Pilgrim's Progress, Progress of Salvation

Through a comparative analysis of The Pilgrim’s Progress and The Journey to the West, the paper aims to reveal what common ground is shared by the two novels and what light is thrown on the theme of spiritual salvation. The fruit of the study leads to a conclusion that both novels have employed religious doctrines and social criticisms to make the theme of spiritual salvation more palatable for their readers.     

Service in Central Park Christian Church

Church service is important to Christianity and its culture.To understand it better,the questions of what people actual ly do during the church service and what the service means to those people need to be answered.A one-month close observa tion and personal experience in the Central Park Christian Church in U.S.from the aspects of the overall atmosphere,the space of participation,the routines of the service and the interactions among church people gives conclusions that the service in church indicates the idealism of church people.     

Stupid Orders

When Nasreddin was a boy,he never did what he was told,so his father always told him to do the opposite of what he wanted him to do.One day,when the two were bringing sacks of flour home on their donkeys,they had to cross a shallow river.When they were in the middle of it,one of the sacks on Nasreddin’s donkey began to slip,so his father said,"That sack is nearly in the water!Press down hard on it!"His father of course expected that he would do the opposite,but this time Nasreddin did what his     

Digging into the Culture Background of the Target Language——Prerequisite of learning a foreign language

The term, culture shock, was introduced for the first time in 1958 to describe the anxiety produced when a person moves to a completely new environ- ment. This term expresses the lack of direction, the feeling of not knowing what to do or how to do things in a new environment, and not knowing what is appro- priate or inappropriate. The feeling of culture shock generally sets in after the first few weeks of coming to a new place. "Coming to America is like jumping into cold water," says an inte…     

The Roles of a Language Teacher

In China education is carrying on a new reform.In this essay, the author talks about the situation of language teaching and what a language teacher should know and what to teach to cope with the situation.     

A Good Example of Hemingway’s Iceberg Principle:The Killers

Hemingway established a well-known literary theory - iceberg principle.He said he always attempted to create his literary works according to this principle.In his opinion,if a prose writer has a pretty clear idea of what he writes about,then he can omit the things he knows,and the readers will strongly feel that what the writer has omitted seems to have been written as long as what he writes is authentic.Hemingway himself once said,"The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one eighth of it being above water."Here,one eighth refers to the information given by the author,and the rest refers to the unwrit ten information that can be acquired in readers’imagination on the basis of the one eighth.The Killers is a good example of Hemingway’s iceberg principle.This essay will analyse the characters in it to show how the principle was used in this short story.With no doubt the iceberg principle leaves a large space for the readers to imagine and better understand Hemingway’s works.     

On Culture and Culture Study

Culture study has become a new trend in the acdamic fields, no matter what you are involved in is literature study, social study or the image study. People more and more focus their attention on cultural phenomena. While to what is culture in nature, pepole have different perspectives.Compared with the conception of society, the nature of culture is illustrated in the paper, and it is furthered to analyze how to define the scope and object of the cultural study.     

Terminology in Doing Business English Translation

Terminology plays an important role in doing business English translation. This paper will try to give tentative definitions of what is terminology, of what is business English translation, and render some examples to exemplify the significant impacts of terminology in doing BET. In author’s opinion the scope of "terminology" is quite broad.     

梦想

When we were young, we had dreams and expectations. We imagine things, we keep thinking about what we want to be, what we want to do, what makes us proud and happy and what we will become. We grew up, and things seemed like having its own way. We accept our success or failures and we move on. The rapid change, the need to do the urgent things, the works, the pressures and the failures, all kill part of our visions. Things have changed, but they cannot really take away the dreams. We still have to dream on, to visualize our desires, our wants, our vision of our future, even when we are considered too old for such things.     

Linguistic Cultural Signs in College English Teaching

1.IntroductionOne way of thinking aboutculture is to contrastit with nature. Nature refers to what is born andgrows Organically ( from the L atin nascere:to be born) ;culture refers to what has been grown andgroomed( from the Latin colere:to cultivate) .The word culture evokes the traditional nature/nurturedebate:Are human beings mainly what nature determines them to be from birth or what culture en-ables them to become through socialization and schooling?The screws that language and culture…     

Breaking Through Ethnocentrism Downside in International Communication

Ethnocentrism exists in all cultures and everyone is ethnocentric to some extent.People always tend to hold a stand on the side of their own cultural beliefs,values and manners to judge what is correct and what is wrong with regard to the cultures and traditions of other countries.Some feasible ways are given to adjust ethnocentric tendency in people’s minds in the future intercultural communication.Besides that,this paper also describes the author’s attributions to this study and gives some prospects for the future study to the ethnocentric phenomenon.     

How to Survive in a Jungle

Beware: Dangerous animals!Although tigers that attack people are few and far between, they do exist! Beware(当心), too, of the other dangerous animals in the jungle. The most deadly are the Arrow-Poison frogs. People who live in rainforests have had years of practice in knowing what to hunt and what to     

阅读理解四则(英文)

(A)Every day we go to school and listen to teachers, and the teacherwill ask us some questions. Sometimes, the classmates will ask youropinions of the work of the class. When you are telling others in the classwhat you have found out about these topics, remember that they must beable to hear what you are saying. You are not taking part in a family con-versation or having a chat with friends——you are in a situation where alarge group of people will remain silent, waiting to hear what you have…     

A Brief Analysis of the Themes of The Journey to the West

The Journey to the West has adopted a conventional theme--life is a journey;in order to deliver one’s soul,one has to go on the path of salvation.The purpose of this paper is to examine what steps the author has taken to enlighten the readers as to the progress of spiritual salvation.In view of this purpose,the analysis will be focused on the preaching of religious doctrines and the criticism of social realities in the novel.     

Thoreau’s philosophy of “simplify”

The essay expounds the philosophy of Thoreau’s "simplify" in aspect of meaning and reason.Closely connected with the relationship between human and nature,it enables us to see the point of a brooding,simple and sensible life of Thoreau.The end clarifies on a question:according to Thoreau,what is to have a simplify life? That’s to care for little,listen to one’s heart and do what one likes.The conclusion comes with an advocation that people keep a simple life with little greed,and take it as an ulti mate cure for the bothering life of today.     

天使

A cool breeze floated in through the window of Room 459 causing Maria to shiver.It wascold for November,but she didn't care to shut the window.she didn't dare move,tobread the heavy silence that hung between her and her best friend,Tommy.He shifteduncomfortably while she adjusted her white kneesock,Maria was lost inside her ownmind and thoughts of what used to be.She was trying so hard to understand what had     

悠闲英语（五十六）

Actually, what I mean by eating is not the food we eat but the way in which we eat. Yes, you guessed it-we are going to talk about ＂table manners＂ Eating in a restaurant is a very enjoyable experience when you know what to expect and what you are expected of as a guest. In western culture, dinner is the most important meal of the day, so we＇ll talk about having dinner in a restaurant in America.