#跟蕭叔叔學英文寫作【氣勢磅礡的排比句】
#蕭叔叔的英國文學課
【明報專訊】繼金庸同羅貫中後,蕭叔叔最愛的小說作家就是維多利亞時期的英國人Charles Dickens,中文一般譯為狄更斯。狄更斯最出名的,是他風趣幽默的文筆。別看他的Great Expectations成本字典咁厚,字句咁長就以為好悶,蕭叔叔讀佢時,成日都笑到收唔到聲。可是本文主旨不是Dickens的英式幽默,今天找來的一段文字,背了會有三大功效(哎,蕭叔叔越來越像個cheap cheap salesman。):
一,學懂何謂工整的英文。
二,吸收英文的文氣、節奏。
三,學會巧妙運用動詞。
試問又怎能不背?看文章前,當然要了解背景。文章取自Dickens名作Great Expectations,故事講主角窮小孩Pip無意中救了逃犯Magwitch,後來又唔知點解有人俾畢錢佢去倫敦學做紳士。下面一段,是chapter 1裡小Pip碰見逃犯的情景。這段文字,一定要大聲朗讀,否則無意思。要聽蕭叔叔不太完美的聲演,當然要看短片:https://youtu.be/gY_1Lwz-DJM
A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared, and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin.
如果你覺得深字多,唔緊要,唔使怕,因為每個字都要查。蕭叔叔學英文,分精讀(是用盡所有精力去讀,唔係補習社精讀班的精讀)同hea讀。Hea讀唔使點查字典,get個大意即可。精讀嘛,當然要每個字都查,否則浪費了大好文字,對不住好作家。
蕭叔叔最想大家看的是這句:A man who’d been
soaked in water,
and smothered in mud,
and lamed by stones,
and cut by flints,
and stung by nettles,
and torn by briars;
此所謂工整。每項都是一個被動動詞加preposition加名詞,而且每個都是兩個重音,讀起來節奏鏗鏘,頗像詩詞。中文當然也有類似的修辭手法,好像三國演義中曹軍謀臣孔融同荀彧在曹操面前,辯論袁紹是否可怕的敵人,荀彧說:「紹兵多而不整。田豐剛而犯上,許攸貪而不智,審配專而無謀,逢紀果而無用:此數人者,勢不相容,必生內變,顏良、文丑,匹夫之勇,一戰可擒。其余碌碌等輩,縱有百萬,何足道哉!」其中一系列排比句:
田豐剛而犯上,
許攸貪而不智,
審配專而無謀,
逢紀果而無用
兩字的人名,然後一個單字形容詞,配上「而」,再來一個意思相對的另一個形容詞。效果同樣是工整非常,讀起來甚有氣勢。
你可能會說:下下咁寫,會唔會好作狀?這是蕭叔叔給所有寫作學生的warning:學任何東西,都要留意場合是否適合,context是否需要到某些寫法。排比句,當然不能句句用,否則聽起來像sing song,完全達不到本來想有的效用。要多想:whether the background and circumstances of your writing warrant the use of the pounding rhythm and perfect symmetry of the parallel structure.
也講講句子後半部:who limped, and shivered, and glared and growled,都是簡短、一至兩個音節的動詞。留意整段文字的動詞,都很能draw pictures:soaked、smothered、lamed、cut、stung、torn、limped、shivered、glared、growled,全部都非常生動,同學不妨學習這種寫法,善用多變的動詞,文章會生色不少。
文︰蕭愷一
作者簡介
蕭愷一,aka蕭叔叔。夢想做男神、現實是大叔的英文教學狂熱分子,law grad,哲學碩士dropout,語言學愛好者,以speak English like an educated native為教與學的終極目標。(facebook.com/unclesiu)
同時也有1部Youtube影片,追蹤數超過7萬的網紅Uncle Siu,也在其Youtube影片中提到,【明報專訊】繼金庸同羅貫中後,蕭叔叔最愛的小說作家就是維多利亞時期的英國人Charles Dickens,中文一般譯為狄更斯。狄更斯最出名的,是他風趣幽默的文筆。別看他的Great Expectations成本字典咁厚,字句咁長就以為好悶,蕭叔叔讀佢時,成日都笑到收唔到聲。可是本文主旨不是Dicke...
symmetry形容詞 在 辣媽英文天后 林俐 Carol Facebook 的精選貼文
❤️ 俐媽英文教室:Wild(那時候我只剩下勇敢)文法句型篇Part 1
✏️ The only thing I could think to do was turn my back to the van and squat...
➡️ 句型"All that/What... + S + do/does/did + is/was + (to) Vr"表「⋯所做的事就是⋯」,其中to均被省略,造成be動詞與原型動詞併放,且注意要使用單數動詞is/was。
✏️ The sight of the square concrete pool lifted my spirits enormously not only because at the springs there was water, but also because humans had so clearly constructed it.
➡️ 對等連接詞not only...but also...要連接詞性、結構相同的字/片語/子句,故文中兩個because為對稱。
✏️ I wanted neither to get back together with Paul nor to get divorced.
