第二十五课:加拿大 |
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课文翻译 1Dialogue对话…………………………… Fang Qun has just met Dean, who is Canadian. 方群刚才见到迪安,迪安是加拿大人。 FANG QUN:Where are you from? 方群:你是哪里人? DEAN:I'm from Ganada. 迪安:我是加拿大人。 FANG QUN:Really?I thought you were from the States. 方群:真的?我原以为你是美国人。 DEAN:That's not surprising. A lot of people can't tell the difference 迪安:那不奇怪。许多人分不出 between an American accent and a Canadian accent. 美国口音与加拿大口音的差别。 FANG QUN:Are there many differences? 方群:有很多差别吗? DEAN: No,just a few. For example, most Canadians say news 迪安:没有,只有少数差别。例如,大多数加拿大人把news读成 [njuz], but Americans say[nuz]. We mainly use American [njuz],而美国人读成[nuz]。我们主要使用美国词 words, but we use quite a lot of British words too. We fill our 语,但是也使用相当多的英国词语。我们给汽车加 cars with“gas”, which is American, but we turn on the“tap” “gas(汽油)”,这是美国英语,但是我们打开“tap(龙头)”, which is British English. 这是英国英语。 FANG QUN:Oh! And do you use American or British spelling? 方群:哦!你们采用美式英语拼法还是英式英语拼法? DEAN:Both! 迪安:两种都用! American spellings are used more and more in Canada now. 现在在加拿大越来越多地采用美式英语拼法了。 Generally speaking, newspapers follow the American way, but 一般说来,报纸采用美国英语的拼法,但是 conference reports and schoolbooks use British spelling. 会议报告和教科书都采用英式英语的拼法。 FANG QUN:That sounds strange. 方群:这听起来很奇怪。 DEAN:You mean it looks strange! Ill tell you something that does 迪安:你是说这看起来很奇怪吧!我来告诉你一件〗听起来确实 sound strange. Many people think that Canadians all over the 奇怪的事情。许多人认为加拿大这个国家的人 country speak the same way. But if you go to the eastern prov 都有相同的表达方式。但是如果你到东部一些省份或 inces, or go to some country areas, youll notice that the people 到乡下农村一些地区去,你就会注意到那里的人说话与 there speak quite differently from the rest of Canada. 加拿大人其他地方的人相当不一样。 |
第二十五课:加拿大 |
重点·难点·考点及疑点注释 1.加拿大位于北美洲北半部,首都是渥太华,面积约为997多万平方公里,为世界大国。 2.tell the difference (between A and B)说出(A和B之间的)区别,分清(A和B) Can you tell the difference between the two girls? 你能说出这两个姑娘的不同吗? 短语链接:...be different from...……不同于…… 3.turn on打开(电源;水管;煤气) 同义词链接:switch on 反义词链接:turn off;switch off 4.generally speaking总而言之;一般说来 常在句子中作插入语,需要用逗号和句子的其余部分隔开。 Generally speaking, I think you are wrong.总的说来,我认为你错了。 短语链接:strictly speaking严格说来;exactly speaking确切说来;frankly speaking坦率地说;honestly speaking老实说 5.follow ... way采用……方式 follow在本课中作“遵循,信奉;听从,追随”讲。在这个意思上follow的常见宾语有:advice建议;order命令;rule规章,制度;suggestion建议;direction方向,说明;instruction指示;way路径 As a cook, he follows many ways in his work. 作为厨师,他在烹饪的时候采用许多种方式。 |
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