(yǔ)是一種瘋狂的語(yǔ)言。茄子（eggplant，字面意為雞蛋植物）里并沒(méi)有雞蛋，漢堡包（hamburger，字面意為火腿夾餅）里也沒(méi)有火腿。同樣，菠蘿（pineapple，字面意為松樹(shù)蘋(píng)果）里既沒(méi)有松鼠也沒(méi)有蘋(píng)果。松餅（English muffin，字面意為英式松餅）并不是英國(guó)人發(fā)明的，而炸薯?xiàng)l（French fries，字面意為法式油炸食品）也不是法國(guó)人的發(fā)明。“甜肉”（sweetmeat）指的是蜜餞，而“甜面包”（sweetbread）不是甜的，它指的是牛雜碎。

2.We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes,we find that quicksand can work slowly,boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why it is that writers write but fingers don't fing,grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth,why isn't the plural of booth beeth? If you have one goose,two geese,why not one moose,two meese,or one index,two indices?

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