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现代大学英语精读5,第3.5课后paraphrase和翻译答案
现代大学英语精读5,第3.5课后paraphrase和翻译答案Lesson 31.Yet globalization… “is a reality, not a choice”.Yet globalization is not something that you can accept or reject, it is alreadya matter of life which you will encounter and have to respond to every day.2.Popular factions sprout to exploit nationalist anxieties.Political groups with broad support have come into being to take advantage of existing worries and uneasiness among the people about foreign “cultural assault”.3.…where xenophobia and economic ambition have often struggled for the uppe rhand……in China, the two trends of closed—door and open—door policies have long been struggling for dominance.4.Those people out there should continue to live in a museum while we will haveshowers that work.The Chinese people should continue to live a backward life while we live comfortably with all modern conveniences.5.Westernization… is a phenomenon shot with inconsistencies and populated byvery strange bedfellows.…westernization is a concept full of self—contradiction and held by people of very different backgrounds or views.6.You don’t have to be cool to do it; you just have to have the eye.In trying to find out what will be the future trend, you do notneed to be fashionable yourself. All you need is awareness, that is to say, you need to be on the alert, to be observant.7.He… was up in the cybersphere far above the level of time zones.He was moving around, playing a game through the Internet with people living in different time zones, thus their activity on the computer broke down time zone limit.8.In the first two weeks of business the Gucci Store took in a surprising $100,000.The Gucci store did not expect that in the first two weeks of its opening in Shanghai business could be so good.9.Early on I realized that I was going to need some type of compass to guide methrough the wilds of global culture.From the very beginning I know I need some theory as guideline to help me in my study of global cultures as globalization, to guide me through such a variety of cultural phenomena.10.The penitence may have been Jewish, but the aspiration was universal.The way of showing repentance might be peculiar to the Jews, but the strong desire of gaining forgiveness from God is common, shared by all.Lesson 31.Today we are in the throes of a worldwide reformation of cultures, a tectonic shiftof habits and dreams called, in the curious vocabulary of social scientists, “globalization”.今天我们正经历着一种世界范围文化剧变的阵痛,一种习俗与追求的结构性变化,用社会科学家奇特的词汇来称呼这种变化,就叫“全球化”。
现代大学英语精读5 第五课 Paraphrases and translations of professions_for_women
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1. Charles Lamb, as merry and enterprising a fellow as you will meet in a month of Sundays, unfettered the informal essay with his memorable Old China and Dream’s Children. Dream’ Children. 像查尔斯兰姆这样快乐和富有创新精神的 人物并不常见,他写了《古瓷》 人物并不常见,他写了《古瓷》和《梦中 的孩子》 的孩子》两篇文章,这两篇文章可以说解 放了散文。
2. Read, then, the following essay which undertakes to demonstrate that logic, far from being a dry, pedantic discipline, is a living, breathing thing, full of beauty, passion, and trauma. 那么,就读读下面这篇文章吧,它将向我 们展示逻辑并不是一门枯燥乏味、迂腐不 堪的学科;恰恰相反,逻辑是一门活生生 的事物,充满美丽、激情和心灵的创伤。
10. …you would go far to find a girl so agreeable. It is not easy to find a girl so agreeable. 11. I am nothing if not persistent. I am very persistent. 我要是意志不坚定,我就不是我了。 12. I frowned, but plunged ahead. 我皱了一下眉头,但鼓足勇气继续往下讲。
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Unit 11. They did not make me happy, however, as this was the day I was to be thrown into school for the first time.(1)Paraphrase:But my new clothes did not bring any happiness to me, because it was the day I was forced to go to school for the first time.2.“Why school?” I asked my father. “What have I done?”(3)Paraphrase:Why do I have to go to school? I don’t think I’ve done anything wrong to be punished like this.3. I did not believe there was really any good to be had in tearing me away from my home and throwing me into the huge, high-walled building. (5)Paraphrase:I didn’t think it was useful to take me away from home and put me into that building with high walls.4. It was not all a matter of playing and fooling around. (15)Paraphrase:What we did at school wasn’t just playing and wasting time doing nothing useful.5. In addition, the time for changing one’s mind was over and gone and there was no question of ever returning to the paradise of home. (16)Paraphrase:Besides, it was impossible for us to quit school and return to the good old days when we stayed home playing and fooling around all day. Our childhood was gone, never to come back.Unit 21. If banks were required to sell wallets and money belts, they might act less like churches. (para. 1) Paraphrase:Banks act like churches which usually control people’s life and can interfere in people’s life. So, the author thinks it is ridiculous for banks to act like churches.2. It was lunchtime and the only officer on duty was a fortyish black man with short, pressed hair, a pencil mustache, and a neatly pressed brown suit. (para. 3)Paraphrase:uncurled hair, a thin mustache looking like a line drawn by a pencil, and a neat and tidy brown suit3. Everything about him suggested a carefully dressed authority. (para. 3)Paraphrase:Everything about him—his clothes, manner, etc. indicated that he was a carefully dressed man who had an important position and power.4. I moved in for the kill. (para. 19)Paraphrase:5. I zeroed in on the officer. (para. 20)Paraphrase:I’m going to have a strong argument to silence the bank officer.6. Look, … we’re just wasting each other’s time. (para. 29)Paraphrase:Look, let’s stop talking about this because it is a waste of time./You are just talking nonsense. I don’t want to listen to you any more.7.… has been shaking this boy down… (para. 30)Paraphrase:… has been getting money from the boy by using threats…8. Anyway, the police are on the case… (para. 30)Paraphrase:Anyway, the police are working on the case…9. Not that I ever heard of. (para. 32)Paraphrase:I have never heard of such rules.Unit 31. My husband moved into our house as is the way with us in Esarn. (para. 1)Paraphrase:When we got married, we followed the tradition in Esarn and my husband came to live with my family.2. He has ears which don’t hear, a mouth which doesn’t speak, and eyes that don’t see. ( para. 2) Paraphrase:He does not notice what is happening around us and to our children, nor does he express his thoughts and feelings. (The woman is complaining that her husband does not bother about their children’s troubles.)3. … and it is no longer fertile, bleeding year after year and, like us, getting old and exhausted. (para. 3) Paraphrase:Our land is getting poorer with each passing year, like us who are getting old, weak and tired.4.… but in a bad year, it’s not only the ploughs that break but our hearts, too. (para. 3)Paraphrase:When there is a draught, the soil is so hard that it breaks the ploughs and we feel so sad that our hearts break too.5. Only ten years ago, you could barter for things, but now it’s all cash. (para. 4)Paraphrase:Just ten years ago, we could exchange one thing for another, but now we have to buy everything from the market.6. Shops have sprung up, filled with colorful plastic things and goods we have no use for. (para. 4) Paraphrase:Shops have suddenly appeared in the village selling attractive plastic things and things we don’t need.7. As for me, I wouldn’t change, couldn’t change even if I wanted to. (para. 7)Paraphrase:I didn’t want to change myself and my life, and actually I did not have the ability to change even if I wanted to.8. Yes, this bag of bones dressed in rags can still plant and reap rice from morning till dusk. (para. 7) Paraphrase:Though I’m poor, old and weak, I can still work in the rice field all day.9. I am at peace with the land and the condition of my life. (para. 9)Paraphrase:I am content with my land and accept my situation in life without complaint.10. I have been forcing silence upon her all these years, yet she had not once complained of anything. (para. 9) Paraphrase:All these years, I hardly talk with her or listen to her, so she has to keep silent about her thoughts and feelings, but she has never told anyone else about her unhappy feelings about my silence.11. Still the land could not tie them down or call them back. (para. 10)Paraphrase:My children grew up and had happy days on this land, but this could not prevent them from leaving for cities or attract them back from cities.12. Sickness comes and goes, and we get back on our feet again. (para. 11)Paraphrase:Inevitably we sometimes fall ill, but when we get well again we can always get back to our normal life and work on our land.Unit 41. Ausable was, for one thing, fat… Though he spoke French and German passably, he had never altogether lost the New England accent he had brought to Paris from Boston twenty years ago. (para. 2) Paraphrase:Ausable was, for one reason, fat… His French and German were not very good, but acceptable. Although he had been in Paris for twenty years, he never lost the American accent.2. …a sloppy fat man who, instead of having messages slipped into his hand by dark-eyed beauties, gets only an ordinary telephone call making an appointment in his room. (para. 4)Paraphrase:…an untidy fat man just has an ordinary phone call agreeing to meet somebody later in his room. There are no other imagined things as a beautiful lady with dark eyes putting a slip of message secretly into his hand.3. The fat man chuckled to himself as he unlocked the door of his room and stood as aside to let his frustrated guest enter. (para. 4)Paraphrase:The fat man laughed to himself when he opened the door of his room and gave way to his dissatisfied guest. 4. You are disillusioned. (para. 5)Paraphrase:You are disappointed because what you believe in has turned out to be wrong.5. Before long you will see a paper, a quite important paper for which several men and women have risked their lives, come to me in the next-to-last step of its journey into official hands. (para. 5)Paraphrase:Soon you will see a document/a report come to me. Several people took chances in order to get it. When I receive the paper, I will place it in the hands of the proper authorities.By then I will have fulfilled my mission.6. For halfway across the room, a small automatic pistol in his hand, stood a man. (para. 6)Paraphrase:In the middle of the room, there was a man with a small automatic pistol in his hand.7. I’m going to raise the devil with the management this time. (para. 11)Paraphrase:(He was making up a story, which turned out to be a trap for Max.To make Max swallow this bait, Ausable pretended to be angry with the management and explained to Fowler (not to Max) why he was going to complain to the management about the balcony.)8. It might have saved me some trouble had I known about it. (para. 12)Paraphrase:If I had known about it, I would not have spent so much effort.9. I wish I knew how you learned about the report, … (para. 15)Paraphrase:I want to know how you succeeded in finding out the report, but I have no idea.10. Keeping his body twisted so that his gun still covered the fat man and his guest, … (para. 22) Paraphrase:He twisted his body in order to point his gun right at the fat man and his guest.Unit 61. My ancient jeep was straining up through beautiful countryside when the radiator began to leak. (para. 1) Paraphrase:When the radiator started to drip, my old jeep was trying hard to climb up the mountain in the scenery rural area.2. The over-heated engine forced me to stop at the next village, which consisted of a small store and a few houses that were scattered here and there. (para. 1)Due to the high temperature of the engine, I had to stop at the next village, which contained a small shop and several houses that were loosely distributed.3. He, in turn, inspected me carefully, as if to make sure I grasped the significance of his statement. (para. 3) Paraphrase:Then he examined me with great caution in the way of ensuring whether I understood the importance of his words.4. As a product of American education, I had never paid the slightest attention to the green banana, except to regard it as a fruit whose time had not yet come. (para. 5)Paraphrase:As someone educated in the United States, I naturally had never paid any attention to the green banana, except to take it as a fruit which was not yet ripe or which was not yet ready to be picked and eaten.5. It was my own time that had come, all in relation to it. (para. 5)Paraphrase:It was me who had come to know the green bananas, and everything connected with it. According to the author, every civilization has special geniuses (symbolized by the green banana), which have existed for many years. But they will not come to your notice and benefit you until and unless you are ready to go out and meet them. 6. I had been wondering for some time about what educators like to call “learning moments”, and I now knew I had just experienced two of them at once. (para. 5)Paraphrase:The two things that suddenly dawned on him are: the fact that every civilization has wonderful treasure to share with others and the idea that every village, town, region or country has a right to regard itself as the center of the world.7. The cultures of the world are full of unexpected green bananas with special value and meaning. (8) Paraphrase:The green bananas have become a symbol of hidden treasures from every culture. For proper understanding of a piece of writing, it is often important to notice such symbolic language and to know what the symbols stand for.Unit 81. He had his thumb out and held a gas can in his other hand. (para. 1)Paraphrase:He held his thumb out and the gas can to show that he was out of gas and needed a lift to the nearest gas station. Generally speaking, at the same time of holding his thumb out, a hitchhiker also has a board in his hand, on which the name of the place he wants to go is written. Here, the gas can shows that the young man has run out of gasoline for his car.2. Leaving him stranded in the desert did not bother me so much. (para. 2)Paraphrase:Because the author thought it was sensible for him to do so and did so indeed as a matter of course as other people would do the same in the situation.It shows that it was really something common. The real issue then was not that he didn’t help the young man3. It would be cashless journey through the land of the almighty dollar. (para. 5)Paraphrase:I would travel without a penny through the country where money was extremely important.4. I rose early…and a sign displaying my destination to passing vehicles “America”. (para. 6)Paraphrase:Because what he wanted to do was to discover America and American people. The destination of the journey was Cape Fear, just literally, but the real destination was to seek understanding of the country and its people. 5. In Montana they told me to watch out for the cowboys in Wyoming. In Nebraska they said people would not be as nice in Iowa. (para.7)Paraphrase:They suggest that the people there (probably people everywhere), were more or less provincial (another sub-concept of ethnocentric?). They tended to make false assumptions about people in other places, i.e. the people in their place were nicer/better than those in other places.6. I didn’t know whether to kiss them or scold them for stopping. (para. 8)Paraphrase:(Because the situation when the two little ladies stopped for the author was, in his eyes, potentially dangerous for them. He says so to emphasize both the kindness and courage the ladies showed in that particular situation.)7. Once when I was hitchhiking unsuccessfully in the rain, a trucker pulled over, locking his brakes so hard he skidded on the grass shoulder. (Para. 9)Paraphrase:(Because he had to. Otherwise he would not be able to stop right before the author. It shows the mental struggle that was probably going on in the driver’s mind. He was once robbed at knifepoint by a hitchhiker, which made it more difficult for him to make such a decision at the moment than others. However, he chose to stop finally and his kindness was thereby highlighted.)8. Those who had the least to give often gave the most. (para.10)Paraphrase:Poor people are often more generous. They are often ready/willing to give comparatively more of what they have to those in need than rich people.9. Now we’re talking, I thought. (para.12)Paraphrase:Now he knew what I wanted and the talk was going in the right direction.10. “When we do, ” he said, “it’s usually kin.” (Para. 13)Paraphrase:(The local people do not usually entertain/receive guests at home.) They only do this for their kin relatives. 11. In spite of everything, you can still depend on the kindness of strangers. (para.15)(It means the fact that there are people who are indifferent to other people’s needs/ who refuse to help others/who may hesitate to help and people may say about lack of compassion in our society and a generally moral decay in our society. I find, however, on the whole you can still depend on the kindness of strangers.)Unit 91. The impressiveness was normal and not for show, for spectators were few. (para. 1)Paraphrase:The police officer walked that way habitually, not to attract attention or admiration because there were few people in the streets to be impressed. The description shows that the policeman quite enjoyed his work.2. Trying doors as he went, swinging his club with many clever movements, turning now and then to cast his watchful eye down the peaceful street, the officer, with his strongly built form and slight air of superiority, made a fine picture of a guardian of the peace. (para. 2)Paraphrase:From how he looked and what he did on the beat, we can see that the policeman was competent at, confident of, proud of, and dutiful to his job. All these factors gave people the impression that he was a trustworthy protector of the peace. ( Notice how a string of present participles are used as adverbials to vividly describe the policeman’s actions.)3. The area was one that kept early hours. (para. 2)Paraphrase:People in that area closed their stores pretty early.4. The next morning I was to start for the West to make my fortune. (para. 7)Paraphrase:The next morning I was going to leave (New York) for the West as planned to make a lot of money and get rich.5. We figured that in twenty years each of us ought to have our fate worked out and our fortunes made, whatever they were going to be. (para. 7)Paraphrase:We thought by that time we would have found out our fate and known how much we have achieved materially—whether our fortune huge or small.6. But after a year or two we lost track of each other. (para. 9)Paraphrase:We wrote letters and kept in touch with each other for a year or two, and then we stopped writing and haven’t heard from or heard of each other. Now neither of us knows what has happened or is happening to the other. 