⑴ 作文《我爱英语》要有具体事例!600字左右语文作业
By JOHN McWHORTER
Published: January 20, 2012
There has always been disagreement on these American shores as to just what the “” English is. The status of Parisian French or Tuscan Italian has long been unassailable. Yet in the early 1940s, fusty Chicagoans were writing to The Chicago Tribune declaring Midwestern speech America’s “purest,” while New York radio announcers were speaking in plummy Londonesque, complete with rolled r’s. Down in Charleston, S.C., the elite’s sense of the best English involved peculiar archaisms like “cam” for “calm” and “gyardin” for “garden.”
SPEAKING AMERICAN
A History of English in the United States
By Richard W. Bailey
207 pp. Oxford University Press. $27.95.
In “Speaking American,” a history of American English, Richard W. Bailey argues that geography is largely behind our fluid evaluations of what constitutes “proper” English. Early Americans were often moving westward, and the East Coast, unlike European cities, birthed no dominant urban standard. The story of American English is one of eternal rises and falls in reputation, and Bailey, the author of several books on English, traces our assorted ways of speaking across the country, concentrating on a different area for each 50-year period, starting in Chesapeake Bay and ending in Los Angeles.
We are struck by the oddness of speech in earlier America. A Bostonian visiting Philadelphia in 1818 noted that his burgherly hostess casually pronounced “dictionary” as “disconary” and “again” as “agin.” William Cullen Bryant of Massachusetts, visiting New York City around 1820, wrote not about the “New Yawkese” we would expect, but about locutions, now vanished, like “sich” for “such” and “guv” for “gave.” Even some aspects of older writing might throw us. Perusing The Chicago Tribune of the 1930s, we would surely marvel at spellings like “crum,” “heven” and “iland,” which the paper included in its house style in the ultimately futile hope of streamlining English’s spelling system.
A challenge for a book like Bailey’s, however, is the sparseness of evidence on earlier forms of American English. The human voice was unrecorded before the late 19th century, and until the late 20th recordings of casual speech, especially of ordinary people, were rare. Meanwhile, written evidence of local, as opposed to standard, language has tended to be cursory and of shaky accuracy.
For example, the story of New York speech, despite the rich documentation of the city over all, is frustratingly dim. On the one hand, an 1853 observer identified New York’s English as “purer” than that found in most other places. Yet at the same time chronicles of street life were describing a jolly vernacular that has given us words like “bus,” “tramp” and “whiff.” Perhaps that 1853 observer was referring only to the speech of the better-off. But then just 16 years later, a novel describes a lad of prosperous upbringing as having a “strong New York accent,” while a book of 1856 warning against “grammatical embarrassment” identifies “voiolent” and “afeard” as pronunciations even upwardly mobile New Yorkers were given to. So what was that about “pure”?
Possibly as a way of compensating for the vagaries and skimpiness of the available evidence, Bailey devotes much of his story to the languages English has shared America with. It is indeed surprising how tolerant early Americans were of linguistic diversity. In 1903 one University of Chicago scholar wrote proudly that his city was host to 125,000 speakers of Polish, 100,000 of Swedish, 90,000 of Czech, 50,000 of Norwegian, 35,000 of Dutch, and 20,000 of Danish.
What earlier Americans considered more dangerous to the social fabric than diversity were perceived abuses within English itself. Prosecutable hate speech in 17th-century Massachusetts included calling people “dogs,” “rogues” and even “queens” (though the last referred to prostitution); magistrates took serious umbrage at being labeled “poopes” (“dolts”). Only later did xenophobic attitudes toward other languages come to prevail, sometimes with startling result. In the early years of the 20th century, California laws against fellatio and cunnilingus were vacated on the grounds that since the words were absent from dictionaries, they were not English and thus violations of the requirement that statutes be written in English.
Ultimately, however, issues like this take up too much space in a book supposedly about the development of English itself. Much of the chapter on Philadelphia is about the city’s use of German in the 18th century. It’s interesting to learn that Benjamin Franklin was as irritated about the prevalence of German as many today are about that of Spanish, but the chapter is concerned less with language than straight history — and the history of a language that, after all, isn’t English. In the Chicago chapter, Bailey mentions the dialect literature of Finley Peter Dunne and George Ade but gives us barely a look at what was in it, despite the fact that these were invaluable glimpses of otherwise rarely recorded speech.
