英語專八考試必揹人文知識

　　英語專業八級考試自1991年設立以來.一直作為衡量英語專業學生英語水平和專業知識的工具。根據2004年最新修訂的《高校英語專業四、八級考試大綱》***以下簡稱《考試大綱》***，從2005年起，英語專業八級考試內容、範圍和題型都發生了一定的變化。其中最突出的是增加了“人文知識”這一題型，代替了原來的快速閱讀。

　　

　　1. Syntax: The study of the rules whereby words or otherelements of sentence structure are combined to formgrammatical sentences. 句法，研究詞或其它句子成分如何聯合起來形成合乎語法的句子規則的學科

　　2. acronym : 首字母組合詞，首字母縮略詞，比如，NATO, UNESCO, BASIC,它們可以連拼，但VOA是 Initialism。

　　3. A Tale of Two Cities was written by Charles Dickens.

　　4. Semantics: The study or science of meaning in language forms.語義學，以語言形式表示意思的研究或科學

　　5. Phonology: The study of speech sounds in language or alanguage with reference to their distribution and patterning andto tacit rules governing pronunciation. 音位學; 在語言或一門語言中，對有關其分類和模式以及為大家所預設的發音規則的研究音韻學, 音系學

　　6. Metonymy: A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another withwhich it is closely associated, as in the use of Washington for the United States government or ofthe sword for military power. 換喻或轉喻，一種,一個詞或片語被另一個與之有緊密聯絡的詞或片語替換的修辭方法，如用華盛頓代替美==或用劍代替軍事力量，對面來了三個“紅領巾”也是，以紅領巾指代少先隊員。

　　7. Simile: A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in aphrase introduced by like or as, as in How like the winter hath my absence been or So are you tomy thoughts as food to life ***Shakespeare***.明喻, 一種修辭手法，把兩種基本不相像的東西進行比較，通常在由 like或 as引導的短語中，如 “我的離開好象是冬天來臨”或“你對我的思想就象食物對於生命一樣重要”***莎士比亞***

　　8. Metaphor: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates onething is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in a sea of troubles orAll the world's a stage***Shakespeare*** 隱喻一種語言表達手法，通常用指某物的詞或片語來指代他物，從而暗示它們之間的相似之處，如 “憂愁之海”或“整個世界一臺戲”***莎士比亞*** the ship ofdesert 沙漠之舟

　　9. Oxymoron: A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined,as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist. 矛盾修飾法, 一種把互相矛盾或不調和的詞合在一起的修辭手法，如在 震耳欲聾的沉默和悲傷的樂觀 cruel kindness

　　10. The affection name given to the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, Westminster isBig Ben.　　11. John Milton the poet wrote of Adam and Eve’sexpulsion from the Garden of Eden in Paradise Lost. ParadiseRegained was also written by him.

　　12. Sonnet: A 14-line verse form usually having one ofseveral conventional rhyme schemes. 十四行詩體, 一種由十四行組成的詩歌形式，通常有一種傳統的押韻形式, 莎士比亞用過此詩體。

　　13. Slang: A kind of language occurring chiefly in casualand playful speech, made up typically of short-lived coinagesand figures of speech that are deliberately used in place of standard terms for added raciness,humor, irreverence, or other effect. 俚語主要出現在非正式的、遊戲性的話語中的一種語言，基本由存在時間很短的派生詞和修辭構成，它們被故意地用來取代標準的詞語以達到生動、幽默、無禮或其它效果

　　14. Catch Phrase: A phrase in wide or popular use, especially one serving as a slogan for agroup or movement. 警句，妙句，吸引人的詞句廣泛使用的或流行的用語，尤指用作集團或運動的口號的用語。

　　15. Jargon: The specialized or technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group. 行話, 一個行業、職業或類似的團體中使用的專業的或技術的語言.

