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The giraffe is the tallest land animal.It is 5.5 metres tall.长颈鹿是最高的陆地动物。它有5.5米高。The tallest man in China is 2.36 metres tall.在中国最高的男人女人有2.36米高。The fastest plane is in the USA.It travels at 3,530km per hour.最快的飞机是在美国。它每小时行驶3,530千米。The biggest animals is the blue whale.It is 30 metres long and 150 tons.     

Kites

The sky is full of fish and animals.The fish and animals are kites.It is kite day in the park. Kites have a long history.Once people believed kites could carry their thoughts to the gods.Many people flew kites over their houses at night.They thought this would keep them safe     

Animals

The largest animal ever to live on the earth is the blue whale(蓝鲸)It weighs about 80 tons--more than 24 elephants. It is more than 30 metres long. A newborn baby whale weighs as much as a big elephant.     

Charming Australia

The charm of Australia:If you’re tired of the noisy life inthe big city at the moment,you’d rather take a trip to Australia,the isolated continent in southern hemisphere.Sunny beaches,grand mountains,brilliant corals,unbounded prairies and vari-ous unique animals let you enjoy the embrace of the naturethoroughly.However, being natural is not the only charm of thisisland.It is,indeed,a superb melting of original nature andmodern civilization,which are not only a concordant harmonybut also a sharp contrast.It is the best illustration that you can     

On Translation of Animal Metaphors

Metaphors have been described as a central role of our cognitive apparatus. It is central to our understanding of how language, thought and discourse are structured. Animal metaphors as an important part of metaphors take advantage of the animals’ characteristics to describe a person or a thing vividly and chiefly. Sometimes animal metaphors will give people a humorous and novel picture. In linguistics, it can fill in the vacancy in languages, and make the expression exact and visually. Metaphor is kind of figure of speech. The thesis analyzes the function and style of metaphor and discusses the metaphors’ structure in grammar. How we understand the animal’s meaning is the key to translate the animal metaphors. All the animal words have both denotative meanings and connotative meanings. In most cases, the animals connotative meanings are the same or similar. People usually have the same idea about the animals; therefore, even the people who do not know English can understand some animal metaphors However, due to his tory, religion, phonetics, geography, life style, aesthetics and social psychology, the animals’ connotative meanings are different or even con trary. Facing these problems, how we translate the animal metaphors. I find four methods: adaptation, simile with explanation, paraphrase, and annotation. Adaptation is very efficient for the animal metaphors, which have counterpart in Chinese. Simile-with-explanation is the commonest method to translate animal metaphors, which are similar across the cultures easy to comprehend. Paraphrase is the last method to translate animal metaphors, and especially it can deal with any case that the animal metaphors are profound. Annotation is used to trans late animal metaphors in context, particularly in written English. Using the four methods, we can translate animal metaphors successfully. And while we are doing translation, we should understand English animals’ name very well, and pay attention to the Chinese animals’ meaning to make sure our readers understand the author’s in tended meanings. The thesis consists of five parts. The first part of the thesis states the significance and necessity of topic, problems to be solved in the thesis, and the framework of the thesis. The second part is literature review. The third part analyzes the animal vocabulary’s meanings. The fourth part gives four methods to do the animal metaphors translation. The conclusion part reviews the whole thesis and points out the weakness to be improved.     

Animal Imagesin The Call of the Wild

There is a long history of animal images in literature. What we have known about animal literature is confined into the Greek mythology, Aesop’s Fables and some fairy tales. But in the 20 thcentury, the development of animal literary which focuses on the real animals is great. The Call of the Wild by Jack London is a representative work of describing real animals. This paper will discuss two different images of Buck by means of two archetypes based on Archetype Theory of Carl G. Jung, shadow and hero, in order to study how Buck changed from a dog to a wolf.     

寂静之声拯救鲸鱼

Listening out for whale song is one way that ships can avoid colliding withwhales.But what do you do if the whales aren’t singing?One answer,de-veloped by researchers in the Canary Islands,is to focus on the way thegiant creatures mask the clamour of ocean noise.No one knows how many whales are killed by ships each year.Butcollisions are thought to account for up to a chird of unnatural deaths.For thenorthern right whale.this means one or two individuals every year,and with only300 animals left.that's an unacceptable loss.Last year,the Massachusetts-based International Fund for Animal Welfareattached hydrophones to buoys and succesffully Listened out for fight whale songin the North Adantic.But since right whales remain silent for hours at a time,andsperm whales are silent for around half the time,a better tracking technology isneeded.     

