MADE IN AMERICA:AN INFORMAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN ENGLISH
Book ID/图书代码： 06880006B04304
English Summary/英文概要： Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood...and exactly why Mr. Yankee Doodle call his befeathered cap "Macaroni."
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在美洲这块新发现的大陆上，早期的殖民者总能碰到各种自己从未见过的东西，逼得他们几乎从第一天开始就在填补自己的词汇库。他们或是借用印第安语言的词汇，或是组合拼凑已有的英语单词，创造了mosquito（蚊子）、persimmon（柿子）、swamp（沼泽）等不计其数的美式新词。
英国国宝级作家比尔·布莱森经过严谨而广泛的研究，从1620年“五月花”号登陆美洲大陆开始，考察了美式英语300多年来的发展和演变。全书涵盖从食物、电影、游戏、广告、购物，到科技、体育、移民、战争、政治运动等21个领域的新词。作者用一个又一个鲜为人知而又有趣的历史故事，揭开了成千上万美式英语单词、短语的真正起源。
翻开本书，发现美式英语单词背后的奇闻逸事！(BD)
Awards/获奖情况："A treat ... filled with surprises ... a literate exploration ofwhy we use -- or mangle-our native tongue."-- "USA Today""Plain fun ... a terrific book, likely to make its readerschuckle if not guffaw ... Bryson manages to demolish somecherished American myths ... If more high schools used thisas their history text, the course might be one of the morepopular ones in school."-- "Denver Post""Romping through history and folk customs, Bill Bryson hascompiled a highly entertaining book about the growth ofAmerican English ... Enjoy it, learn from it, laugh at thefoibles of our peculiar tongue."-- "Atlanta Journal and Constitution""A wonderfully entertaining and informative history ofAmerican English, of how it and the country and its peopledeveloped ... Bryson captured me easily within the first 20pages of his engaging, information-packed book."-- "Des Moines Register""A treasure trove of trivia about American culturepast and present."-- "Publishers Weekly""Read this lively treatment of the development of American English . . . this book is no lemon--It’s a peach!"-- "People"From slavery, immigration and Westward expansion to advertising, sex and shopping malls, he provides scads of fascinating, often little-known facts and anecdotes that, far from glutting his reader’s appetites, should leave them hungry for more."-- "Wall Street Journal"Delightful . . . relentlessly, exuberantly informative . . . a potted history of the United States, presenting aspects of American life from cooking to swearing, from warring to shopping."-- "Washington Post Book World --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author/作者介绍： 布莱森是英国国宝级作家，著名非虚构作家，英国皇家学会荣誉院士，詹姆斯·乔伊斯奖、塞缪尔·约翰逊奖等多个文学奖获得者。
他曾任英国杜伦大学校长，取得两所大学的文学博士学位、九所英国知名大学的荣誉博士学位。早年曾供职于《泰晤士报》《独立报》，同时也为《纽约时报》《国家地理杂志》等撰文。
他尤其擅长人文历史、科普、游记类的写作，代表作有 《万物简史》《人体简史》 等。其中，科普巨著《万物简史》全球销量超千万册，简体中文版销量破百万册；中文版《人体简史》荣获2021年第十六届文津图书奖。
Bill Bryson’s many books include, most recently In a Sunburned Country, as well as I’m a Stranger Here Myself, A walk in the Woods, Neither Here Nor There, Made in America, and The Mother Tongue.He edited The Best American Travel Writing 2000. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he lived in England for almost two decades. He now lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his wife and four children.
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