　　16. Platitude: A trite or banal remark or statement, especially one expressed as if it wereoriginal or significant. 陳腔濫調, 陳腐的或平庸的評論或陳述，尤指某人表述它時好象它是新穎的或有意義的

　　17. Hyperbole: A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in Icould sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton. 誇張法,一種比喻，使用誇張來強調或產生某種效果，比如在我能睡一年或這書有一噸重

　　18. onomatopoeia: The formation or use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate thesounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. 象聲詞, 詞的構成或用法，例如 buzz或nurmur模仿事物或行動的聲音.

　　19. hypotaxis: 從屬關係

　　20. parataxis: 並列結構，指 短語或分句間不用連詞， 如：I came, I saw, I conquered.　　21. Transcendentalism: A literary and philosophicalmovement, associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and MargaretFuller, asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality thattranscends the empirical and scientific and is knowable throughintuition. 超驗主義, 一種文學和哲學運動，與拉爾夫•沃爾多•愛默生和瑪格麗特•富勒有關，宣稱存在一種理想的精神實體，超越於經驗和科學之處，通過直覺得以把握

　　22. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the Scarlet Letter. 美國

　　23. Morphology: The study of the structure and form ofwords in language or a language, including inflection, derivation, and the formation ofcompounds.詞法，詞態學，形態音位學, 語言或某一語言中對於單詞的結構和形式的研究，包括詞尾變化、派生和合成詞的構成

　　24. affricate: A complex speech sound consisting of a stop consonant子音 followed by africative摩擦; for example, the initial sounds of child and joy. 塞擦音由閉塞音伴隨著摩擦音而形成的複雜的語音;例如 child和 joy的第一個音Also called: affricative.

　　25. Vanity Fair 名利場 was written William Makepeace Thackray

　　來源　26. Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon. Edwin Aldrin, MichaelCollins

　　尼爾.阿姆斯特朗、埃德溫.奧爾德林、邁克爾.柯林斯

　　27. The title of the national anthem 國歌 of Canada is O Canada. 此種類型題同學們可自己多找幾個國家。

　　28. Henry David Thoreau’s work, Walden, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of NewEngland Transcendentalism.

　　29. etymology: the history of a word. 詞源學

　　30. The dominant accent in the United States is General American. 除紐約市、南方、新英格蘭　　31. John Lennon is a member of the band of Beatles 披頭士或甲殼蟲樂隊in the 1960s.

　　32. In Gulliver’s Travels格列佛遊記, Jonathan Swiftdescribes the island of the Houyhnhnms as the world’s mostperfect society. 有理智和人性的馬 Houyhnhnms are horses infact.

　　33. Ceoffrey Chaucer wrote Canterbury Tales in fourteenthcentury.

　　34. morpheme: A meaningful linguistic unit consisting of aword, such as man, or a word element, such as -ed in walked, that cannot be divided into smallermeaningful parts. 詞素, 一種含有一個單詞的有意義的語言單位，如 -ed在單詞 walked中，不能被劃分為更小的有意義單位

　　35. The name of the famous stadium露天體育場 in the north of London is Wembley.

　　36. Wimbledon溫布林登[英國英格蘭東南部城市]***位於倫敦附近, 是著名的國際網球比賽地***

　　37. Toad in the hole is a Traditional English recipe食譜, originating from Yorkshire, a countyin the north of England. 烤面拖牛肉，，面拖烤香腸

　　38. Boycott: To act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with as anexpression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion***強制***. 聯合抵制, 聯合起來拒絕使用、購買或經銷以示抗議、不滿或作為強制的手段

　　39. Segregation: The policy and practice of imposing the social separation of races, as inschools, housing, and industry, especially so as to practice discrimination against people of color ina predominantly white society. 種族隔離, 強制實行種族的社會分離政策及實踐，如在學校、居住和工業中，尤指在白人居多的社會中實行有色人種歧視的政策

　　40. Apartheid: An official policy of racial segregation practiced in the Republic of South Africa,involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against nonwhites. 種族隔離制, 南非共和國實行的一種官方的種族隔離政策，包括在政治、法律和經濟諸方面對非白色人種的歧視.