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2025-02-09
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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P51 Old English沒有specific future tense,現代英語也沒有(目前使用的隻是情態動詞will+be)。 日語也沒有。 P53 英語從Scandinavian(i.e., Norse)中藉用瞭第三人稱代詞(they,them和their)。 也就是說,在那之前英語是無法錶示第三人稱的=口=?那就隻能直接指名道姓咯...
圖書標籤: 語言 科普 幽默 Bryson,Bill Bryson (English) 英國 english
終於讀完瞭。還是很好玩的,學到瞭不少東西。
評分終於讀完瞭。還是很好玩的,學到瞭不少東西。
評分not funny, still informative.
評分Humble and witty! I like this book!
評分終於讀完瞭。還是很好玩的,學到瞭不少東西。
Mother Tongue 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載