Promise This-When You be Dying- Some shall summon Me- "And that way in which she says 'when you be dying', that's so classically the way African Americans structure their sentences, with that interesting use of 'be,'" "Maid as Muse" author Aife Murray says writing her book was a way for her to give credit where credit is due - to the unsung men and women whose language and culture enhanced the work of one of America's best-loved poets.

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Milton's language doesn't have the same kind of headlong rush that most declarative English sentences have.

弥尔顿的语言不像大部分英语陈述句一样,直接把意思说明白。

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Now it's possible somebody said both these sentences before, but you probably have not heard them.

有可能某人曾说过这两句话,可你们却并没听到过

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Don't tell me about these complicated sentences from Balzac's short story.

不要给我讲巴尔扎克短篇小说里的这些复杂的句子。

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That's another one of those sentences by Faulkner that sort of captured this spirit of Alabama Fever, as it was called, in the 1820s and '30s, and Mississippi Fever in the 1830s, Louisiana/Texas Fever by the 18 well Louisiana Fever is even earlier--but Texas Fever by the 1840s.

还有福克纳写的另一部作品,作品谈到了十九世纪二三十年代的,圈地狂潮,在阿拉巴马州,十九世纪三十年代的密西西比,在路易斯安那州和德克萨斯州,路易斯安那州圈地潮相对出现得更早,德克萨斯州圈地潮是在十九世纪四十年代

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