A Tiny Part Of Language Drill （黄锥）

Part 1

WE ARE UNITED….NO THING CAN STOP US…

COME ON! WE ARE CLOSE TO HEAVEN!

U HAVE BEEN EXPELED FROM HERE… I CANNOT LET THAT HAPPEN AGAIN

Tower of Babel

There are approximately 6000 languages that are spoken by humans today.

Part 2

Idioms Metaphorical phrases Phrases Slang 俚语 Colloquialism 俗话 Proverb 谚语 …….. culture Language

What makes them different?

Different living circumstance England & China

挥金如土 spend money like water 茫然 at sea 全力以赴 in full sail 先发制人 to take the wind out of somebody's sail 酒喝得太多 half sea over

二人同心，黄土变金 (When two people are of the same mind, even clay may be changed into gold) 上无片瓦，下无寸土 (as poor as a church mouse) 瑞雪兆丰年 (a timely snow promises a good harvest)

Another factor in the living condition-CLIMATE

Western hemisphere. North Temperate Zone West wind is the symbol of spring.

shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate -Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18

in China Spring has the image of good things, so Chinese “ 春 ” is used in some idioms to express goodliness.

春暖花开 in warm spring, all the blossoms are in full bloom 春意盎然 spring is very much in the air 一年之计在于春 the whole year’s work consists in a good start in spring 满面春风 one’s face radiates happiness 春风化雨 the life-giving spring breeze and rain--- salutary influence of education

Different historical allusion Different countries possess different history culture, which mainly comprises allusion, myths, poems, ancient books and records, etc

Historical events 风声鹤唳, 草木皆兵 be in an extremely nervous state in which one is frightened by the slightest sound 卧薪尝胆 to sleep on brushwood and taste gall---to undergo self-imposed hardships so as to strengthen one's resolve to wipe out a national humiliation

Mythologies A Pandora's box --- from Greek mythology crocodile's tears --- 猫哭老鼠假慈悲

Part 3 English

Approximately 375 million people speak English as their first language. English today is probably the third largest language by number of native speakers, after Mandarin Chinese.