Comparison of Two Attitudes Toward the Piano in The Piano Lesson

The Piano Lesson mainly focuses on the conflict caused by two opposite attitudes towards the heirloom-piano.The sister Berniece is determined to keep the piano and guard it,for she considers it as the " sacred icon" of the sacrificial history of her family.While the brother Boy Willie tries every way to sell it,desiring to make a fortune by buying a farm and work on it.Both attitudes have their limitations respectively,which forces the siblings to turn to the traditional way to solve the conflict.They then realize how to use the piano-the symbol of history and cultural legacy.That is to keep it and use it.     

那不是葡萄干

A kid walks into a lunchroom at school and sees a fly on the table. He swats it and leaves there. Another kid walks in, sees the dead fly and says, "Hey, cool, wings." So he pulls the wings and walks away. A third kid comes in, sees the dead fly, and says, "Hey look! Legs!" So he pulls the legs and leaves there. A fourth kid comes in and he also sees the dead fly. He leans over to look at it and pulls off its head. Then, the first kid comes back, sees it and says, "Hey, look, a raisin," and he eats it.     

老鼠和猫

Many years ago a very large rat lived in the king's palace.It was bigger than many cats and ate all the cats that tried to catch it.The king asked his people to find the best cat in the country.When they found the cat, they gave it to the king.The king then put the cat into a room with .the rat.As soon as it saw the rat, the cat ran and jumped up onto the table. The rat quickly followed the cat.This went on for a long time.The king and his friends said that the cat was not a good cat at all.But soon, the rat began to get tired and slow down.The cat then ran to the rat, picked it up with its teeth and killed it.     

An Analysis on the Differentiation between Diglossia and Bilingualism

Despite a hot and sensitive topic in China,the practice and education of bilingualism has been misunderstood in some areas because people have little sense of it.This paper is to differentiate the diglossia and the bilingualism to make it clear that it is important and necessary to put into practice the bilingualism and bilingual education in parts of China.     

The North Pole and the Arctic

The earth goes round the sun, spinning like a top in its axis with thenorth pole at one end and the south pole at the other. The Arctic is covered with ice and snow all the year round.There it isday for nearly half of the year and night for the other half.While it is day inthe Arctic,it is night in the Antarctic.     

暴风雨中的鹰

Did you know that an eagle knows when a storm is approaching long before it breaks? The eagle will fly to some high spot and wait for the winds to come.When the storm hits,it sets its wings so that the wind will pick it up and lift it above the storm.While the storm rages below,the eagle is soaring above it.     

The semantic comparison of elementary color words

Color has a close relationship with our life,it’s the key problem of human beings researching into the language and culture,and we can say,it’s impossible for us to live a beautiful life without the various color.Hence,it’s an eager task for us to study the color words,including its connotation,and it’s translation between the Chinese and English.     

狼请客

A wolf and a fox were good friends.One day the wolf caught a chicken,and said to the fox,"Go and kill it,cook it well.I’ll invite the bear to share it with us."The fox agreed and boiled the chicken.Soon it was ready.The chicken was so delicious that he couldn’t stand it.He ate up a chicken wing,then a chicken leg...Soon all the chicken was eaten up by him!After a while,the wolf returned home.He asked,"Is the chicken ready?""More or less!"answered the fox guiltily~1.     

原创阅读理解精练

The income-tax deadline approaches and some taxpayers＇ thoughts turn to it. Test time approaches and some students＇ thoughts turn to it. Temptation appears and some spouses consider it. Nowadays, cheating is on the rise. ＂You want something you can＇t get by behaving within the rules, and you want it badly enough, you＇ll do it regardless of any guilt or regret, and you＇re willing to run the risk of being caught.＂ That＇s how Ladd Wheeler, psychology professor at the University of Rochester in New York, defines cheating.     

The Comparison and Contrast of Skopostheorie and Baker’s Equivalence Translation Approach

Equivalence can be said to be the central issue in translation although its different approaches have caused heated controversy.However,as early as the 1970s,the Skopostheorie emerged in Germany,and it seemed to challenge the equivalence theories.Although Nida and some linguistics raised some negative problems of this theory,it still rapidly became famous around the world,This article will mainly compare and analyse Skopostheorie and Baker’s translation equivalence approach.First,it will give a simple overview of these two approaches.Second,it will discuss the relevant strengths and weaknesses of these two approaches in relation to their usage.Finally,it will discuss combining these two approaches in the same translation.     

