全新版大学英语综合教程2背诵课文及翻译(填空标(4)

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around their language.

我喜欢这一观点。想想吧，孕育英语的文化土壤也同样为现今的世界培育了伟大的自由精神及人权准则。最初的根芽在英国萌发，接着在美国生长壮大。英语国家的人民挫败了种种意欲建立语言保护的企图。

19 Indeed, the English language is not the special preserve of grammarians, language police, teachers, writers or the intellectual elite. English is, and always has been, the tongue of the common man.

事实上，英语不是语法学家、语言卫道士、教师、作家或知识精英的特殊领地。英语是，而且一向是，人民大众的语言。

There was once a town in the heart of American where all life seemed to live in with its The town lay a foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the Along the roads, laurel, viburnum and alder, great ferns and wild flowers, delighted the traveller’s eye through much of year. Even in winter the roadsides were heads of the dried weeds rising above the snow. The countryside was, in fact, famous for the 充裕) and variety of its bird life, and when the flood of distances to observe them. Other came to fish the which flowed clear and cold out of the hills and contained shady pools where trout lay. So it had been from the days may years ago when the first settlers raised their houses, sank their wells and