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诸葛国际英语专业考研内部培训教材之翻译范例Ⅲ-08

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37 The Writing of English 诸葛国际学校|英语专业考研第一品牌专四TEM4|专业四级|专业八级|专八TEM8二外|小语种|法语|日语|德语|西班牙语英美文学|翻译|写作|基础英语|综合英语|语言学|英语国家社会与文化出国留学|考试|TOEFL托付|雅思IELTS|BEC|口译|笔译|CATTI 参考译文及PDF美化版见附件或到北京诸葛国际学校官方网站www.globaltimesschool.com下载。 Henry Seidel Canby If rhetorics, composition books, manuals, guides could of themselves assure the writing of good English, our prose style should now be purer than Chaucer’s well; but a multitude of textbooks is no more a guarantee of good writing than a million of books on etiquette is a warrant of good manners. It remains to be proved that the congregations who heard two sermons each Sunday were more moral than their agnostic descendants.That there is so much imperfect English after such a pressure of honest endeavor in teaching, is best explained by the vast number now to be educated, who in the past would not have written at all, and who may properly regard their slovenly grammar and stilted phrasing as so much won from illiteracy. But what of the more fortunately gifted who surely with the impact of so many books, such determined counsellors from earliest youth up to correspondence courses for the middle-aged, should have developed a new prose style for modern America and justified the concern of their elders? We have good writers of course, but only the least fastidious in our tongue could name this an age of supple, or beautiful, or rich, or forceful, or anything but varied and useful styles in English.If we get little style in English, the textbooks teach even less. Good English in their view is first and last clear English, which means English where the meaning jumps to the eye at a glance. Not the infinite complexities of my emotions, nor the baffled struggling of my thought, but what I can readily express in easy sentences neither too long nor too short, is what the rhetorics teach.They are right to teach thus, for the mind of the young writer is a yeasty mass of unformulated desires and undirected emotions. It surges with aspirations which begin as mighty heavings of the dough and emerge as bursting bubbles. Order, restraint, clarity are steps in a discipline which the most imaginative need most; and failure to mark them would result in floods of wild words. Fortunately undisciplined writers, like clocks without pendulums, soon tick themselves into silence.Yet the textbooks are wrong when they make, as in effect they do make, a sermon on accuracy the sum of good English. Accuracy is enough for the dictator of business letters; for the professional writer it is only the first step.  诸葛国际学校|英语专业考研第一品牌专四TEM4|专业四级|专业八级|专八TEM8二外|小语种|法语|日语|德语|西班牙语英美文学|翻译|写作|基础英语|综合英语|语言学|英语国家社会与文化出国留学|考试|TOEFL托付|雅思IELTS|BEC|口译|笔译|CATTI 参考译文及PDF美化版见附件或到北京诸葛国际学校官方网站www.globaltimesschool.com下载。
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