- •§ 1. Introduction: the traditional approach to the English articles
- •Follow-Up Work
- •§ 2. The status of the article in English
- •Follow-Up Work
- •§ 3. The conceptual approach to the English article system
- •Follow-Up Work
- •§ 4. The conceptual analysis of article forms of nouns in speech
- •Follow-Up Work
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- •Follow-Up Work
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- •§ 8. The stylistic functions of article forms of nouns in English
- •Follow-Up Work
- •§ 9. The functional-stylistic omission of the article
- •Follow-Up Work
- •§ 10. Summary
- •Beyond the Blue Mountains
- •Life on a Desert Island
- •In the Margin
- •Memories of …. Great actress
- •You Can’t Teach Managers
- •Patients Get the Message
- •Alzheimer’s telltale protein
- •Homeopathy
- •School for Scandal
- •Is ….. Mba responsible for …..Moral turpitude at ….. Top?
- •Ride and prejudice Why the return of product placement is nothing to worry about
- •La Belle Monique
- •An English Lesson
- •Alaska’ Dirty Dollars
- •Pigeons ‘not so bird-brained’
- •Two Topics of Conversation
- •The Thoughts of Henry Wilt
- •The Center of Our Galaxy
- •Forbidding Fruit
- •Two New Dinosaur Species Found in Antarctica
- •Fire Message in Plain English
- •The Japanese Sense of Beauty
- •On the Brink of Tranquillity
- •Small ads are flooding away from newspapers and onto the internet
- •Stop the world, we want to get off
- •Improvements in the visa-issuing process for foreign scientists
- •Sources
- •E.A. Dolgina English Articles and their Role in the Cognitive Process of Categorization
- •References
The Center of Our Galaxy
On ….. clear, moonless night ….. shimmering light of ….. Milky Way glows especially bright toward ….. constellation Sagittarius. For years ….. astronomers have been aware, from ….. distribution of ….. groups of ….. stars and from ….. measurements of ….. stellar motions, that objects in our galaxy must travel in orbits around ….. center located in that direction. ….. astronomers also have found that in most cases other galaxies are especially bright toward ….. center because ….. density of ….. stars increases markedly there. In many instances ….. central regions also seem to be ….. sites of intriguing behavior, including ….. generation of enormous quantities of ….. energy, peculiar radiations and other unusual effects. More and more, it seems that ….. massive, unimaginably dense objects - ….. black holes - lie at ….. heart of some of these galaxies. Could our own galaxy also harbor such ….. exotic object at its center?
….. central region of ….. Milky Way has fascinated ….. astronomers for many decades. After all, our galactic center is only about 25,000 light-years away as opposed to …. millions of ….. light-years for ….. centers of ….. nearest other galaxies, and so it is ….. one astronomers might reasonably hope to see and to understand best. Yet for ….. long time there was no direct way to see ….. center of our galaxy or to learn much about it, because it is cloaked in ….. large and dense clouds of ….. gas and ….. dust.
….. recent discoveries and new technologies have made it possible at last to study ….. center of our own galaxy in some detail. These developments include ….. improved techniques for collecting and analyzing ….. astronomical radio wavesand infrared radiation as well as ….. space flights above ….. earth's atmosphere, which have made possible ….. detecting of ….. energetic X-ray and gamma-ray radiation emanating from ….. center of ….. galaxy.
All these types of waves - radio, infrared, X-ray and gamma-ray - are similar to ….. visible light in that they are all forms of electromagnetic radiation and differ only in their wavelengths and energy levels. Unlike ….. light, however, they can penetrate ….. interstellar clouds of dust with some ease and hence provides ….. window into ….. structure and dynamics of ….. galactic center.
from 'What is Happening at the Center of Our Galaxy?' by Charles H Townes & Reinhard Genzel, © 1990 by Scientific American, Inc. All rights reserved. (AmE)
Our Children’s Future
As ….. parent and ….. observer of …. mankind, I grow increasingly concerned about ….. life that our children inherit, ….. values that they hold dear, and their expectations for ….. future. ….. childhood seems to last but ….. few years until ….. children become ….. market force to be bombarded with ….. advertisements on ….. television. They demand to have all that they see, and regard it as their right to be entertained every waking moment.
At ….. school, most children are bored by …. Lessons, which they see as irrelevant to …. Life as they perceive it . ….. life is about having ….. fun, and having ….. fun now. Or, at ….. other extreme, ….. school is fiercely competitive, and ….. pupils are pushed by ….. parents to achieve at all costs.
…..1960s were ….. time of great liberalization, when ….. youth thought it could right all wrongs. Its ideals of love and peace are now much scorned as ….. hollow, hippy phrases. If ….. world veered to ….. left in ’68, then it has lurched to ….. right in ….. past fifteen years. ….. 1980s are undoubtedly ….. more selfish, inward-looking era, with ….. individual out to look after himself, regardless of ….. effect this might be having on ….. others. …..new gods are ….. money and materialism, and ….. teenagers want now what it took their parents half a generation to achieve.
If ….. youth has learnt to question ….. wisdom of its elders, it has so far found nothing to replace it with. No wonder there is ….. drug abuse on ….. scale never seen before. No wonder so many children seek ….. help of psychiatrists. What are they to fill ….. emptiness of their souls with?
by James Stuart (BrE)