作家的语言错误

共同研习 · 发表于 2017-3-30 23:10:20

人非圣贤，孰能无过。
即使是著名作家，在其作品中也难免会出现一些“严重犯规”的语言错误的。
不过，在这方面人们还是比较宽容的，都会尽量辩护一下。
我记得在17-18世纪的时候，英国的很多英语语法书，就不客气用名人的错句当改错练习。（虽然有些错误其实不能算错）
我们一起来找例子吧。

共同研习 · 发表于 2017-3-30 23:34:22

It is easy distinguishing the characters.
出自19世纪的George Gilfillan之手。

共同研习 · 发表于 2017-3-30 23:47:35

there is many letters wrote for him to the first people in America
出处：An Account of the Trial of Thomas Muir: Younger of Huntershill, Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh. On the 30th and 31st Days of August, 1793, for Seditious Practices，1793

共同研习 · 发表于 2017-3-31 23:00:03

Its application, therefore, on this occasion, cannot be questioned. It behooves us, first of all, to ascertain the motives by which we are actuated in the consecration of this annual anniversary, to the purposes for which it is declaratively appointed.

出处：
A Discourse Delivered in the Universalist Chapel, Portland, Me. on the Annual Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 30, 1826

所有的例子都可以在googlebooks上查到

共同研习 · 发表于 2017-3-31 23:03:21

both minister and magistrate is compelled
https://books.glgoo.com/books?id ... 20is%22&f=false

共同研习 · 发表于 2017-3-31 23:07:32

Moreover, if the master-tradesmen are willing to sell themselves into this slavery, the consequences to the much more numerous classes of those whom they employ remains to be taken into account.

https://books.glgoo.com/books?id ... more%22&f=false

共同研习 · 发表于 2017-3-31 23:10:23

Few political conspiracies, whenever religion forms a pretext, is without a woman.
https://books.glgoo.com/books?id ... cies%22&f=false

共同研习 · 发表于 2017-3-31 23:41:54

And to complete the absurdity, or to heighten the calamity which the want of these useful labours make every literary man feel, half of the collections of Baker sleep in their dust in a turret of the University; while the other deposited in our national library at the British Museum, and frequently used, are rendered imperfect by this unnatural divorce
https://books.glgoo.com/books?id ... e&q&f=false

共同研习 · 发表于 2017-3-31 23:56:25

Our club has recommenced last Friday, but I was not there.
https://books.glgoo.com/books?id ... nced%22&f=false

共同研习 · 发表于 2017-4-1 00:02:05

You may do what you have done a century ago in Ireland, made the Catholics worse than Helots, because you suspected that they might hereafter aspire to be more than fellow-citizens; rendering their sufferings certain from your jealousy, while yours were only doubtful from their ambition; an ambition sure to be excited by the very measures which were taken to prevent it.
https://books.glgoo.com/books?id ... 0ago%22&f=false

共同研习 · 发表于 2017-4-1 20:13:35

So also the association of two phenomena, which are only analogous in one solitary relation, or when two phenomena, differing in manifestation, are regarded as mutually determining one another, and when the description of one phenomena is considered as an explanation definition of the other.
https://books.glgoo.com/books?id ... mena%22&f=false

共同研习 · 发表于 2017-4-2 23:11:18

Every one of this grotesque family were the creatures of national genius, chosen by the people for themselves.
https://books.glgoo.com/books?id ... %20were&f=false

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