首页
登录
职称英语
Every profession or trade, every art and every science has its technical voc
Every profession or trade, every art and every science has its technical voc
游客
2023-11-23
102
管理
问题
Every profession or trade, every art and every science has its technical vocabulary, the function of which is partly to designate things or processes which have no names in ordinary English, and partly to secure greater exactness in nomenclature. Such special dialects, or jargons, are necessary in technical discussion of any kind. Being universally understood by the devotees of the particular science or art, they have the precision of a mathematical formula. Besides, they save time, for it is much more economical to name a process than to describe it. Thousands of these technical terms are very properly included in every large dictionary, yet, as a whole, they are rather on the outskirts of the English language than actually within its borders.
Different occupations, however, differ widely in the character of heir special vocabularies. In trades and handicrafts, and other vocations, like farming and fishery, that have occupied great numbers of men from remote times, the technical vocabulary, is very old, It consists largely of native words, or of borrowed words that have worked themselves into the very fiber of our language. Hence, though highly technical in many particulars, these vocabularies are more familiar in sounds; and more generally understood, than most other technicalities. The special dialects of law, medicine, divinity, and philosophy have also, in their older strata, become pretty familiar to cultivated persons, and have contributed much to the popular vocabulary. Yet every vocation still possesses a large body of technical terms that remain essentially foreign, even to educated speech. And the proportion has been much increased in the last fifty years, particularly in the various departments of natural and political science and in the mechanic arts. Here new terms are coined with the greatest freedom and abandoned with indifference when they have served their turn. Most of the new coinages are confined to special discussions, and seldom get into general literature or conversation. Yet no profession is nowadays, as ail professions once were, a close guild. The lawyer, the physician, the man of science, the divine, associates freely with his fellow-creatures, and does not meet them in a merely professional way. Furthermore, what is called" popular science" makes everybody acquainted with modern views and recent discoveries. Any important experiment, though made in a remote or provincial laboratory is at once reported in the newspapers, and everybody is soon talking about it - as in the case of the Roentgen rays and wireless telegraphy. Thus our common speech is always taking up new technical terms and making them commonplace. [br] This passage is primarily concerned with ______.
选项
A、a new language
B、technical terminology
C、scientific undertakings
D、popular science
答案
B
解析
主旨题,通过阅读,发现这篇文章始终围绕技术术语这个主题,技术行业术语不是某种全新的语言,也不是科研工作,更不是大众科学,所以选择B。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3212474.html
相关试题推荐
[originaltext]J:Becausein1987theDepartmentofEducationandScienceestabl
[originaltext]J:Becausein1987theDepartmentofEducationandScienceestabl
[originaltext]J:Becausein1987theDepartmentofEducationandScienceestabl
[originaltext]J:Becausein1987theDepartmentofEducationandScienceestabl
PassageThree[br]Whatdoes"sciencefictionwithequations"inPara.4ref
Thesedays,sciencemayhavedissectedalmosteveryelementofourdiet,bu
Thesedays,sciencemayhavedissectedalmosteveryelementofourdiet,bu
Thesedays,sciencemayhavedissectedalmosteveryelementofourdiet,bu
Thoughshedidnotwishforamedicalprofession.Miriamdidnotsayanythingan
Itisacommonthemeinmanysciencefictionstoriesthattheworldmayoneday
随机试题
ThenovelForWhomtheBellTollsiswrittenby______.A、ScottFitzgerald.B、Wil
()期货合约大户报告制度规定,每个交易者持有期货合约及期权合约头寸(包括所有月份)的净多或净空超过10000张时,必须向交易所报告。A、欧元B、人
Wefindithardtostandhimanylonger;hebehavesso(strange)______.strangely
国资委“三个领军”、“三个领先”、“三个典范”中,“三个领军”是指在国际资源配置
瞳孔括约肌和瞳孔开大肌发育来源于()A.神经外胚层和中胚层 B.神经外
参与体液免疫的细胞是A.单核细胞B.NK细胞C.中性粒细胞D.B淋巴细胞E.T淋
肝脏的激素和维生素代谢中的作用不包括A.激素的灭活主要在肝脏进行B.灭活后的产物
Thechangeinthatvillagewasmiraculou
“以人为本”的学生观认为( )A.学生是家族繁衍的工具 B.学生是父母的
某男,42岁,长期胸闷、气短、心痛,没及时就医,不幸死亡,尸解发现心包狭窄,包内
最新回复
(
0
)