『壹』 英語中的修辭
排比的修辭手法!
『貳』 英語修辭問題
assonance(協音):重復某個發音相同或相似的音節,比如例句中的Thy/thy和-dom/done。
eg: Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.
synesis 表示單詞的搭配符合邏輯,但不符合語法,比如例句中的anyone和them。
eg: If anyone calls, tell them I am out.
paradox(佯謬):似是而非、或者似非而是的表達,比如例句中關於youth的看法。
eg: Less is more.
metanoia: 表示自我修正,correction,修正自己前面說的一句話。(這是我自己理解)
eg: I will murder you. You whall be punished.
aporia(假裝疑問):假裝表示疑問,做出對某件事情好象不太肯定的樣子,比如例句的最後部分。
eg: Then the steward said within himself, 'What shall I do?'
asyndeton(連接詞省略):省略單詞、短語或從句之間的連接詞,比如例句省略了兩個連接詞and。
eg: But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.
cacophony和euphony 我也在找...
cacophony(雜音):使用一組發音不和諧的單詞,以便讓人聽著不舒服,比如例句中的一組單詞。
eg: We want no parlay with you and your grisly gang who work your wicked will.
euphony: 悅耳的音調; 諧音,使發音變容易的趨勢,與cacophony相反。
我考研也遇到這些,有時間可以交流下。
『叄』 英語修辭irony例句
Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary 這句用的是反語
『肆』 英語25個修辭手法以及例句 急急急
英語修辭手法
1) Simile:(明喻) is a figure of speech which makes a comparison between two unlike elements having at least one quality or characteristic (特性)in common. To make the comparison, words like as, as...as, as if and like are used to transfer the quality we associate with one to the other. For example, As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country./ This elephant is like a snake as anybody can see.
2) Metaphor:(暗喻)It is like a simile, also makes a comparison between two unlike elements, but unlike a simile, this comparison is implied rather than stated. For example, the world is a stage./ The diamond department was the heart and center of the store.
3) Analogy: (類比)It is also a form of comparison, but unlike simile or metaphor which usually uses comparison on one point of resemblance, analogy draws a parallel between two unlike things that have several common qualities or points of resemblance.
4) Personification: (擬人)It gives human form of feelings to animals, or life and personal attributes(賦予) to inanimate(無生命的) objects, or to ideas and abstractions(抽象). For example, the wind whistled through the trees.
5) Hyperbole: (誇張) It is the deliberate use of overstatement or exaggeration to achieve emphasis. For instance, he almost died laughing.
6) Understatement: (含蓄陳述) It is the opposite of hyperbole, or overstatement. It achieves its effect of emphasizing a fact by deliberately(故意地) understating it, impressing the listener or the reader more by what is merely implied or left unsaid than by bare statement. For instance, It is no laughing matter.
7) Euphemism: (委婉)It is the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive(無冒犯) expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant. For instance, we refer to "die" as」 pass away".
8) Metonymy (轉喻) It is a figure of speech that has to do with the substitution of the mane of one thing for that of another. For instance, the pen (words) is mightier than the sword (forces). 借代(metonymy)是指兩種不同事物並不相似,但又密不可分,因而常用其中一種事物名稱代替另一種。
1、Several years later, word came that Napoleonyh himself was coming to inspect them...
幾年以後,他們聽說拿破崙要親自來視察他們。
「word」在這里代替了「news, information」(消息、信息)
2、Al spoke with his eyes,「yes」.
艾爾用眼睛說,「是的」。
「說」應該是嘴的功能,這里實際上是用眼神表達了「說話的意思」。
9) Synecdoche (提喻) It is involves the substitution of the part for the whole, or the whole for the part. For instance, they say there's bread and work for all. She was dressed in silks.
10) Antonomasia (換喻)It has also to do with substitution. It is not often mentioned now, though it is still in frequent use. For example, Solomon for a wise man. Daniel for a wise and fair judge. Judas for a traitor.