7. You see, the West is a pretty big place, and I kept running around over it pretty lively. (para. 9) Paraphrase:I kept moving around in the West, never staying in the same place for long. (And that’s why it was hard for us to keep track of each other.)8. …and it’s worth it if my old partner turns up. (para. 9)If my old friend comes to meet me as he promised, I would think my trouble of travelling so far is fairly rewarded.9. He was a kind of slow man, though, good fellow as he was. (para. 13)Paraphrase:However, he wasn’t very smart, even thought he was a good person.10. I’ve had to compete with some of the sharpest brains going to get my money. (para. 13 )Paraphrase:In order to make money, I had to compete with the most shrewd and crafty people.11. A man gets stuck in New York. It takes the West to make a man really keen. (para. 13) Paraphrase:A man is unable to go very far or to be very successful in New York where life is boring and opportunities for change are few. He has to go to the West to become an eager and exciting person.The man from the west means that New York City was “civilized”; it had too many laws, and that getting rich quickly was less likely. In the West, however, one could by-pass the rules, and though being tougher and smarter one could become rich very fast.12. I should say not! (para. 16)Paraphrase:Of course I am not going to leave immediately.13. The few foot passengers in that quarter hurried dismally and silently along with coat collars turned high and pocketed hands. (para. 18 )Paraphrase:There were few people in the street of this part of the city. They had turned their coat collars high and kept their hands in their pockets for warmth. They didn’t look happy and were walking fast without saying anything. 14. “Bless my heart!” exclaimed the new arrival. (para. 21)Paraphrase:“Bless my heart!” the man who had just arrived said aloud in surprise.15. It’s Bob, sure a fate. (para. 22)Paraphrase:Definitely it’s you, Bob.16. How has the West treated you, old man? (para. 22)Paraphrase:How well did you do in the West, old friend?17. …we’ll go around to a place I know of, and have a good long talk about old times. (para. 26)I’ve heard of a place, so let’s go there and we will have a long talk about those happy days we spent together in the past. Note that probably the plainclothes policeman was thinking: I’ll take you to the police station and you will tell me about the crimes you committed in the past.18. At the corner stood a drugstore brilliant with electric lights. (para. 28)Paraphrase:There was a drugstore at the corner. Its electric lights were on and it was very bright inside.19. Chicago thinks you may come over our way and telegraphs us she wants to have a chat with you. (para. 31) Paraphrase:The Chicago Police Department thinks you may come to New York, sent us a telegraph and asked us to help them track you down and arrest.20. Going quietly, are you? That’s sensible. (para. 31)Paraphrase:You won’t put up a fight and resist arrest, will you. That (cooperating will us without causing any disturbance) is the right thing to do.21. Somehow I couldn’t do it myself, so I went around and got a plain clothes man to do the job. (para. 33) Paraphrase:For some reason I couldn’t arrest you myself, so I had a policeman not wearing a uniform do it.Jimmy had mixed feelings. He knew what his duty was. But the memories of their friendship, the expressions of Bob’s undying respect and admiration for him and the fact that Bob had come all the way from a thousand miles away just to keep the appointment made 20 years before must have deeply touched him. Therefore, he could not bring himself to arrest Bob.Unit 101. The end of manual labor was liberating. (1)Paraphrase:Mandela is talking about forced labor. He felt liberated after the manual labor had been ended.2. To survive in prison, one must develop ways to take satisfaction in one’s daily life. (2)Paraphrase:In order not to die and go on living in prison, prisoners must cultivate ways to learn to enjoy themselves in their daily life.3. But eventually they gave in, and we were able to cut out a small garden on a narrow patch of earth against the far wall. (3)Paraphrase:But finally they agreed unwillingly, and we were able to mark out a small garden on a strip of earth against the wall in the distance.4. At the time, some of my comrades joked that I was a miner at heart, for I spent my days in a wasteland and my free time digging in the courtyard. (4)Paraphrase:had been deserted for a long time and my spare time digging in the courtyard.5. The authorities did not regret giving permission, for once the garden began to flourish, I often provided the warders with some of my best tomatoes and onions. (5)Paraphrase:The person in charge didn’t feel regretful that they had allowed me to have a garden because as soon as the garden began to grow well, I often gave the warders some of my best tomatoes and onions.6. I told her this small story at great length. I do not know what she read into that letter, (11)Paraphrase:I told her this small story in detail. I do not know whether she understood the meaning of the letter more than it did.。
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Lesson one1.Virtueis, indeed mustbe, self-centered.(para4)正确的行动就是,确实也必须就是以自我为中心的。
By rightaction,we mean it musthelp promotepersonal interest、2.Theessentials are familiar: the poverty of thepoor was the fault of the poor、Anditwas because itwas productoftheir excessi vefecundity…、、(para5)她的基本观点为人熟知:穷人的贫穷就是她们咎由自取,贫穷就是热门过度生育的结果The poverty of the poorwas causedbytheirhaving toomanychildren.3.Povertybeing caused inthe bed meantthat the rich were not responsible foreither its creation or itsamelioration. (para6)贫穷源于过度生育意味着富人不应该为产生贫穷与解决贫穷承担责任The richwerenot to blameforthe existenceofpoverty so theyshould not be asked to undertake the taskof solving the problem.4.It is merelythe working out ofalaw ofnature and a lawof God(para8) 这就是自然规律与上帝的意志在起作用。
Itis onlythe resultor effect ofthelaw of thesurvival of the fittestapplied tonature or to human society、5.Itdeclinedin popularity, and reference toit acquired a condemnatory tone、(para9)然而在20世纪,人们认为社会学中的达尔文进化论有点过于残酷,遭到了普遍的质疑,人们提及它都带有谴责的口吻。
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UNIT 1…identity is determined by genetic endowment, shaped by environment, and influenced by chance events.…our identity is decided by our genes (inherited from parents), greatly influenced by environment we live in and affected by some unexpected events.First, there is functional independence, which involves the capability of individuals to take care of practical and personal affairs, such as handling finances, choosing their own wardrobes, and determining their daily agenda.First, there is the independence in handling everyday life situations, which involves the ability to solve practical problems, such as how to spend money wisely, choosing their own clothes, and determining what they are going to do everyday.Fourth is freedom from “excessive guilt, anxiety, mistrust, responsibility, inhibition, resentment, and anger in relation to the mother and father.’’Children often feel very guilty in relation to their parents because they think they have done something wrong; they are also anxious because they are always eager to please their parents; they sometimes feel unhappy because they think that their parents have not fair to them; they feel that they are responsible to their parents for everything they do; they are always afraid of not saying the right thing or not behaving properly; all these may make them angry with their parents or make them resentful. These feelings reflect their emotional dependence on their parents. When they grow up, they usually strive for the freedom from such dependence.Perh aps one of the most stressful matters…as men or women.Perhaps young college students feel most distressed in finding out their sexual identity, including associating with the opposite sex and designing their future roles as men or women.Probably nothing can make students feel lower or higher emotionally than the way they are relating to whomever they are having a romantic relationship with.When students are in a romantic relationship with the opposite sex, they are most likely to feel unhappy or happy emotionally.dragging his feet with a dismayed, dejected look on his face.walking slowly and listlessly, looking very unhappy and disappointed“to drag one’s feet” is often used figuratively to mean”to delay deliberately”The local authorities are dragging their feet closing small coal mines.During the course I had come to realize that while my world was expanding and new options were opening for me, my father, who was in his sixties, was seeing his world shrink and his options narrow. (6)From the course I learnt, I had discovered that different from my expanding world and more opportunities; my father was beginning to realize that his world was getting smaller and his choices fewer.These religious, morals, and ethical values that are set during the college years often last a lifetime.(7)These values that are established during the college years often last a lifetime. It is believed that our character or basic moral principles are formulated during this period of time.I can no longer read the newspaper or watch a television newscast without seeing the people from other countries in a different light. in a different wayWhenever I read the newspaper or watch a television newscast, I will see the people from other countries in a different way from what I used to see.☻What he did made us to see him in a new light.☻In the light of the new evidence, we decide to take him to court. 出于,考虑到Not only are they being introduced to new people and new knowledge, but they are also acquiring new ways of assembling and processing information. (10)They are getting to know a lot of new people and learning new knowledge. They are also finding or learning new ways of arranging, organizing, analyzing or understanding information.UNIT 2It was a wonder to me they'd want to be seen with such a windbag.我不理解为什么他们愿意让人看见自己和这样一个话匣子在一起。
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Another School Year—What For?It would certify that he had specialized in pharmacy, but it would further certify that he had been exposed to some of the ideas mankind has generated within its history.The B.S. certificate would indicate/prove that the holder had special training in pharmacy, but it would also show that he/she had been introduced to some great ideas in the history of human civilization.You will see to it that the cyanide stays out of the aspirin, that the bull doesn’t jump the fence, or that your client doesn’t go to the electric chair as a result of your incompetence.As a pharmacist, you should at least make sure that your medicine is not mixed up with poison. If you are an engineer, you should at least be able to make a fence to keep out wild animals. If you become a lawyer, you should at least make sure an innocent person is not sentenced to death because you do not know how to defend your client.If you have no time for Shakespeare, for a basic look at philosophy, for the continuity of the fine arts, for that lesson of man’s development we call history—then you have no business staying in college.If you don’t want to improve your mind and broaden your horizon by studying a little literature, philosophy, the fine arts and history, you shouldn’t be here at college. Our colleges inevitably graduate a number of such life forms, but it cannot be said that they went to college; rather the college went through them—without making contact.Our colleges always produce such people. We cannot help that. But we can’t say that these people have received a proper college education. It is more accurate to say that these college years have just passed them by without leaving anything on them. There is not time enough in a single lifetime to invent for oneself everything one needs to know in order to be a civilized human.To become a civilized person, you need to know many things, and you cannot find out everything by yourself, because your life is too short.If you are too much in a hurry, or too arrogantly proud of your own limitation, to accept as a gift to your humanity some pieces of the minds of Aristotle, or Chaucer, or Einstein, you are neither a developed human nor a useful citizen of a democracy. You will not be considered as a civilized human being or a responsible citizen of a democratic society if you only care about making money, not realizing the importance of the thinking of Aristotle, Chaucer, Einstein as something that will help cultivate in you the quality of being a human.A university has no real existence and no real purpose except as it succeeds in putting you in touch, both as specialists and as humans, with those human minds your human mind needs to include.Only when university successfully helps the students expose to the ideas that make them civilized human beings can we say it has real purpose to exist.More Crime and Less Punishment。
现代大学英语精读5 重点paraphrase+单词总结
Lesson 1Paraphrase1...when I suggested that this behavior might be grounds for sending the student on a brief vacation. (Para 14)One student had some radical comments on the author's class and the author got a little bit angry so that he suggested the school should suspend the student's schooling. But the dean of students thought the author was just too annoyed.The story the speaker tells the audience here is hilarious, but not to be taken seriously. In the United States, university students do write about their professors on their blogs—and write evaluations of their courses, critiquing their professors' teaching skills. So a student could have criticized the speaker for teaching a boring class and the speaker might defend himself by saying that he had a cold. But the story is basically all fantasy. The speaker's serious point may be that students expect professors to entertain them; the professors who are good entertainers receive high evaluations, but the criterion is superficial. Less flashy teachers who think deeply can be the ones from whom the students learn the most.2.Black limousines pulled up in front of his office and disgorged decorously suited negotiators. (Para.16)These were obviously officials from that country's embassy sent to negotiate with the professor about this case. The whole thing had become a tough diplomatic issue.3. Did my pal fold? Nope, he's not the type. But he did not enjoy the process. (Para.16)Did my friend back down? No, he is not the type of person who will easily give up his principles under pressure. But he did not like the experience he had to endure. This again is an interesting anecdote, but not a very good example, because the student involved is too special. 4. The idea that a university education really should have no substantial content, should not be about what John Keats was disposed to call Soul-making, is one that you might think professors and university presidents would be discreet about. (Para. 19)Professors and presidents do not think the content of the courses really matters much, because they are soon forgotten anyway. It shouldn't be about soul-making either. The speaker is surprised that professors and presidents are actually by and large quite frank about what they think are the aims of education. They do not hide their views because they do not feel embarrassed.soul-making: moral cultivation, character-building, and intellectual developmentdiscreet: careful about keeping/preventing something from being known or noticed by many people 言语谨慎的,说话小心不让人抓辫子的5. …and common sense is something to respect, though not quite—peace unto the formidable Burke—to revere. (Para. 28)常识是应该尊重的东西,但不一定崇拜希望其令人钦佩的伯克先生别生气。
现代大学英语精读2第1单元Paraphrase
现代大学英语精读2第1单元P a r a p h r a s e-CAL-FENGHAI.-(YICAI)-Company One1Another School Year—What For?It would certify that he had specialized in pharmacy, but it would further certify that he had been exposed to some of the ideas mankind has generated within its history.The B.S. certificate would indicate/prove that the holder had special training in pharmacy, but it would also show that he/she had been introduced to some great ideas in the history of human civilization.You will see to it that the cyanide stays out of the aspirin, that the bull doesn’t jump the fence, or that your client doesn’t go to the electric chair as a result of your incompetence.As a pharmacist, you should at least make sure that your medicine is not mixed up with poison. If you are an engineer, you should at least be able to make a fence to keep out wild animals. If you become a lawyer, you should at least make sure an innocent person is not sentenced to death because you do not know how to defend your client.If you have no time for Shakespeare, for a basic look at philosophy, for the continuity of the fine arts, for that lesson of man’s development we call history—then you have no business staying in college.If you don’t want to improve your mind and broaden your horizon by studying a little literature, philosophy, the fine arts and history, you shouldn’t be here at college. Our colleges inevitably graduate a number of such life forms, but it cannot be said that they went to college; rather the college went through them—without making contact.Our colleges always produce such people. We cannot help that. But we can’t say that these people have received a proper college education. It is more accurate to say that these college years have just passed them by without leaving anything on them. There is not time enough in a single lifetime to invent for oneself everything one needs to know in order to be a civilized human.To become a civilized person, you need to know many things, and you cannot find out everything by yourself, because your life is too short.If you are too much in a hurry, or too arrogantly proud of your own limitation, to accept as a gift to your humanity some pieces of the minds of Aristotle, or Chaucer, or Einstein, you are neither a developed human nor a useful citizen of a democracy. You will not be considered as a civilized human being or a responsible citizen of a democratic society if you only care about making money, not realizing theimportance of the thinking of Aristotle, Chaucer, Einstein as something that will help cultivate in you the quality of being a human.A university has no real existence and no real purpose except as it succeeds in putting you in touch, both as specialists and as humans, with those human minds your human mind needs to include.Only when university successfully helps the students expose to the ideas that make them civilized human beings can we say it has real purpose to exist.More Crime and Less Punishment。