Especially unsatisfying is how little we learn about the development of Southern English and its synergistic relationship with black English. Bailey gives a hint of the lay of the land in an impolite but indicative remark about Southern child rearing, made by a British traveler in 1746: “They suffer them too much to prowl amongst the young Negroes, which insensibly causes them to imbibe their Manners and broken Speech.” In fact, Southern English and the old plantation economy overlap almost perfectly: white and black Southerners taught one another how to talk. There is now a literature on the subject, barely described in the book.
On black English, Bailey is also too uncritical of a 1962 survey that documented black Chicagoans as talking like their white neighbors except for scattered vowel differences (as in “pin” for “pen”). People speak differently for interviewers than they do among themselves, and modern linguists have techniques for eliciting people’s casual language that did not exist in 1962. Surely the rich and distinct — and by no means “broken” — English of today’s black people in Chicago did not arise only in the 1970s.
Elsewhere, Bailey ventures peculiar conclusions that may be traceable to his having died last year, before he had the chance to polish his text. (The book’s editors say they have elected to leave untouched some cases of “potential ambiguity.”) If, as Bailey notes, only a handful of New Orleans’s expressions reach beyond Arkansas, then exactly how was it that New Orleans was nationally influential as the place “where the great cleansing of American English took place”?
And was 17th-century America really “unlike almost any other community in the world” because it was “a cluster of various ways of speaking”? This judgment would seem to neglect the dozens of colonized regions worldwide at the time, when legions of new languages and dialects had already developed and were continuing to evolve. Of the many ways America has been unique, the sheer existence of roiling linguistic diversity has not been one of them.
The history of American English has been presented in more detailed and precise fashion elsewhere — by J. L. Dillard, and even, for the 19th century, by Bailey himself, in his underread “Nineteenth-Century English.” Still, his handy tour is useful in imprinting a lesson sadly obscure to too many: as Bailey puts it, “Those who seek stability in English seldom find it; those who wish for uniformity become laughingstocks.”
John McWhorter’s latest book is “What Language Is (and What It Isn’t and What It Could Be).”
⑵ 中文作文我的英语学习计划600字左右
Plan for English Learning
I’m a middle school student. I love English, but it’s hard for me. Now I have a good plan to learn English.
我是一名中学生,
英语学习计划作文
。我喜欢英语,但是对我来说却很难。现在我有一个很好的英语学习计划。
I have a pronunciation problem. I can’t pronounce so well. So I plan to listen to the tape and read after it. I can’t read English passages quickly and can’t write a passage clearly. Now I plan to read more and practice writing often. As for listening, sometimes I can’t understand what others are saying. So I plan to improve myself by listening to the radio and TV. Grammar is the most difficult for me. I have no idea of it, but I think my English teacher can help me with it.
我的发音有点问题。我发音不好。所以我打算听磁带并跟读。我不能快速地阅读英语文章,也不能清清楚楚地写文章。现在我计划看多些书,经常练习写作。至于听力,有时候我无法理解其他人在说什么。所以我打算通过听收音机和电视来提高我自己。对我来说语法是最难的。我都不知道怎么办,不过我觉得我的英语老师能够帮助我,
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《英语学习计划作文》(http://www.unjs.com)。
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With this English-learning plan, I’m hoping for great progress.
有了这个英语学习计划,我希望能取得很大的进步。
英语学习计划英语作文
老师要求的英语作文关于英语学习的,虽然简单。
My new plan of English The new semester has begun. In this semester, I plan to have a plenary English time, so I made the following plan which is considered perfect. I will preview the new lessons for 30 minutes to 1 hour on the day before the English class. In class, I'll try my best to understand every point. If necessary, I'll take notes and ask at least one question every class. And I want to be active in speaking. According to the requirement of the teacher, I am going to take written exercises. It's time to read texts aloud from seven twenty-five to a quarter to eight a.m everyday except Sunday. My oral English practice will be done for 30 minutes twice a week. To enlarge my vocabulary, I should learn 60 words everyday except Sunday. As we all know, reviewing the learnt courses is very important. So 1 hour's reviewing on Sunday is essential. How's my perfect plan? I will insist on carrying it out and make an effort on my English learning .I believe it will work.
