【词汇大师】美语(2/2)

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        美国，人称“大熔炉”；在这块大路上，原住民已经成为极少数，那么多的移民带来了他们的语言，这让英语更加丰富。
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        本篇只听写嘉宾的话，主持人的话不需要听写。
        主持人的话：In his new book, "Do You Speak American?", Robert MacNeil addresses those who bemoan what they consider the decline of English in America.
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"Partly it's explained by one sociolinguist in our book as a way for young, white males, teenage males, in the suburbs, where they grow up feeling kind of safe and everything, to borrow some of the overt masculinity of blacks living in the inner cities, where they at least appear to know how to look after themselves, they know how to deal with women, they're familiar with weapons and all that sort of thing. And that has a huge appeal to adolescent white Americans."
"The desire of some people, going back to the 17th century in Britain, to police the language because they want to control it, and they think it's getting messy. People like Daniel Defoe, the author of 'Robinson Crusoe,' and Jonathan Swift, the author of 'Gulliver's Travels,' were among those who thought that the language had gotten out of hand during Shakespeare's time and needed to be guarded from too much innovation. Daniel Defoe, believe it or not, wanted it to be as serious a crime to coin your own new word as it would be to counterfeit money."