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1、TheUnitedKingdomofGreatBritainandNorthernIrelandChapter1Geography,PeopleandLanguage全名:theUnitedKingdomofGreatBritain(大不列颠联合王国)andNorthernIreland(北爱尔兰).由成千上万的小岛组成(theBritishIsles).两大岛屿:GreatBritain(大不列颠)andIreland(爱尔兰)TheRiverThames(secondlongestandmostimportant),originates(起源于)inso
2、uthwesternEngland-----NorthSea.Scotland(Edinburgh爱丁堡)importantriver:ClydeRiverkilts(苏克兰小短裙)Wales(Cardiff加迪夫,著名港口).TheSevernRiveristhelongestriverofBritain------flowthroughwesternEngland.NorthernIreland(Belfast贝尔法斯特,首府)LoughNeagh----thelargestlakeintheBritishIsles.Climate:temperate,
3、withwarmsummers,coolwintersandplentifulprecipitation(降雨量),冬暖夏凉,降雨充沛Threemajorfeatures:winterfog,rainyday,instability冬天多雾,常年多雨,天气不定London---BuckinghamPalace(白金汉宫),Guildhall(市政厅),St.Paul’sCathedral(圣保罗大教堂),TheTowerBridgeofLondon(伦敦塔桥)ThemajorityofthepopulationisdescendantsoftheAnglo-
4、Saxons,aGermanicpeoplefromEurope.大部分的人口是盎格鲁-撒克逊人的后裔,从欧洲来的日耳曼人MostpeopleinWalesandScotlandaredescendantsoftheCelticpeople,includingtheIrishpeople威尔士和苏格兰的大多数人都是凯尔特人的后裔,包括爱尔兰人EnglishbelongstotheIndo-Europeanfamilyoflanguages.EnglishisintheGermanicgroup.英语属于日耳曼语语系Germanicgroup:EastGerm
5、anic,NorthGermanic,WestGermanic.EnglishevolvedfromtheWestGermanicgroup.日耳曼语系:东日耳曼语,北日耳曼语,西日耳曼语。英语从西日耳曼语中发展。1、OldEnglish:wasinfluencedbyOldNorsespokenbytheVikingsandwasrelatedtotheGermanandDutchlanguages.受古代维京人所说的古斯坎德纳威亚语影像并和德语法语密切相关.wasendedwiththeNormanConquest,whenthelanguagewasi
6、nfluencebytheFrench-speakingNormans.古英语时代结束于说法语的诺曼人的征服2、MiddleEnglish:WilliamtheConquerorinvadedandconqueredandtheAnglo-Saxons(NumerousFrenchwordscameintotheEnglishvocabulary)征服者威廉入侵并征服和盎格鲁-撒克逊人(大量的法语词汇进入英语词汇)1、ModernEnglish(15century):WilliamCaxtonbroughtstandardizationtoEnglish,a
7、ndspellingandgrammarbecamefixed.Thefirstdictionarypublishedin1604.SamuelJohnson:ADictionaryoftheEnglishLanguagewasinfluentialinastandardformofspelling.卡克斯顿威廉带来了标准化的英语,并成为固定的拼写和语法。第一本字典发表于1604。约翰逊塞缪尔:一本英文字典是有影响的一种标准形式的拼写。StandardEnglishisbasedonthespeechoftheupperclassofsoutheastern
8、England.Itisalsocalled“the
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