⑶ 本人初三求一篇校园类记叙文(600字)一篇写人的英语作文(60字)
题目:我最好的朋版友权My best friend
Li Lei is my best friend. He is tall and thin with a pair of glasses. He has short black hair with a round face. He is friendly and honest. Sometimes he is funny and he likes telling jokes to make us laugh. His favourite sport is playing basketball and we often play it after school. He studies hard and he can always get good grades at school. He likes helping other,too and he often helps me with my English. I learn a lot from him so I like him very much.
⑷ 我骄傲我是英语课代表作文600字(要记叙文,关于英语课代表每天做的事,最后总结虽然辛苦,但很骄傲)
英语课代表也不例外。“领读也不差呀?”说的倒好听,你来试试。读英语可不像你想像的那么简单,读错一字一词,说不定就会被其他班干部嘲笑,被同学讽刺。而且,如果让老师听到了,老师就会批评我:“班干部不读好读准,怎么给同学做榜样呢?”
痛苦二:背英语
“老妹,背英语有啥痛苦的?我一天能背十几来
篇呢!”老兄,你也不看看给谁背,我们英语老师挑剔极了,一个英语单词背错都不行。倘若,你背错了,英语老师就会把你赶出去,背的一“英”不差
才刚刚及格。“什么?你们老师怎么这么严啊
!”光这还行
,可有时上课,老师还会让我当着全班同学的面背,背不好又会出洋相,我为什么这么苦啊,呜~
痛苦三
:提问单词
“你不是英语班长吗,怎么还怕这个?”正因为我是英语班长,所以我怕这个。我的成绩差不多,但总是一起一落,一会高一会低,所以,免不了让老师说几句,老师总是说我,自高自大,一考好就骄傲。所以,每次上英语课的前一个夜晚,我都要在被窝里把学过的课文认认真真的看几遍,可老师就是不提,我以为老师不提了,也就不看了,谁知老师偏偏就在那天提,老师这不是在整我吗?
你们都认为当英语班长一定很好玩,可你知道我的痛苦吗?我已经快要得英语课代表恐惧症了,你们谁来
救救我呀?
⑸ 记叙文.600字左右的作文求
花,是个多民族国家五十六个民族围成一朵花,不同的民族,不同的风情。不一样的风俗造就了不一样的节日风俗而提到节日风俗,我首先会想到逛庙会,逛庙会这北京风俗相信大家已经久仰大名了,但真正见识过的估计也不多,那就让我带领大家去观赏这一有趣的民俗。
大年初一,北京城内城外寺院都举办庙会,庙会是大型的集市。大清早,庙门外小摊便吆喝起来,一条街被挤得水泄不通,满怀的好心情,漫步走进庙门,首先映入眼帘的便是此年的生肖物,绒毛的、瓷的、玉的琳琅满目,使人眼花缭乱。玲珑剔透的玩意儿排放在货柜上,整齐有序,很是吸人眼球。
参观完精致的工艺品,便来到食品一条街准备饱餐一顿,这里四处飘香,十里之外也能闻着香味赶来。食品街的都是小吃,聚集了八方美味,光是看看,都已经口水三尺玩累了,就到这里来,品味各色佳肴,定是舒服!听闻北京集市的阿里巴巴羊肉串味美、肉肥,我也按捺不住激动的心情,找了几家老手,一连要了十几串,坐在小椅上边吃边看看繁市,好不快活,羊肉串真好吃,一连的羊肉串下肚,都还不过瘾,谁叫北京的小吃色香味全呢?
