【词汇大师】让语言如此优雅(1/2)
语言有美丑吗？口语和书面比较，书面会更显优雅。莎翁的巨作就是这样的文字。怎么使自己的英语也能优雅如斯，请听专家怎么说。
TIPS
本篇只听写嘉宾的话，主持人的话不需要听写。
主持人的话：①“Someone actually wrote that?"
HINTS
cliché
-ize
-wisehttp://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201209/201209240812129844226.mp3"If they're thinking about beauty and clarity, they won't be seduced by the things that cheapen the language. And, to my mind, that's the proliferation of unnecessary euphemisms or fad and cliché, the things that are embedded in the language like the proliferation of the -ize and the -wise suffixes. I remember reading in an obituary this sentence: 'The officer will be funeralized Tuesday.'"
"Yes, somebody actually wrote it. And you and I have no difficulty in seeing how even silly but ugly that is and how it cheapens the language and makes it less elegant than it could be. But a person speaking the language as second language might say, 'Oh, this is what a professional writer does and so this is what I should do.'
"Let's say that a member of your audience turns on the television here and gets the weather and the person says 'Let's see what the picture is weather-wise.' It's more elegant to say 'Let's see what the weather is.'"
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