The Construction of Social Darwinism in Sister Carrie

Social Darwinism is an important theory reflected in Sister Carrie. This thesis is to interpret the characters’ fates with Social Darwinism."Survival of the fittest"is an important theme. Carrie is the winner of life and Hurtwood is the loser. Their adjustability to the environment determines their future. It is hoped to help the readers construct a better understanding on this theory.     

Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle is also called Devil’s Triangle.It is an imagi-nary area in the Atlantic Ocean.It extends more than one—million squarekilometers between the island of Bermuda,the coast of southern Floridaand the island of Puerto Rico.Drawing an imaginary line to line these     

Confucianism in Walden—A Comparative Study of Walden and the Four Books

As is known to everyone, Henry David Thoreau was an outstanding American writer in the 19th century. However, he did not attract much attention at that time. In fact, Thoreau did not have a profound influence on American culture until the 20th century. It is generally acknowledged that his masterpiece Walden is one of the most outstanding literary works, in which the richness of thoughts contributes greatly to the spread of Thoreau's philosophy. Thanks to it, Thoreau's philosophy has attracted more and more attention. It is pleasantly surprised for a Chinese reader to find Confucianism in an American classical work of the 19th century. Many scholars have studied Confucianism in Walden in order to analyze how Confucianism influences Thoreau. However, these studies more or less overstate or understate the influence of Confucianism. Therefore, such a research does have great practical significance, that is, to objectively analyze how Confucianism influences an American writer and how it is repre?sented in his representative work.     

The Weather in Britain

It is well-known that the English go out with an umbrella or a raincoat.Why? Because the weather in Britain often changes quickly. It is not very common for the same kind of weather to stay long.     

Translation As A Language Teaching Technique

This paper is an attempt to argue for the use of translation in second language instruction. It presents various attitudes, both pro and con, towards this teaching method. It also gives an overview of the historical role of translation in the language teaching community in order to give a clear picture of the development of this method. In the end, the paper explains how the use of translation can benefit second language learning activities. Introduction     

An Analysis of Classroom Discourse in Primary English Classroom

An English classroom is an important site that teachers set teaching tasks to let students accept the integrated ability of using lan guage.Teacher talk plays an important role in the organization of discourse and L2 acquisition.It mainly talks about the teachers how to transfer information to the students in English classes.     

On the Verbal and Non-Verbal Features in Chinese-English Interpretation

This paper investigates the verbal and non - verbal features of interpretation from Chinese into English . On the one hand the language of interpretation belongs to the category of oral language, So It determines the path an interpreter should follow while interpreting . On the other hand it is suggested that the non - verbal approach plays an important role in interpretation. Therefore an interpreter can not be a qualified interpreter unless he is, in addition to language techniques, skilled in the application of paralanguage.     

Pragmatic Analysis of Humor by Violating the CP in Friends

Humor is one of the unique ways for human beings to express their feelings.It becomes one of the important topics in pragmatic study how the human system operates.This article introduces four maxims of Gricean cooperative principle and attempts to explore how humor in Friends,an American situation comedy is caused by violation of the principle and how to interpret humor in context.It will help us to understand English humor deeply so as to improve learners’ communicative ability of language.     

世界上最大的蟑螂

The cockroach shown in the picture is an Australian burrowing cockroach.It is the biggestcockroach in the world. People living in a densely-populated city have shown a new tendency:craze about pets.Some of them like to keep clean,low-maintenance insects like cockroaches. Do you like to keep some of them?     

On Applying Internet-based Teaching in College Oral English Teaching

Spoken language is such an important part in learning English that College English Curriculum Requirement considers promoting the students’ spoken language as one of the most important goals in teaching English.However,at present,the students’ oral expression competence is not so good in colleges.It is urgent to improve the quality of oral English classes and solve mute English of the students in colleges.Internet-based teaching is the new teaching mode adapting to the trend of the times.Internet provides excellent interactive methods for inquiry learning mode and provides the possibility for constructing an open learning environment.     