吃饱喝足,随我往前继续观赏,一路小跑,便来到儿童天地,这里有小孩玩耍的各种有奖游戏,也有新年才推出的稀有玩具,“气枪打靶”、“绵羊拉车”、“力劈华山”,五花八门,各具特色庙会游戏有的刺激,有的有趣,无不让人张大嘴巴睁大眼睛,大饱眼福, 其乐无穷,我
虽然没玩(感觉忒幼稚!)但这些活动却让无数的小孩子欢天喜地。
玩够了,告别游乐场,随我一同去听“国粹”,用心去感受文化的真谛 。不早早赶到演出戏场,那还真是难以看到台上演员的表演,剧场是十里八层被文艺爱好者围得水泄不通。这儿的节目丰富多彩,层出不穷,有京剧、评剧、相声、小品、哑剧等,一个连一个,让台下的观众过足了瘾,熟悉的哼上两曲,不懂的,也用手在空中上下比划,跟着旋律,摇头晃脑,享受京剧的音韵,小品的欢快。演完一出,拍手声响遍了整个场地,久久回荡在庙会的上空。
我东蹦西跳,早已汗如雨下,却也乐在其中,虽然没有鞭炮的喜庆,但也不失节日的气氛,反而增添了无穷的乐趣,老庙会,新庙会,东西南北大聚会,它有它的独特风韵,它有它的热闹。祖国孕育了不同的民族,不同的民风五十六枝花,各色千秋,可老北京的风情,却让我为之一爽!
⑹ 一篇英语的感恩作文(记叙文)50词左右
A letter to my parents
Dear Mom and Dad,
[1] I love you! I love you with all my heart! This letter to you is to tell you my true feelings from the bottom of my heart.
[2] Thank you so much for bringing me up! Thank you so much for raising me. I know how hard you’ worked ring the past years. I can imagine how many difficulties and obstacles (障碍) you’ve conquered. I can imagine all the problems you have faced and all the sweat and tears you have shed to make my life better. I can fully understand what a huge responsibility it is to raise a child. You’ve been very patient with me. You’ve encouraged me and you’ve helped me. You’ve tried your hardest to give me the best things in life. You’ve made a lot of sacrifices and many difficult choices. I also know that you have great expectations (热切的期望) of me. You want me to be very successful and happy. You want me to be the best person I can be. You want me to do great things with my life. You want me to make the world a better place. I know you have so many hopes and dreams for my future.
[3] Today I want to tell you something extremely important (极其重要的) .Today I want to tell you that you don’t need to worry about me anymore. I’m grown up! I will be responsible (负责任) for my life and for my future. I will study very hard. I will exercise every day to keep fit. I will read English every morning and every night. I will make the best use of every spare minute. I will be happy, confident, positive and energetic every day! I will develop good habits and use them to constantly improve myself. I will never do anything that would harm my body or my mind.
I will never do anything that would make you feel disappointed or ashamed. I will learn as much as I can and become smarter and stronger every day. I have learned by watching you that the best way to reach my goals is to work hard and never give up. You’re my best role models. You set a great example for me.
[4] I have so many great dreams. I know that realizing all these dreams takes a lot of time and effort. But don’t worry about me. I have strong confidence in myself. I know if I keep trying , keep working hard, and keep dreaming, I will definitely realize all my dreams. I will be somebody special. But I will not only care about myself. I will contribute to my school, my hometown, and my country. I will contribute to society. I will use all my abilities and talents to help my family and my country have a glorious future. I will make a difference in this world.
[5] Dear Mom and Dad, you’ll be proud of me! You will see great results from all your hard work and sacrifice. Thank you very much for your continued support! Thank you very much for your patience, love and understanding. I love you! I appreciate you! I’m very proud of you!
[6] Exercise every day to keep healthy! Enjoy life every day and stay happy! My only hope for you is for you both to enjoy continued health and happiness. You brought me into this world to share your life. I will do my best to make sure each day of it is filled with joy and pride. Mom and Dad, you are the best parents in the world! I don’t know what I would have done without you.
