Tiểu Luận Proverb on weather in English

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    Proverb on weather in English
    Part A: IntroductionMy interest in weather started when I was very young and while it’s difficult to point to one event or one side of nature that developed my weather interests. I have many memories of hot summer days, billowing clouds that developed in the thunderstorms, and brilliant flashes of lightning as big thunderstorms pounded my neighborhood. All of these things played a part in my love of weather, but they weren’t the only things. As a child, I found just as much fascination in reading books about weather. One of my favorite books, though I don't remember the title, was a book that featured numerous weather proverbs. It was always fun to read the proverb, and then watch the skies to see if the weather really changed as the proverb suggested.
    Weather proverbs are an ancient part of human society. Some weather proverbs are quite correct, depending on where on is. When considering weather proverbs it is important to remember that weather patterns move very differently in the English. Proverb on weather _ the specific part of each language, make the language become more vivid and beautiful. They are used widely nowadays in the daily conversation book, and mass media


    Part b: developmentI) What is proverb?
    Every language has proverbs. Learning and understanding them is an important aspect of the mastery of language. English language is no exception as it contains a large number of proverbs which are extensively used “Proverbs are the wisdom of people”. Many various definitions are mention to proverbs:
    "Proverbs are popular fixed sentences expressing a rule of conduct or wisdom in a vivid, short form."
    (Rohrich-Mieder 1977. page. 2.)
    "A proverb is a short sentence of wisdom."
    (Quoted by Mieder 1989. p. 15.)
    "A proverb is a standard statement of moral and colloquial imperatives in fixed metaphorical paradigmatic form, it deals with fundamental logical relationships."
    (Barley 1972. page. 741.)
    "A proverb is a general statement or judgment, explaining, classifying or assessing a situation.
    "( Harald Burger, quoted by W. Mieder 1977. page. 2.)
    "A proverb is a popular set phrase having no author, known mostly in different languages, expressing in one sentence a principle, advice, a genuine or assumed truth in a general, concise form, its basic idea being of general validity, or at least its user considers it as such."
    (O. Nagy 1979. p. 645.)

    II) Proverb with weather in English.
    Man's concern with weather has been well documented throughout history. Humans have sought to understand, predict and control the weather. Each culture has sought to understand weather through stories that explain how the Sun was created, how and why the wind blows, why we have frost and how fire came to the world.
    This concept is reflected in the English proverb:
    "Red sky at night, sailor's delight;
    Red sky in morning, sailors take warning."
    (Schneider, 1996)
    First of all, the proverb refers to night, and morning. In this case nightmeans sunset, and morning means sunrise. Because of the way our atmosphere filters sunlight, you generally won't see red skies during the middle of the day. However, when the sun is low in the sky, such as at sunrise and sunset, light from the sun gets filtered by our atmosphere, and the shorter wavelengths of blue and green get scattered more easily The longer wavelengths of red and orange are then allowed to pass through the atmosphere where they highlight clouds and the sky on the horizon near sunrise and sunset. That tells us two important things. First, there are no clouds on the distant horizon to block the sun’s light, and secondly, there are no storms between us and the setting sun, so quiet weather will likely continue through the night and into the next day, if not longer. Therefore,
     
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