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精读paraphrase1.identity is determined by genetic endowment (what is inheritedfrom parents),shaped by environment ,and influenced by chance events(para2 lesson 1)paraphrase : who we are determined by three things; first our genes ,or what our parents have given us our legacy ;second ,environment ;and third luck or opportunities2.In their adolescent years ,however ,these matters arequestioned and in some cases rebelled against (para7 lesson1 )Paraphrase : when they enter their youth stage ,however they often have doubts these matters and sometimes oppose them3.these religious ,moral and ethical values that are set during thecollege years often last a lifetime (para7 lesson 1)paraphrase : these values that are established when we are college students often last a lifetime. It is acknowledged that our character or basic moral principle are formulated during this period of time4.It may be heightened by their choice to pursue a college (para3lesson1)Paraphrase :If they choose to go to college to continue their education, they will face an even more serious struggle between the desire to be independent and the need to depend on the financial support of their parents5.during the course I had come to realize that while my worldwas expanding and new options were opening for me ,my father ,who was in his sixties ,was seeing his world shrink and his options narrow(para6 lesson1)paraphrase ; From the course I learnt , I had discovered that different from my expanding world and more opportunities , my father was starting to realize that his world was getting smaller and his choice fewer6.he’d be anything the other man was (para10 lesson 2)paraphrase;7. You hear it said that fathers want their sons to be what they feelthey cannot themselves be, but I tell you it also works the other way (para1 lesson 2)paraphrase: you hear people say that father want their sons to be what they cannot be ,but I say sons also want their fathers to be what they cannot be8.he had become blood of my blood, he the strong swimmerand I the boy clinging to him in the darkness(para38 lesson2)paraphrase : he had become my real father in my heart; he was the powerful swimmer and I was a little boy attached to him ,seeking protection and help from him in the darkness9.what have you boys been up to (para40 lesson 2)10.Newlyweds, he figured ,were the best prospect , so he hiredfriends to copy the names and addresses of recent recipients of marriage licenses(para8 lesson3)paraphrase: people who got married recently were most likely to subscribe to the newspaper ,he thought ,so he employed his friends to copy the names and addresses of those people .11.Dell knew that IBM required its dealers to take monthlyquota of PCs ,in most cases more than they could sell.(para11 lesson 3)paraphrase: Dell knew that IBM demanded its dealers to see a certain fixed number of personal computers per month12.He also realized that when a computer is down ,thecustomer wants it back up and working right away(para25lesson 3)paraphrase:13.After one month he started selling computer again – with avengeance (para13 lesson 3)Paraphrase; After one month he restarted selling computer –even on large scale or with a greater effort15. what concerns Michael Dell is that our country is losing its competitive edge .(para30 lesson 3)Paraphrase: Dell cares about the matter that our country is losing its competitive advantage interest16.He was one ,but the other ,he had opened his eyes with thesun at dawn ,scratched ,done his business like a dog at the roadside , washed at the public fountain, begged a piece of breakfast bread and few olives, eaten them squatting on the ground ,and washed them down with a few handfuls of water scooped from the spring (para1 lesson 10 )paraphrase: As the sun rose in the morning he opened his eyes ,scraped several times ,emptied his bowels or passed water like a dog at the roadsaid ,washed his face at the public fountain ,managed to get some pieces of bread and a few olives for breakfast ,then ate them while he was squatting on the ground and swallowed them down17. .live without conventions, which are artificial and false; escapecomplexities and extravagances : only so can you live a free life (para4 lesson 10)paraphrase: one should live while ignoring those artificial and flues customs ,and avoid complex lives and things that are not necessary ; only in this18. he was the man of the hour ,of the century (para13 lesson 10)paraphrase: he was the man of great success importance and power ,in the present time and even the whole century.19 . he was not the first to inhabit such a thing .but he was the firstwho ever did so by choice ,out of principle. (para3 lesson 10)Paraphrase: he was not the first to live in cask ,but he was the first who ever did so because he wanted to ,based on principle ,and not by necessity ,not because he was forced to。
高英(现代大学英语)精读5 paraphrase 原文+译文
1.The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so many centuries that they are nobody is not easy.It is no easy job to educate a people who have been told over centuries that they were inferior and of no importance to see that they are humans, the same as any other people.2.Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. If you break the mental shackles imposed on you by white supremacists, if you really respect yourself, thinking that you are a Man, equal to anyone else, you will be able to take part in the struggle against racial discrimination.3.The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation.The liberation of mind can only be achieved by the Negro himself/herself. Only when he/she is fully convinced that he/she is a Man/Woman and is not inferior to anyone else, can be he/she throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and become free.Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against that stands against love.Power in the best form of function is the carrying out of the demands of justice with love and justice in the best form of function is the overcoming of everything standing in the way of love with power.At that time, economic status was considered the measure of the individual’s ability and talents.At that time, the way to evaluate how capable and resourceful a person was to see how much money he had made(or how wealthy he was).The absence of worldly goods indicated a want of industrious habits and moral fiber.A person was poor because he was lazy and not hard-working and lacked a sense of right and wrong.It is not the work of slaves driven to their tasks either by the task, by the taskmaster or by animal necessity.This kind of work cannot be done by slaves who work because the work has to be done, because they are forced to work byslave-drivers or because they need to work in order to be fed and clothed.When the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.When the unfair practice of judging human value by the amount of money a person has got is done away with.He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality. Those who harbor hate in their hearts cannot grasp the teachings of God. Only those who have love can enjoy the ultimate happiness in Heaven.Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds.Let us be dissatisfied until America no longer only talk about racial equality but is unwilling or reluctant to take action to end such evil practices racial as racial discrimination.I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size.I imagined myself being different types of prodigy, trying to find out which type would best suit me.I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts.Some new thoughts came to my mind, thoughts that I deliberately wanted to be disobedient, or to be more exact, thoughts that I would say lots of “ I won’t …” to my mother.The girl had a sauciness of a Shirley Temple.The girl was somewhat like Shirley Temple, a bit rude, but in an amusing way.It felt like worms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my chest, but it also felt good, as if this awful side of me had surfaced, at last. While saying these, I was scared as if some very unpleasant, horrible things had got out of my chest; but at the same time, I felt a bit delighted for I was finally able to make this awful part of me known to my mother.And I could sense her anger rising to its breaking point, I wanted to see it spill over.And I could feel that her anger was coming to the point where her endurance and self-control would collapse, but I wanted to see what exactly she would do when that happened.The lid to the piano was closed, shutting out the dust, my misery, and her dreams.When the lid to the piano was closed, it not only shut out the dust but also put an end to my misery and my mother’s dreams as well.Yet globalization…Is a reality, not a choice.However, as one report said, globalization “ is now an ordinary fact of life, not something one can choose to have or not.”Popular factions sprout to exploit nationalist anxieties.Political groups favored by the general public have appeared in large numbers to take advantage of existing worries and uneasiness among the people about foreign “cultural assault.”Where xenophobia and economic ambition have often struggled for the upper hand.Where the two trends- the dislike and fear of things foreign and the desire to build China into one of a powerful, industrialized economy- have often contended with each other for dominance.Those people out there should continue to live in a museum while we will have showers that work.Those people in countries like China should continue to live a backward life while we ourselves will enjoy a comfortable life with all modern facilities.Westernization is a phenomenon shot through with inconsistencies and populated by very strange bedfellows.Westernization is a concept full of self-contradictions and held by people of very different backgrounds and views.You don’t have to be cool to do it; you just have to have the eye.You don’t have to look fashionable or attractive in order to find out what will be the future trend; you only need to be observant and be able to make judgments about it.He was up in the cybersphere far above the level of time zones.He was playing the game on the Internet with people living in different parts of the world, an activity that goes far beyond the limit of time zones.In the first two weeks of business the Gucci Store took in a surprising $100,000.In the first two weeks after starting business in Shanghai, the Gucci Store made as much as $100,000, a surprisingly large amount of money.Early on I realized that I was going to need some type of compass to guide me through the wilds of global culture.Early before that/ From the very beginning I realized I was going to need some guidance that would lead me through the rich and wide variety of global cultures.The penitence may have been Jewish, but the aspiration was universal.The way of expressing repentance may have been characteristic of the Jews, but the desire for forgiveness from God was common to people of all cultures.Pianos and models, Paris, Vienna and Berlin, masters and mistresses, are not needed by writer.Unlike a pianist or a painter who must have a piano or hire models, or visit famous cities like Paris, Vienna and Berlin, or to be taught by masters and mistresses, a writer does not need all this.she would have plucked the heart out of my writing.Those conventional attitudes and beliefs( represented by the Angel) would have taken away the essence/ soul of my writing.Thus, whenever I felt the shadow of her wing or the radiance of her halo upon my page, I took up the inkpot and flung it at her. Thus whenever I felt the influence of traditional Victorian values and attitudes( about gender roles) on my writing, I fought back with all my power.For though men sensibly allow themselves great freedom in these respects, I doubt that they realize or can control the extreme severity with which they condemn such freedom in women.This is because, even though men readily allow themselves full freedom in speaking or writing about such as the body and passions, I don’t think they realize how severely they condemn or can control their extremely severe condemnation of, such freedom in women.Indeed it will be a long time still, I think, before a woman can sit down to write a book without finding a phantom to be slain, a rock to be dashed against.No doubt, it will still take a long time, as I believe, before women are finally able to enjoy the freedom of writing without having to fight those conventional values, beliefs and prejudices that are unfavorable to them.Even when the path is nominally open- when there is nothing to prevent a woman from being a doctor, a lawyer, a civil servant -there are many phantoms and obstacles, as I believe, looming in her way.Even though the path is now open to women in name only, when they have the freedom to choose to be a doctor, a lawyer, a civil servant, I believe that there still exist many false ideas and obstacles to impede a woman’s progress.You have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto exclusively owned by men.By fighting against the Angel in the House and through your painstaking efforts, you have gained a position and some freedom in a society which has so far been dominated by men.It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself.It took me a long time to get rid of illusions and realize the simple and apparent truth that I am nobody but myself. It was a painful process. I started with high expectations only to be deeply disappointed and thoroughly disillusioned.And yet I am no freak of nature, nor of history. I was in the cards, other things having been equal (or unequal) 85 years ago.I am perfectly normal physically and I am a natural product of history; my growth reflects history. When things seemed likely to happen to me, other things has been equal (or unequal) 85 years ago.About eighty-five years ago they were told that they were free, united with others of our country in everything pertaining to the common good, and in everything social, separate like the fingers of the hand.About 85 years ago, they were told that they were freed from slavery and became united with the white people in all the essential things having to do with the common interests of our country, but in social life the blacks and whites still remain separated.In those pre-invisible days I visualized myself as a potential Booker T. Washington.In those days before I realized I was an invisible man, I imagined that I would become a successful man like Booker T. Washington.I wanted at one and the same time to run from the room, to sink through the floor, or go to her and cover her from my eyes of the others with my body; to feel the soft thighs, to caress her and destroy her, to love her and murder her.On the one hand, I felt so embarrassed that I wanted to run away from the ballroom. On the other hand I took pity on the girl and so wanted to protect the naked girl from the eyes of the other men. I wanted to love her tenderly because she was an attractivegirl, but at the same time I wanted to destroy her because after all she was the immediate cause of our embarrassment.Should I try to win against the voice out there Would not this go against my speech, and was not this a moment for humility, for nonresistanceIf I should try my best and win the fight, then I would be winning against the bet of that white man, who shouted “ I got my money on the big boy. " In that case I would not behave with humility, and yet my speech talked about humility as the essence of success. So maybe I should let that big boy win without putting up resistance, for this was time for me to show humility.7. “ Cast down your bucket where you are” - cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded.Make full use of what you have and do the best you can. Take this attitude in making friends in every honorable way, making friends with people of different races among whom we live.