Evaluation of the Textbook New Era Interactive English

Evaluation of teaching materials is necessary and very important for teachers. It can help teachers choose an appropriate textbook, realize the advantage and disadvantage of a textbook and adjust their teaching procedures according to different situations and learners. It makes teaching and learning more effective and efficient. The importance of evaluating teaching materials is emphasized in this paper and then the textbook New Era Interactive English is chosen as an example to further illustrate the problem. This textbook is to be analyzed and evaluated from the following angles: overview, internal and external.     

Naturalism in The Call of the Wild

Jack London's novel The Call of the Wild is story of transformation in which the old Buck,from civilized,moral to a wild,cruel leader of a packs of wolves.It is a typical American Naturalistic novel.The paper tries to explore three features of Naturalism in the novel,that is,determinism,"survival of the fittest",and heredity in an attempt to understanding the novel better.     

Cooperative Learning in Oral English Classroom Teaching in Higher Vocational Education

Cooperative learning in spoken English teaching process occupies an important position.It is a relatively new teaching method to provide students with more opportunities to speak English,to reduce the tension of the students,to enhance the enthusiasm of the students to participate in the oral group activities,and to improve the students’ English speaking ability significantly.Cooperative learning has been widely used in teaching practice,but in spoken English classroom teaching,it is not be used completely.     

Modular approach for ethics

It is hard to define a single set of ethics that will cover an entire computer users community. In this paper, the issue is addressed in reference to code of ethics implemented by various professionals, institutes and organizations. The paper presents a higher level model using hierarchical approach. The code developed using this approach could be adopted easily by the entire community of computer users working in different environments. The hierarchical approach allows refinement and customization of code at lower levels to address the needs of diverse sub groups of users. It also provides comfort of flexibility as well as the potential for evolution. The work reported here is in continuation of the research reported in an earlier paper （Wyne,2009）.     

The Impression of Langfang

Langfang is located in the middle of Hebei province;it lies between the Bohai Sea to the east and the capital city of the country to the west,and lies between the Yan Mountain to the north and a large area of fertile plain soil to the south.It is less than 50km from Langfang to Beijing and takes less than an hour to the sea.This piece of land,interdependent with Beijing-Tianjin,is like a bright pearl,proudly embedded in the Beijing-Tianjin corridor.     

Macdonald

Mother took me to a Macdonald1 , It is a fast food chain shop2. It stands in the center of the city with an attractive look. Immediately I liked for its western look. We entered, and we found a place to sit down. Mother went to front counter to order some…     

Literal Translation and Free Translation

Translation means the conversion of an expression into another language. To say plainly,It is an art to reproduce the exact idea of the author by means of a language different from the original.So the original thought of the expression must be kept as exactly as possible. The duty of the translator is simply to change the vocabulary not the thought. Literal translation and free translation are two essential ways in translation. Literal translation refers to an adequate representation of the original in sequence of vocabulary, in grammatical structure and rhetorical device. Free translation is also called liberal translation, which does not adhere strictly to the form or word order of the original. Which one is preferable？ We can hardly say. Each has its advantages and disadvantages.Argument between them has been more than 80 years. What on earth is the argument？ What do they focus on？ The argument brings great effect to us, so I want to find some answers to it.     

金字塔里遇故知

Scenc:in the Great Pyramid (There is an Arab proverb.It says"Man fears Time,yet Time fears the Pyramids".Blue Mouse wants to see the world.Superboy suggests to him see the Great Pyramid.They are now in front of the Great Pyramid.)     

On Translation of Images in English Poems——in Virtue of the Dynamic Equivalence Theory

Image is not only an essential part,but also a major means to convey the implications in English poems.It is a literal and concrete representation of a sensory experience of an object.The rendering of images in English poems into Chinese can be guided by the dynamic equivalent translation theory put forward by Dr.Eugene A Nida.The theory emphasizes the roughly equivalent response of the target language receptors to the TL text to that of the source language receptors to the SL text.To achieve a Dynamic Equivalence,methods like Direct Translation,Addition,and Substitution can be employed in the translation of images in English poems.     

Metaphor Analysis of Chinese Premier Wen’s Cambridge Speech

Metaphor is more than an ostensible decoration of language.It is an integral part of human thought of ideologized world.This article analyzes the metaphor use of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s speech at Cambridge in February 2009,in an attempt to display how the preferred metaphors serve the purpose of this speech and reflect Premier Wen’s construction of China’s situation.