这本选集是从葛传椝先生的三本选集--《葛传椝英文集(Man and Student)》、《英文刍言(A Word to the Wise)》和《英文作文教本(A Textbook of English Composition)》--中选出论述学习英语的三十七篇文章编成的。每篇揭示一个或两个问题,大都是英语语法书和英语修辞学书所不曾讲到的。内容谈到什么读物是初学者需要读的和什么是不宜读的;怎样才能读得精细;说、读和写的关系;以及拘泥语法条条,一概类推所造成的错误等问题。
葛传椝(1906-1992),复旦大学教授,上世纪50年代复旦大学英语语言文学系“三巨头”之一。幼时家境清贫,初中辍学后,自学英语。1921年考入上海电报传习所,翌年至崇明县立中学任教。1925年起任上海商务印书馆英语编辑,直至八一三中日淞沪战争爆发。任职其间发现很多英语单词的中文词意义相同,而英语的习惯表述却差异很大,即以6年时间编写《英语习惯用法词典》,于1942年出版,是为中国人编写的第一部英语惯用法词典。在查阅《简明牛津词典》(The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English) 时,发现其中不少错误,即致信词典主编英人福勒 (H.W. Fowler),为福勒所钦佩。之后,为中华书局、竞文书局编写英语读本。1945年起任教于上海光华大学。中华人民共和国成立后,接上级教育主管单位命令,1951年光华大学与大夏大学合并成立华东师范大学,继续null
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1.What to Read 2.Reading Aloud 3.CanYou Read Englishmen's English? 4.What Kind of English? 5.The Question of Background 6.Books on English and Books in English 7.An Easy Sentence to Study 8.What Does "Would of Come" Mean? 9."More Presently". 10.Double Negatives in Current English 11.About the Study of Grammar 12.Knowing Just Enough Grammar to Go Wrong 13.The Language Is the Main Thing 14.Logic and Usage 15.Something Unnatural 16.A Good Knowledge of Bad English 17.Reading Dictionaries 18.MakeYour Own Dictionary 19.Make Another Dictionary of Your Own 20.More aboutWhat to Read 21.Reading to Learn the Art of Expression 22.Learning English Conversation by Imitation 23.Imitation, Good and Bad 24.Tongue and Pen 25.Simply Didn't Know 26.So Many Points 27.How to Say It 28.A "Foolish" Principle of Composition 29.An Aid to Composition 30.Some Mistakes to Consider 31.Some More Mistakes to Consider 32.Better Short Than Long 33.Something More Important Than Enlarging One's Vocabulary 34.Make the Word Your Own 35.AWarning Regarding the Use of Words 36.The Word 37.What "Literary English" Means 附:汉译文