11) Pun: (雙關語) It is a play on words, or rather a play on the form and meaning of words. For instance, a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms. (Here "arms" has two meanings: a person's body; weapons carried by a soldier.)/ Napoleon was astonished.」Either you are mad, or I am,」he declared. 「Both,sir!」cried the Swede proudly. 「Both」一詞一語雙關,既指拿破崙和這位士兵都是瘋子,又指這位戰士參加過拿破崙指揮的兩次戰役
12) Syllepsis: (一語雙敘) It has two connotations.
In the first case, it is a figure by which a word, or a particular form or inflection of a word, refers to two or more words in the same sentence, while properly applying to or agreeing with only on of them in grammar or syntax(句法). For example, He addressed you and me, and desired us to follow him. (Here us is used to refer to you and me.)
In the second case, it a word may refer to two or more words in the same sentence. For example, while he was fighting , and losing limb and mind, and dying, others stayed behind to pursue ecation and career. (Here to losing one's limbs in literal; to lose one's mind is figurative, and means to go mad.)
13) Zeugma: (軛式搭配) It is a single word which is made to modify or to govern two or more words in the same sentence, wither properly applying in sense to only one of them, or applying to them in different senses. For example, The sun shall not burn you by day, nor the moon by night. (Here noon is not strong enough to burn)
14) Irony: (反語) It is a figure of speech that achieves emphasis by saying the opposite of what is meant, the intended meaning of the words being the opposite of their usual sense. For instance, we are lucky, what you said makes me feel real good.
15) Innuendo: (暗諷) It is a mild form of irony, hinting in a rather roundabout (曲折)way at something disparaging(不一致) or uncomplimentary(不贊美) to the person or subject mentioned. For example, the weatherman said it would be worm. He must take his readings in a bathroom.
16) Sarcasm: (諷刺) It Sarcasm is a strong form of irony. It attacks in a taunting and bitter manner, and its aim is to disparage, ridicule and wound the feelings of the subject attacked. For example, laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps break through.
17) Paradox: (似非而是的雋語) It is a figure of speech consisting of a statement or proposition which on the face of it seems self-contradictory, absurd or contrary to established fact or practice, but which on further thinking and study may prove to be true, well-founded, and even to contain a succinct point. For example more haste, less speed.
18) Oxymoron: (矛盾修飾) It is a compressed paradox, formed by the conjoining(結合) of two contrasting, contradictory or incongruous(不協調) terms as in bitter-sweet memories, orderly chaos(混亂) and proud humility(侮辱).
19) Antithesis: (對照) It is the deliberate arrangement of contrasting words or ideas in balanced structural forms to achieve emphasis. For example, speech is silver; silence is golden.
20) Epigram: (警句) It states a simple truth pithily(有利地) and pungently(強烈地). It is usually terse and arouses interest and surprise by its deep insight into certain aspects of human behavior or feeling. For instance, Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.
21) Climax: (漸進) It is derived from the Greek word for "ladder" and implies the progression of thought at a uniform or almost uniform rate of significance or intensity, like the steps of a ladder ascending evenly. For example, I came, I saw, I conquered.
22) Anti-climax or bathos: (突降)It is the opposite of Climax. It involves stating one's thoughts in a descending order of significance or intensity, from strong to weak, from weighty to light or frivolous. For instance, But thousands die, without or this or that, die, and endow(賦予) a college, or a cat.
23) Apostrophe: (頓呼) In this figure of speech, a thing, place, idea or person (dead or absent) is addressed as if present, listening and understanding what is being said. For instance, England! awake! awake! awake!
24) Transferred Epithet: (轉類形容詞) It is a figure of speech where an epithet (an adjective or descriptive phrase) is transferred from the noun it should rightly modify(修飾) to another to which it does not really apply or belong. For instance, I spent sleepless nights on my project.
25) Alliteration: (頭韻) It has to do with the sound rather than the sense of words for effect. It is a device that repeats the same sound at frequent intervals(間隔) and since the sound repeated is usually the initial consonant sound, it is also called "front rhyme". For instance, the fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, the furrow followed free. 頭韻法(alliteration)在文句中有兩個以上連結在一起的詞或片語,其開頭的音節有同樣的字母或聲音,以增強語言的節奏感。 How and why he had come to Princeton, New Jersey is a story of struggle, success, and sadness.