All My Everlasting Love,
Your Son/ Daughter
⑺ 求英语作文一篇 记叙文 300字左右 谢谢~~~
my school life
I am a student,so as for me, school is a interesting place .I really enjoy it . For example ,I frenqent com municat together with the schoolmate.and play with them.I am very interesting.and my teacher is very nice .She is very to it is kindly to visit.so I like she very much.
the school is filling with every day the voice laugh at the word vigorously.i really enjoy my school life . i hope everyone both enjoy your school life.
⑻ 求篇英语作文,600字左右
Before in history, we must admit that the intelligence of our ancestors, from Oracle to the present text, often shocking! To what extent can we believe what the history books tell us things? The issue, according to my knowledge, when have kind of information, we will have to believe it. When you think that this is unlikely, you can refute, that is, if it is vexatious facts in front of us, so there is no meaning, of course, we can investigate the problem, therefore, As long as it is a fact that we can believe that the contents of the history books.
⑼ 关于<和>的作文,记叙文,600字左右,在线等,帮帮忙!
和谐》
和谐,无处不在。它就像我们的朋友、亲人一样,随时都在我们身边。社会中,学校中,家庭中,大自然中,随处都可以看到它美丽的身影……但是,它总是爱和我们捉迷藏,需要你去用眼睛发现,用心去感受……
社会和谐镜头:
在形形色色的社会中,处处都可以发现和谐。我就有过亲身经历……
记得我很小的时候,妈妈就教育我,一定要尊老爱幼,在公共汽车上遇到老人如果没有座位,一定要主动大胆得把座位让给他们。我点点头,牢牢地把妈妈的话记在心里面。不过,我还没有碰到过,直到有一天……
妈妈带我坐公共汽车出去,上了车,有空位,我便坐下了。过了没多长时间,有一位满头银发还拄着拐杖的矮个子老奶奶蹒跚地上了公共汽车。恰巧,车上也没有了空位。我想:这不正是我乐于助人的好机会嘛!妈妈也转过头来看着我,她的眼神告诉我,她说:“遥遥,妈妈相信你能做好的!”于是,我站起来,从容地走到老奶奶身边,温柔地说:“老奶奶,您这样站着很危险的!我把我的座位让给您,您坐吧!”“小姑娘,那…谢谢你啦!”“不用谢不用谢!这是我应该的!”我微笑着说。我感到做完好事以后好快乐啊!我为社会增添了和谐,增添了美丽……我开心地笑了!……
学校和谐镜头:
“小邓,我有道题不会,拜托给我讲一下啦!”我笑着说。“没问题!没问题!什么题啊?邓大女侠帮你解决!”小邓顽皮地说。“唔……这道题!给我讲了啦!”我撒娇地说。“我给你讲啊!你要认真听哦!听不懂就直说!我可以再给你讲!这个题,应该首先……然后……最后……”小邓认真地讲着,我也认真地听着。“听懂了吗?”小邓问。“嗯嗯!我明白啦!小邓,谢谢你啦!”我高兴地说。“不用谢!我们都是朋友嘛!朋友之间用不着这么客气!”小邓客气地说。我感到心里暖暖的,同学之间的这种和谐,是那样温馨……
别看我们女生天天和男生打打闹闹,其实我们那根本就算不上是打架,只不过是在闹着玩儿罢了!我常常和自己班,别的班,别的年级的男生打打闹闹,我们那只是在玩儿而已。貌似我们是“一对冤家”。我常常在放学路上碰到那些男生,每次都会说一句:“真是冤家路窄啊……”其实,只不过嘴上说着玩儿而已。有的时候,回头想想,这些男生真的蛮可爱的!虽然他们总是故意给我找碴惹事儿,但是,他们都是和我闹着玩儿的!这种“打打闹闹”的和谐,我喜欢!
老师和学生也非常和谐。我们的数学老师才工作两年,很年轻,所以特别孩子气!他和我们特别合得来。我们都爱和他开玩笑玩儿,他也不介意,也和我们开玩笑。而且每次考完试他都会帮我们分析错题。我们的老班也是如此!总是和数学老师一起辅导那些班里学习比较落后的同学,老师和学生的这种和谐,是那么美丽……
家庭和谐镜头:
在家中,我和爸爸妈妈就像朋友一样,无话不谈!每次餐桌上,总是最热闹的时候!我们会把一天里的新鲜事说出来。快乐的事,大家一起分享;烦恼的事,大家一起解决……这种时光,总是那么快乐!我们还常一起娱乐:打牌、下五子棋、看电视……这都是经常做的事。每次和爸爸妈妈在一起,总是那么温馨!