An Analysis of Humor from a Perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics

The Functional Linguistics provides a new perspective for the study of language in the present time.It regards language as a semiotic system.It also interprets language as a network of meaning potential.It accounts for what one can do linguistically and provides the set of linguistic choices.What the speaker do is the realization of these choices and certain meanings then are expressed.This present paper has conducted a discourse study of humors.The theoretical framework of humor analysis in this paper is systemic-functional linguistics,especially the theory of context.     

纽约——动感不夜城

New York City is the largest city in the United States. It is called "The Big Apple " and is a major world city and a world leader in finance, the arts, and communications. The city is the home of the United Nations and is headquarters for some of the world's largest corporations. The city is also the center of advertising, fashion, publishing, and radio broadcasting in the United States.     

The Characters of the Captain Ahab in Moby Dick

Captain Ahab is a controversy and complicated figure in Moby Dick. The studies of Ahab in the past has become increasingly involved various aspects. Ahab is a figure with many faces, among which the most significant and decisive ones are his individualist, arrogance and humanity. He persists in taking revenging on the white whale is quite compatible with such character. Besides, his fate is also leads to his attachment behavior. In this essay,I will mainly analyze the fate and characters of Ahab in order to help readers understand Moby Dick better.     

Our Country——the PRC

The PR C is the short form ofthe People s R epublic ofC hina.It is inEast A sia and it lies by the Pacific O cean. It has m any neighbouringcountries such as R ussia,K orea,India and so on.The PR C is the largestcountry in population and one of the largest countries in area in theworld. Itis a great country with a long history and it is a big fam ily withfifty-six nationalities. The capital of the PR C is B eijing. Itw illhold the2008O lym pic G am es.There re a lot of fam ous cities…     

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.     

奇妙之树——椰子树

The coconut palm is a tree growing in warm climates1. It has no branches, but a mass2 of big leaves at the top. It is found in villages, parks, house gardens and along the coast in South East Asia. It can grow to a height of thirty metres and live as long as one hundred years. It grows best along the coast because of the sandy soil and moist3 sea breezes4.     

Changsha a County Better than a City

正Changshu is a county-level city under the administration of Jiangsu provincial government.It is located in the southeast of Jiangsu with a close distance to Suzhou and Shanghai.It is the richest county-level city in mainland China as its GDP per capita in 2010 exceeded 20 thousand U.S.dollars,higher than Portugal.The strong economy of Changshu is attributed to its unparalleled location.Its     

I Enjoy Playing Table Tennis

The Shanghai World Expo will be held in 2010. Like the Olympic Games, it will draw the attention of the whole world. The World Expo brings together culture, technology and economics from every country in the world. It is a good opportunity to show Shanghai to the world. It is my great honor to be a citizen of Shanghai. I need to work hard to help create a beautiful Shanghai.     

Vital-Signs(Ⅰ)

The environment organization—World Watch Institution (2) lastweek released its yearly report about the condition of the world and itsresources.The report is called “Vital Signs 1994”.It is a collection of studies about changes in economic,social and en-vironmental conditions throughout the world.It provides a general idea     

Killer Whale Rescued

On June 13 Divers captured a 1,200-pound orphaned2 orca in Puget Sound, beginning a weekslong3 effort to reunite the young whale with her family.The lost killer whale, originally from a pod4 in Canada, has been alone since January off the north end of this island, southwest of Seattle. Her eagerness for company had convinced scientists that     

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）.     

Our village

This is a photograph of our village. Our village is in a valley. It is betweenn two hills. The village is on a river. Here is another photograph of the village. My sister and I are walking along the banks of the river. We are on the left. There is a boy i…     

A Comparative Study of Animal Vocabulary in English and Chinese

It is of great importance to learn the culture of a nation if we want to learn their language well.Some animals have common meanings in Chinese and English cultures,while some contain different cultural connotations.