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十分钟英语演讲稿
演讲稿具有观点鲜明，内容具有鼓动性的特点。在我们平凡的日常里，演讲稿使用的情况越来越多，你所见过的演讲稿是什么样的呢？下面是小编为大家整理的十分钟英语演讲稿，欢迎阅读与收藏。
十分钟英语演讲稿1
the history of english in ten minutes. chapter six. english and empire or the sun never set on the english language.
with english making its name as the language of science, the bible and shakespeare, britain decided to take it on tour.
asking only for land, wealth, natural resources, total obedience to the crown and a few local words in return.
they went to the caribbean looking for gold and a chance to really unwind – discovering the ?barbeque?, the ?canoe? and a pretty good recipe for rum punch. they also brought back the word ?cannibal? to make their trip sound more exciting.
in india there was something for everyone. ?yoga? – to help you stay in shape, while pretending to be spiritual. if that didn?t work there was the ?cummerbund? to hide a paunch and - if you couldn?t even make it up the stairs without turning ?crimson? – they had the ?bungalow?.
meanwhile in africa they picked up words like ?voodoo? and ?zombie? – kicking off the teen horror film – and even more terrifying, they brought home the world?s two most annoying musical instruments – the ?bongo? and the ?banjo?.
from australia, english took the words ?nugget?, ?boomerang? and ?walkabout? - and in fact the whole concept of chain pubs.
between toppling napoleon (1815) and the first world war (1914), the british
empire gobbled up around 10 millions square miles, 400 million people and nearly a hundred thousand gin and tonics, leaving new varieties of english to develop all over the globe.
十分钟英语演讲稿2
the history of english in ten minutes. chapter four. the king james bible or light there be.
in 1611 ?the powers that be? ?turned the world upside down? with a ?labour of love? – a new translation of the bible. a team of scribes with the ?wisdom of solomon? - ?went the extra mile? to make king james?s translation ?all things to all men?, whether from their ?heart?s desire? ?to fight the good fight? or just for the ?filthy lucre? sexy new bible went ?from strength to strength?, getting to ?the root of the matter? in a language even ?the salt of the earth? could understand. ?the writing wasn?t on the wall?, it was in handy little books and with ?fire and brimstone? preachers reading from it in every church, (更多请你搜索：)its words and phrases ?took root? ?to the ends of the earth? – well at least the ends of britain.
the king james bible is the book that taught us that ?a leopard can?t change its spots?, that ?a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush?, that ?a wolf in sheep?s clothing? is harder to spot than you would imagine, and how annoying it is to have ?a fly in your ointment?.
in fact, just as ?jonathan begat meribbaal; and meribbaal begat micah. and micah begat pithon?, the king james bible begat a whole glossary of metaphor and morality that still shapes the way english is spoken today. amen.
十分钟英语演讲稿3
with english expanding in all directions came a new breed of man called lexicographers, who wanted to put an end to this anarchy a word they defined as what happens when people spell words slightly differently from each other.
one of the greatest was doctor johnson, whose dictionary of english language which took him 9 years to write. it was 18 inches tall and contained 42,773 entries meaning that even if you couldn?t read it?s still pretty useful if you want to reach a high shelf. for the first time when people were calling you a “pickle herring”, ”a jobbernowl ” or a “fopdoodle” you could understand exactly what they meant and you?d have the standard spelling. try as he might to stop them, words kept being invented and in 1857 a new book was started which would become the oxford english dictionary.
it took another 70 years to be finished after the first editor resigned to be an archbishop, the second died of tb and the third was so boring that half his volunteers quit and one of them ended up in an asylum. it eventually appeared in 1928 and has continued to be revised ever since proving the whole idea that you can stop people making up word is complete snuffbumble
十分钟英语演讲稿4
the history of english in ten minutes. chapter three, shakespeare, or a plaque on both his houses.
as the dictionary tells us about 2,000 new words and phrases were invented by william shakespeare.
he gave us handy words like eyeball, puppydog and anchovy and more show-offy words like dauntless, besmirch and lacklustre. he came up with the word alligator soon after he ran out of the things to rhyme with crocodile. and the nation of tea drinkers finally took into their hearts when he invented the hob-nob.
shakespeare knew the power of catchphrases as well as biscuits. without him, we would never eat our flesh and blood out of house and home. we would have to say good riddance to the green-eyed monster and breaking the ice would be as dead as a doornail.
if you tried to get your money's worth, you'd be given short shrift and anyone who laid it on with a trowel could be hoised with his own petard. of course it's possible other people used these words first. but the dictionary writers like looking them up in shakespeare because there was more cross dressing and people poking each other's eyes out.
shakespeare's poetry showed the world that english was a rich vibrant language with limitless expressive and emotional power and he still had time to open all those tea rooms in stratford.
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