“You weren't being smart, were you, boy" "We mean to do right by you, but you've got to know your place at all times.”You were not trying to seem clever in a disrespectful way, were you, boy We intend to do the right thing by setting you up as role model, but you must never forget who you are.1. And I was conscious of his superiority in a way which was embarrassing and led to trouble.I knew that Oppenheimer was a man of great talent his way of showing his talent at seminars caused uneasiness and resentment among people, especially among his fellow students.This did not seem to be the sort of anecdote that would go over especially well at a conference devotes to poetry.Since those attending the conference were people devoted to poetry, such an anecdote, though interesting, might not be appreciated by the audience.Pitted against these excellent reasons for my not going to the conference were two others that finally carried the day.These were two reasons for my going to the conference ser against the reasons for my not going and they became decisive in my final decision.He is, for me, one of those people whose writing about their writing is more interesting than their writing itself.According to my view, Spender belongs to the group whose writings about their lives, experiences that is whose autobiographies, are more interesting than their literary works.Auden’s Dirac-like lucidity, the sheer wonder of the language, and the sense of fun about serious things …Were to me irresistible. Like Dirac, Auden was outstanding in clarity. He was also outstanding in the powerful use of the language and the sense of fun about serious issues. All these greatly fascinated me.Spender’s journal entry on his visit is fascinating both for what it says and for what it does not say.Spender’s record of this visit is interesting not only because of the things he mentions but also because of the things he doesn’t say.Oppenheimer appears in Spender’s journal as a disembodied figure with no contextual relevance to Spender’s own life.In his book Spender fails to give a connected, complete picture of Oppenheimer and does nit mention that Oppenheimer’s background and situation has quite a lot to do with Spender.The real thing was much better.The real person looked much better than the pictures.One probably should not read too much into appearance.Maybe one should not attach too much importance to appearance.10. He had outlived them all, but was still under their shadow, especially that of Auden…He had lived longer than any of his more famous friends but traces or influences of these friends, especially those of Auden, could still be found on him.1. Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think,is where Creation was begun.The landscape makes your imagination vivid and lifelike, and you believe that the creation of the whole universe was begun right here.But warfare for the Kiowas was preeminently a matter of disposition rather than of survival, and they never understood the grim ,unrelenting advance of the . Cavalry.The Kiowas often fought just because they were good warriors, because they fought out of habit, character, nature, not because they needed extra lands or material gains for the sake of surviving and thriving. And they could not understand whythe . Cavalry never gave up pushing forward even when they had won a battle.My grandmother was spared the humiliation of those high gray walls by eight or ten years.Luckily my grandmother did not suffer the humiliation of being put into a closure for holding animals, for she was born eight or ten years after the event.4. It was a long journey toward dawn, and it led to a golden age.They moved toward the east, where the sun rises, and also toward the beginning of a new culture, which led to the treatest moment of their history.They acquired horses, and their ancient nomadic spirit was suddenly free of the ground.Now they got horses. Riding on horseback, instead of walking on football, gave them this new freedom of movement, thus completely liberating their ancient nomadic spirit.From one point of view, their migration was the fruits of an old prophecy, for indeed they emerged from a sunless world.In a sense, their migration confirmed the ancient myth that they entered the world from a hollow log, for they did emerge from the sunless world of the mountains.The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see, and they were bent and blind in the wilderness.Their stature was measured by the distance they could see. Yet, because of the dense forests, they could not see very far, and they could hardly stand straight.Clusters of trees and animals grazing far in the distance cause the vision to reach away and wonder to build upon the mind. The earth unfolds and the limit of the land is far in the distance, where there are clusters of trees and animals eating grass. This landscape makes one see far and broadens one's horizon.9. Not yet would they veer southward to the caldron of the land that lay below;they must wean their blood from the northern winter and hold the mountains a while longer in their view.They would not yet change the direction southward to the land lying below which was like a large kettle. First they must give their bodies some time to get used to the plains. Secondly, they did not want to lose sight of the mountains so soon.I was never sure that I had the right to hear, so exclusive were they of all merely custom and company.I was not sure that I had any right to overhear her praying, which did not follow any customary way of praying, add which Iguess she did not want anyone else to hear.11. Transported so in the dancing light among the shadows of her room she seemed beyond the reach of time. But that was illusion; I think I knew then that I should not see her again.In this way she was entranced in the dancing light among the shadows of her room, and she seemed to be timeless(what sh represented would last forever)The women might indulge themselves; gossip was at once the mark and compensation of their servitude.On these special occasions, women might make loud and elaborate jokes and talk among themselves. Their gossip revaeled their position as servants of men and a reward for their servitude.。
高英(现代大学英语)精读5paraphrase原文+译文
1.The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so many centuries that they are nobody is not easy. It is no easy job to educate a people who have been told over centuries that they were inferior and of no importance to see that they are humans, the same as any other people.2.Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. If you break the mental shackles imposed on you by white supremacists, if you really respect yourself, thinking that you are a Man, equal to anyone else, you will be able to take part in the struggle against racial discrimination.3.The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation.The liberation of mind can only be achieved by the Negro himself/herself. Only when he/she is fully convinced that he/she is a Man/Woman and is not inferior to anyone else, can be he/she throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and become free.4.Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against that stands against love.Power in the best form of function is the carrying out of the demands of justice with love and justice in the best form of function is the overcoming of everything standing in the way of love with power.5.At that time, economic status was considered the measure of the individual’s ability and talents.At that time, the way to evaluate how capable and resourceful a person was to see how much money he had made(or how wealthy he was).6.The absence of worldly goods indicated a want of industrious habits and moral fiber.A person was poor because he was lazy and not hard-working and lacked a sense of right and wrong.7.It is not the work of slaves driven to their tasks either by the task, by the taskmaster or by animal necessity.This kind of work cannot be done by slaves who work because the work has to be done, because they are forced to work by slave-drivers or because they need to work in order to be fed and clothed.8.When the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.When the unfair practice of judging human value by the amount of money a person has got is done away with.9.He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality. Those who harbor hate in their hearts cannot grasp the teachings of God. Only those who have love can enjoy the ultimate happiness in Heaven.10.Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds.Let us be dissatisfied until America no longer only talk about racial equality but is unwilling or reluctant to take action to end such evil practices racial as racial discrimination.1.I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size.I imagined myself being different types of prodigy, trying to find out which type would best suit me.2.I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts.Some new thoughts came to my mind, thoughts that I deliberately wanted to be disobedient, or to be more exact, thoughts that I would say lots of “ I won’t …” to my mother.3.The girl had a sauciness of a Shirley Temple.The girl was somewhat like Shirley Temple, a bit rude, but in an amusing way.4.It felt like worms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my chest, but it also felt good, as if this awful side of me had surfaced, at last. While saying these, I was scared as if some very unpleasant, horrible things had got out of my chest; but at the same time, I felt a bit delighted forI was finally able to make this awful part of me known to my mother.5.And I could sense her anger rising to its breaking point, I wanted to see it spill over.And I could feel that her anger was coming to the point where her endurance and self-control would collapse, but I wanted to see what exactly she would do when that happened.6.The lid to the piano was closed, shutting out the dust, my misery, and her dreams.When the lid to the piano was closed, it not only shut out the dust but also put an end to my misery and my mother’s dreams as well.1.Yet globalization… Is a reality, not a choice.However, as one report said, globalization “is now an ordinary fact of life, not something one can choose to have or not.”2.Popular factions sprout to exploit nationalist anxieties.Political groups favored by the general public have appeared in large numbers to take advantage of existing worries and uneasiness among the people about foreign “cultural assault.”3.Where xenophobia and economic ambition have often struggled for the upper hand.Where the two trends- the dislike and fear of things foreign and the desire to build China into one of a powerful, industrialized economy- have often contended with each other for dominance.4.Those people out there should continue to live in a museum while we will have showers that work. Those people in countries like China should continue to live a backward life while we ourselves will enjoya comfortable life with all modern facilities.5.Westernization is a phenomenon shot through with inconsistencies and populated by very strange bedfellows.Westernization is a concept full of self-contradictions and held by people of very different backgrounds and views.6.You don’t have to be cool to do it; you just have to have the eye.You don’t have to look fashionable or attractive in order to find out what will be the future trend; you only need to be observant and be able to make judgments about it.7.He was up in the cybersphere far above the level of time zones.He was playing the game on the Internet with people living in different parts of the world, an activity that goes far beyond the limit of time zones.8.In the first two weeks of business the Gucci Store took in a surprising $100,000.In the first two weeks after starting business in Shanghai, the Gucci Store made as much as $100,000, a surprisingly large amount of money.9.Early on I realized that I was going to need some type of compass to guide me through the wilds of global culture.Early before that/ From the very beginning I realized I was going to need some guidance that would lead me through the rich and wide variety of global cultures.10.The penitence may have been Jewish, but the aspiration was universal.The way of expressing repentance may have been characteristic of the Jews, but the desire for forgiveness from God was common to people of all cultures.1.Pianos and models, Paris, Vienna and Berlin, masters and mistresses, are not needed by writer. Unlike a pianist or a painter who must have a piano or hire models, or visit famous cities like Paris, Vienna and Berlin, or to be taught by masters and mistresses, a writer does not need all this.2.she would have plucked the heart out of my writing.Those conventional attitudes and beliefs( represented by the Angel) would have taken away the essence/ soul of my writing.3.Thus, whenever I felt the shadow of her wing or the radiance of her halo upon my page, I took up the inkpot and flung it at her. Thus whenever I felt the influence of traditional Victorian values and attitudes( about gender roles) on my writing, I fought back with all my power.4.For though men sensibly allow themselves great freedom in these respects, I doubt that they realize or can control the extreme severity with which they condemn such freedom in women.This is because, even though men readily allow themselves full freedom in speaking or writing about such as the body and passions, I don’t think they realize how severely they condemn or can control their extremely severe condemnation of, such freedom in women.5.Indeed it will be a long time still, I think, before a woman can sit down to write a book without findinga phantom to be slain, a rock to be dashed against.No doubt, it will still take a long time, as I believe, before women are finally able to enjoy the freedom of writing without having to fight those conventional values, beliefs and prejudices that are unfavorable to them.6. Even when the path is nominally open-when there is nothing to prevent a woman from being a doctor, a lawyer, a civil servant -there are many phantoms and obstacles, as I believe, looming in her way.Even though the path is now open to women in name only, when they have the freedom to choose to be a doctor, a lawyer, a civil servant, I believe that there still exist many false ideas and obstacles to impede a woman’s progress.7.You have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto exclusively owned by men.By fighting against the Angel in the House and through your painstaking efforts, you have gained a position and some freedom in a society which has so far been dominated by men.1.It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself.It took me a long time to get rid of illusions and realize the simple and apparent truth that I am nobody but myself. It was a painful process. I started with high expectations only to be deeply disappointed and thoroughly disillusioned.2.And yet I am no freak of nature, nor of history. I was in the cards, other things having been equal (or unequal) 85 years ago. I am perfectly normal physically and I am a natural product of history; my growth reflects history. When things seemed likely to happen to me, other things has been equal (or unequal) 85 years ago.3.Abouteighty-five years ago they were told that they were free, united with others of our country in everything pertaining to the common good, and in everything social, separate like the fingers of the hand.About85 years ago, they were told that they were freed from slavery and became united with the white people in all the essential things having to do with the common interests of our country, but in social life the blacks and whites still remain separated.4.In those pre-invisible days I visualized myself as a potential Booker T. Washington.Inthose days before I realized I was an invisible man, I imagined that I would become a successful man like Booker T. Washington.5.Iwanted at one and the same time to run from the room, to sink through the floor, orgo to her and cover her from my eyes of the others with my body; to feel the soft thighs, to caress her and destroy her, to love her and murder her.Onthe one hand, I felt so embarrassed that I wanted to run away from the ballroom. On t he other hand I took pity on the girl and so wanted to protect the naked girl from the eyes of the other men.I wanted to love her tenderly because she was an attractive girl, but at the same time I wanted to destroy her because after all she was the immediate cause of our embarrassment.6.Should I try to win against the voice out there Would not this go against my speech , and was not this a moment for humility, for nonresistanceIfI should try my best and win the fight, then I would be winning against the bet of t hat white man, who shouted “I got my money on the big boy. " In that case I would not behave with humility, andyet my speech talked about humility as the essence of success. So maybe I should let that big boy win without putting up resistance, for this was time for me to show humility.7. “ Cast down your bucket where you are” - cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded.Makefull use of what you have and do the best you can. Take this attitude in making frien ds in every honorable way, making friends with people of different races among whom we live.8.“Youweren't being smart, were you, boy" "We mean to do right by you, but you've got to know your place at all times.”Youwere not trying to seem clever in a disrespectful way, were you, boy We intend to do the right thing by setting you up as role model, but you must never forget who you are.1. And I was conscious of his superiority in a way which was embarrassing and led to trouble.I knew that Oppenheimer was a man of great talent his way of showing his talent at seminars caused uneasiness and resentment among people, especially among his fellow students.2.This did not seem to be the sort of anecdote that would go over especially well at a conferenc e devotes to poetry.Sincethose attending the conference were people devoted to poetry, such an anecdote, though interesting, might not be appreciated by the audience.3.Pittedagainst these excellent reasons for my not going to the conference were two others thatfinally carried the day.Thesewere two reasons for my going to the conference ser against the reasons for my not goi ng and they became decisive in my final decision.4.Heis, for me, one of those people whose writing about their writing is more interesting than their writing itself.Accordingto my view, Spender belongs to the group whose writings about their lives, experiences that is whose autobiographies, are more interesting than their literary works.5.Auden’sDirac-like lucidity, the sheer wonder of the language, and the sense of fun about serious things …Were to me irresistible. Like Dirac, Auden was outstanding in clarity. He was also outstanding in the powerful use of the language and the sense of fun about serious issues. All these greatly fascinated me.6.Spender’sjournal entry on his visit is fascinating both for what it says and for what it does not say.Spender’srecord of this visit is interesting not only because of the things he mentions but also because of the things he doesn’t say.7.Oppenheimer appears in Spender’s journal as a disembodied figure with no contextual relevance to Spender’s own life.In his book Spender fails to give a connected, complete picture of Oppenheimer and does nit mention that Oppenheimer’s background and situation has quite a lot to do with Spender.8.The real thing was much better.The real person looked much better than the pictures.9.One probably should not read too much into appearance.Maybe one should not attach too much importance to appearance.10. He had outlived them all, but was still under their shadow, especially that of Auden…He had lived longer than any of his more famous friends but traces or influences of these frie nds, especially those of Auden, could still be found on him.1. Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think,is where Creation was begun.Thelandscape makes your imagination vivid and lifelike, and you believe that the creation of the whole universe was begun right here.2.Butwarfare for the Kiowas was preeminently a matter of disposition rather than of survival, and they never understood the grim ,unrelenting advance of the . Cavalry.TheKiowas often fought just because they were good warriors, because they fought out of hab it, character, nature, not because they needed extra lands or material gains for the sake of surviving andthriving. And they could not understand why the . Cavalry never gave up pushing forward even when they had won a battle.3.Mygrandmother was spared the humiliation of those high gray walls by eight or ten years. Luckilymy grandmother did not suffer the humiliation of being put into a closure for holding a nimals, for she was born eight or ten years after the event.4. It was a long journey toward dawn, and it led to a golden age.They moved toward the east, where the sun rises, and also toward the beginning of a new culture, which led to the treatest moment of their history.5.Theyacquired horses, and their ancient nomadic spirit was suddenly free of the ground.Nowthey got horses. Riding on horseback, instead of walking on football, gave them this new freedom of movement, thus completely liberating their ancient nomadic spirit.6.Fromone point of view, their migration was the fruits of an old prophecy, for indeed they emerged from a sunless world.In a sense, their migration confirmed the ancient myth that they entered the world from a hollow log, for they did emerge from the sunless world of the mountains.7.TheKiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see, and they were bent andblind in the wilderness.Theirstature was measured by the distance they could see. Yet, because of the dense forests, they could not see very far, and they could hardly stand straight.8.Clustersof trees and animals grazing far in the distance cause the vision to reach away andwonder to build upon the mind. The earth unfolds and the limit of the land is far in the distance, where there are clusters of trees and animals eating grass. This landscape makes one see far and broadens one's horizon.9. Not yet would they veer southward to the caldron of the land that lay below;they must wean their blood from the northern winter and hold the mountains a while longer in their view.Theywould not yet change the direction southward to the land lying below which was like a large kettle. First they must give their bodies some time to get used to the plains. Secondly, they did not want to lose sight of the mountains so soon.10.Iwas never sure that I had the right to hear, so exclusive were they of all merely cu stom and company.Iwas not sure that I had any right to overhear her praying, which did not follow any c ustomary way of praying, add which I guess she did not want anyone else to hear.11. Transported so in the dancing light among the shadows of her room she seemed beyond the reach of time. But that was illusion; I think I knew then that I should not see her again.Inthis way she was entranced in the dancing light among the shadows of her room, and she seemed to be timeless(what sh represented would last forever)12.The women might indulge themselves; gossip was at once the mark and compensation of their servitude.On these special occasions, women might make loud and elaborate jokes and talk among themselves. Their gossip revaeled their position as servants of men and a reward for their servitude.。
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Unit11.He ... was seeing his world shrink and his options narrow.He ... was beginning to realize that his world was getting smaller and his choices fewer.1.however, these matters are questioned and in some cases rebelled against however, people often have doubts about these matters and sometimes oppose them1.people from a variety of ethnic backgroundspeople from many different races1.In addition to affirming personal values...Besides strengthening their personal values..3. Yet, there was always in me…… somewhere else.Paraphrase: However, I always felt that I should pay a visit to some other places.6. I wandered the world through books.Paraphrase: I learned many aspects of the world by reading books.13. One poem committed to memory……in my mind.Paraphrase: I still remember one poem I learned in grade school.15. Perhaps only a truly discontented child……as I was.Paraphrase: Perhaps only a child who is truly dissatisfied with the reality can be attracted by books as I was.16. Perhaps restlessness is a necessary corollary of devoted literacy. Paraphrase: Perhaps if a person really devotes himself or herself to reading and writing, he or she is bound to be restless.2)by the lure of what……normal childhood.Paraphrase: by the power of attracting which was an instinctive and normal thing to any child at my age21. But the best part of me……and bring them to life.Paraphrase: But the best part ……at home: But my most unforgettable memory was always at home……22. In books I have traveled……but into my own.Paraphrase: While reading books, I have not only traveled to different places in the world, but roamed around my own inner world.24. There was waking, …… was never really a stranger.Paraphrase: Between the tome I woke up and the tome I went to sleep, I just read books, which is a parallel universe to me. And in this universe, I might be a newcomer, but was never a stranger.25. My real, true world. My perfect island.Paraphrase: To me, these books were a real, true world, as well as a perfect island on which I preferred to stay.5) …as though she was starving and the book was bread.Paraphrase: Jamaica Kincaid was reading books with great eagerness, as if the books were her food.27. Reading has always been my home,…… invincible companion. Paraphrase: Reading has always given me joy and comfort, food and drink, and strength and companionship.30. I realized that while my satisfaction…… book it happened to be. Paraphrase: I realized that while my joy in reading had not weakened a bit, the world was just as blind or hostile to my joy as my girlfriends had been who had banged on our screen door or had begged me to put down the books which were called "stupid books" by them no matter what books they belonged to.39. Reading for pleasure,……from place to place.Paraphrase: some people did not believe that there was such a thing as reading for pleasure driven by astrong desire from the heart, They regarded it as an idle, aimless, meaningless occupation just like driving from place to place aimlessly on the subway.40. For many years I worked……of problems to be addressed.Paraphrase: I worked in the circle of newspaper for many years. For many journalists, reading in the latter half of the twentieth century was usually discussed as a lot of problems to be resolved.42. Had television and the movies supplanted books?Paraphrase: Had books given way to televisions and the movies ? orHad books been replaced by televisions and the movies?43. And in circles devoted to……surrounding discussion of reading.Paraphrase: When literary critics discussed the problem of reading in their circles, they sometimes showed the terrible attitude that reading was a right that only belonged to the elite, not to be shared with other people.53. We are the people who……went out of print.Paraphrase: We are the people who would make sure that Pride and Prejudice would always be available.54. It was still in the equivalent of ……one another.Paraphrase: We still found each other like we did when we were young56. "Until I fea red I would lose it,…… To Kill a Mockingbird.Paraphrase: We often say that the starving know the value of food and the man dying of thirst knows the value of water.Unit21. I wandered the world through books.Paraphrase: I learned many aspects of the world by reading books.2. One poem committed to memory……in my mind.Paraphrase: I still remember one poem I learned in grade school.3. Perhaps only a truly discontented child……as I was.Paraphrase: Perhaps only a child who is truly dissatisfied with the reality can be attracted by books as I was.4. Perhaps restlessness is a necessary corollary of devoted literacy. Paraphrase: Perhaps if a person really devotes himself or herself to reading and writing, he or she is bound to be restless.5. by the lure of what……normal childhood.Paraphrase: by the power of attracting which was an instinctive and normal thing to any child at my age6. But the best part of me……and bring them to life.Paraphrase: But the best part ……at home: But my most unforgettable memo ry was always at home……7. In books I have traveled……but into my own.Paraphrase: While reading books, I have not only traveled to different places in the world, but roamed around my own inner world.8. There was waking, …… was never really a stranger.Paraphrase: Between the tome I woke up and the tome I went to sleep, I just read books, which is a parallel universe to me. And in this universe, I might bea newcomer, but was never a stranger.9. My real, true world. My perfect island.Paraphrase: To me, these books were a real, true world, as well as a perfect island on which I preferred to stay.10. …as though she was starving and the book was bread.Paraphrase: Jamaica Kincaid was reading books with great eagerness, as if the books were her food.11. Reading has always been my home,…… invincible companion. Paraphrase: Reading has always given me joy and comfort, food and drink, and strength and companionship.12. and come outside …… in their separateness.Paraphrase: and come into contact with the reality, who think themselves superior to others and feel shame to be friends with them.13. For many years I worked……of problems to be addressed.Paraphrase: I worked in the circle of newspaper for many years. For many journalists, reading in the latter half of the twentieth century was usually discussed as a lot of problems to be resolved.14. Reading for pleasure,……from place to place.Paraphrase: some people did not believe that there was such a thing as reading for pleasure driven by a strong desire from the heart, They regarded it as an idle, aimless, meaningless occupation just like driving from place to place aimlessly on the subway.15. Had television and the movies supplanted books?Paraphrase: Had books given way to televisions and the movies ? orHad books been replaced by televisions and the movies?16. And in circles devoted to……surrounding discussion of reading.Paraphrase: When literary critics discussed the problem of reading in their circles, they sometimes showed the terrible attitude that reading was a right that only belonged to the elite, not to be shared with other people. ( If we say some people have certain exclusive rights, it means these rights are exclusive to these people, not shared with anybody else. )17. We are the people who……went out of print.Paraphrase: We are the people who would make sure that Pride and Prejudice would always be available.18. It was still in the equivalent of ……one another.Paraphrase: We still found each other like we did when we were youngUnit41.…done his business like a dog at the road side,……Paraphrase: He had emptied his bowels or passed water (urinated) like a dogat the roadside,……2.got scant thanks :Paraphrase: He seldom expressed his thanks to the people who had offered him some food3.They were not quite sure…… Now he was back at his home.Paraphrase: Some were mad about wealth; some thirsted for power; some were crazy about sex……4.they amused himParaphrase: These mad or insane people made him think that they were all ridiculous.5.He thought everybody lived……anxiously.Paraphrase: He thought that our life is too complicated, too costly, and gives us too much pressure.He argued that we should simplify our life.6.He was not the first to inhabit…out of principle.Paraphrase: He was not the first to live in a cask. But he was the first who ever did so because he wanted to, not by necessity, not beingforced to . He based it on aprinciple.7.But he taught chief by example.Paraphrase: Diogenes also taught by talking to people, but he mainly taught by setting an example for others to learn from.8. They possess him. He is their slave.Paraphrase: All those material things dominate his life. He has to succumb tothem.9. In order to procure a quantity of……, his own independence.Paraphrase: In order to get a certain amount of material property or worldly possessions which actually have no value and will not last, he hasallowed himself to be controlled by these things and has given awayhis own independence which is the only thing that is true and canlast.10. Not so DiogenesParaphrase: However, Diogenes was not such a person.11. His life's aim was clear to him:…… and to imprint it with its true values.Paraphrase: Diogenes is using the analogy of" to restamp the currency" to meanthe change of human values. Human life, in his opinion, is like clean metal, but marked with false values, and it is his intention to wipe out the false markings and print true values on it.12. Diogenes answered "I'm trying to find a man."Paraphrase: He actually meant that all people he could see were only half-men.Here the word "man" means a true man by Diogenes' standard.13. And so he lived……Paraphrase: And that was how he lived……14. Only twenty, Alexander was far older and……restrained and chivalrous.Paraphrase: Alexander looked far older than a man of his age normally does, and was much wiserthan man of his age normally is.15. asmazed silence: ( transferred epithet) It is of course “ the people” who werea mazed, not “silence”Paraphrase: There were the people who were amazed, but remained silent. 16. But Alexander meant it :Paraphrase: But Alexander really meant what he had said.17. He knew that of all men then alive……the beggar were free.Paraphrase: Alexander knew that of all the people alive at that time, he was free because he had absolute power and Diogenes was freebecause he didn’t need any power.Unit51.There was once a town……in harmony with its surroundings.Paraphrase: Once upon a time there was a town in the central part of America where all living things seemed to exist peacefully with theirenvironment.2. Then some evil spell settled on the community:……but even among children. Paraphrase: Then, as by some evil power, disaster struck the community: strange diseases quickly struck down large numbers of children; the cattle andsheep became ill and died.3. On the mornings that had once throbbed with……there was now no sound….Paraphrase: The morning air used to vibrate with the singing of birds, but there was now no sound….4. … a harsh reality we all shall know.Paraphrase: … some serious consequence that we all have to face.5. … the physical form and the habits of the earth’s vegetation…by the environment. Paraphrase: … the physical features and habits of the living things on earth have beenGreatly shaped by their surroundings.6. … but it has changed in character.Paraphrase: … but the nature of this power to alter the environment has changed.7.This pollution is for the most irrecoverable.Paraphrase: In most case, the polluted air, soil, rivers and the sea cannot be restored to their original natural state.8.Or they pass mysteriously……from once pure wells.Paraphrase: Or they get deeper into underground streams, undergosome chemical processes somewhere, and then become new substancesthat contaminate wells, kill plants and make cattles as well aspeople that drink the water sick.9.Given time---time not in years……a balance has been reached.Paraphrase: When the environment changes, living things can adapt to their new surroundings, but it is a long process and it takes thousands ofyears for life to be in harmony with their modified world again.10.B ut in the modern world there is no time.Paraphrase: But in the modern world when man’s power to tamper with nature has become so great and he is so eager to change nature forshort-term benefits, he does not think of the long-term interestof his own species.11.T he rapidity of change follows…… deliberate pace of nature.Paraphrase: Man is changing nature rapidly while nature adjusts to the changes slowly.Therefore adjustment can never keep up with change, and a new balancebetween living things and their environment can hardly be reached.12.R adiation is now the unnatural creation of man’s tampering with the atom.Paraphrase: In the past, radiation was only sent out from radioactive substances in certain rocks; today man creates such harmful raysby causing the nucleus of the atom of such substances as radiumto split13.T he chemicals are the synthetic c reation of man’s tampering with the atom.Paraphrase: Nature dose not produce such things as chemicals. Chemicals are man-made and the results of man’s creative power.14.A nd even this,……in an endless stream;….Paraphrase: It would take some magic power to make living things adjust to these chemicals in the life of generations. Even if this were possible,it would be useless, because new chemicals are continuously beingcreated and produced.15.