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The author is not a preacher, and yet he does deliver a kind of sermon here. Who is his audience? Interestingly, his audience is your teachers of Advanced English as a foreign language. The author seeks to help them in their difficult task of teaching advanced students，their task of leading their students to a higher level of ability and fluency.
作者不是说教者，但这儿他确实在说什么教。他的听众是谁？有趣的是，他的听众是教你们高级英语的外语老师。作者想要帮助他们完成教学生学好高级英语的困难任务，引导学生提高英语能力和流利程度的任务。
Does it encourage you to know that you are not the only one who is struggling at this level of language acquisition ?
如果你知道在语言习得的这一水平上，不是唯独你学得如此费劲，你会感到鼓舞吗？
A Kind of Sermon
权进一言
W. S. Fowler
W·S·福勒
It is probably easier for teachers than for students to appreciate the reasons
一旦了解了英语的基本结构和句型，再往下学似乎就越来越难了；
why learning English seems to become increasingly difficult once the basic structures and patterns of the language have been understood.
这其中的原因，也许教师比学生更容易理解。
Students are naturally surprised and disappointed to discover that a process which ought to become simpler does not appear to do so.
当学生们发现一个本该变得更为简单的进程似乎并未变得简单时，他们自然会感到惊讶和失望。
It may not seem much consolation to point out that the teacher, too, becomes frustrated when his efforts appear to produce less obvious results.
即使向学生们指出，教师在其努力所产生的效果似乎不及原来明显时也会灰心丧气，似乎也不会给他们带来多大安慰。
He finds that students who were easy to teach, because they succeeded in putting everything they had been taught into practice,
学生们最初很容易教，因为他们能把教给他们的所有东西付诸实践；
hesitate when confronted with the vast untouched area of English vocabulary and usage which falls outside the scope of basic textbooks.
现在教师却发现他们面对着大量未曾接触过的英语词汇和惯用法而踌躇起来。因为这些词汇和惯用法都是基础教科书中所没有涉及的内容。
He sees them struggling because the language they thought they knew now appears to consist of a bewildering variety of idioms, clichés and accepted phrases with different meanings in different contexts.
他看到他们在挣扎，因为他们本以为已经熟悉的语言现在看上去竟是由种种令人困惑不解、在不同上下文中有着不同意义的习语、 陈词滥调和成语组成的。
