How to analyse the following joke? To some--marriage is a word...to others--a sentence. Comment: (i) To some marriage is a word... (ii) To some is a sentence. In the first clause marriage is object language, a mention , and is a word is metalanguage d ...
朱自清《 背影》 张培基 译 The Sight of Father's Back By Zhu Ziqing 我与父亲不相见已二年余了,我最不能忘记的是他的背影。 It is more than two years since I last saw father, and what I can never forget is the sight of his back. 那年冬天,祖母死了,父亲的差使也交卸了,正 ...