他是谁的儿子?

A young boy was playing with a ball in the street.He kicked it too hard,and it broke the window of a house and fell inside.A lady came to the window with the ball and shouted at the boy,so he ran away,but he still wanted his ball back.A few minutes later he returned and knocked at the door of the house,and when the lady answered it,he said, "My father is going to come and fix your window very soon."     

Associative Meanings of Colors in Chinese and English CuItures

Colors are endowed into many different associative meanings by different peoples and countries under the various cultural backgrounds and people make it express testimonial and depreciated meaning. There is not only the same aspect, but also the differences. Moreover, some factors such as geographical environment, public sentiment custom, thinking mode, religious belief, and national psychology also influence it. Each kind of color is regarded the difference for every nation’s person. This article analyzes and investigates the associative meaning of the color in the Chinese and English cultures. And then it will let the reader learn well and more the associative meaning under the different cultural background.     

Puzzles

Sun[sΛn]1.It's round and it's bright. In the day it hangs in the sky and gives out light. But nobody can see it at night. What is it?     

About the Investigation of Art Students’English Study

English study is becoming more and more important.However,art students have weak English level on average.Thus,it’ s a problem for students and teachers to improve the quality of English study.In this article,it analyses the reason for the weak English level and the responding strategy.What’ s more,it encourages students to study actively and advocates teach ing based on art knowledge.     

幽默笑话(英文)

There was a big garden near Nasreddin's house,and it had a lot of fruit trees in it.Oneday Nasreddin saw some beautiful apples on one of them.He went home and got a lad-der,put it against the high wall of the garden and climbed up.Then he pulled the ladder up,put itdown on the other side,     

成语典故(英文)

黔驴技穷There were no donkeys in Guizhou.Someone brought a donkey there from outside of Guizhou and then let it free at the foot of a mountain.When a tiger saw the big donkey and heard it give a loud cry for the first time,he was so frightened that he ran far away from it.Later,the tiger came back and got close to the donkey.Moreover(而且),he teased(戏弄)the     

英语新闻阅读训练

Residents in east Beijing were woken Tuesday morning by ringing and drumming sounds and for once it wasn‘t just the noise from another construction site(建筑工地) ringing in their eats. This time it was music and it came from Zhihua Temple. It‘s the only temple that has opened both its bell and drum towers to the public. The temple is also renowned throughout the city for its ancient Buddhist music.     

Individualism and Collectivism

The world could be analyzed in many dimensions,like rich and poor,peace and warfare,equal and oppressive,but one of the most important dimensions may be the difference between different societies of individualist and collectivist.This article is trying to discuss is the difference between individualism and collectivism in the western and eastern cultures,and also will explain and discuss it in some aspects,such as their viewpoint,their attitude on self-enhancement and self-criticism,and the goal setting and motivation,and take some cases which some researches and psychologists did and some cases found for example to describe it.Also it presents that social orientation and environment,and culture background will take important role to impact people’s mind and choice on individualism and collectivism.No matter individual or collective,it all have advantage and disadvantage for each,it needs comprehensive evaluation for differential environment which can obtain relative reasonable conclusion.     

The Role of First Language in the Second Language Acquisition

In the linguistic field,L1transfer is a complex and controversial field in second language acquisition.In this article,Firstly,it will discuss some historical theories of L1 transfer.Secondly,it will analyze some manifestations of L1 transfer.Thirdly,it will explain the struc tural and the nonstructural factors in L1 transfer.Fourthly,it will discuss the problems in the study of L1transfer.Finally,it will give some my opinions of L1transfer.     

The Study of Connotations of Certain Color Words in Chinese and English Culture

1Introduction Language is a kind of social phenomenon and is the carrier of culture. At the same time, it is an important part of culture. However, it is vocabulary that carries the cultural information most and reflects the human beings' social and cultural life most obviously. Vocabulary encapsulates the different cultures, and meanwhile, cultural differences result in connotative divergence of vocabulary.