Brian Friel - Translations：練習題

• a.To enforce the use of the English language in local hedge schools.
• b.To establish a new military barracks to suppress local rebellions.
• c.To collect taxes from the local farmers on behalf of the British Crown.
• d.To create a new Ordnance Survey map and anglicize Irish place names.

• a.His conflict with Captain Lancey over the ethics of mapping leads to his court-martial.
• b.His inability to learn the Irish language causes him to lose his position in the Royal Engineers.
• c.His idealistic love for the Irish landscape and Maire leads to his mysterious disappearance and the subsequent military crackdown.
• d.His decision to defect to the Irish cause results in his execution by the British army.

• a.It symbolizes the disintegration of the old cultural order and the fallibility of memory and language in the face of colonial erasure.
• b.It proves that the Irish characters are intellectually superior to the British soldiers who do not know the classics.
• c.It represents a hopeful transition to a new era where Latin will replace both Irish and English.
• d.It serves as a comic relief to lighten the tension of the impending British military retaliation.

• a.Hugh
• b.Jimmy Jack
• c.Manus
• d.Owen

• a.He argues that the Irish language is the only way to effectively communicate with the spirits of the land.
• b.He claims that Irish is linguistically superior to English because of its complex syntax.
• c.He believes that the British will eventually abandon the mapping project and leave Ireland.
• d.He argues that the language is a repository of Irish history and mythology, even if it no longer matches the physical reality.

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