…find their way into actual use:Paraphrase: …manage to enter the mar ket and be sold to farmers.16.d escribed as “ pests”Paraphrase: referred to as destructive insects17.…all this though the intended target……weeds or insects.Paraphrase: …all these serious consequences come about perhaps just because man wants to destroy a few weeds or insects.18.C an anyone believe it is possible……but “ biocides”.Paraphrase: Such number of poisons stored on the surface of the earth will surelly make it unfit for all living things. (This is a rehtoricalquestion )19.T hus the chemical war is never won,……in its violent crossfire.Paraphrase: Therefore, this fight between man and pests wil never come to an end, and all living things are affected by or fall victom to thischemical war.20.b rought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind…Paraphrase: brought the threat of disease and death even to huamn beings themselves…21.N ature has introduced……checks and balances.Paraphrase: Nature keeps living things in proportion, regulating their number through the check and balance mechanisms of itself.(In otherwords, when the population of one species is too big/ small, Naturehas a way of making it decrease/ increase.)22.S uch a system set the stage for……insect population.Paraphrase: Such a way of farming creates favorable conditions for the rapid increase of particular insects.23.I n new territory,……in its native land,…Paraphrase: In new territory, since there are no natural enemies as those that did not allow it to multiply or grow too rapidly in their native land,……24.T hus it is no accident that ……are intr oduced species.Paraphrase: That’s why the most trouble-making insects in this country are not native but introduced, which is not accidental at all.25.t he explosive power of outbreaks and new invasionsParaphrase: the power of insects to multiply/breed in large numbers suddenly and quickly and their power to invade new territories26.W e have subjected enormous numbers of people to……without their knowledge.Paraphrase: By spraying insecticides on food grains, vegetables and fruit, we have caused large number of people to absorb harmful chemicalswithout asking whether they would like to do so and often withouttheir knowing it.Unit81.… for children who were now gray with age.Paraphrase: … for children who now became old people with gray hair.2. Through all this she lay in bed but moved across time.Paraphrase: While doing all this job, she lay in bed but her mind wandered across the past time.3.… traveling among the dead decades…the gift of physical science.Paraphrase: …traveling among the past decades mentally so quickly and easilythat no physical science would be able to manage to do it.4.She gazed at this improbably overgrown figure ……and promptly dismissed it. Paraphrase: She looked steadily at me and could not recognize me because I was much too big for the son in her memory. She simply couldnot imagine the distant future whenher little Russel would be that tall and big. Therefore sheimmediately put that thought out of her mind.5. That day she was a young cou ntry wife…… to be her father.Paraphrase: That day she was a young country wife in the backyard behind the apple orchard, from which she could see the hazy blue Virginiamountains. She could not associate this stranger old enough tobe her father with her son who was only as tall as two feet fromthe floor at that time.6. It was an awkward question with which to be awakened.Paraphrase: I was awakened so early in the morning by such an awkwardquestion.7. “I’m being buried today,” ……announcing an important social event.Paraphrase: “I’m going to be buried today.” she said quickly, as if announcing an important social event.8.I thought of a doll with huge, fierce eyes.Paraphrase: Her small and delicate figure reminded me of a doll with very big but intense eyes.9. There had always been a fierceness in her.Paraphrase: Whatever she did, she did it determinedly, with great andunyielding effort.10. It showed in that angry challenging thrust of the chin when she issuedan opinion, and a great one she had always been for issuing opinions.Paraphrase: This character trait of her was shown when she expressed an opinion.She would stick out her chin in an angry and defiant air.Whenever she had something to say, she would say it, neverafraid of speaking her mind out.11. “It’s not always good policy……I used to caution her.Paraphrase: “It’s not always wise to tell people your opinions.” I used to warn her.11.“If they don’t like it, that’s too bad,”……“because that’s the way I am.”Paraphrase : “If they don’t like the way I talk, I can do nothing about it.”That was her constant answer because it was her usual way ofdealing with sb or something.12.She had hurled herself at life……always on the run.Paraphrase: Whatever she did (housework, raising children, etc.), she did it with great effort and speed, so she seemed to be alwaysrunning.13. determined on a beheading that would put dinner in the potParaphrase: determined to kill a chicken and cook it for dinner14. For a time I could not accept the inevitable.Paraphrase: For a period of time I could hardly believe such a strong and formidable person as my mother had become a helpless invalid, andI simply couldn’t face this fact.15. As I sat by her bed, my impulse was to argue her back to reality.Paraphrase: When I sat by her hospital bed, I had a strong desire to get her to face her present conditions and not to think at length about herglories in the past.16. “Russell’s way out west,” she advised me.Paraphrase: “ Russell’s not around. He’s far away in the west,” she told me.17. So it went until a doctor came by……Then a surprise.Paraphrase: The conversation went on like this until a doctor came by to giveher one of those oral quizzes that the medical workers usuallyapply to the patients like her. She failed this oral quiz, orgave wrong answers or answered none of the quiz questions.However, her answer to one of the questions surprised all ofus.18.I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.Paraphrase: I hold that we have no reason to forget the plot of GunpowderTreason.19.Then doctors diagnosed an hopeless senility or hardening of thearteries.Paraphrase: Then doctors concluded that my mother was behaving in a confused way simply because she was getting old, or her arteries werebecoming hard.It was an inevitable consequence of aging, and theycould do little about it.20. For ten years or more the ferocity……that too much age had brought her.Paraphrase: Throughout her life, Russell Baker’s mother had fiercely fought numerous difficulties she encountered. About ten years or more ago,she began to suffer physical and psychological problems of aging,which she couldn’t tackle, and she became angry with this situation.20.Now, after the last bad fall, she……in which she ws needed.Paraphrase: Now, after her last bad fall, she seemed to have found a way of escaping from her present life by reminiscing her good, old dayswhen she was loved and needed.21.…I…had written herwith some banal advice……with her miseries.Paraphrase: In a letter I had advised her to make a special effort toappreciate good things in her life and not to worry those who cameto see her by complaining about her unhappiness and suffering.22. I suppose what it really amounted to was a th reat that…….Paraphrase: I think this “advice” was actually a warning that…….23. This one was written out of a childish faith……to recharge a flagging spirit.Paraphrase: I wrote this letter naively believing that parents’ strength would never drain away, and aging as well as declining health could beovercome by a strong will, and that words of encouragement wouldfill a tired and weak person with strength and energy again. 24. She wrote back in an unusually cheey vein……that she was mending her way. Paraphrase: She answered the letter cheerfully, which was very unusual. I think she wanted to show that she was acting on my advice and wasimproving.25. I soon stopped trying to argue her back……into the past.Paraphrase: Soon I stopped trying to persuade her to accept what I considered the real world and tried to help her to recall those marvellousmoments of happy life in the past.26.……and the future stretched before it in beams of crystal sunlight.Paraphrase: ……and the bright future spread out or extended before the US./ The US would have boundless prospects.27.……if I had been able to step into my mother’s time machine.Paraphrase: ……if I had been able to travel to all those past times together withmy mother.28. A world had lived and died,……the w orld of the pharaohs.Paraphrase: The world my mother lived in when she was young was now past.Though I was closely related to that world , I knew as little aboutit as I knew about the ancient Egypt.29. The orbits of her mind touched the present interrogators for more than amoment.Paraphrase: She could hardly respond relevantly to questions put to her at present because her mind constantly wandering to certain pastphases of her life.30. Sitting at her bedside, forever out of touch with her……Paraphrase: Although I was sitting at her bedside, very close to her physically,I never knew what she was thinking or talking about .31. ……when age finally stirs their curiosity there is no parent left to tell them.Paraphrase: ……when they become old and want to learn about their parents’past, both theirparents are gone.32. If a parent does lift the curtain a bit,…… how much harder life was in the olddays.Paraphrase: If a parent tells the children something about his or her past, it often turns out to be a moral lesson about how life was for him orher, which does not make sense to the children.34. …… a son had offened me with an inadequate report card.Paraphrase: ……a son had made me angr y because his report card showed that he had not done very well at school.35. ……he gazed at me with an expression……how it was in your day, Dad.”Paraphrase: ……he looked at his father steadily, looking calm, seemingly ready to accept what his father wou ld say though he knew he wouldn’t beconvinced. The boy knew what was coming. He hated being lecturedon, but he knew there was nothing he could do about it. He had tolet it happen. So he had a look of resignation that was hard todescribe.36. Instinctively, I wanted to break free, and cease being a creature defined byher time.Paraphrase: When my mother was young, I was her future. But I didn’t like it.I wanted to be free and independent. I wanted to live my own lifeand did not to live my life by my mother’s standards.37. These hopeless end-of-the-line visits with my mother……my own past so carelessly.Paraphrase:Those last visits made me wish I had valued my past more, and had paid more attention to the world she represented. (The visits werehopeless because they did not mean anything to my mother. She wasnot going to recover. And she did not even know I was there.)38. We all come from the past, …… from diaper to shroud.Paraphrase: We all come from the past, and children ought to know what made them what they are today. They ought to know that life is a continuousprocess. Humanity is lke a cord made of many people starting from along time past continuing to the present day. We should all cherish ourroots, our heritage.Unit91.In some respects, globalization is merely a trendy word for an old process.Paraphrase: To some extent, globalization is not new. The world has always been in the process of market expansion. What is new is the term"globalization", which became fashionable only recently.2.Europeans saw economic unification as an antidote to deadly nationalism.Paraphrase: Europeans regarded economic unification as a way to prevent nationalism.3. A decade later, even after Asia's 1997-98 financial crisis, private capital flowsdwarf governmental flows.Paraphrase:Ten years later, even after Asia's financial crisis of 1997-98, private capital flows are still greater in number than governmentalcapital flows.4. The recent takeover struggle between British and German wireless giants is exceptional only for its size and bitterness.Paraphrase: The only difference between the recent takeover struggle between British and German radio giants and other cases is that this takeoveris much bigger and a lot more bitter.5. Behind the merger boom lies the growing corporate conviction that many markets have become truly global.Paraphrase: The reason for the merger boom is that more and more business people now believe that many markets have truly become global. They are nolonger producing just for the people in their own country. They want tocombine or merge with others to become multinational companies. 6. In Europe, the relentless pursuit of the single market is one indicator. This reflects a widespread recognition that European companies will be hard-pressed to compete in global markets if their local operations are hamstrung by fragmented national markets.Paraphrase:In Europe, the persistent and unremitting effort to turn all countries on the continent into a single market shows that there is a generalagreement that if the European market remains divided into many smallparts behind national borders, their companies will not be able tocompete in the international market.7. Among poorer countries, the best sign of support is the clamor to get into the World Trade Organization ... And 32 are seeking membership. Paraphrase: Many poorer countries want to join the World Trade Organization. This shows that they support globalization.8. Despite its financial crisis, rapid trade expansion and economic growth sharply cut the number of the desperately poor.Paraphrase: In spite of the financial crisis, rapid increase of trade and economic growth drastically reduced the number of the very poor people.9.Meanwhile, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa--whose embrace of theworld economy has been late or limited--fared much less well.Paraphrase: Meanwhile, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, whose integration with the world economy has been late and limited, werenot so lucky.10. .... two problems could neutralize its potential benefits.Paraphrase: … two problems could offset the possible benefits11. The global economy may be prone to harsher boom-bust cycles than nationaleconomies individually.Paraphrase: Once integrated with the world market, nations will naturally be more vulnerable to the fluctuations of the world economy. Thecapital flows in and out a country, for example, can create a boomor bust very quickly and with much harsher effects.12. The Asian financial crisis raised questions on both counts.Paraphrase:The Asian financial crisis brought these two questions to people's attention: investment funds were not well used and trade flowsbecame too lopsided.13. The ensuing spending boom in turn aided Europe, Japan, and the United Statesby increasing imports from them.Paraphrase: The growth in spending that followed helped Europe, Japan, and the United States by increasing imports from them.14. .... it became apparent that as a result of "crony capitalism", inept government policies and excess optimism, much of the investment had been wasted on unneeded factories, office buildings and apartments.Paraphrase: It became clear that because of the corruption in those countries。
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UNIT 1…identity is determined by genetic endowment, shaped by environment, and influenced by chance events.…our identity is decided by our genes (inherited from parents), greatly influenced by environment we live in and affected by some unexpected events.First, there is functional independence, which involves the capability of individuals to take care of practical and personal affairs, such as handling finances, choosing their own wardrobes, and determining their daily agenda.First, there is the independence in handling everyday life situations, which involves the ability to solve practical problems, such as how to spend money wisely, choosing their own clothes, and determining what they are going to do everyday.Fourth is freedom from “excessive guilt, anxiety, mistrust, responsibility, inhibition, resentment, and anger in relation to the mother and father.’’Children often feel very guilty in relation to their parents because they think they have done something wrong; they are also anxious because they are always eager to please their parents; they sometimes feel unhappy because they think that their parents have not fair to them; they feel that they are responsible to their parents for everything they do; they are always afraid of not saying the right thing or not behaving properly; all these may make them angry with their parents or make them resentful. These feelings reflect their emotional dependence on their parents. When they grow up, they usually strive for the freedom from such dependence.Perhaps one of the most stressful matters…as men or women.Perhaps young college students feel most distressed in finding out their sexual identity, including associating with the opposite sex and designing their future roles as men or women.Probably nothing can make students feel lower or higher emotionally than the way they are relating to whomever they are having a romantic relationship with.When students are in a romantic relationship with the opposite sex, they are most likely to feel unhappy or happy emotionally.dragging his feet with a dismayed, dejected look on his face.walking slowly and listlessly, looking very unhappy and disappointed“to drag one’s feet” is often used figuratively to mean”to delay deliberately”The local authorities are dragging their feet closing small coal mines.During the course I had come to realize that while my world was expanding and new options were opening for me, my father, who was in his sixties, was seeing his world shrink and his options narrow. (6)From the course I learnt, I had discovered that different from my expanding world and more opportunities; my father was beginning to realize that his world was getting smaller and his choices fewer.These religious, morals, and ethical values that are set during the college years often last a lifetime.(7)These values that are established during the college years often last a lifetime. It is believed that our character or basic moral principles are formulated during this period of time.I can no longer read the newspaper or watch a television newscast without seeing the people from other countries in a different light. in a different wayWhenever I read the newspaper or watch a television newscast, I will see the people from other countries in a different way from what I used to see.☻What he did made us to see him in a new light.☻In the light of the new evidence, we decide to take him to court. 出于,考虑到Not only are they being introduced to new people and new knowledge, but they are also acquiring new ways of assembling and processing information. (10)They are getting to know a lot of new people and learning new knowledge. They are also finding or learning new ways of arranging, organizing, analyzing or understanding information.UNIT 2It was a wonder to me they'd want to be seen with such a windbag.我不理解为什么他们愿意让人看见自己和这样一个话匣子在一起。
