Sour Grapes探源

2009年高考英语山东卷单选第29题是这样的： --He says that the new car is a of money. --Don＇t you think those words are just sour grapes？ A. lack B. load C. question D. waste     

On the Analysis of Tag Questions in English Teaching

Tag question is often used in English conversation,but it is also a very complicated syntactic structure in English which becomes the difficulty of English learners.Tag question involves various grammatical factors.A full linguistic analysis of tag questions includes the classification,construction and meanings of intonations of the tag questions in English.The study of tag question aims at providing substantial contribution to the teaching and learning of English syntax.     

Units 1-3易混词语辨析

1．difficult．hard 【辨析】二者作形容词时都可以表示“困难的”,一般情况下可以互换。例如：This is a hard/difficult question to answer.这是一个很难回答的问题。     

What,according to Michel Foucault,characterizes the order of discourse?

Through his theory,Michel Foucault uses the epistemological approach to answer the question "how?" concerning the colluding concepts of knowledge,discourse,and the order of discourse.He aims at getting to know,almost deciphering,the processes and circumstances of knowledge by answering the question "How do we know what we know?"     

The Cultural Reflection of Allusions to the Bible

As the classics of Christianity,the Bible has exerted a deep influence on the development of the western culture.The great influence is mostly dedicated to the allusions of the Bible.The cultural connotation reflected by these allusions reveals the source of the western civilization.The paper aims at understanding the essence of the English language and western culture better by illustrating the cultural background on the basis of which the allusions to the Bible is derived.     

读读做做

我看见 Tim and I are in the front of the bus. We are going to school.     

你问我答

问 ： ＂He listened to the radio until his father came back.＂ 和＂He didn＇t listen to the radio until his father cattle back.＂ 的意思有何区别？     

A Study of Question&Answer Behavior in EFL Teaching——On the Basis of Cooperative Principle

As an Chinese saying goes that"Nothing can be accomplished without norms or standards". Thus People always follow Cooperative Principle to produce successful conversations in daily life and the EFL teaching is of no exception. Teachers and students cooperate with each other in classroom while they sometimes flout the principle deliberately. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct research on interactions in classroom, especially question & answer behaviors to see how teachers and students observe the Cooperative Principle and analyze underlying causes of their intentional flouting.     

Priority of the Politeness Principle over the Cooperative Principle in Communication

The Cooperative Principle that Grice proposes explains how conversational implicature is generated but it does not tell us why people are often inclined to convey what they want to say indirectly and implicitly by violating the maxims of the Cooperative Principle. Leech introduces the Politeness Principle to provide a reasonable explanation for this question, that is, for politeness. From the perspective of the purpose of communication, this article tries to argue that the Politeness Principle has the greater binding force in conversation and it should be given priority over the Cooperative Principle.     

由Out of question和Out of the question想开去

“out of question”和“out of the question”，一词之差，意义却大相径庭，前者是“毫无问题“，后者则是“绝不可能”、“很成问题”。一个小小的“the”，作用却如此之大，而我们却经常忽略了它的作用。其实，在英语中，还有许多词和词组，由于“the”的存在与否，使词或词组的意义发生很大变化。现列数例以作说明，     

今天好冷啊

1. It＇s cold today. / It＇s chilly today. 今天好冷。／今天冷风飕飕。 2. It＇s freaking cold today!今天冷死啦! 3. The wind really chills me to the bone. / Thewind is bone-chilling.这寒风真是刺骨。     

Study on the Network Catchwords from the Perspective of Memetics——Be gin with the Popular Sentence “Come to Wuhan University to See the Sea”

The sentence "Come to Wuhan University to see the sea" has become so popular in internet since June last year.This paper first looks back on the theory of memetics,and subsequently tries to discuss and find out the reason why this sentence could be so popular rapidly from the perspective of memetics,from the example,we could finally realize the ways and characteristics of the network language memes in replication and transmission.     

The Criticism of Social Realities in the Three Worlds after the Human World of The Journey to the West

The three worlds after the human world in The Journey to the West, in spite of their religious elements, their implicit moralizing, and their involved allegory, hold up a mirror to the social vices of the author’s day, showing on the one hand the corruption, injustice, ava rice, lust, faction, perfidiousness and cruelty among the ruling classes, and on the other hand the miseries of the oppressed.     

Unit 3-4单元知识要点

Unit3知识点讲解1.-What were you doing when the UFO arrived?-I was standing in front of the library.     

救灾

句子:全国人民正在为抗震救灾捐款物。误译:The Chinese people are donating money and materials to fight the earthquake and save the disaster.正译:The Chinese people are donating money and materials to fight the earthquake and provide disaster relief.解释:"救灾"的意思是"援助灾难中的人,使其免于灾难"。救的对象     

谈论天气

1．今天天气怎样？How　is　the　weather　today？／What’s　the　weather　like　to　day？／What　sort　of　day　are　we　going　to　have？     

Unit11重点、难点讲评

1.-Peter,could you please take out the trash？ -Sure,Mom. -Could you please do the dishes？ -Sorry ,I can′t.I have to do my homework.     

语法点击

一、by的用法①通过……方式(途径)例:1 learnE飞lish by listening to taPes.②在……旁边例:by the windowlthe door③乘坐交通工具例:by bu疵ar，Most of the stodents to to sehoolby bike.④在……之前，到……为止例:by october在10月前⑤被……例:English 15 spoken by~ype叩le.二、动词不定式做定语①与所修饰的名词构成主谓关系The next加in toa币ve wa月如m New York.He isal·wa”thefi邝t to eome·②与所修饰的名词构成动宾关系1 have nothing to say·1 needa伴n to write诫th. 1 need some Paper to write on. 1 don’t …     

英语中考中的一诃多义

我们先看一道中考题： --Do you like reading the novel Journey to the West written by Wu Chengen ？