和爸爸妈妈打牌,是最常玩儿的!每次,我们总是沉浸在笑声之中。因为老爸总是老末儿,所以他也有一个外号叫“末末儿”!
在我们家里,小乌龟、小鱼鱼、小蝈蝈都是我们家庭的一员。它们也有自由,享受着和人一样的快乐生活!它们可以听音乐、看电视、吃对它们来说的美味……有空时,我和爸爸妈妈也会和这些小宝贝们玩儿!
家中,总是那么其乐融融……
大自然和谐镜头:
现在人们不像原来了,现在都有了“保护环境,保护动物”的意识。猎人也越来越少了!人们都能够从身边的小事做起来保护环境。多多种植绿色植被。这多么令人欣慰啊!而且很多稀有的野生动物都得到了人们的保护,使它们不会濒临灭绝,能够生息繁衍……这都是人类的进步!这就像一幅幅美丽的篇章,让人感动……只有大自然的这种和谐,才让地球变得美丽……
和谐,处处皆有。和谐,就是这么容易做到。但同时,和谐也需要我们去创造,去维护……
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《寻找和谐》
“天空的和谐,是穿一身蓝;森林的和谐,是披一身绿;阳光的和谐,如钻石般耀眼;落日的和谐,留下了最后的美丽;而我所追求的和谐,是和好友一起去采撷——每一份友情,每一丝快乐,每一片希望,每一线阳光……”
和谐,便是一种幸福的感觉。
时光匆匆,流年似水。不知不觉中,我长大了.童年的记忆是一片片叶子,从童年的大树上悄然飘落,便再也无法重新回到树上,只是那片片叶子依然翠得耀眼。还记得,那个蹦蹦跳跳的小女孩总爱张开好奇的眸子仰望蔚蓝的晴空,想融入那片蓝;总爱和小伙伴们钻在“小房子”里,看调皮的雨滴在微风中嬉戏。那时的天很蓝,那时的草很青,那时的大自然是多么和谐的一幅画卷,那时的我徜徉在微风中,真的很幸福。
现在,我依然爱蓝蓝的天,爱蓝天下美好的一切,却鲜有时间和精力细细欣赏,偶尔抬头望望,觉得有种陌生的亲切,仿佛生活里少了许多情趣,平添了几许忧烦和困惑。岁月也让我明白了许多以前不曾明白的东西:人生本来就是充满荆棘和坎坷的。
和谐,便是不和谐中的完美。
在这漫漫长途,要给自己信心,给自己希望,给自己拚搏的勇气,给自己点一盏灯,去寻找属于自己的幸福。和谐,此时已悄然根植于自己的心中。
而幸福是什么?在我眼里,幸福不是一叠厚厚的钞票,一件华丽无比的衣裳;也不是遮掩痛苦的工具,贪图片刻欢娱的美酒。幸福,应该是心灵深处微妙的感受,是一个人真真切切的感受。在你颓丧无助时,路人的一个微笑、一句问候都会带给你幸福;幸福是你口渴难耐时一捧甘甜的泉水;幸福是你筋疲力尽时一张松软的大床;幸福是你孤寂时一封远方的素笺;幸福是你噩梦后一张慈祥的笑脸。
找到了幸福,我便看到了和谐的微笑。
成功是幸福,失败也是幸福,那是一种酸楚的甜蜜。在任何时候你都要有勇气对自己说:我不怕失败,因为我的目标在前方,因为我有再爬起来的勇气,因为失败是一种幸福!
又是一片澈然晴空,丝丝阳光温暖如昔。眼前的一切都是那样美好,其实怎样的世界才算和谐,答案就在你眼里,就在你心中。
采撷幸福,给自己一份愉悦的心境;离幸福近些吧,你便找到了和谐。
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