26) Onomatopoeia: (擬聲) It is a device that uses words which imitate the sounds made by an object (animate or inanimate), or which are associated with or suggestive(提示的) of some action or movement. Eg: On the root of the school house some pigeons were softly cooing./ She brought me into touch with everything that could be reached or felt——sunlight, the rustling of silk, the noises of insects, the creaking of a door, the voice of a loved one.
『伍』 英語修辭Irony
反語么,就是用反面來表示正解,一般用來諷刺。這句話說她對家庭的感情可真版是不一權般!後面卻敘述了她第三個丈夫死了之後她因為悲傷弄了頭金發。
問題就在這里,據我們所知,老外總覺得金發女郎相當輕浮膚淺並且不忠。這就可以看書來了,這話的潛台詞就是,她對家真是不忠誠,第三個老公都死掉了不悲傷就算了!竟然還把頭發染成了金色出去勾引別人!
希望能幫到你哈~~*^_^*
『陸』 英語修辭的分類
保留原文
即: to find an equivalent image. 如:Ani began pounding and yelling to be let out as the car screeched from the parking lot. But rock music blaring from the radio speakers drowned him out. 試譯:當汽車從停車場急速駛過時,Ani開始猛烈敲打和大聲呼喊,但是從車內喇叭發出的搖滾音樂淹沒了他發出的聲音。再如:The policemen who patrolled the big city slum area that summer were sitting on a volcano. 那年夏天,在城市大貧民區巡邏的警察如同坐在火山口上。
實行翻譯「補償原則」
所謂以補償方法譯比喻,就是在尋找對等形象無門的情況下,使用變通的方法,盡可能地對譯文中比喻形象的流失作某些補償,以求得譯文與原文大致相等的可讀性。如:Cavorting and diving at breathtaking speeds,the beautiful birds (指鷹) mirrored each other in flight. A. 在空中翻飛嬉戲,時作閃電式俯沖,矯健的鷹雙雙攜游於碧空。B. 在空中翻飛嬉戲,時作閃電式俯沖,矯健的鷹比翼齊飛,形影相隨。再如:But after six years of a stormy marriage,Cewe decided to end it. She didn』t want her son to grow up thinking that kind of relationship was normal. 試譯:六載婚姻生活,風雨交加,Cewe決定結束這種婚姻。她不願讓她兒子在這樣的環境里長大成人,並誤以為這樣的關系是正常的。又如:Rudy knew they had severed the wrong rope and that it was the thick tow line that trapped him. 「Try cutting the other rope!」 said Rudy,his hopes,and his grip,eroding. 試譯:Rudy發現他們割錯了繩子,是那根粗的牽引繩纏住了他。「把另一根繩子割斷!」Rudy說。此刻,他的希望,他的握力,似油將盡、燈將滅。再如:The following week was family conference,something I dreaded. This was the day the dirty laundry got hung out to air in a private session between parent,child and counselor. 試譯:下周將開家長會,這正是我害怕的。在這一天,家長、孩子和輔導員將開私下的碰頭會,列數孩子做的壞事。再如:The operation may not succeed; it』s a gamble whether he lives or dies. 手術不一定成功,能否保住他的生命沒有把握。
『柒』 英語修辭手法
1. 明喻2. 暗喻
3. 借喻
4. 提喻
5. 通感6.擬人7. 誇張8.排比9. 委婉10.比方
『捌』 英語有什麼修辭手法
英語修辭手法分別如下:
1.Simile 明喻
明喻是將具有共性的不同事物作對比。這種共性存在於人們的心裡,而不是事物的自然屬性。
標志詞常用 like, as, seem, as if, as though, similar to, such as等。
例如:
1>.He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow。
2>.I wandered lonely as a cloud。
3>.Einstein only had a blanket on, as if he had just walked out of a fairy tale。
2.Metaphor 隱喻,暗喻
隱喻是簡縮了的明喻,是將某一事物的名稱用於另一事物,通過比較形成。
例如:
1>.Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper。
2>.Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested。
3.Metonymy 借喻,轉喻
借喻不直接說出所要說的事物,而使用另一個與之相關的事物名稱。
I。以容器代替內容,例如:
1>.The kettle boils. 水開了。
2>.The room sat silent. 全屋人安靜地坐著。
II。以資料。工具代替事物的名稱,例如:
Lend me your ears, please. 請聽我說。
