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semantic structures of english phraseological units and proverbs with proper names
Martin Chuzzlewit), "Proverbs are strategies for dealing with situations.
Another name for strategies might be attitudes." (Kenneth Burke, The Philosophy of Literary Form), There's more than one way to skin a cat. When the cat's away, the mice will play. Curiosity killed the cat. All of us do control our tempers, when it is important enough to do so. Consider a mother who has a terrible day. The washer leaks on the floor, kids fight, supper burns, she breaks her favorite bowl, kids track mud on her clean floor. So she explodes, screams at the kids and threatens them. Then the phone rings and it's her husband's boss. Suddenly she is quite capable of carrying on a polite conversation. Dad works on the car. The dealer gives him a wrong part, it won't go together right, then it won't run, and a wrench slips and splits his knuckle. He's screaming and using profanity. Then a car pulls in the driveway; it's the preacher's wife come for a visit. Suddenly he is calm and polite. We can control our anger, when we really want to. If we can control our temper for the sake of other people, why not do it for God? God sees everything we do. Is God important enough to control our anger for? Proverbs are either persuasive or expository. Examples of contemporary proverbs that persuade people to action are the squeaky wheel gets the grease; Wake up and smell the roses; and 'The early bird gets the worm.' Proverbs that dissuade people from doing things are if you drive, don't drink and don’t count your chickens before they hatch.' Explanatory proverbs include
Any of these proverbs can be amplified according to the ancient directions for doing so: begin by praising either the wisdom of the proverb or its author (if the author is known); paraphrase or explain the proverb's meaning; give proof of the proverb's truth or accuracy; give comparative and contrasting examples; supply testimony from another author; compose an epilogue."[83,198] Proverbs have long been in disuse. “A man of fashion,” observes Lord Chesterfield, “never has recourse to proverbs and vulgar aphorisms;” and since 83 the time his lordship so solemnly interdicted their use, they appear to have withered away under the ban of his anathema. Day by day the developing of proverbs with proper names is increasing. His lordship was little conversant with the history of proverbs, and would unquestionably have smiled on those “men of fashion” of another stamp, who in the days of Elizabeth, James, and Charles, were great collectors of them; would appeal to them in their conversations, and enforce them in their learned or their statesmanlike correspondence. Few, perhaps, even now suspect that these neglected fragments of wisdom, which exist among all nations, still offer many interesting objects for the studies of the philosopher and the historian; and for men of the world still open an extensive school of human life and manners. It might therefore have been decided, that the most homely proverbs would abound in the most ancient writers—and such we find in Hesiod; a poet whose learning was not drawn from books. It could only have been in the agricultural state that this venerable bard could have indicated a state of repose by this rustic proverb. “Hang your plough-beam o’er the hearth!” The envy of rival workmen is as justly described by a reference to the humble manufacturers of earthenware as by the elevated jealousies of the literati and the artists of a more polished age. The famous proverbial verse in Hesiod’s Works and Days, “The potter is hostile to the potter!” “The half is better than Download 0.71 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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