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Bill Bryson 出版社: William Morrow Paperbacks 副标题: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States 出版年: 2001-10-23 页数: 432 定价: USD 14.99 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780380713813
Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood...and exactly why Mr.Yankee Doodle call his befeathered cap "Macaroni."
Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa. For twenty years he lived in England, where he worked for the Times and the Independent, and wrote for most major British and American publications. His books include travel memoirs (Neither Here Nor There; The Lost Continent; Notes from a Small Island) and books on language (The Mother Tongue; Made in America). His account of...
Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa. For twenty years he lived in England, where he worked for the Times and the Independent, and wrote for most major British and American publications. His books include travel memoirs (Neither Here Nor There; The Lost Continent; Notes from a Small Island) and books on language (The Mother Tongue; Made in America). His account of his attempts to walk the Appalachian Trail, A Walk in the Woods, was a huge New York Times bestseller. He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his wife and his four children.
......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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美洲的名字，America，是怎么来的。真是有趣的知识八卦，Bill Bryson的一贯风格。 …… But in terms of linguistic immortality no one got more mileage from less activity than a shadowy Italian-born businessman named Amerigo Vespucci. A Florentine who had moved to Seville, where he ran a ship supply business (one of his customers was his compatriot Christopher Columbus), Vespucci seemed destined for o...
Interesting tidbits about passengers on the Mayflower. 原来，他们并不是一开始就叫pilgrims，而且也不是Puritans。 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 s...
......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,...
美洲的名字，America，是怎么来的。真是有趣的知识八卦，Bill Bryson的一贯风格。 …… But in terms of linguistic immortality no one got more mileage from less activity than a shadowy Italian-born businessman named Amerigo Vespucci. A Florentine who had moved to Seville, where he ran a ship supply business (one of his customers was his compatriot Christopher Columbus), Vespucci seemed destined for o...
Interesting tidbits about passengers on the Mayflower. 原来，他们并不是一开始就叫pilgrims，而且也不是Puritans。 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 s...
......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,...
美洲的名字，America，是怎么来的。真是有趣的知识八卦，Bill Bryson的一贯风格。 …… But in terms of linguistic immortality no one got more mileage from less activity than a shadowy Italian-born businessman named Amerigo Vespucci. A Florentine who had moved to Seville, where he ran a ship supply business (one of his customers was his compatriot Christopher Columbus), Vespucci seemed destined for o...
Interesting tidbits about passengers on the Mayflower. 原来，他们并不是一开始就叫pilgrims，而且也不是Puritans。 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 s...
......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,...
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0 有用 Abe 2013-05-29 12:40:28
Bill Bryson果然是个厉害的主儿，洋洋洒洒把美国英语200年的演化各方面都说到了，并且还加入了大量文化历史还有各种千奇百怪的梗子，除去用词比较囧以外非常推荐。有姿势我自豪！
0 有用 鱼皮 2022-02-04 23:11:28
来自陆谷孙陆老神仙的推荐，介绍美式英语形成、流变及美国文化的特别厚的一本书。文笔诙谐，值得一看。