求一篇英语演讲稿multiculture讲多元文化的,你对外来文化的看法,accept还是resist

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求一篇英语演讲稿 multiculture
讲多元文化的,你对外来文化的看法,accept还是resist

Answer 1

English is a crazy language
Let’s face it--English is a crazy language.There is no egg in eggplant not ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France.Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads,which aren’t sweet,are meat.
We take English for granted.But if we explore its paradox,we find that quicksand can work slowly,boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing,grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham?If the plural of tooth is teeth,why isn’t the plural of booth beeth?One goose,2 geese.One index,2 indices.So one moose,2 meese?Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend,that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal?If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,what do you call it?
If teachers taught,why didn’t preacher praught?If a vegetarian eats vegetables,what does a humanitarian eat?If you wrote a letter,perhaps you bote your tongue?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the vetbal insanity.In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?Ship by truck and send cargo by ship Have noses that run and feet that smell?Park on driveway and drive on parkways?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,while a wise man and wise guy are opposites?How can overlook and oversee be opposites,while quite a lot and quite a few are alike?How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?
Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent?Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown?Met a sung hero or experienced requited love?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns dawn,in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm clock goes off by going on.
English was invented by people,not computers,and it reflects the creativity of the human race(which,of course,isn’t a race at all).That is why,when the stars are out,they are visible,but when the lights are out,they are invisible.And why,when I wind up my watch,I start it,but when I wind up this essay,I end it?