III。以作者代替作品,例如:
a complete Shakespeare 莎士比亞全集
VI。以具體事物代替抽象概念,例如:
I had the muscle, and they made money out of it. 我有力氣,他們就用我的力氣賺錢。
4.Synecdoche 提喻
提喻用部分代替全體,或用全體代替部分,或特殊代替一般。
例如:
1>.There are about 100 hands working in his factory。(部分代整體)
他的廠里約有100名工人。
2>.He is the Newton of this century。(特殊代一般)
他是本世紀的牛頓。
3>.The fox goes very well with your cap。(整體代部分)
這狐皮圍脖與你的帽子很相配。
5.Synaesthesia 通感,聯覺,移覺
這種修辭法是以視。聽.觸。嗅.味等感覺直接描寫事物。通感就是把不同感官的感覺溝通起來,借聯想引起感覺轉移,「以感覺寫感覺」。
通感技巧的運用,能突破語言的局限,豐富表情達意的審美情趣,起到增強文採的藝術效果。比如:欣賞建築的重復與變化的樣式會聯想到音樂的重復與變化的節奏;聞到酸的東西會聯想到尖銳的物體;聽到飄渺輕柔的音樂會聯想到薄薄的半透明的紗子;又比如朱自清《荷塘月色》里的「
微風過處送來縷縷清香,彷彿遠處高樓上渺茫的歌聲似的」。
例如:
1>.The birds sat upon a tree and poured forth their lily like voice。(用視覺形容聽覺,鳥落在樹上,由它發出的聲音聯想到百合花)
鳥兒落在樹上,傾瀉出百合花似的聲音。
2>.Taste the music of Mozart。(用嗅覺形容聽覺)
品嘗Mozart的音樂。
6.Personification 擬人
擬人是把生命賦予無生命的事物。
例如:
1>.The night gently lays her hand at our fevered heads。(把夜擬人化)
2>.I was very happy and could hear the birds singing in the woods。(把鳥擬人化)
7.Hyperbole 誇張
誇張是以言過其實的說法表達強調的目的。它可以加強語勢,增加表達效果。.
例如:
1>.I beg a thousand pardons。
2>.Love you. You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars。
3>.When she heard the bad news, a river of tears poured out。
8.Parallelism 排比, 平行
這種修辭法是把兩個或兩個以上的結構大體相同或相似,意思相關,語氣一致的短語。句子排列成串,形成一個整體。
例如:
1>.No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be
perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till
all are happy。
2>.In the days when all these things are to be answered for, I
summon you and yours, to the last of your bad race, to answer for them.
In the days when all these things are to be answered for, I summon your
brother, the worst of your bad race, to answer for them separately。
9.Euphemism 委婉,婉辭法
婉辭法指用委婉,文雅的方法表達粗惡,避諱的話。
例如:
1>.He is out visiting the necessary. 他出去方便一下。
2>.His relation with his wife has not been fortunate. 他與妻子關系不融洽。
3>.Deng Xiaoping passed away in 1997. (去世)
10.Allegory 諷喻,比方(原意「寓言」)
建立在假借過去或別處的事例與對象之上,傳達暗示,影射或者譏諷現世各種現象的含義。這是一種源於希臘文的修辭法,意為"換個方式的說法"。它是一種形象的描述,具有雙重性,表層含義與真正意味的是兩回事。
例如:
1>.Make the hay while the sun shines。
表層含義:趁著出太陽的時候曬草
真正意味:趁熱打鐵
2>.It's time to turn plough into sword。
表層含義:是時候把犁變成劍
11.Irony 反語
反語指用相反意義的詞來表達意思的作文方式。如在指責過失。錯誤時,用贊同過失的說法,而在表揚時,則近乎責難的說法。
例如:
1>.It would be a fine thing indeed not knowing what time it was in the morning。
早上沒有時間觀念還真是一件好事啊(真實含義是應該明確早上的時間觀念)
2>"Of course, you only carry large notes, no small change on you. "the waiter said to the beggar。
12.Pun 雙關
雙關就是用一個詞在句子中的雙重含義,借題發揮。作出多種解釋,旁敲側擊,從而達到意想不到的幽默。滑稽效果。它主要以相似的詞形。詞意和諧音的方式出現。
例如:
1>.She is too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise。
2>.An ambassador is an honest man who lies abroad for the good of his country。
3>.If we don't hang together, we shall hang separately。
『玖』 英語中的修辭手法
1.Simile 明喻
明喻是將具有共性的不同事物作對比.這種共性存在於人們的心裡,而不是事物的自然屬性.
