1、While even the modestly educated sought an elevated tone when they put pen to paper before the 1960s,even the most well regarded writing since then has sought to capture spoken English on the page.
然而60年代之前即使是谨慎的受过教育的人在下笔之前也会寻找一个高雅的腔调,从那之后即使是公认的好作品也会寻求口语化。
2、Mr.McWhorter’s academic speciality is language history and change, and he sees the gradual disappearance of “whom” ,for example, to be natural and no more regranttable than the loss of the case-endings of Old English.
Mr.McWhorter的专业特长是语言的历史和变迁。并且他看到了例如“whom\"的逐渐消失的过程是很自然的,和一些古英语的突然消失相比没在什么可遗憾的。