The Story of English 在線電子書 圖書標籤: 語言  原版  曆史  2011   

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It is an ideal British product, ‘needing no workers and no work, no assembly lines and no assembly, no spare parts and very little servicing, it is used for the most intimate and the most public services everywhere. We call it the English language ..

It is an ideal British product, ‘needing no workers and no work, no assembly lines and no assembly, no spare parts and very little servicing, it is used for the most intimate and the most public services everywhere. We call it the English language ..

It is an ideal British product, ‘needing no workers and no work, no assembly lines and no assembly, no spare parts and very little servicing, it is used for the most intimate and the most public services everywhere. We call it the English language ..

It is an ideal British product, ‘needing no workers and no work, no assembly lines and no assembly, no spare parts and very little servicing, it is used for the most intimate and the most public services everywhere. We call it the English language ..

It is an ideal British product, ‘needing no workers and no work, no assembly lines and no assembly, no spare parts and very little servicing, it is used for the most intimate and the most public services everywhere. We call it the English language ..

其实翻译的水平还是可以的，这本书也是英语史著作中最通俗的一本，David Crystal也推荐过。不过有点Anglo-saxon中心论。我更喜欢John Mcwhorter的野史版。  

正如该书的前言所说，现在很多人都在学习英语，但是真正为英语而“英语”的人却并不多。换言之，更多的人是处于功利的态度来学习，而不是把英语当成个人的爱好，从语言学习中感受到各个文化之间的差异。 所以，很多人往往在学了N年的英语之后仍然不知英语究竟为何物，除了死记...  

对英国本土英语影响最大的，应该是爱尔兰的诗性传统与美国英语的形成。前者是无穷无尽的想象力，后者是无边无际的勇气。 诗人欧阳昱的译笔有翻译者少有的果断，对一些概括性、引领性词汇的翻译命名颇有趣味，也许此中的精神恰恰符合了英语自身的变化。  

这本书靠近600页，想一口气看完显然是不可能的，不过前序说是“英语学习者的必备入门书”，就未免有些过了，稍微翻了前面几页，总感觉那种英式汉语的译文不算对自己的胃口，感觉比GOOGLE机器翻译好一点，然后看了一下译者介绍，原来是一位长期旅居海外的华人翻的，怪不得呢，英...

其实翻译的水平还是可以的，这本书也是英语史著作中最通俗的一本，David Crystal也推荐过。不过有点Anglo-saxon中心论。我更喜欢John Mcwhorter的野史版。