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en As she put it in The Common Reader , “It is safe to say that not a single law has been framed or one stone set upon another because of anything Chaucer said or wrote; and yet, as we read him, we are absorbing morality at every pore.”
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意群训练: As she put i t in The Common Reade r , “It is safe to say that not a single law has been framed or one stone set upon another because of anything Chaucer said or wrote ; and yet , as we read him , we are absorbin g morality at every pore .”

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标志: /As she put it in The Common Reader /, “Although it is safe to say that not a single law has been framed or one stone set /upon another/ /because of anything Chaucer said or wrote/; and yet , as we read him, we are absorbing morality at every pore.”

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译文: / 就像 她在《致普通读者》一书中所表达的那样/,“尽管 可以 毫无疑问没有任何法律 被制定出来也没有高楼大厦 被建立起来 /是因为乔叟说了什么或写了什么/;然而 ,当我们读他的书的时候,我们身上每一个毛孔都吸满了道德。”

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解释: 很多人读这句话的时候,虽然字字句句全都认识,而且句子结构似乎也能读懂,可是就是不知道作者在说些什么。这是因为本句不但用词抽象,而且还使用了比喻的修辞手法。

先解释两个词:句首的as she put it in The Common Reader 中的put...in...不同于普通所理解的把……放到……中;在此put的意思是在The Common Reader 一书中,用语言来表示或表达某种思想或意图,其英文释义为:to convey into another form <I want to put my feelings into words>。作者用引号引用的“Although it is safe to say that ...”是VW在书中所写的原话,其中It是形式主语,真正的内容在不定式中。safe在此也不是普通所说的安全的意思,而是其引伸义:毫无争议的、没有问题的,其英文释义为:unlikely to produce controversy or contradiction。

在本句中,作者连续使用了三个比喻:“没有任何法律 被制定出来也没有高楼大厦 被建立起来 ”这两个比喻,指没有因为乔叟的言论而产生任何实际的行为规则或政治机构;而“我们身上每一个毛孔都吸满了道德”,则比喻我们受其影响之深,以及其影响力之大。本句的意思是说,乔叟影响读者的方式不是明确地规定,硬性地灌输,而是潜移默化地陶冶。

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