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古希腊神话对英语语言的影响英文
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Introduction
“
In
the last years,the field of second
language acquisitio n has seen t he
reemergence of
interest in o ne of
language st udy,vocabulary,andt he
appearance of a newly reco gnized
aspectlearnerst
rategieshas attracted a
noticeable lack of attentio
n
”
(Meare).The research,which
hasbeen do ne o n vocabulary
learning
st rategies,hastended to deal wit h individual
o r small number s ofst rategies,wit h
very limited loo
king at t he gro
upas a r,wit h my perso nal
experience,so mewo rds do give me
intense imp ressio ns
and occupiedmy
memo ry permanently even if I have seen
t
hemo
I want to
indicate t hat mo st of t hesewo
rds
are read f ro m sto ries,t ypically f ro m
GreekMyt
holo
gy,which
is
co
nsidered to
be
t
he
o
rigin ofEnglish
literat
ure.I
wo uld
like
to call t
he
lo
ng
o
rsho
rt myt
hs
f
ro
m
which
I
mastered
wo
rds
firmly
“
carriers
”
.This
article will fir st overview so me
generalco nclusio ns
abo ut
vocabulary
learning st
rategies,which can be
made
p rio
r to st rategy
,carrier s in fo reign
language
vocabularylearning will be p ropo sed and t he
mnemo
nic
met
ho
ds
enlightened
by
wo rds
f
ro m
Greek Myt
holo gydiscussed in mo re y,t heo
retical
aspect s of carrier s used will
be ic
methods enlightened by words
fromGreek MythologyGreek
mythology
and
its linguistic
influenceEverybo
dy
knows
t
hat
t
he
myt
hs
told
by
t
heGreeks and
Ro
mans
are
as
impo
rtant
as histo
ry
fo
ro ur under standing of what t ho se
peoples,ancesto
r
s
of
o
ur
own
civilizatio
n,believed
and
t ho ughtand felt,and
exp ressed in writing and in
r t heir
myt holo gies were inext ricably
interwoven,wit
h
t
he whole fabric of t
heir p ublic
andp
rivate lives.A
nd
t hen wit ho ut t hese myt hs,itwo uld
be
hard
fo
r us to under stand t he art s and
literat ure
and ways
of
t
hinking of
t he
west,and ofmany ot
her
part
s of t he wo rld as
well,during t hecent uries t hat have
passed
since
t
he
classical
wo
rldcame
to
an
after
time t
hese p
ro
duct s
ofancient imaginatio n have
been
used
to
inspire
f
reshcreative
effo rt
s,which amo unt to
a
substantial
partof
o
ur
whole
cult
ural
renewal
sand
adap
tatio
ns
have
of
ten
seemed
far
removed,f
ro
m
t
he
o
riginal
t
raditio
n
in
character
and
spirit,yet
t
hey
stem
directly
f ro m
it,and
are
unimaginable wit ho
ut myt h means so
met hing different to everybo
dy who
reads and st udies sto ries arehard to fo
rget,feelings abo ut t hem co me unp
underlying
qualities
do not easilyyield
to
definitio n
o
r
classificatio
n and still less toweird
all,Myt
holo
gy
’
s
influenceis
evident
in
o
ur
is hard to imaginereading o
r writing wit ho ut drawing
upo n myt
horiented adjectives o r idio o re,wo
rds
f
ro
mGreek
myt
holo
gy
enlightened
me wit
h
so
me met
ho
ds
to
st
rengt
hen
vocabulary
learning,such
as
pict
ure
o r imagery and gro ries of mnemonic
methodsPict
u
re/I
m
a
ge
ry
This
is
a
way
of
remembering
so
me
wo
rds,which
many
st
udent
s
find
o
nally t here is
a wo rd t
hat yo u havemet befo re which
is
o
n
t
he
tip
of
yo
ur
to
ngue
butyo
u
just
cannot
remember
may be a wo rd t
hatseems difficult to remember,o
r o
ne,which yo uhave seen many times but still cannot
remember att he right of a wo rd in yo
ur own
language t hat
so
unds similar,o r if t he English wo rd
islo
ng
in
spelling,choo se a wo rd in yo
ur own language
t
hat
so
unds
t
he
same as t he
fir st part
of
t heEnglish
o u sho uld t hen fo rm a pict ure
inwhich t he t
wo wo
rds
e,fo r example:TantalizePerhap
s
yo
u
have
known
t
he
wo
rd
“
tantalize
”
befo
r,if
it
is
a
new
wo
rd
to
yo
u,howdo
yo
u
acquire
it
s
meaning?See
what will be
different after reading t he following sto
GreekMyt holo gy,Zeus p unished
Tantalus,a mo
rtalking,who had co mmit
ted t wo crimes.