➡️ 同樣地,對等連接詞neither...nor...用法同not only...but also...,文中的to get back及to get divorced即為symmetry(對稱)。
✏️ ...use DEET or any other such brain-destroying, earth-polluting, or future-progeny-harming chemical.
➡️ 文中使用compound adjective(複合形容詞),用法為:N/adj./adv.-Ving/Vpp,其中使用現在分詞Ving 表「主動」或過去分詞Vpp表「被動」由後面所修飾的名詞決定。文中化學物質chemical主動破壞腦部、汙染地球、傷害後代子孫,故均使用Ving形式。其中的連字符號"-"叫hyphen哦!
✏️ It turned out I wasn't able to keep my family together.
➡️ It turned out that + S + V表「結果是⋯」。
✏️ The heat was so intense that my memory of it is not so much a sensation...
➡️ so + adj./adv. + that + S + V表「如此⋯以致於⋯」,亦可強調intense而寫成倒裝句:So intense was the heat that my memory...。注意heat和intense可為collocation哦!
✏️ ...no matter how kindly his eyes twinkled when he smiled.
➡️ no matter + wh- = wh-ever表「不論⋯」,後面接副詞子句。文中的no matter how = however表「不論多麼⋯」,並不翻「然而」。
✏️ It was then that I spotted what I'd searched for days: mountain lion tracks.
➡️ It is/was + 強調部份(人、物、地、時) + that + S + V,此為強調句用法。別忘了俐媽的精典例句哦😝
祝週末愉快😉😉😉
symmetry形容詞 在 Uncle Siu Youtube 的最佳貼文
【明報專訊】繼金庸同羅貫中後,蕭叔叔最愛的小說作家就是維多利亞時期的英國人Charles Dickens,中文一般譯為狄更斯。狄更斯最出名的,是他風趣幽默的文筆。別看他的Great Expectations成本字典咁厚,字句咁長就以為好悶,蕭叔叔讀佢時,成日都笑到收唔到聲。可是本文主旨不是Dickens的英式幽默,今天找來的一段文字,背了會有三大功效(哎,蕭叔叔愈來愈像個cheap cheap salesman):
一、學懂何謂工整的英文。
二、吸收英文的文氣、節奏。
三、學會巧妙運用動詞。
試問又怎能不背?看文章前,當然要了解背景。文章取自Dickens名作Great Expectations,故事講主角窮小孩Pip無意中救了逃犯Magwitch,後來又唔知點解有人畀筆錢佢去倫敦學做紳士。下面一段,是chapter 1裏小Pip碰見逃犯的情景。這段文字,一定要大聲朗讀,否則無意思。要聽蕭叔叔不太完美的聲演,當然要看短片(english.mingpao.com/siu.htm)。
A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared, and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin.
如果你覺得深字多,唔緊要,唔使怕,因為每個字都要查。蕭叔叔學英文,分精讀(是用盡所有精力去讀,唔係補習社精讀班的精讀)同hea讀。Hea讀唔使點查字典,get個大意即可。精讀嘛,當然要每個字都查,否則浪費了大好文字,對不住好作家。
蕭叔叔最想大家看的是這句:
A man who'd been
soaked in water,
and smothered in mud,
and lamed by stones,
and cut by flints,
and stung by nettles,
and torn by briars;
此所謂工整。每個item都是一個被動動詞加preposition加名詞,而且每個item都是兩個重音,讀起來節奏鏗鏘,頗像詩詞。中文當然也有類似修辭手法,好像三國演義中曹軍謀臣孔融同荀彧在曹操面前,辯論袁紹是否可怕的敵人,荀彧說:「紹兵多而不整。田豐剛而犯上,許攸貪而不智,審配專而無謀,逢紀果而無用:此數人者,勢不相容,必生內變,顏良、文醜,匹夫之勇,一戰可擒。其餘碌碌等輩,縱有百萬,何足道哉!」其中一系列排比句:
田豐剛而犯上,
許攸貪而不智,
審配專而無謀,
逢紀果而無用。
兩字的人名,然後一個單字形容詞,配上「而」,再來一個意思相對的形容詞。效果同樣是工整非常,讀起來甚有氣勢。
你可能會說:下下咁寫,會唔會好作狀?這是蕭叔叔給所有writing學生的warning:學任何東西,都要留意場合是否適合,context是否需要某些寫法。排比句,當然不能句句用,否則聽起來像sing song,一點本來intended的效用都沒有。要多想whether the background and circumstances of your writing warrant the use of the pounding rhythm and perfect symmetry of the parallel structure.
也講講句子後半部:who limped, and shivered, and glared and growled,都是簡短的一至兩個音節的動詞。留意整段文字的動詞,都很能draw pictures:soaked、smothered、lamed、cut、stung、torn、limped、shivered、glared、growled,全部都非常生動,同學不妨學習這種寫法,善用多變的動詞,文章會生色不少。
作者簡介
蕭愷一,aka蕭叔叔。夢想做男神、現實是大叔的英文教學狂熱分子,law grad,哲學碩士dropout,語言學愛好者,以speak English like an educated native為教與學的終極目標。(facebook.com/siuhoiyat)
文︰蕭愷一
■教學短片
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