What is grammar

what is grammar? It is something that can help play with language.

语法是什么？语法就是语言的游戏规则。

 

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become vertebrate and walk the earth.But to study it for its own sake,without relating it to function, is utter madness.

                                        --------Anthony Burgess

 

语法好比粗壮的骨骼，词汇好比丰满的血肉；只有两者的结合才能形成脊椎动物，行走于地球之上。但是为了语法而研究语法，而不论及语法的功能，那完全是胡闹。

                                        --------安东尼.伯格斯

 

 

play with 玩弄，以......取乐                   vocabulary 词汇

satisfactory 令人满足的；圆满的                 require 要求

boniness  多骨性                              vertebrate 脊椎动物

flesh 肉                                     sake 理由，目的

sheer 完全的，纯粹的，绝对的                    for the sake of 为了

utter 完全的，绝对的，十足的                    madness 疯狂

 

 

satisfy 使满足（同义词：content 使满足 gratify 使满足）

 

同根词：

affect 影响；感动  affection 影响；喜欢，爱  affectation 假装；装模作样

confect 调制，混合；糖果  confection 糖果

defect 缺点，缺陷，故障

effect 影响，效果，效应

infect 传染，感染  infection 传染；影响

perfect 完善  perfection 完美  perfectly 完美地

imperfect 不完善的  imperfection 缺点