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Bill Bryson 出版社: Black Swan 副标题: An Informal History of American English 出版年: 1998-4-2 页数: 493 定价: GBP 8.99 装帧: Paperback 丛书:Bill Bryson ISBN: 9780552998055
Bill Bryson turns away form the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent , for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture. In Made in America , Bryson de-mythologizes his native land - explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, h...
Bill Bryson turns away form the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent , for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture. In Made in America , Bryson de-mythologizes his native land - explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't won, why Americans say 'lootenant' and 'Toosday', how Americans were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up - as well as exposing the true origins of the G-string, the original $64,000 question and Dr Kellogg of cornflakes fame. Buy this book at once and have a nice day!
......it is often the little, unnoticed things that are most revealing about the history and nature of language. Nursery rhymes, for example, are fastidiously resistant to change.......they are sometimes among the longest-surviving features of any language. "Eenie, meenie, minie, mo" is based on a counting system that predates the Roman occupation of Britain, that may even be pre-Celtic. If so, it is a rare surviving link with the very distant past. It not only gives us a fragmentary image of how children were being amused at the time Stonehenge was built, but tells us something about how their elders counted and thought and ordered their speech. Little things, in short, are worth looking at. (查看原文)
They called themselves Saints. Those members of the party who were not Saints they called Strangers. Pilgrims in reference to these early voyagers would not become common for another two hundred years. Even later was Founding Fathers. It isn't found until the twentieth century, in a speech by Warren G. Harding. Nor, strictly speaking, is it correct to call them Puritans. They were Separatists, so called because they had left the Church of England. Puritans were those who remained in the Anglican Church but wished to purify it. They wouldn't arrive in America for another decade, but when they did they would quickly eclipse, and eventually absorb, this little original colony. (查看原文)
最近开始读比尔·布莱森的《Made In America》，这是一部关于美国英语和历史的漫谈书，既有正经而学术的部分，也镶嵌了不少历史上的花边新闻。前半部分按照历史顺序，历数美国英语的变迁，后半部分，有不少主题。 我先看的是一个Sex And Other Distractions…… 果然，看到一...
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0 有用 以牙还牙 2021-06-29 07:38:49
单词量还挺大，好多过时的单词都听不懂。顺着美国的历史讲美式英语的发展过程，还比较有趣，零碎的内容太多了，有的地方还算略乏味的，8.2吧，还不错。
0 有用 munford 2010-12-20 07:47:52
美国四百年发明的东东几乎一网打尽了，了解不少现代生活和美国生活中事物和语言的最早起源。
2 有用 Bookworm 2006-09-18 15:19:33
作者以美国历史为线索探讨美国英语的发展与变化。本书读起来轻松愉快，几乎每页都有让人开心的趣闻轶事。读了这本书才发现，美国历史上很多原以为是光荣伟大的史实其实根本就是一派胡言或子虚乌有的东西。
0 有用 Maylene 2015-03-31 10:34:17
小时候学物理的启蒙作者，写美式英语也这么萌
0 有用 格洛丽亚 2017-06-30 08:59:13
Bill爷有关英美文化介绍的书籍，真应该在考专四专八前看，想当年条件不允许，现在才看，也不太晚。