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听播客学英语 200 拉丁文

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   If you click on the link at the bottom of this podcast episode, you will find the Amazon best-sellers list, i.e. – the best-selling books from amazon.uk, the on-line bookstore. We English buy some strange books. Today (30 November) in the top 20, there are three – yes three – books about “everything a boy should know” – things like how to light a fire with no matches, and what exactly are the rules of cricket. (These three books are not really for boys, of course, they are for their fathers!) There are books by television chefs, and television comedians1 and other people on television. There are no books that I would call “proper books” – novels, biographies etc – until number 16. And what is this at number 12? “Amo, Amas, Amat – and all that: how I became a Latin lover” by Harry2 Mount.

  It is a book about Latin. Latin was the language of the Romans, who conquered and ruled all the countries around the Mediterranean3 and much of Western Europe between about the first century BC and the 5th century AD. Long after the Roman Empire disappeared, Latin remained the language of the western Christian4 Church. The Roman Catholic Church still uses Latin for some purposes today. For hundreds of years, educated people in Western Europe learnt Latin, and wrote books in Latin. Many Latin words came into English, either directly or through French. Indeed, over half of all English words come from Latin.
  When I was at school, many years ago, we studied Latin. I did not enjoy it much. We had to learn endless verb tables and grammar rules and read how Julius Caesar conquered Gaul (modern France). My fellow pupils and I did not think that Latin was either interesting or useful. Today, very few schools and Universities in England teach Latin. So why is a book about Latin at number 12 in the Amazon best-sellers list?
  Perhaps people again want to learn to read and write this long-dead language? I don’t think so. We English are very bad about learning other languages. If English people do not want to learn e.g. French or German, why should they be interested in Latin? Or perhaps the reason is nostalgia5. Nostalgia means looking back at the past, perhaps to your childhood, with pleasure; and feeling how much better things were then than they are now. When I was young, we older people think, there were steam trains and trolley6 buses, we could play football in the street because there were few cars,probably we could light a fire with no matches and we certainly knew all the rules of cricket, we listened to the radio because we had no television, and we learnt Latin at school. For myself, I would love to go back to the days of steam trains and trolley buses and no cars. But if I had to study Latin as well? No way!
  There is a grammar and vocabulary note for this podcast. If you are listening on iTunes or an mp3 player, you will need to go to the podcast website to see it.

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1 comedians efcac24154f4452751c4385767145187     
n.喜剧演员,丑角( comedian的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The voice was rich, lordly, Harvardish, like all the boring radio comedians'imitations. 声音浑厚、威严,俨然是哈佛出身的气派,就跟无线电里所有的滑稽演员叫人已经听腻的模仿完全一样。 来自辞典例句
  • He distracted them by joking and imitating movie and radio comedians. 他用开玩笑的方法或者模仿电影及广播中的滑稽演员来对付他们。 来自辞典例句
2 harry heBxS     
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
参考例句:
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
3 Mediterranean ezuzT     
adj.地中海的;地中海沿岸的
参考例句:
  • The houses are Mediterranean in character.这些房子都属地中海风格。
  • Gibraltar is the key to the Mediterranean.直布罗陀是地中海的要冲。
4 Christian KVByl     
adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒
参考例句:
  • They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
  • His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
5 nostalgia p5Rzb     
n.怀乡病,留恋过去,怀旧
参考例句:
  • He might be influenced by nostalgia for his happy youth.也许是对年轻时幸福时光的怀恋影响了他。
  • I was filled with nostalgia by hearing my favourite old song.我听到这首喜爱的旧歌,心中充满了怀旧之情。
6 trolley YUjzG     
n.手推车,台车;无轨电车;有轨电车
参考例句:
  • The waiter had brought the sweet trolley.侍者已经推来了甜食推车。
  • In a library,books are moved on a trolley.在图书馆,书籍是放在台车上搬动的。
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