杰作英语

Day 291 morning 2021Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest.It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing.In the book it said, “Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion.” I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. My Drawing Number One. It looked like this. I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them. masterpiece：杰作master, 大师， piece, 片，段。比喻用法。 master（大师）：学而优则仕的佼佼者 中国人有“学而优则仕”的观念，而英语单词 master 其实也含有类似的含义。 master 来自拉丁语 magister ，表示“首领、领头人、指导者、教授者”。而 magister 中的 magis 表示“更多、更大”，所以 magister 的本意是“学识更多的人，更伟大的人”，也就是“佼佼者”的意思。 因为他比别人学识渊博，所以他既能当老师，指导别人做事，又能走上仕途，担任领导职务。可以说 master 一词同时对应于汉语中的“师”和“主”这两个概念。根据场景不同，可以翻译为大师、硕士、师傅、主人等不同说法。