高级英语第三版张汉熙主编Paraphrase

高级英语第三版张汉熙主编Paraphrase

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Unit 2 Marrakech

1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky

earth, like a derelict building-lot.

The burying-ground is just a huge piece of wasteland full of

mounds of earth looking like a deserted and abandoned

construction site.

2. All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that

fact. All the imperialists build up their empires by treating

the people in the colonies like animals.

3. They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few

years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the

graveyard.

They are born. Then for a few years they work, toil and

starve. Finally they die and are buried in graves without a

name, and nobody notices that they are dead.

4. A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe,

turning chair-legs at lightning speed.

Sitting with his legs crossed and using a very old-fashioned

lathe, a carpenter quickly gives a round shape to the chair-legs he is making.

5. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a

frenzied rush of Jews.

Immediately from their dark hole-like cells everywhere a

great number of Jews rushed out wildly excited.

6. …every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less

impossible luxury.

Every one of these poor Jews looked on the cigarette as a

piece of luxury which they could not possibly afford.

7. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.

However, a white -skinned European is always quite noticeable.

8. In a tropical landscape one’s eye takes in everything

except the human beings.

If you take a look at the natural scenery in a tropical

region, you see everything but the human beings.

9. No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distressed

Areas.

No one would think of organizing cheap trips for the tourists

to visit the poor slum areas. 10. …for nine-tenths of the

people the reality of life is an endless, back-breaking

struggle to wring a little food out of an eroded soil.

Life is very hard for ninety percent of the people. With hard

backbreaking toil they can produce a little food on the poor

soil．

11．She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say

as a beast of burden.

She took it for granted that as an old woman she was the

lowest in the community, that she was only fit for doing heavy

work like an animal．

12. People with brown skins are next door to invisible.

People with brown skins are almost invisible．

13．Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki

uniforms…

The Senegalese soldiers were wearing ready-made khaki

uniforms which hid their beautiful well-built bodies．

14. How long before they turn their guns in the other

direction

How much longer before they turn their guns around and attack

the colonialist rulers 15．Every white man there had this

thought stowed somewhere or other in his mind.

Every white man, had this thought hidden somewhere or other in

his mind

Unit3

1. And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebears

fought is still at issue around

Our ancestors fought a revolutionary war to maintain that all

men were created equal and God had given them certain

unalienable rights which no state or ruler could take away from

them. But today this issue has not yet been decided in many

countries around the world.

2. This much we pledge—and more.

2. This much we promise to do and we promise to do more.

3. 3. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of

cooperative ventures.

United and working together we can accomplish a lot of

things in a great number of joint undertakings.

4. …our last best hope in an age where the instruments of

war have far outpaced the instruments of peace…

The UN is our last and best hope of survival in an age where

the instruments of war have far surpassed the instruments of

peace.

5. …to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.

We pledge to help the United Nations enlarge the area in

which its authority and mandate would continue to be in effect

or in force.

6. …before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by

science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.

Before the terrible forces of destruction, which atomic bombs

can now release, wipe out mankind, which may be planned or

brought about by an accident.

7. …yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of

terror that stays the hand of mankind’s final war.

Yet both groups of nations are trying to change as quickly as

possible this uncertain balance of terrible military power

which restrains each group from launching mankind's final war.

8. So let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that

civility is not a sign of weakness,… So let us start once

again and let us remember that being polite is not a sign of

weakness.

9. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead

of its terrors.

Let both sides try to call forth the wonderful things that

science can do for mankind instead of the frightful things it

can do.

10. …each generation of Americans has been summoned to give

testimony to its national loyalty. Americans of every

generation have been called upon to prove their loyalty to

their country .

11. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history

the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land

we love,…

Let history finally judge whether we have done our task welt

or not, but our sure reward will be a good con-science for we

will have worked sincerely and to the best of our ability.

Let us lead the country we love , knowing our sure reward will

be a good conscience and history will finally judge whether we

have done our task well or not.

Unit5

slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic

recollections to the middle aged.

At the very mention of this post-war period, middle-aged

people begin to think about it longingly.

rejection of Victorian gentility was, in any case, inevitable.

In any case, an American could not avoid casting aside its

middle-class respectability and affected refinement.

3. The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown

of the Victorian social structure,…

The war only helped to speed up the breakdown of the Victorian

social structure.

4…it was tempted, in America at least, to escape its

responsibilities and retreat behind an air of naughty alcoholic

sophistication…

In America at least, the young people were strongly inclined

to shirk their responsibilities. They pretended to be worldly-wise, drinking and behaving naughtily.

afforded the young the additional opportunity of making

their pleasures illicit,…

The young people found greater pleasure in their drinking

because Prohibition, by making drinking unlawful added a sense

of adventure.

6…our young men began to enlist under foreign flags.

Our young men joined the armies of foreign countries to fight

in the war.

7…they “wanted to get into the fun before the whole thing

turned belly up”.

The young people wanted to take part in the glorious ad-venture before the whole war ended. 8….they had outgrown

towns and families…

These young people could no longer adapt themselves to lives

in their home towns or their families.

9…the returning veteran also had to face…the hypocritical do-goodism of Prohibition,…

The returning veteran also had to face Prohibition which the

lawmakers hypocritically assumed would do good to the people.

10. Something in the tension-ridden youth of America had to

“give”…

Something in the youth of America, who were already very tense,

had to break down.

11…it was only natural that hopeful young writers, their

minds and pens inflamed against war, Babbittry, and

“Puritanical” gentility, should flock to the traditional

artistic center…

It was only natural that hopeful young writers whose minds

and writings were filled with violent anger against war,

Babbitry, and "Puritanical" gentility, should come in great

numbers to live in Greenwich Village, the traditional artistic

centre.