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Lesson one1.Virtue is, indeed must be, self-centered.(para4)正确的行动是,确实也必须是以自我为中心的。
By right action, we mean it must help promote personal interest.2.The essentials are familiar: the poverty of the poor was the fault of the poor. And it was because it was product of their excessive fecundity…..(para5)他的基本观点为人熟知:穷人的贫穷是他们咎由自取,贫穷是热门过度生育的结果The poverty of the poor was caused by their having too many children.3.Poverty being caused in the bed meant that the rich were not responsible for either its creation or its amelioration. (para6)贫穷源于过度生育意味着富人不应该为产生贫穷和解决贫穷承担责任The rich were not to blame for the existence of poverty so they should not be asked to undertake the task of solving the problem.4.It is merely the working out of a law of nature and a law of God(para8)这是自然规律和上帝的意志在起作用。
It is only the result or effect of the law of the survival of the fittest applied to nature or to human society.5.It declined in popularity, and reference to it acquired a condemnatory tone.(para9)然而在20世纪,人们认为社会学中的达尔文进化论有点过于残酷,遭到了普遍的质疑,人们提及它都带有谴责的口吻。
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Unit 1 Text ⅠThinking as a HobbyParaphrases of the Text1.The leopard was Nature, and he was being natural.3The leopard symbolizes Nature,which stands for all animal needs or desires.美洲豹象征着自然,它在那里显得很自然而已;2.Nature had endowed the rest of the human race with a sixth sense and left meout.15Everybody, except me ,is born with the ability to thin大自然赋予其余的所有的人第六感觉却独独漏掉了我;3.You could hear the wind trapped in the cavern of his chest and struggling with allthe unnatural impediments. His body would reel with shock and his ruined face go white at the unaccustomed visitation.19你能听到风被他的胸腔堵住,遇到障碍物艰难前进发出的声音;他的身体因为不习惯这样的感觉而摇摇晃晃,脸色变得惨白;4.In this instance, he seemed to me ruled not by thought but by an invisible andirresistible spring in his neck.20Mr. Houghton’s deeds told me that he was not ruled by thought, instead, he would feel a strong urge to turn his head and look at the girls.在这种情况下,我认为他不是受思想,而是受他后颈里某个看不到却无法抗拒的发条的控制;5.Technically, it is about as proficient as most businessmen’s golf, as honest as mostpolitician’s intentions, or to come near my own preoccupation - as coherent as most books that get written.23This ironical sentence shows that the author not only considers those people incompetent,dishonest and incoherent but also despises most businessmen, distrust most politicians and dislikes most publications.从技术上而言,它娴熟如同商人玩高尔夫,诚实如同政客的意图,或者——更接近我自己的领域——有条理如同大多数写出来的书;6.We had better respect them, for we are outnumbered and surrounded.24The Grade 3 thinkers usually represent the great majority, so we has to respect them because we are surrounded by them.我们最好尊重他们,因为我们处于他们的包围之中,势单力薄;7.Man enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.24 The author thinks that just like cows always eat the grass of the same side of a hill, it is probably human nature to enjoy agreement because it seems to bring peace, security, comfort and harmony.人是一种爱群居的动物,就象牛喜欢沿着山坡的同一条道路吃草一样喜爱共识;8.I slid my arm round her waist and murmured breathlessly that if we were countingheads, the Buddhists were the boys for my money. She fled. The combination of my arm and those countless Buddhists was too much for her.27我伸手揽过她的腰屏住呼吸低声说,如果算人数我该捐钱给佛教徒;露丝的确是为我好,因为我人这么好;但是我的手臂加上那些数不胜数的佛教徒实在让她无法忍受了;9.It was Ruth all over again. I had some very good friends who stood by me, and stilldo. But my acquaintances vanished, taking the girls with them.32What had happened to Ruth and me now happened again. My grade-two thinking frightened away many of my acquaintances.又是露丝的问题;我曾有一些很要好的朋友站在我这边,他们现在仍然站在我这边;但是我的熟人都不见了,带着他们的女孩子消失了;Unit 2 Text ⅠSpring SowingParaphrases of the Text1....sleep and yet on fire with excitement, for it was the first day of their first springsowing as man and wife.3Although they were still not fully awake, the young couple was already greatly excited, because that day was the first day of their first spring sowing since getting married.有些困乏,也很兴奋,因为这是他们作为夫妇第一个春播的第一天;2.But somehow the imminence of an event that had been long expected loved, fearedand prepared for made them dejected.3The couple had been looking forward to and preparing for this spring planting for a long time. But now that the day had finally arrived, strangely, they felt somehow a bit dejected, unhappy, sad, or depressed.但是随着春播的迫近,这一他们为之期待许久,热爱,害怕和准备的大事的临近,他们反而有些沮丧;3.Mary, with her shrewd woman’s mind, thought of as many things as there are in lifeas a woman would in the first joy and anxiety of her mating.3Mary, like all sharp and smart women, thought of everything that was going to happen in the rest of her life. At that time, she had the complex thoughts of a woman at the first crucial moment of her marriage. She was filled with joy and anxiety and was bothered by many thoughts.玛丽用她精明的女性的思维,思考着一个女人在新婚生活中所得到的快乐和生活中的琐事;4.Martin fell over a basket in the half-darkness of the barn, he swore and said that aman would be better off dead than (4)It would be better for him to die than tripped over a basket.马丁再昏暗的谷仓中被一只篮子绊倒了;5.And somehow, as they embraced,all their irritation and sleepiness left them. Andthey stood there embracing until at last Martin pushed her from him with pretended roughness and said:“Come, come, girl, it will be sunset before we begin at this rate.”4All the anger, unhappiness and drowsiness melted away with their hug. They remained in each others arms until finally Martin pushed her away, with pretended roughness.他们就这样拥抱着,直到最后马丁推开了玛丽,并假装强硬的说道:“来吧,快点,姑娘,再这样下去当我们开始时太阳都要下山了;”6....as they walked silently...through the little hamlet, there was not a soul about.5 When they walked silently through the small village, they saw not a single person around.当他们穿着生皮鞋穿过小村庄时,那还没有其他人;7.And they both looked back at the little cluster of cabins that was the center of theirworld, with throbbing hearts. For the joy of spring had now taken complete hold of them.5他们带着悸动的心跳同时回头看看村庄中相似的小屋,那就是他们生活的世界的中心;春播的喜悦已经紧紧地包裹住了他们;8.Suppose anybody saw us like this in the field of our spring sowing, what would theytake us for but a pair of useless, soft, empty-headed people that would be sure to die of hunger12If people should see us like this with your arm around my waist, what would they think of us They were sure to regard us as a pair of good-for-nothings, people who are unable to endure hardships and foolish and, therefore, were sure to die of hunger.“想想如果有人看到我们在春播的土地上这样,他们只会把我们当成一对没用、软弱、没脑子的会被饿死的傻瓜,呼”9.She became suddenly afraid of that pitiless, cruel earth, the peasant’s slave master,which would keep her chained to hard work and poverty all her life until she would sink again into its bosom.13She became afraid of the earth because it was going to force her to work like a slave and force her to struggle against poverty all her life until she died and was buried in it.10.It overpowered that other feeling of dread that had been with her during themorning.17But when she sat and looked around the village, the fields and the people, a strange feeling of happiness arose in her. The feeling of joy drove away the feeling of terror that she had had in the morning.11.The strong smell of the upturned earth acted like a drug on their nerves.2012.All her dissatisfaction and weariness vanish from Mary’s mind with the deliciousfeeling of comfort that overcame her at having done this work with her husband.34Unit 3 Text ⅠGroundless BeliefsParaphrases of the Text1.They rest upon mere tradition, or on somebody’s bare assertion unsupported byeven a show of proof (1)They are only based on tradition, or on somebody’s assertion, but are not supported even by the least amount of proof.这些说法仅仅根据传统,或者根据某人毫无证据的断言……2.But if the staunchest Roman Catholic and the staunchest Presbyterian had beenexchanged when infants,and if they had been brought up with home and all other influences reversed, we can had very little doubt what the result would have been.3 If they were exchanged when they were infants and brought up different homes and under different influences, then the staunchest Roman Catholic would be the staunchest Presbyterian, vice versa. This shows that our beliefs are largely influenced by surroundings. 不过,如果在婴儿时期把最虔诚的罗马天主教徒和长老会教义信徒予以交换,然后使他们在相反的家庭与影响下长大,所能得出的结果是毋庸置疑的;3.It is consistent with all our knowledge of psychology to conclude that each wouldhave grown up holding exactly the opposite beliefs to those he holds now (3)我们可以根据所掌握的心理学知识得出结论,两人长大后会持有与现在恰好相反的观点……4.Of course we do not cease, when we cease to be children, to adopt new reliefs onmere suggestion.4Of course it does not mean that when we grow up we no longer have these mistaken beliefs. We are still easy and often willing victims of newspapers and advertising.当然,我们长大后也不会停止仅仅根据建议接受新观点;5.We should remember that the whole history of the development of human thoughthas been full of cases of such “obvious truths” breaking down when examined in the light of increasing knowledge and reason.8我们应该记住,在人类思想发展的整个历史过程中充满了这种“明显的真理”现象,经过人类不断增长的知识与理性的检验,这些“真理”不攻自破;6.The age-long struggle of the greatest intellects in the world to shake off thatassumption is one of the marvels of history.9世界上最伟大的学者们经过长期斗争否定了这一假设,这也是人类历史上的一大奇迹;7.Many modern persons find it very difficult to credit the fact that men can even havesupposed otherwise.10许多现代人发现很难相信人们曾有过另一种假设;8.We adopt and cling to some beliefs because—or partly because—it “pays” us to doso. But, as a rule, the person concerned is about the last person in the world to be able to recognize this in himself.14Peoples who hold those beliefs through self-interest usually will not admit this. They usually try to cloak themselves with beautiful altruistic words.我们之所以接受并且坚持某些观点的原因是——或者部分原因是——这样做对我们“有好处”;9.There is many a man who is unconsciously compelled to cling to a belief because heis a “somebody”in some circle—and if he were to abandon that belief, he would find himself nobody at all.15Many people are forced to hold a belief because he has become an important person in his group. If he gave up that belief, he would turn insignificant at once.许多人无意识地被迫坚持某种观点,因为他是某个圈子里的“重要人物”——如果他放弃这一观点,就会成为无足轻重的小人物;10.Somewhat similar is the acceptance of an opinion through the desire—probably notrecognized by the person concerned—to justify his own nature, his own position, or his own behaviour.17另一种类似的情况是有些人出于证明自己的性格、立场或行为的愿望而接受某一种观点,也许当事人不承认这一点;Unit 4 Text ⅠLions and Tigers and BearsParaphrases of the Text1.Of course, anybody who knows anything about New Y ork knows the city’s essentialplatitude --- that you don’t wander around Central Park at night --- and in that, needless to say, was the appeal; it was the thing you don’t do.1Everybody who knows New York knows the widely discussed topic there, that is, you should not wander in Central Park at night because it’s dangerous. However, precisely because of the risk, there are always people attracted to do so. They just wish to do what people normally don’t do.当然,了解纽约的人都知道关于这座城市老生常谈的话题——夜里不能在中央公园闲逛——而这,不用说,正是吸引力所在:它是你平常不会做得事情;2.So far , so normal, and this could have been an outdoor summer-stock Shakespeareproduction anywhere in America, except in one respect (3)And tonight’s performance could be any outdoor performance of Shakespeare’s play one regularly finds in summer in America. There was only one difference.到目前为止,一切还算正常,这和美国任何地方在室外上演的莎士比亚夏令剧目没什么不同,除了一点:3....the rotating red light was like a campfire in the wild, warning what’s out there tostay away.3旋转着的红色警灯就像野外的篝火,警告四周存在的威胁不要靠近;4.I got my bearings.6 I found where i was. 我终于认清了方向;5.The park was to be strolled through, enjoyed as an aesthetic experience, like a walkinside a painting.7人们漫步于公园,享受美的体验,犹如走进一幅油画中一样;6.I was emboldened by the realization: I was no longer afraid; I was frightening.9意识到这点,我的胆子就大了起来:我不再害怕了,令人害怕的是我;7.The park is now framed, enveloped even, by the city, but there was no escaping therecognition that the city—contrived, man-made, glaring obtrusive, consuming wasteful and staggering quantities of electricity and water and energy--- was very beautiful.12But there was no denying the fact you have to admit that the city was very beautiful, although it was not a natural kind of beauty, it was artificial and showy, and it used up a great amount of water and energy.公园现在被镶嵌在城市中,甚至被城市包裹,但不可否认的是这座城市——这座经过雕琢的、人工打造的、灯火辉煌8.And then, nature finding herself unable to resist, it started to pour.24Unit 9 Text ⅠThe Damned Human RaceParaphrases of the Text1.That is to say, I have subjected every postulate that presented itself to the crucialtest of actual experiment, and have adopted it or rejected it according to the result.para.2In other words, I have put every theory or hypothesis there is to the decisive test of actual experiment.也就是说,通过实验,我对每一种假设都进行了检测,并根据实验结果采纳或者否定了这一假设;2.I was aware that … have not scrupled to cheat the ignorant and the helpless out oftheir poor servings in order to partially appease that appetite. para.4I knew that many man who have more money than they can ever use have shown a maddesire to get more, and they have not ed to cheat poor people and their few saving in order to y that desire.我意识到,许多人虽然聚敛了不计其数的财富,然而他们仍然渴望更多,并且从无知又无助的人身上肆无忌惮地夺取微薄的财富,以便来平息心中的愿望;3.Men keep harems but it is by brute force, privileged by atrocious laws which theother sex were allowed no hand in making. para.6人妻妾成群,只是依靠暴力,由暴力的法律来授予特权;然而女性是无权参与制定这些法律的;4.He will not even enter a drawing room with his breast and back naked, so alive arehe and his mates to indecent suggestion. para.8他甚至不会裸露着乳房和屁股走进卧室,但他和同伴对下流的暗示又十分敏感;5.No--- Man is the Animal that Blushes. He is the only one that does it --- or hasoccasion to. para.8No, man is not the only animal that laughs, but it is true that man is the animal that blushes. He is the only animal that does it or has the need to.不——人是会脸红的动物;是唯一会脸红的动物——或者说有必要脸红;6.Man---when he is King John, with a nephew to render untroublesome, he uses ared-hot iron; para.9In the case of King John who wanted to get rid of his nephew he used a red-hot iron to torture him.当他作为约翰国王的时候,为了除掉侄子,他会用烧红的烙铁来折磨他;7.The cat is moderate---unhumanly moderate, she only scares the mouse, she does nothurt it; she doesn’t dig out its eyes, or tear off its skin, or drive splinters under its nails---man-fashion; when she is done playing with it she makes a sudden meal of itand puts it out of its trouble. para.9猫是适度的——与人不同的是它在吓唬老鼠,并不去伤害它;它不去挖老鼠的眼睛,剥它的皮,或者把木条钉进它的指甲里——像人一样;在它戏弄玩老鼠之后,他、便突然把它当饭吃了,使它脱离痛苦;8.He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the othernations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people’s countries…para.13It is claimed that man is the only Patriot. Only man is capable of such noble sentiment. But what does it mean It simply means that he keeps himself away from others, occupies a piece of land, calls it his own country, and thinks that he is better than others, then he puts up a flag and gathers together a group of killers and steals land from others.他打着国旗,在自己的国度里自诩与众不同,并嘲笑其他国家;他不惜花费重金,屯兵无数,就是为了吞噬大片他人的国土9.He is the only animal that has the True Religion, several of them. He is the onlyanimal that loves his neighbor as himself, and cuts h is throat if his theology isn’t straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother’s path to happiness and heaven. para.14In trying to make it easy for his brother to find happiness and go to heaven, he has turned the world into a graveyard he has caused the death of millions around the world in converting them to his religion人是唯一信仰宗教的的动物;他是唯一信奉正统宗教——几种宗教的动物,也是唯一爱邻居就像爱自己一样的动物,如果邻居的神学理论不纯正,人就割断她的喉咙;他把全球变成了一个大墓地,千方百计为他的兄弟谋求幸福,为其上天堂铺平道路;10.The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be leftout, in the Hereafter. I wonder why It seems questionable taste. para.14And we are told that they will not be allowed to go to the next world heaven. I wonder why It seems to show poor taste to leave out the higher animal and allow only human beings to go to heaven.高级动物没有宗教信仰;我们被告知,它们死后将被排除在天堂之外;我不明白这是为什么看来这是值得怀疑的选择标准;Unit 11 Text ⅠSoldier’s HeartParaphrases of the Text1.There is a brief purring sound, then a rhythmic drumming. para.2There is the sound of the plane dropping bombs or guns firing shells rhythmically.2.…it was the course for upper division students known as the colloquium. para.43.I don’t suppose many of our soldiers in the Gulf War have suffered from it --- theywere spared a long engagement. para.74.Two of the guards were the kind Chekhov describes in “Ward No.6” para.95.Once he waggled the stump under my face with a sly smile. This, he gave me tounderstand, was why he had been excused from military service. para.9Once he waved what remained of his trigger finger in front of me with a tricky smile. By doing this, he made me believe that this the cutting of his finger was the reason why he was able to escape being drafted into the army.6.Speaking only for myself, I think they brought me out of the fog in which I had beenwalking. para.10As far as I’m concerned, I think the shock treatment was effective and it helped me to regain my senses and become normal.7.I believe with Shakespeare that there are more thinkgs in heaven and earth than aredreamed of in the philosophy of those who serve the world, and who administer its institutions, and grow rich. para.11I agree with what Shakespeare says, that is there are more important things in heaven and in the world, things that are missing in the philosophy of the rich and powerful, things that these people have never dreamed of.8.The men and women I worked with in universities were pale and unreal incomparison. They were hollow and filled with words. para.22Compare to the people with whom I fought side by side during the war, the people I worked with in universities were pale and unreal. They talked a lot but their words were empty and meaningless because they had not experienced real life.9.They were deaf to the music. para.27My war experience gave me poetry and music. I would never get tired of writing about it. But they just didn’t care to know what happened in the war.。
