s should be tolerated in public places for its unique role which Mandarian can not replace. We should guartee its existance because dialects stand for our culture. From a long-term perspective, dialects should not and would not be prohibited. There is no need for any purposeful and deliberate attempt to protect dialects. Just let dialects take their natural course.
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The previous section has shown how quickly a rhyme passes
from one school child to the next and illustrates the further difference (1)_____
between shcool lore and nursery lore. In nursery lore a verse, learnt
in early childhood, is not usually passed on again when the little listener (2)_____
has grown up, and has children of their own, or even grandchildren. (3)_____
The period between learning a nursery rhyme and transmitting
It may be something from twenty to seventy years. With the playground (4)_____
lore, therefore, a rhyme may be excitedly passed on whtin the very hour (5)_____
it is learnt; and in the general, it passes between children of the (6)_____
same age, or nearly so, since it is uncommon for the difference in age
between playmates to be more than five years. If therefore, a playground
rhyme can be shown to have been currently for a hundred years, or (7)_____
even just for fifty, it follows that it has been retransmitting over
and over; very possibly it has passed along a chain of two or three (8)_____
hundred young hearers and tellers, and the wonder is that it remains live (9)_____
after so much handling, to let alone that it bears resemblance to the (10)____
original wording.
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(1)illustrated,承接has shown and illustrated...
版本二:the改為a
(2) the little listener改為a little listener,因為是不確指
版本二:when改為until
(3)their改為his以于上文匹配
(4)something 改為somewhere,前者少指時間之長短
版本二:something改為anything
(5)therefore顯然應(yīng)為however
(6) in the general去掉the
(7) currently 改為current
(8) it has passed along 改為 it has been passed
版本二:over and over 后面加again
(9) live 改為 alive
(10) to let alone去掉to 改為 let alone