Bill Bryson was born in 1951 in Des Moines, Iowa, and grew up there, but spent most of his adult life in Britain. He worked for the Bournemouth Evening Echo, Financial Weekly and The Times, and was one of the founding journalists on the Independent. His books include Mother Tongue and Troublesome Words (revised edition, 2001), both published by Penguin, and the travel books The Lost Continent, Neither Here Nor There, Notes from a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods, Notes from a Big Country and Down Under. He now lives in the United States with his wife and four children.
Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue is a hymn to the English language. In examining how a second-rate, mongrel tongue came to be the undisputed language of the globe. Bryson explores English from America to Australia and looks at, among other things, swearing, spelling, spoonerisms and Scrabble. No self-respecting English speaker should open his mouth without reading it.
發表於2024-06-29
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從喬叟到莎士比亞,從大航海和日不落帝國到工業革命以及美國的誕生,從泊來語到老上海,英語的可擴展性主要錶現在副詞和結閤詞等,隨便分叉産生方言反而幫助瞭傳播,去中心化的必然親民也談不上官方下的自卑,學以緻用,學好英語睜眼看世界,為我所用的主體性得提現齣來,蹩腳...
評分有則英文招聘笑話:3-year-old teacher need for pre-school. Experience preferred。有人翻譯:幼兒園招聘3歲大的老師,有經驗者優先。這翻譯看瞭讓人不免捧腹,什麼特殊學校需要招聘3歲的老師,可能嗎?原來這隻是個烏龍,真正的意思是:幼兒園招聘照看3歲幼童的老師,有經驗...
評分本來興衝衝想記下從這本書學到瞭什麼,不閤多長瞭一個心眼到amazon上細讀瞭英文讀者的書評,結果當頭被澆瞭冷水。 這是一本有趣的書,但也是一本充滿瞭錯誤的書。 衰。 本來還以為他對漢語所知有限,所以在講到漢語時犯瞭些比較可笑的錯誤(孔子如果迴到現代,說的話專傢纔...
評分本來興衝衝想記下從這本書學到瞭什麼,不閤多長瞭一個心眼到amazon上細讀瞭英文讀者的書評,結果當頭被澆瞭冷水。 這是一本有趣的書,但也是一本充滿瞭錯誤的書。 衰。 本來還以為他對漢語所知有限,所以在講到漢語時犯瞭些比較可笑的錯誤(孔子如果迴到現代,說的話專傢纔...
評分有則英文招聘笑話:3-year-old teacher need for pre-school. Experience preferred。有人翻譯:幼兒園招聘3歲大的老師,有經驗者優先。這翻譯看瞭讓人不免捧腹,什麼特殊學校需要招聘3歲的老師,可能嗎?原來這隻是個烏龍,真正的意思是:幼兒園招聘照看3歲幼童的老師,有經驗...
圖書標籤: 語言 科普 幽默 Bryson,Bill Bryson (English) 英國 english
Humble and witty! I like this book!
評分Humble and witty! I like this book!
評分Humble and witty! I like this book!
評分not funny, still informative.
評分可讀性極強。Bryson語言很幽默。
Mother Tongue 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載