標志詞常用 like, as, seem, as if, as though, similar to, such as等.
例如:
1>.He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
2>.I wandered lonely as a cloud.
3>.Einstein only had a blanket on, as if he had just walked out of a fairy tale.
2.Metaphor 隱喻,暗喻
隱喻是簡縮了的明喻,是將某一事物的名稱用於另一事物,通過比較形成.
例如:
1>.Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
2>.Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
3.Metonymy 借喻,轉喻
借喻不直接說出所要說的事物,而使用另一個與之相關的事物名稱.
I.以容器代替內容,例如:
1>.The kettle boils. 水開了.
2>.The room sat silent. 全屋人安靜地坐著.
II.以資料.工具代替事物的名稱,例如:
Lend me your ears, please. 請聽我說.
III.以作者代替作品,例如:
a complete Shakespeare 莎士比亞全集
VI.以具體事物代替抽象概念,例如:
I had the muscle, and they made money out of it. 我有力氣,他們就用我的力氣賺錢.
4.Synecdoche 提喻
提喻用部分代替全體,或用全體代替部分,或特殊代替一般.
例如:
1>.There are about 100 hands working in his factory.(部分代整體)
他的廠里約有100名工人.
2>.He is the Newton of this century.(特殊代一般)
他是本世紀的牛頓.
3>.The fox goes very well with your cap.(整體代部分)
這狐皮圍脖與你的帽子很相配.
5.Synaesthesia 通感,聯覺,移覺
這種修辭法是以視.聽.觸.嗅.味等感覺直接描寫事物.通感就是把不同感官的感覺溝通起來,借聯想引起感覺轉移,「以感覺寫感覺」。
通感技巧的運用,能突破語言的局限,豐富表情達意的審美情趣,起到增強文採的藝術效果。比如:欣賞建築的重復與變化的樣式會聯想到音樂的重復與變化的節奏;聞到酸的東西會聯想到尖銳的物體;聽到飄渺輕柔的音樂會聯想到薄薄的半透明的紗子;又比如朱自清《荷塘月色》里的「 微風過處送來縷縷清香,彷彿遠處高樓上渺茫的歌聲似的」。
例如:
1>.The birds sat upon a tree and poured forth their lily like voice.(用視覺形容聽覺,鳥落在樹上,由它發出的聲音聯想到百合花)
鳥兒落在樹上,傾瀉出百合花似的聲音.
2>.Taste the music of Mozart.(用嗅覺形容聽覺)
品嘗Mozart的音樂.
6.Personification 擬人
擬人是把生命賦予無生命的事物.
例如:
1>.The night gently lays her hand at our fevered heads.(把夜擬人化)
2>.I was very happy and could hear the birds singing in the woods.(把鳥擬人化)
7.Hyperbole 誇張
誇張是以言過其實的說法表達強調的目的.它可以加強語勢,增加表達效果..
例如:
1>.I beg a thousand pardons.
2>.Love you. You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars.
3>.When she heard the bad news, a river of tears poured out.
8.Parallelism 排比, 平行
這種修辭法是把兩個或兩個以上的結構大體相同或相似,意思相關,語氣一致的短語.句子排列成串,形成一個整體.
例如:
1>.No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
2>.In the days when all these things are to be answered for, I summon you and yours, to the last of your bad race, to answer for them. In the days when all these things are to be answered for, I summon your brother, the worst of your bad race, to answer for them separately.
