双语有声阅读：语言与文化
时间：2019-03-10 作者：英语课 分类：双语有声阅读
英语课
Language and Culture
语言与文化
Languages are marvelously complex
语言是极其复杂
and wonderfully complicated organs of culture:
难解的文化工具：
they embody 1 the quickest and the most efficient means of communicating
它们是最快捷最有效的交流思想的手段
within their respective culture.
在各文化中。
To learn a foreign language is to learn another culture.
学习外语就等于学习另一种文化。
In a words of a poet and philosopher,
一位诗人兼哲学家曾经这样说过：
"As many languages as one speaks, so many lives one lives."
"你懂几种外语，你就过着几种不同的生活。"
A culture and its language are as inseparable as brain and body;
文化及其语言正像人脑与人体一样不可分割。
while one is a part of the other,neither can function without the other.
虽然其中一个是另一个的部分，但是失去一部分，另一部分就不能运作。
In learning a foreign language, the best beginning
学习外语最好的开始是
is with the non- verbal linguistic 2 elements of the language,
从这种语言的非语言的语言成分开始，
its gestures,its body language.
即从手势，体语开始。
Eye contact is extremely important in English.
在英语中，眼神的接触极其重要。
Direct eye contact leads to understanding,
眼神直接接触导致理解
or,as the English maxim 3 has it,seeing eye-to-eye.
或者正如英语格言说的意见完全一致。
We can never see eye-to-eye with a native speaker of English
我们和说英语母语的人会意交融
until we have learned to look directly into his eyes.
直到我们学会了他们眼中的意思。
语言与文化
Languages are marvelously complex
语言是极其复杂
and wonderfully complicated organs of culture:
难解的文化工具：
they embody 1 the quickest and the most efficient means of communicating
它们是最快捷最有效的交流思想的手段
within their respective culture.
在各文化中。
To learn a foreign language is to learn another culture.
学习外语就等于学习另一种文化。
In a words of a poet and philosopher,
一位诗人兼哲学家曾经这样说过：
"As many languages as one speaks, so many lives one lives."
"你懂几种外语，你就过着几种不同的生活。"
A culture and its language are as inseparable as brain and body;
文化及其语言正像人脑与人体一样不可分割。
while one is a part of the other,neither can function without the other.
虽然其中一个是另一个的部分，但是失去一部分，另一部分就不能运作。
In learning a foreign language, the best beginning
学习外语最好的开始是
is with the non- verbal linguistic 2 elements of the language,
从这种语言的非语言的语言成分开始，
its gestures,its body language.
即从手势，体语开始。
Eye contact is extremely important in English.
在英语中，眼神的接触极其重要。
Direct eye contact leads to understanding,
眼神直接接触导致理解
or,as the English maxim 3 has it,seeing eye-to-eye.
或者正如英语格言说的意见完全一致。
We can never see eye-to-eye with a native speaker of English
我们和说英语母语的人会意交融
until we have learned to look directly into his eyes.
直到我们学会了他们眼中的意思。
vt.具体表达，使具体化；包含，收录
- The latest locomotives embody many new features. 这些最新的机车具有许多新的特色。
- Hemingway's characters plainly embody his own values and view of life.海明威笔下的角色明确反映出他自己的价值观与人生观。
adj.语言的，语言学的
- She is pursuing her linguistic researches.她在从事语言学的研究。
- The ability to write is a supreme test of linguistic competence.写作能力是对语言能力的最高形式的测试。