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比较一下由于选词的不同而造成
的风格和语体的差异。
第一篇
There is
nothing new in the recognition, within a given
language,
of
a
distinction
between
common
usage
and
use
of the language
for
more restricted purposes and often
enough, perhaps characteristically,
more
elevated
purposes.
The
monolithic
nature
of
English
is
not
questioned
when
literary
essayists
like
Emerson
contrast
poetry
and
common
speech.
The latter is
recognized in America to be the proper
subject
of
or
the
investigation
of
linguists
who,
however,
now
show
some
incipient
inclination
to
investigate
poetry,
too,
and
other
noncasual utterances in given language.
第二篇
When I was a kid, and reading every
science fiction book in the
local
library, I used to wonder exactly how the future
would happen.
By that I
don
’
t mean what the future
would be like--- science fiction
already told me that-but rather how
we
’
d actually get there.
Science
fiction
books
seemed
to
agree,
for
example,
that
in
the
future
there
would
be
no
money---
all
transactions
would
be
made
via
identity
cards and
centralized computers. But that seemed dubious to
me: how,