文档介绍：Unit 10
Connotative Meaning
Associative Meaning:
In the United Nations, the non-English-speaking countries often refer to the Security council as “the an”,but “the an” often has the sexual associations in the mind of the native speakers:“man’s an”. Some Vips sometimes call “the Security Council”“this an”, (含有“不文之物”之意),or “August Body”.
From Japan:
Special cocktails for the ladies with nuts.
You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.
From Mexico:
The manager has personally passed all the water served here.
From Rome:
Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time!
From Zurich:
Because of the impropriety of entertaining guests of the opposite sex in the bedrooms, it suggested that the lobby be used for this purpose.
From Copenhagen:
We take your bags and send them in all directions.
From the most distinguished o house in the world.
(from an advertisement for Dunhills)
“house” might be considered by the uninitiated an unremarkable alternative for firm or manufacturers; but its associations are with gentlemanly businesses carried on by long-established family firms.
Cigarettes by John Player, England.
It is not so much the choice of words as the syntactic construction ( that of by connecting two noun phrases) that suggests exclusiveness.
This construction usually indicates some kind of artistic activity:
Landscape gardening by X;
Floral arrangements by Y;
Costumes by Z
From the most distinguished o house in the world.
Cigarettes by John Player, England.
So here there is an effort to dignify the somewhat tarnished image of cigarette-makers and -marketers with overtones of quality and distinction.
A BBC programme on 11 February 1969 reported a proposal for establishing a new category of ordained priest, who would do full-time work in a factory or office in addition to his pastoral duties.