有一些语言最令人叹为观止的特色之一,是能够创造出某些长得无法一口气读完的单词,由此用一个单词就能表达英语需要用一整个句子才能说出来的意思。
One of the showiest stunts that some languages can pull off is an ability to build up words of breath-breaking length, and thus express in one word what English takes a whole sentence to say.
口语随自有特色,但与英语的其它方面紧密相连,比如经常练习写作,可是口语精密准确。
Oral English has its own features, but it is closely combined with other aspects of English, for example, writing may make oral English precise and accurate.
主沃尔·索因卡(Wole Soyinka)赞扬这本书是“第一部出自于非洲特色内核的英语小说,而非……从白人的角度出发。”
Wole Soyinka acclaimed it as the "first novel in English which spoke from the interior of an African character rather than... As the white man would see him".
Yeats, I said, wanted to speak for and to the Irish people, as well as to explain Ireland and Irishness to an English-speaking world abroad.
我认为,叶芝,想为爱尔兰人写诗,并把爱尔兰及其民族特色,介绍给整个英语世界。
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