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发表于 2007-9-23 11:20
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home work by 小熊猫的大熊猫 Now the voa special english program words and the stories
Today the word is belittle, it was first used by Thomas jefferson, the third president of the united states. Many years ago, a french naturalist the C.F, wrote some books about natural history, the books won a great success, even though some critics did not like them. Some critics said C.F is more of a poet than a scientist. Tomas jefferson did not like what the C.F said about the natural wonders of the new world.
It seems to jefferson that the C.F had gone out of his way to speak a natural wanders in the american as if there were unimportant. this troubled Thomas jefferson. He too, was a naturalist, as well as a farmer, inventor, historian, writter, and politician. he had seen the natural wanders of europe, To him, they were no more important than those of the new world.
In 1788 thomas jefferson wrote about his home state virginia. while are wrriting he saw its natural beauty, and then of the worlds of C.F. At that moment, jefferson creat a new word belittle, he said the C.F believes that the natures belittle the production on this side of the Atlantic. N.W the american word expert liked this word. He put it in his english language dictionary in 1806, belittle to make small, unimportant. Americans had already accepted jefferson's word, and started to use it, in 1797 the independent colonical newspaper used the word to discribe a politian the paper support, "he is a honorable man" the paper wrote, so let the opposition try to belittle him as the much as they please. In 1844, the republican S of virgina wrote this about the oppsition party. The whigs may attend to belittle our candidates, that is a favorite game of theirs.
in 1872, a famous american word expert decided that the time had come to kill this word, he said belittle has no chance of becoming english, and it is more critic writters of america like those Britian feel no need of it, the sooner it is forgetten the better, this expert fail to kill the word, today belittle is used not only in the united states and england, but in other country where the english language is spoken. It seems that efforts to belittle the word did not stop people from using it.
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