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课时检测训练20
选择性必修第一册
UNIT 4 BODY LANGUAGE
~对应答案P459
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handshaking-wrote in a chapter of an anthology
called A Cultural History of Gesture,"More than
(2023·斯江尖子生深研摸拟)A handshake
in any other field,that of the study of gesture is
seems to be a normal gesture.In fact.in the 9th
one in which the historian has to make the most of
century BC.an ancient site during the ruling of
only a few clues.
Shalmaneser Ill clearly shows two figures holding
One of the earliest clues he cites is a 16th-
hands.The Iliad,usually dated to the 8th century
century German translation of the French writer
BC.mentions that two characters "taking each
Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel.When one
other's hands and expressing their loyalty".
character meets Gargantua,Rabelais writes,"He
Centuries later,Shakespeare once wrote of two
was greeted with countless hugs and countless
characters who shook hands and swore to be
good-days."But according to Roodenburg,the
brothers in the book As You Like It.Shaking
16th-century German translation added references
hands seems to be an ancient custom whose roots
to shaking hands.
have disappeared in the sands of time.
A popular saying suggests that Cleland's
Historians who have studied ancient etiquette
statements against bowing were actually a wish to
(t礼仪)books note that the modern handshake did
go back to a potentially traditional method of
not appear until the middle of the 19th century,
greeting in Europe.As the centuries progressed,
when it was considered a slightly inappropriate
handshaking was replaced by more hierarchical(
ways of greeting-like bowing.According to
gesture that could only be used between friends.
Roodenburg,handshaking survived in a few
But what if Shakespeare had written about
remote places,like in Dutch towns where some
handshaking hundreds of years earlier?
would use the gesture to make peace after
According to author Torbjorn Lundmark in
disagreements.Around the same time,those who
his Tales of Hi and Bye:Greeting and Parting
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