12. Each town had its ”fast” set which prided itself on its

unconventionality,…

Each town was proud that it had a group of wild, reckless

people, who lived unconventional lives.

Unit8

1. ....below the noisy arguments , the abuse and the quarrels ,

there is a reservoir of

The English people may hotly argue and abuse and quarrel with

each other , but there still exists a lot of natural

sympathetic feelings for each other in their hearts.

2. ....at heart they would like to take a whip to the whole

idle troublesome mob of them.

What the wealthy employers would really like to do is to whip

all the workers whom they regard as lazy and troublesome.

3. ...there are not many of these men , either on the board or

the

There are not many snarling shop stewards in the workshop,nor

are there many cruel wealthy employers on the board of

directors.

4. It demands bigness ,and they are suspicious of bigness.

The contemporary world demands that everything should be done

on a big scale and the English do not trust bigness.

5. Against this , at least superficially ,Englishness seems a

poor

At least on the surface ,when Englishness is put against the

power and success of Admass , Englishness seems to put up a

rather poor performance.

6. ...while Englishness is not hostile to change,it is deeply

suspicious of change for

Englishness is not against change, but it believes that

changing just for changes sake and not other useful purposes is

very wrong and harmful. 7. To put cars and motorways before

houses seems to Englishness a communal imbecility.

To regard cars and motorways as more important than houses

seems to Englishness a public stupidity.

8. I must add that while Englishness can still fight on ,Admass

could be winning.

I must further say that while Englishness can go on fighting,

there is a great possibility for Admass to win.

9. It must have some moral capital to draw upon,and soon it

may be asking for an overdraft.

Englishness draws its strength from a reservoir of strong

moral and ethical principles ,and soon it may be asking for

strength which this reservoir of principles cannot provide.

10. They probably believe ,as I do , that the Admass”Good

Life” is a fraud on all counts.

There people probably believe ,as I do,that the “Good Life”promised by Admass is false and dishonest in all respects.

11....he will not even find much satisfaction in this

scrounging messy existence, which does nothing for a mans self-respect.

He will not even find much satisfaction in this untidy and

disordered life where he manages to live as a parasite by

sponging on people. This kind of life does not help a person to

build up any self-respect.

them the House of Commons is a remote squabbling-shop.

These people consider the House of Commons as a place rather

far away from them where some people are always quarreling and

arguing over some small matters.

13...heavy hands can fall on the shoulders that have been

shrugging away politics.

They were very wrong to ignore politics for they can now

suddenly and for no reason be arrested and thrown into prison.

Unit10

1. the fate of an American is complicated and hard to understand.

2. They were as uneasy and uncomfortable in Europe as I was.

3. American writers, black and white, were both trying to find

their own special individualities.

4. I don't think I could have accepted in America my black

status without feeling ashamed.

5. It is easier in Europe for people of different social

groups and occupations to intermingle and have social contact

than in America.

6. In Europe a good waiter and a good actor are equally proud

of their social status and functions in society. They are not

jealous of each other and do not live in fear of losing their

status.

7. I was born in New York but have lived only in some small

areas of the city

8. This process of reconsidering many things that one had taken

for granted in the past can be very painful (because you have

to admit that some ideas you held were wrong), but is also very

valuable and important.

9. The life of a writer really depends on accepting the fact

that no matter where he goes or what he does he will always

carry the marks of his origins.

10. American writers live in a mobile society where nothing is

fixed so they do not have a fixed society to describe.

11. Every society is influenced and directed by unwritten laws,

and by many things deeply felt and taken for granted by the

people, though not openly spoken about.

Unit7

1. With a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the

Festival of Summer came to the city Omelas.

The loud ringing of the bells, which sent the frightened

swallows flying high, marked the beginning of the Festival of

Summer in Omelas. 2. ..Their high calls rising like the

swallows’ crossing flights over the music and singsing.

The shouting of the children could be heard clearly above the

music and singing like the calls of the swallows flying by

overhead. 3. ..Exercised their restive horses before the race.

The riders were putting the horses through some exercises

because the horses were eager to start and stubbornly resisting

the control of the riders.

4. Given a description such as this one tends to make certain

assumptions.

After reading the above description the reader is likely to

assume certain things.

5. This is the treason of artist: a refusal to admit the

banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

An artist betrays his trust when he does not admit that evil

is nothing fresh nor novel and pain is very dull and

uninteresting.

6. They were nature, intelligent, passionate adults whose

lives were not wretched.

They were fully developed and intelligent grown-up people full

of intense feelings and they were not miserable people.

7. Perhaps it would be best if you imagined it as your own

fancy bids, assuming it will rise to the occasion.

Perhaps it would be best if the reader pictures Omelas to

himself as his imagination tells him, assuming his imagination

will be equal to the task.

8. The faint insistent sweetness of drooz may perfume the way

of the city.

The faint but compelling sweet scent of the drug drooz may fill

the streets of the city.

9. Perhaps it was born defective, or perhaps it has become

imbecile through fear, malnutrition and neglect.

Perhaps the child was mentally retarded because it was born so

or perhaps it has become very foolish and stupid because of

fear, poor nourishment and neglect.

10. Its habits are too uncouth for it to respond to humane

treatment. The habits of the child are so crude and

uncultured that it will show no sign of improvement even if it

is treated kindly and tenderly.

11. Their tears at the bitter injustice dry when they begin to

perceive the terrible justice of reality, and to accept it.

They shed tears when they see how terribly unjust they have

been to the child, but these tears dry up when they realize how

just and fair though terrible reality was.

existence of the child and their knowledge of its existence is

the reason that their buildings are grand and impressive,their

music is moving,and their science has great intellectual depth.