It is widely known that anyEnglish conversation begins with The Weather. Such a fixation with the weather finds expression inDr.Johnson’s famous comment that “When twoEnglish meet, their first talk is of weather.” Though Johnson’s observation is as accurate now as it was over two hundred years ago, most commentators fail to come up with a convincing explanation for thisEnglish weather-speak. BillBryson, for ezample, concludes that,as theEnglish weather is not at all exciting,the obsession with it can hardly be understooD、He argues that”To an outsider,the most striking thing about theEnglish weather is that there is not very much of it.” Simply, the reason is that the unusual and unpredictable weather is almost unknown in theBritish Isles.Jeremy Paxman, however, disagrees withBryson, arguing that theEnglish weather is by nature attractive.Bryson is wrong, he says,because theEnglish preference for the weather has nothing to do with the natural phenomen

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  Not all bodies of wather are so evidently alive as theAtlantic Ocean, an S-shaped body of water covering 33 million square miles. TheAtlantic has, in a sense, replaced the Mediterranean as the inland sea of Weatern civilization. Unlike real inland seas, which seem strangely still, theAtlantic is rich in oceanic liveliness. It is perhaps not surprising that its vitality has been much written about by ancient poets.“Strm at Sea”, a short poem written around 700, is generally regarded as one of man

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  The morning had been a disaster. My tooth was aching, and I’d been in an argument with a frienD、Her words still hurt：“The trouble with you is that you won’t put yourself in my place.Can’t you see things from my point of view ”I shook my head stubbomly —and felt the ache in my tooth. .I’d thought I could hold out till my dentist came back from holiday, but the pain was really unbearable. I started calling the dentists in the phone book, but no one could see me immediately. Finally, at about lunch

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  The morning had been a disaster. My tooth was aching, and I’d been in an argument with a frienD、Her words still hurt：“The trouble with you is that you won’t put yourself in my place.Can’t you see things from my point of view ”I shook my head stubbomly —and felt the ache in my tooth. .I’d thought I could hold out till my dentist came back from holiday, but the pain was really unbearable. I started calling the dentists in the phone book, but no one could see me immediately. Finally, at about lunch

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  Not all bodies of wather are so evidently alive as theAtlantic Ocean, an S-shaped body of water covering 33 million square miles. TheAtlantic has, in a sense, replaced the Mediterranean as the inland sea of Weatern civilization. Unlike real inland seas, which seem strangely still, theAtlantic is rich in oceanic liveliness. It is perhaps not surprising that its vitality has been much written about by ancient poets.“Strm at Sea”, a short poem written around 700, is generally regarded as one of man

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