A phrase book or phrasebook is a collection of ready-made phrases , usually for a foreign language along with a translation , indexed and often in the form of questions and answers.
27-494: While mostly thematically structured into several chapters like interpersonal relationships , food , at the doctor , shopping etc., a phrase book often contains useful background information regarding the travel destination's culture , customs and conventions besides simple pronunciation guidelines and typically 1000–2000 words covering vocabulary. Also common are a concise grammar and an index intended for quick reference. A phrase book generally features high clarity and
54-419: A common practice to summarise the content of each chapter in the table of contents and/or in the beginning of the chapter. In works of fiction, authors sometimes number their chapters eccentrically, often as a metafictional statement. For example: In ancient civilizations, books were often in the form of papyrus or parchment scrolls , which contained about the same amount of text as a typical chapter in
81-456: A contrast? As a contrast, distinctly. For her 'youth', 'audacity', 'vigour', and 'swift directness of purpose', read 'elderly', 'timid', 'feeble', and 'nervously shilly-shallying', and you will get something of what I meant him to be. I think the White Rabbit should wear spectacles. I'm sure his voice should quaver, and his knees quiver and his whole air suggest a total inability to say 'Boo' to
108-581: A date. I'm a fraud!". He is seen being grabbed by the reservation clerk Daisy Duck in the show's intro. He was voiced by Corey Burton , who has voiced the Rabbit in all English speaking roles for the character since then until in Kinect:Disneyland Adventures where his voice was provided by Jeff Bennett. In Aladdin and the King of Thieves , the genie was transformed into him. The White Rabbit appears at
135-454: A goose!" Overall, the White Rabbit seems to shift back and forth between pompous behaviour toward his underlings, such as his servants, and grovelling, obsequious behaviour toward his superiors, such as the Duchess , and the King and Queen of Hearts, in direct contrast to Alice, who is reasonably polite to everyone she meets. The White Rabbit's perennial unpunctuality is a nod to Oxford time ,
162-681: A hole in his chest. During Alice's pursuit of the White Rabbit in Wonderland, he physically attacks her with paddles, a hacksaw, and a group of skeletal animals. The White Rabbit is also the Queen of Hearts' executioner, using scissors to behead the Mad Hatter , the March Hare , and other characters. Upon awakening from her dream and finding the White Rabbit missing from his case, Alice finds his scissors and resolves to behead him herself. The White Rabbit works for
189-402: A lot of chapters often group them in several 'parts' as the main subdivision of the book. The chapters of reference works are almost always listed in a table of contents . Novels sometimes use a table of contents, but not always. If chapters are used they are normally numbered sequentially; they may also have titles, and in a few cases an epigraph or prefatory quotation. In older novels it was
216-497: A modern book. This is the reason chapters in recent reproductions and translations of works of these periods are often presented as "Book 1", "Book 2" etc. In the early printed era, long works were often published in multiple volumes, such as the Victorian triple decker novel , each divided into numerous chapters. Modern omnibus reprints will often retain the volume divisions. In some cases the chapters will be numbered consecutively all
243-475: A playable character. He attacks using his watch and can manipulate time. A military trench-digging machine developed by the British Royal Navy at the beginning of World War II was originally known as White Rabbit No. 6 , but the name was changed to Cultivator No. 6 to conceal its identity. In the 2010s, the phrase "Follow the White Rabbit" became popular among QAnon adherents, as the initiator of
270-409: A practical, sometimes color-coded structure to enable its user to communicate in a quick and easy, though very basic, manner. Especially with this in mind a phrase book sometimes also provides several possible answers to each question, to let a person respond in part by pointing at one of them. Additional audio material is often included to help pronunciation and comprehension. This kind of phrase books
297-465: A recognizable part of the story, although it is usually published in three volumes. White Rabbit The White Rabbit is a fictional and anthropomorphic character in Lewis Carroll 's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . He appears at the very beginning of the book, in chapter one, wearing a waistcoat , and muttering "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" Alice follows him down
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#1732837667694324-461: Is any of the main thematic divisions within a writing of relative length, such as a book of prose , poetry , or law . A book with chapters (not to be confused with the chapter book ) may have multiple chapters that respectively comprise discrete topics or themes. In each case, chapters can be numbered, titled, or both. An example of a chapter that has become well known is "Down the Rabbit -Hole", which
351-644: Is often referred to as a talking phrase book or voice translator . Hand-written phrase books were used in Medieval Europe by pilgrims to the Holy Land ; major European languages, Greek, and Hebrew were covered. By the 15th century, phrase books designed for merchants involved in the international trade are attested as well. The earliest known example of this genre is a 1424 manuscript compiled by one Master George of Nuremberg , and intended to help Italian merchants to use High German . Printed phrase books appeared by
378-543: Is one of the main characters. In the episode "Potato Potahto" is shown a photo of Alice and the White Rabbit where they made the potato dish together in Wonderland. The 1988 Czechoslovak film Alice , noted for its disturbing interpretation of Carroll's story, shows a dark stop-motion version of the character. At the beginning of the film, the White Rabbit starts out as a stuffed rabbit that comes alive in Alice's bedroom and breaks out of his glass case; he leaks sawdust through