9.Euphemism 委婉,婉辭法
婉辭法指用委婉,文雅的方法表達粗惡,避諱的話.
例如:
1>.He is out visiting the necessary. 他出去方便一下.
2>.His relation with his wife has not been fortunate. 他與妻子關系不融洽.
3>.Deng Xiaoping passed away in 1997. (去世)
10.Allegory 諷喻,比方(原意「寓言」)
建立在假借過去或別處的事例與對象之上,傳達暗示,影射或者譏諷現世各種現象的含義。
英文解釋:an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor 摘自英語專業《大學英語教程》一書
這是一種源於希臘文的修辭法,意為"換個方式的說法".它是一種形象的描述,具有雙重性,表層含義與真正意味的是兩回事.
例如:
1>.Make the hay while the sun shines.
表層含義:趁著出太陽的時候曬草
真正意味:趁熱打鐵
2>.It's time to turn plough into sword.
表層含義:是時候把犁變成劍
11.Irony 反語
反語指用相反意義的詞來表達意思的作文方式.如在指責過失.錯誤時,用贊同過失的說法,而在表揚時,則近乎責難的說法.
例如:
1>.It would be a fine thing indeed not knowing what time it was in the morning.
早上沒有時間觀念還真是一件好事啊(真實含義是應該明確早上的時間觀念)
2>"Of course, you only carry large notes, no small change on you. "the waiter said to the beggar.
12.Pun 雙關
雙關就是用一個詞在句子中的雙重含義,借題發揮.作出多種解釋,旁敲側擊,從而達到意想不到的幽默.滑稽效果.它主要以相似的詞形.詞意和諧音的方式出現.
例如:
1>.She is too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a greatpraise.
2>.An ambassador is an honest man who lies abroad for the good of his country.
3>.If we don't hang together, we shall hang separately.
13.Parody 仿擬
這是一種模仿名言.警句.諺語,改動其中部分詞語,從而使其產生新意的修辭.
例如:
1>.Rome was not built in a day, nor in a year.
2>.A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.
3>.If you give a girl an inch nowadays she will make address of it.
14.Rhetorical question 修辭疑問(反問)
它與疑問句的不同在於它並不以得到答復為目的,而是以疑問為手段,取得修辭上的效果,其特點是:肯定問句表示強烈否定,而否定問句表示強烈的肯定.它的答案往往是不言而喻的.
例如:
1>.How was it possible to walk for an hour through the woods and see nothing worth of note?
2>.Shall we allow those untruths to go unanswered?
15.Antithesis 對照,對比,對偶
這種修辭指將意義完全相反的語句排在一起對比的一種修辭方法.
例如:
1>.Not that I loved Caeser less but that I loved Romemore.
2>.You are staying; I am going.
3>.Give me liberty, or give me death.
16.Paradox 雋語
這是一種貌似矛盾,但包含一定哲理的意味深長的說法,是一種矛盾修辭法..
例如:
1>.More haste, less speed.欲速則不達
2>.The child is the father to the man.(童年時代可決定人之未來)三歲看大,四歲看老。
17.Oxymoron 反意法,逆喻
這也是一種矛盾修辭法,用兩種不相調和的特徵形容一個事物,以不協調的搭配使讀者領悟句中微妙的含義.
例如:
1>.No light, but rather darkness visible.沒有光亮,黑暗卻清晰可見
2>.The state of this house is cheerless welcome.
18.Climax 漸進法,層進法
這種修辭是將一系列詞語按照意念的大小.輕重.深淺.高低等逐層漸進,最後達到頂點.可以增強語勢,逐漸加深讀者印象.
例如:
1>.I am sorry, I am so sorry, I am so extremely sorry.
2>.Eye had not seen nor ear heard, and nothing had touched his heart of stone.
19.Anticlimax 漸降法
與climax相反的一種修辭法,將一系列詞語由大到小,由強到弱地排列.
例如:
1>.On his breast he wears his decorations, at his side a sword, on his feet a pair of boots.
2>.The ties of a soldier are to protect his country and peel potatoes.