推荐“风格的要素” -- 户人 身在美国,平时自然要用美式英文写许多文件。 昨天开车时听 NPR 电台说今年(2009年4月)是“The Elements of Style”这本书出版50周年。我刚到美国后,我的导师就大力推荐(或要求)我买一本,当时只要$4.95,是第三版(现在
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游客IP:74.184.0.*发布于 2009-05-05 01:5814 楼#
To save you $9.95, here is the link to the online version of the book:<div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; color: rgb(153, 153, 102); font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/141/" style="text-decoration: none;">The Elements of Style</a></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#999966" face="Arial" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#999966" face="Arial" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; ">阿保</span></b></span></font></div></div>
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游客IP:74.184.0.*发布于 2009-05-05 01:4113 楼#
我知道此书很权威,也同意你的观点。<div><br></div><div>But the book contains too many linguistic constructs that clearly violate its own rules, which makes some people uncomfortable.</div><div><br></div><div>As an example, this is what the book says about "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 32); font-weight: bold; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><a name="16">Keep related words together":</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #333333">"The subject of a sentence and the principal verb should not, as a rule, be separated by a phrase or clause that can be transferred to the beginning."</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #333333">Do you see the irony here? The statement itself completely ignores the rule of "keep related words together", because the phrase "as a rule" is used in the middle of the statement, while it could appear in the beginning.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #333333">阿保</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #333333"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px; font: 11.0px Verdana; color: #333333"><br></p></div>
Stupid posting tool. Here we go again:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001913.html">http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001913.html</a></div>
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游客IP:74.184.0.*发布于 2009-05-04 23:579 楼#
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 宋体; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 20px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">看来户人真有点学问,难怪金歌儿佩服地五体投地!开玩笑,别当真。</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 宋体; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 20px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "></span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" face="宋体" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 20px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="宋体">I have heard great things about Strunk & White's "</font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="宋体">The Elements of Style</font></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="宋体">", but it has also attracted criticisms </font></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="宋体">because it often violates it's own rules!</font></span><div><br></div><div>阿保</div><div><br></div><div>Links:</div><div><br></div><div><div><a href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4">http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4</a></div><div><a href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4">http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001913.html</a></div><div><a href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style</a></div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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游客IP:74.184.0.*发布于 2009-05-04 23:498 楼#
看来户人真有点学问,难怪金歌儿佩服地五体投地!开玩笑,别当真。<div><br></div><div>I have heard great things about Strunk & White's "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style">The Elements of Style</a>", but it has also attracted criticisms </div>
作者:户人 时间:2009年04月17日 18:38 查看全文