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"Style" has got a bad name by growing associated with precious and suitor per
"Style" has got a bad name by growing associated with precious and suitor per
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2023-12-20
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"Style" has got a bad name by growing associated with precious and suitor persons who, like Oscar Wilde, spend a morning putting in a comma, and the afternoon taking it out again. But such abuse of "style" is misuse of English. For the word means merely "a way of expressing oneself, in language, manner, or appearance’’; or, secondly, "a good way of so expressing oneself’--as when one says, "Her behavior never lacked style."
Since not one of us can put pen to paper, or even open his mouth, without giving something of himself away to shrewd observers, it seems mere common sense to give the matter a little thought. Yet it does not seem very common. Ladies may take infinite pains about having style in their clothes, but many of us remain curiously indifferent about laying it in our words. How many women would dream of polishing not only their nails but also their tongues? Tney may play freely on that dangerous little organ, but they cannot often be bothered to tune it. And how many men think of improving their talk as well as their golf handicap?
No doubt strong silent men, speaking only in gruff monosyllables, may despise "mere words." No doubt the world does suffer from an endemic plague of verbal dysentery. But that, precisely, is bad style. And consider the amazing power of mere words. Adolf Hitler was a bad artist, bad statesman, bad general, and bad man. But largely because tie could tune his rant with psychological nicety, to the exact wave length of his audiences and make millions quarrelsome-drunk all at the same time by his command of windy nonsense, skilled statesmen, soldiers, scientists were blown away like dirt and he came near to rule the world. If Sir Winston Churchill had been a mere speaker, we might well have lost the war; yet his speeches did quite a lot to win it. Shakespeare himself has often poor plots and thin ideas; even his mastery of character has been questioned; what does remain unchallenged is his verbal magic. Men are often taken, like rabbits, by the ears. And though the tongue has no bones, it can sometimes break millions of them. [br] The passage focuses primarily on ______.
选项
A、how to develop an effective style
B、applications of style
C、the importance of style
D、certain famous figures
答案
C
解析
本文讲述了style的重要性,故[C]是正确答案。[A]和[B]指如何发展及应用style,而[D]仅是为了说明重要性而举的例子,均可排除。
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