405-462: Is presumably because he is late for the royal garden party where he is due to act as herald; this would be quite enough for him to lose his head to the touchy Queen. He is often the straight man for other characters' zany antics; when he asks the Dodo for help on getting the "monster" (Alice) out of his house, Dodo's ultimate solution is to burn the house down, to which the White Rabbit is greatly opposed. At
432-605: Is said to use the term capitulum to refer to numbered chapter headings and index capitulorum to refer to tables of contents. Augustine did not divide his major works into chapters, but in the early sixth century Eugippius did. Medieval manuscripts often had no titles, only numbers in the text and a few words, often in red, following the number. Many novels of great length have chapters. Non-fiction books, especially those used for reference, almost always have chapters for ease of navigation. In these works, chapters are often subdivided into sections . Larger works with
459-422: Is the first chapter from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . Many ancient books had neither word divisions nor chapter divisions. In ancient Greek texts, some manuscripts began to add summaries and make them into tables of contents with numbers, but the titles did not appear in the text, only their numbers. Some time in the fifth century CE, the practice of dividing books into chapters began. Jerome (d. 420)
486-550: The Walt Disney Parks and Resorts as a meetable character . In the PlayStation 2 action-RPG game Kingdom Hearts and its Game Boy Advance follow-up, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories , the White Rabbit leads Sora , Donald Duck and Goofy to the Queen's palace, worried about being late. His Japanese voice actor was Shigeru Ushiyama . In the television series Alice's Wonderland Bakery , his great grandson Fergie
513-678: The Apple iPhone in June 2007, they coined the phrase "Talking Phrasebook". Phrasebooks exist not only for living languages, but also for languages that are no longer spoken natively by anyone, such as Meissner's Latin Phrasebook . James Thurber wrote a satirical essay, "There's No Place Like Home", concerning a phrase book he came across in a London bookstore, Collin's Pocket Interpreters: France . The essay appeared in The New Yorker of August 14, 1937, and
540-596: The Mad Tea Party, the Mad Hatter and the March Hare try to "fix" his watch, proclaiming it "exactly two days slow," and eventually destroy it in their efforts to correct it. The Rabbit was voiced by Bill Thompson . The White Rabbit made a few appearances on the Disney Channel original show, House of Mouse . His most notable appearance was in the episode "Clarabelle's Big Secret" when he confessed to Clarabelle Cow that "I'm not really late, and I don't really have
567-609: The Red Queen, but is also a secret member of the Underland Underground Resistance, and was sent by the Hatter to search for Alice. Actor Michael Sheen stated, "The White Rabbit is such an iconic character that I didn't feel like I should break the mould too much." In this film adaption, the White Rabbit is given the name Nivens McTwisp. McTwisp appears in the video game adaptation of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland as
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#1732837667694594-726: The late 15th century, exemplified by the Good Boke to Lerne to Speke French ( c. 1493 –1496). In Asia, phrase books were compiled for travelers on the Silk Road already in the first millennium AD, such as a Dunhuang manuscript (Pelliot chinois 5538) containing a set of useful Saka ("Khotanese") and Sanskrit phrases. Since the 21st century, Lonely Planet has covered more phrase books than any other publisher. They are designed for travelers to communicate with locals learning social phrases and words in more than 120 different languages. When Coolgorilla released their phrase book with
621-578: The less likely to be useful phrases found in some books. Dirk Bogarde published a memoir with this title. A 1972 short story by Joanna Russ , "Useful Phrases for the Tourist", takes the form of an excerpt from a phrase book. Since its initial appearance it has been reprinted nine times, and has been translated into Italian and French . Chapter (books) A chapter (c apitula in Latin; sommaires in French)
648-524: The rabbit hole into Wonderland . Alice encounters him again when he mistakes her for his housemaid Mary Ann and she becomes trapped in his house after growing too large. The Rabbit shows up again in the last few chapters, as a herald -like servant of the King and Queen of Hearts . In his article "Alice on the Stage", Carroll wrote, "And the White Rabbit, what of him? Was he framed on the 'Alice' lines, or meant as
675-401: The tradition at Oxford (and especially Christ Church , where Carroll taught) of having events begin five minutes past the scheduled hour. Disney 's animated version of the Rabbit is perhaps best known for the little song he sings on his first appearance, "I'm late! I'm late! For a very important date! No time to say hello, goodbye! I'm late! I'm late! I'm late!". His initial panicky behaviour
702-499: The way through, such that "Book 2" might begin with "Chapter 9", but in other cases the numbering might reset after each part (i.e., "Book 2, Chapter 1"). Even though the practice of dividing novels into separate volumes is rare in modern publishing, many authors still structure their works into "Books" or "Parts" and then subdivide them into chapters. A notable example of this is The Lord of the Rings which consists of six "books", each with
729-410: Was later collected in his book My World and Welcome to It . The British comedian group Monty Python featured a phrase book containing wrong translations in two of their sketches. English as She Is Spoke is a comic classic of unwittingly incompetent translation. The expression " My postillion has been struck by lightning ", supposedly included in some phrasebooks, is used to describe some of
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