“
Now
hehangs,perennially co nsumed by t hir
st and hunger, f
ro m t
he
bo ugh
of f ruitf ree which leans over
amarshy
s
waves
lap
against
his
waist,andso
metimes
reach
his chin,yet whenever
he bendsdown to drink,t hey slip
away,and
not
hing
rmains
but
t
he
black
mud
at
his
t rees areladen wit h pear s,shinning
apples,sweet
figs,ripeolives and po
megranates,which dangle against
hissho
ulder s,but whenever he reaches fo r t he luscio
us
f ruit,a
gust
of wind whirl s t hem o ut of
hisreach.
”
This sto ry not o
nly show s us t he o rigin
ofTantalize,which
means
“
to
make(so
meo
ne)wantso
met
hing
even mo re st ro ngly
by keeping it justo ut of
reach,
”
but al so gives us a
carrier of vividpict y is
o ne of
t he carrier s t hat gives usa deep imp
ressio n
and has mo
re
effective reactio nst han learning t he wo
rd wit h t heir dictio nary idThere was
a
co ntest in
which a
mo rtal dared toco me in
co
mpetitio
n
wit
h
Minerva,t
he
go
ddess
ofwisdo
m.
“
That
mo
rtal
was
Arachne,a maidenwho had attained such
skill in t he art
s
of
weavingand
embroidery t hat
t
he nymp
hs
t hemselves
wo uldleave t
heir gro ves and fo untains to co me and
gazeupo n her wo wo uld have said t
hat
Minervaherself had taught a p upil
even of a go ddess.
‘
L
etMinerva t ry her skill wit h
mine,
’
said
she,
‘
ifbeaten,I
will
pay
t
he
penalt
y.
’
...
“
Arachn
e
filled
her canvas with
similar subject s,wo nderf ully well do
ne,but st ro ngly markingher p resump
tio n and impiet
a
co
uld
notfo
rbear
to
admire,yet
felt
indignant
at
t he
st
ruck t he web
wit h
her shut
tle and
rent it inpieces;she t hen to uched t
he fo rehead of
Arachneand
made
her
fell
guilt
and
sp
rinkledher
wit
h
t
he
juices
of
aco
nite,and
immediately
herhair
came
off,and
her
no
se
and
ear
s
rm
shrank
up,and
her
head
grew
smaller
yet;her
finger
s
cleaved
to
her
side
and serves fo r t he
rest of her is bo dy,o ut
of
which
she
spinsher
t
hread,of
ten
hanging
suspended
by
it,in
t
hesame
at
tit
ude
as
when
Minerva
to
uched
her
andt
ransfo
rmed her into a
spider.
”
So,arachnid is t
hesyno
nym of wo rds can be learned by
st udying t
hemwit
h
pict
ures of
t
heir meaning instead of
definitio
atively,learners can create t heir
ownmental
images of a wo
rd
’
s y hasbeen
shown to be
mo re effective t han mere
repetitio n fo r reading
passages(Steingart
and
Glock)and sentences(Saltz and Do
nnenwert h Nolan)suggesting it co uld
well be mo re
effec2tive fo r
vocabulary are ot her two
sto2ries:Sisyphean
labor
“
Sisyphus,son
of
Aeolus,married
Atlas
’
sdaughter
Merope,o ne of t
he
Pleiades,and owneda