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发表于 2007-9-23 22:03
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Homework
Now the VOA special English program, words and their storys.
Today's word is "be little", it was first used by Thomas Jeffesen, the third president of United States.
Many years ago, a French naturelist, the comfortable far,wrote some books about nature history,the books was a great success even though some critics didn't like them,come critics said CF is more of put like scientist,Thomas Jeffesen did not like what the contactor said about the nature wounders of the new word,it seems the Jeffesen that the contactor gone other his way to speak a nature wound in America as if they were on important. This troubled Thomas J effesen,he too was a naturelist as well as a farmer, inventer,historian,writer and politician.He had seen the nature wounds of Europe,to him they were no more important than those of the new word. In 17,1808, Thomas Jeffesen wrote about home state Verjinia,while writing, he thought of its nature beauty and then of the words of CF, at that memont, Jeffesen created a new word, be little,he said the CF believes that nature be little her production on this side of the ***. No ***, the American word expert like this word,He put it in his English language dictionary in 1806,be little to make small are important,Americans had already accepted Jeffesen's word and started to use it, in 1797 the independent critical news paper use the word to descripe a politician the paper supported, he is an unknown man, the paper wrote, so let the oposition try to be little him as much as they please.
In 1844, the republican was set on Verjinia wrote this about the opositon party, the bigs may attempt to be little our candidates,that is a favorate game of theirs.
In 1872, a famous American word expert decided that the time to kill this word,he said be little has no chance of the coming English,and that's more critical rights of America,like those of Britin feel no need of it, the sooner it is regarden the better, this expert failed to kill the word, today be little is used not only in the United States and England but in other countries called English language is spoken, it seems that efforts to be little of the word didn't stop people from using it
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