英语写作手册PPT课件
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Neutral — ‘Eating is not allowed here.’ Informal — ‘Please don’t eat here.’
Colloquial — ‘You can’t feed your face here.’ Slang — ‘Lay off the nosh 小吃.’ Taboo — ‘Lay off the fucking nosh.’
But we should remember that it is difficult to find two words that are exactly the same in meaning and use. They may be different in stylistic level, in the degree of emphasis, in emotional coloring, in tone语气, and in collocation.
A student learning to write should learn to use the words that are most useful and most often used to express him.
Contents
1. Levels of words 2. The meaning of words 3. General and Specific Words 4. Idioms 5. Figures of speech 英文写作中怎样避免用词的重复 中英语言中用来喻人的植物的差异
different in百度文库stylistic level
Generally speaking, words of Anglo-Saxon origin
are more informal than those of Latin or French
origin. Look at these words:
English Writing
Diction
Diction is the choice and use of words. The English language has a big vocabulary: as many as 400,000 words are collected in the Oxford English Dictionary. Of course no one knows or uses so many words. Only a small amount of them are used by ordinary people for ordinary purposes.
in this establishment商业机构.’
Official 官方— ‘The consumption of nutriments is prohibited.’
Formal — ‘You are required not to consume food in this establishment.’
规范英语又可分为口语( spoken language )和书面语 ( written language), 非正式语( informal language)和 正式语( formal language)。例如：
Officialese 公文— ‘The consumption of any nutriments whatsoever is categorically prohibited
denotative and connotative
Country means an area of land and its population and its government,
nation emphasizes the people of a country,
state refers to the government or political organization of a country, and
2. The meaning of words
The meaning of a word has two aspects: denotative and connotative 外延和内涵.
A word’s denotation is what it literally means, as defined by the dictionary; its connotation is the feeling or idea suggested by it.
land is less precise but more literary and emotive than country.
English is particularly rich in synonyms as a result of incorporating words from other language over the centuries.
1. Levels of words
词汇选择得是否准确、贴切，对文章是否能收到预期 的效果致关重要。在锤炼和选择词语时，除了文章的 主题、思想内容、写作目的和读者对象等以外，还必 须考虑与之相适应的语言层次( levels of language )。
所谓语言层次，一般可归结为规范英语( standard English)和非规范英语( sub-standard English)。
For instance
country, nation, state and land have more or less the same denotation and may all be translated into “国家” in Chinese, but their connotation are quite different.
Colloquial — ‘You can’t feed your face here.’ Slang — ‘Lay off the nosh 小吃.’ Taboo — ‘Lay off the fucking nosh.’
But we should remember that it is difficult to find two words that are exactly the same in meaning and use. They may be different in stylistic level, in the degree of emphasis, in emotional coloring, in tone语气, and in collocation.
A student learning to write should learn to use the words that are most useful and most often used to express him.
Contents
1. Levels of words 2. The meaning of words 3. General and Specific Words 4. Idioms 5. Figures of speech 英文写作中怎样避免用词的重复 中英语言中用来喻人的植物的差异
different in百度文库stylistic level
Generally speaking, words of Anglo-Saxon origin
are more informal than those of Latin or French
origin. Look at these words:
English Writing
Diction
Diction is the choice and use of words. The English language has a big vocabulary: as many as 400,000 words are collected in the Oxford English Dictionary. Of course no one knows or uses so many words. Only a small amount of them are used by ordinary people for ordinary purposes.
in this establishment商业机构.’
Official 官方— ‘The consumption of nutriments is prohibited.’
Formal — ‘You are required not to consume food in this establishment.’
规范英语又可分为口语( spoken language )和书面语 ( written language), 非正式语( informal language)和 正式语( formal language)。例如：
Officialese 公文— ‘The consumption of any nutriments whatsoever is categorically prohibited
denotative and connotative
Country means an area of land and its population and its government,
nation emphasizes the people of a country,
state refers to the government or political organization of a country, and
2. The meaning of words
The meaning of a word has two aspects: denotative and connotative 外延和内涵.
A word’s denotation is what it literally means, as defined by the dictionary; its connotation is the feeling or idea suggested by it.
land is less precise but more literary and emotive than country.
English is particularly rich in synonyms as a result of incorporating words from other language over the centuries.
1. Levels of words
词汇选择得是否准确、贴切，对文章是否能收到预期 的效果致关重要。在锤炼和选择词语时，除了文章的 主题、思想内容、写作目的和读者对象等以外，还必 须考虑与之相适应的语言层次( levels of language )。
所谓语言层次，一般可归结为规范英语( standard English)和非规范英语( sub-standard English)。
For instance
country, nation, state and land have more or less the same denotation and may all be translated into “国家” in Chinese, but their connotation are quite different.