高英lesson 10 练习(5)

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3) And like most escapist sprees, this one lasted until the money ran out, until the crash of the world economic structure at the end of the decade called the party to a halt and forced the revelers to sober

up and face the problems of the new age.

4) … our young men began to enlist under foreign flags. 5) …the country was blind and deaf to everything save the glint and ring of the dollar…

Ⅶ. Name the figures of speech in the following sentences.

1. An awed hush fell upon the bystanders.

2. The obervances of the Church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept since the rich keeps the feasts and the poor the fasts.

3. The ignorant simply preached that Negroes were not human and not the “child of God.”

4. He was on his feet, flinging his arms, his rhetoric and his control to the winds, abusing Ernest for his youth and demagogurey,, and savagely attacking the working class, elaborating its inefficiency and worthlessness.

5. He has undoubtedly the best stable in the country.

6. Postwar rich living and the automobile all but took away the country’s breath and legs.

7. If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content t obegin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

8. Martin ordered another glass of punch, which they drank between them, and which had no effect of making them less conversational than before.

9. Falstaff: I was beaten myself into all the colours of rainbow…

10. And, it being low water, he went out with the tide.

11. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three and twentieth year. (John Milton)

12. I had no outlook, but an uplook rather. My place in society was at the bottom.

13. It was not only writers, you know, it was a thoroughly representative gathering---science, politics, business, art, the world.

14. Harris never “weeps, he know not why.” If Harris’s eyes fill with tears, you can bet it is because harris has been eating raw onions.

15. I’m afraid she can’t act that part—she is a little on the plump side.

16. He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.

17. All the plants in this cold country become green in the smiling year.

18. He finds himself projected into a hall fall of people humming with anticipation.

19. His nose was particularly white and his large nostrils, correspondingly dark, reminds me of an oboe when they dilated.

20. She was a woman of mean understanding, little information and uncertain temper.

1. In our country we have three unspeakably precious things:freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

2. Chivalry:going about releasing beautiful maidens from other men’s castle, and taking them to your own castle.

3. Speaking silence, dumb confession,

Passioin’s birth, and infant’s play.

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