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1、发表日期：2007年7月14日作者：ZolaStone【编辑录入：admin]ProbeintoEnglishRhetoricEuphemismEuphemismisoneofthemostfundamentalandimportantitemsofrhetoricinEnglish・ItrootsinGreekwordseuandpheme.Inordertoavoidsomeobverseconflictsandunnecessarymisunderstandings,weoftenusesomemildanddarkwordsinsteadoftherudeandfor
2、biddenones.Thisisafigureofspeechthatcanachieveanimpliedandtactfulpurpose.EuphemismisacommonskillthatweusedbothinEnglishandChinese,especiallywhenourfriendsandrelationssufferfromdisaster,death,illnessorsomeothersorrows,weusuallyusecertainmildandimpliedwordstoexpressourselvesbutnotthedirectand
3、abruptones.Thebirthofeuphemismcanberelatedtothetaboowordsinreligion.Priestcreatedsometactfulnamestocallgodsbutnotcalltheirrealnames.Asthedevelopmentoflanguage,euphemismspreadalittlewide,manywordsaboutdeath,birthandsexareusedeuphemismtoexpress.Suchas,wecansay“goaway，，meansdeath,“comeintothew
4、orld"meansbirth,“business”meanssexuallove.Inhistory,itappearedmanytalentsinusingeuphemismandtheirworksareknownbyalmostallofthepeopleintheworld,forexample,Shakespeare,themostfamousplayerinBritain.Nowadays,euphemismspreadsrapidlyandtheusageofitspreadtomanyotheraspectssuchaspolitics,military,s
5、cience,literaryandart.Thesocialfunctionofeuphemismcanbedividedintothreeaspects:functionfortaboo,functionforcoverandfunctionforpoliteness.1.Functionfortaboo•Wehaveknownthateuphemismrootsintherespectablenesstogodsinreligion.Lateron,euphemismspreadtomanyaspects.Whenwesaysomethingaboutdeathands
6、enescent,birthandsex,pregnantanddelivery,prostituteandseduction,sexualactionsandsexualorgans,wecannotsaythemoutdirectlybutonlytousecertaintactfulwordstoinstead.Thiskindofwordshasbeenusedwidelyuptonow.Today,peoplealsocreatedmoretabooeuphemism・Wecanmainlydividedthemintothreesorts:1)Deathandol
7、dageSuchas"topassaway,todepart,togotosleep,togotoheaven,togotoone'slast,togotoabetterplace,tobeatrest,tobeatpeace,tobewithGod，tobeinHeaven,tobewiththeangels,totaketheeasywayout,tolaydownone'slife,thefinalsummons:gettingon(inyears),pastone^sageprime,feeli