现代大学英语精读4-Paraphrase
现代大学英语精读4ParaphraseUnit 21.…sleepy and yet on fire with excitement, for it was the first day oftheir first spring sowing as man and wife. (Para. 3)Paraphrase:Although still not fully awake, the young couple was already greatly excited, because that day was the first day of their first spring planting after they got married.2. But somehow the imminence of an event that had been long expected, loved, feared and prepared for made them dejected. (Para. 3) Paraphrase:The couple had been looking forward to and preparing for this spring planting for a long time, but now that the day had finally arrived, strangely, they felt somehow a bit sad.3. Martin fell over a basket in the half-darkness of the barn, he swore and said that a man would be better off dead than…Paraphrase:In the barn, it was still very dark as it was very early in the morning. So Martin tripped over a basket. He cursed and said that it would be better off to die than to have to get up at such an early hour and begin the day’s toil—probably for the rest of his life.4. …as they walked silently… through the little hamlet, there was not a soul about. (Para. 5)Paraphrase: When they walked silently through the small village, they saw not a single person around them because they were earlier than everybody else.5. And they both looked back at the little cluster of cabins that was the center of their world, with throbbing hearts. For the joy of spring had now taken complete hold of them. (Para. 5)Paraphrase: Both of them looked back towards their small village, which was the most important place for them because they and their forefathers before them were born and raised here. Their hearts were quivering with excitement at that moment, for the coming of spring had already filled their hearts with pleasure.6. And there was a big red heap of fresh seaweed lying in a corner by the fence to be spread under the seeds as they were laid.Paraphrase:In a corner beside the fence, there was a big pile of fresh seaweed. Before the seeds were dropped on the ridge, the seaweed should be spread first.7. When she was a little distance down the ridge, Martin advanced withhis spade to the head, eager to commence. (Para. 9)Paraphrase:When she was a little away from him, Martin started to move ahead, putting his spade to the front. Now he was eager to start working.8. Suppose anybody saw us like this in the field of our spring sowing, what would they take us for but a pair of useless, soft, empty-headed people that would be sure to die of hunger. (Para. 12)Paraphrase:If people should see us like this (with your arm round my waist), what would they think of us? They were sure to take us for a pair of good-for-nothings, people who are unable to endure hardships and foolish and, therefore, were sure to die of hunger.9. His eyes had a wild, eager light in them as if some primeval impulse were burning within his brain and driving out every other desire but that of asserting his manhood and of subjugating the earth. (Para. 12) Paraphrase: His eyes shone and his only desire now was to prove what a strong man he was and how he could conquer the land.10. …but she drew back at the same time and gazed distantly at the ground. (Para. 13)Paraphrase: She stayed from Martin and deeply absorbed in herthought.11. Martin ate heartily, reveling in his great thirst and his great hunger, with every pore of his body open to the pure air. (Para. 18) Paraphrase: The heavy work made Martin thirsty and hungry and made him enjoy his lunch and tea more.12. That was the signal for a general rising all along the little valley. (Para.19)Paraphrase:The noise was the signal for all peasants to stand up and start working again.13. Then she thought of the journey home and the trouble of feeding the pigs, putting the fowls into their coops and getting the supper ready, and a momentary flash of rebellion against the slavery of being a peasant’s wife crossed her mind. It passed in a moment. (Para. 32) Paraphrase:When she thought of all the drudgery waiting for her at home, suddenly she wanted to break the chains on her as a peasant’s wife, but it only lasted a very short time. She immediately dismissed the idea.14. All her dissatisfaction and weariness vanish from Mary’s mind withthe delicious feeling of comfort that overcame her at having done this work with her husband. (Para. 34)Paraphrase:At the moment when she had done this work with her husband, the feeling of comfort fought against all her previous feelings of dissatisfaction and weariness and took control.15. Mary, with her shrewd woman's mind, thought of as many things as there are in life as a woman would in the first joy and anxiety of her mating. (Para. 3)Paraphrase:Mary, like all sharp and smart women, thought of many things in life when she got married. In her marriage life, sometimes they might have encountered happiness and sometimes have suffered sadness.Unit 41. Anybody who knows anything about New York knows the city’s essential platitude – that you don’t wander around Central Park at night – and in that, needless to say, was the appeal: it was the thing you don’t do.(para.1)Paraphrase: Everybody who knows New York knows that you should not wander in Central Park at night because it is too dangerous. However, precisely because of the risk there are always people lured to visitCentral Park at night. They just wish to do what people normally don’t do.2. …and this could have been an outdoor summer-stock Shakespeare production anywhere in America, except in one respect. (para.3) Paraphrase:And tonight’s performance could be any outdoor performance of Shakespeare’s play one regularly finds in summer in America (It’s a cultural tradition in America to put on free Shakespeare productions in summer). There was only one difference.3. And I bolted, not running, exactly, but no longer strolling—and certainly not looking back—turning left, turning right, all sense of direction obliterated……Paraphrase:And I started to run away quickly. To be exact, I was not running, but it was also not strolling any more. Without looking back, I turned left and right and finally I lost my sense of direction.4. One of the first events in the Park took place 140 years ago almost to the day: a band concert. The concert, pointedly, was held on a Saturday, still a working day, because the concert, like much of the Park then, was designed to keep the city’s rougher elements out. (Para. 7) Paraphrase: One of the first events in the Park took place almost exactly on this day 140 years ago: a band concert. The concert was deliberatelyheld on a Saturday when ordinary people were all working so as to keep them out.5. I spotted a couple approaching. Your first thought is : nutcase? Paraphrase: I suddenly saw a couple coming my way. Your first thought is: are they mad (dating in the Central Park at night)?6. The irony was that by the end of the Moses era the Park was dangerous. (Para. 10)Paraphrase:Moses did a lot to turn Central Park into an efficient people’s park. But the outcome was quite unexpected and sad: by the end of his era the Park was dangerous.7. But there was no escaping the recognition that this city-contrived, man-made, glaringly obtrusive, consuming wasteful and staggering quantities of electricity and water and energy-was very beautiful. (para.12)Paraphrase: But there was no denying the fact (you have to admit) that the city was very beautiful, although it was not a natural kind of beauty, it was artificial and showy, and it used up a great amount of water and energy.8. But there it was: the city at night, viewed from what meant to be anescape from it, shimmering. (para.12)Paraphrase:People come to the Park to escape from the hustle and bustle of the city. But it was precisely in the Park that day that I found the city at night was extremely beautiful.Unit 61. And that’s the way it was in our little village for as far back as anybody could remember. (Para.8)Paraphrase: And that’s how we kept track of the important events in our little village to the extent that/ for as long as the oldest people could remember. The only way is to pass the important events by generation by generation orally.2. …because men who would not lie even to save their own souls told and retold that story until it was incorporated into Magdaluna’s calendar.(Para. 8)Paraphrase: They trusted honest people and didn’t seek any proof for what had been said about past events. They accepted what they said without any questions.3. And sometimes the arguments escalated into full-blown, knockdown-dragout fights.Paraphrase:And sometimes the arguments became so fierce that the women began to fight violently.4. The telephone was also bad news for me personally. It took away my lucrative business—a source of much-needed income.Paraphrase:For the boy the coming of the telephone deprived him of the opportunity to earn some money.。
现代大学英语精读3 paraphrase整理
1…identity is determined by genetic endowment…by chance events :Who we are is determined by three things: First, our genes,; second, environment, and third, opportunities.2.First, there is functional independence, which involves the...and determining their daily agenda : First, there is the ability to solve practical problems, for example, how to spend money wisely, how to choose their own clothes, and also involved how to make a list of what they are going to do everyday.3.Fourth is freedom from” excessive guilt, anxiety, mistrust, ...the mother and father” : Fourthly, the overdue feelings of guilt, worry, disbelief, obligation, restriction, complaint and rage reflect their emotional dependence on their parents, which should be got rid of to get the freedom.1.It was a wonder to me they’d want to be seen with such a windbag :It is a strange thing to me, why these noble men would stay with such a talkative person like him.2. An orderly riding by had told him, because the orderly knew how thick he was with Grant. :An officer’s message who passed by on horse told him that they had defeated enemy because he knew how close my father was with Grant.3. ”Oh,” she said, “it’s all right. Life is never dull when my man is about.”:“oh,” she said it’s not bad, life is never boring when my husband is around.4. For the first time I knew that I was the son of my father. He was a story teller as I was to be. : But the first time in my life I knew that I was like my father, he was a story teller that was what I was be become later.1.I am still just as ignorant for all your telling me :Though you have told me a lot, I still don’t know the names of the flowers.2.But now, as he spoke, that memory faded. His was the truer :But now, as he spoke, the memory of the ridiculous scene gradually disappeared. His memory seemed to be truer; they did have a good time that afternoon.3.And in the warmth, as it were, another memory unfolded :Another memory seemed to be stirred with the word of ”warmth”4.He had lost all that dreamy vagueness and indecision :He had become more mature than the younger days, when he used to be full of unpractical dreams and was unclear about his future career.5.Now he had the air of a man who has found his place in life :Now he looked like a man who has made a successful career.6.As he spoke,…she felt the strange beast that had slumbered so long…stare upon those places : When he spoke, she felt the long cherished wish in her heart began to revive, and she waited for this longingly and anxiously.7.Only I did desire, eventually, to turn into a magic…those lands you longed to see :Finally, the only thing I really wanted was to turn into a magic carpet and carry you wherever you urged to see.1.He had opened his eyes with the sun at dawn, scratched…like a dog at the roadside,… :In the morning he woke up with the sun rising, scratched, emptied his bowels or passed water like a dog at the roadside…2.Live without conventions, which are artificial and false; escape complexities and extravagances.: One should live without the conventions of society, since these are not genuine and fake, and one should also avoid the complexities and luxurious…3.They possess him. He is their slave…lasting good, his own independence :They control him. He is subject to them. In order to pursue a certain mount of material properties or worldly possessions which actually have no value and will not last, he has allowed himself to be controlled by these things and has given away his own independence which is the only thing that is true and can last.4.His life’s aim was clear to him: it was” to restamp the currency”…it with its true values :He has a definite living goal: it was” to restamp the currency”: human life is like a clean metal marked with false values, so his responsibility is to wipe out the old false marks and print true values on it.5.He was the man of the hour, of the century,… :He was the most important, powerful, or talked about the person of the time.1.onsidering the whole span of earthly time…has been relatively slight :Thinking of the long history of life on earth, the contrary effect of living thing: actually affect their environment has been insignificant as the compared with that of the environment on plant and animals.2.In this now universal contamination of the environment…the very nature of the world :In this now popular pollution of the environment, chemicals, along with radiation, are the most severely factors in changing the nature of the world.3.Radiation is now the unnatural creation of man’s tampering with…no counterparts in nature : Today man creates radiation by causing the nucleus of the atom of such substance as radium to split. The chemicals are manmade and the result of man’s creative power, it’s not produced by nature itself.4.And even this, were it by some miracle possible, would be futile :It would take some magic power to make living things adjust to these chemicals in the life of generations. Even if this were possible, it would be useless, because new chemicals are continuously being created and produced.5.These chemicals are now applied almost universally…leaves with a deadly film :Now these chemicals are almost popularly used in farms, gardens, forests, and homes, to kill the birds and fish, to cover the leaves with a thin layer of death-causing chemicals.6.They should not be called” insecticides,” but “biocides.” :As the chemicals destroy ”pests”as well as other living things, they should not be called ”insecticides”, but “biocides”.7.We have subjected enormous numbers of people…without their knowledge :By spraying insecticides on food grains, vegetables and fruit, we have caused large numbers of people to absorb take in harmful chemicals without asking whether they would like it or nor and often without their knowing it.1.All re important and must be reasonably satisfied…fulfill our biological destiny :All these basic needs are important and should be fulfilled reasonably if we are to achieve fate. 2.I italicize the need for power because…our lives seems uniquely human :The reason for me to italicize the need for power is that…the need for us to pursue power in our everyday life seems exclusively human.3.In fact, if it were not for the need for power,…is for the sake of power :In fact, without the need for power, our economy cannot sustain itself, as everything that we bought and sold, except for the basic necessities, is used to pursue for power.4.That their teachings have been largely accepted…in getting their message across :The fact that what they propagate is obviously served for their own interests, while this propaganda has been widely accepted, is evidence on how effective their propaganda machine is.5.Lower animals, whose behavior is essentially…are not involved with fun :As lower animals’ behaviors are mainly inborn and without ability of learning, they cannot feel the fun.6.My guess is that we will survive in direct proportion to how much we can learn :I suppose that the extent that we learn relates directly to our survivals.7.Amonmtomous task is always boring unless…when he was painting the fence :The tedious work will bore us if we cannot learn something in repeating our tasks, or make the thing we are doing competitive and social, which is just the case in Tom Sawyer’s painting the fence1.I’ve never heard the old battlefields like…and re-enact what happened there :I’ve never heard the old battlefields like Gettysburg and Chickamauga which asking me to walk over them and act what happened there again.2.Outnumbered and almost encircled, Lee considered his dwindling options :Enemies are outnumbered and we are almost encircled, lee considered his lessening choices.3,Grant, who had outraced his baggage wagon…tucked in muddy boots :Grant walked in front of his baggage wagon wearing his customary field uniform, his trousers were full of mud and were put into his muddy boots.4.Lee said after reading the terms, which,…simply let them all go home :After reading the terms, lee said these terms are not for hounding the enemy with reprisals but to let them all go home.5.When word of the surrender reached the nearby…cannon firing. Grant put an end to it :When news of e reached the union headquarters nearby it initiated a spree of cannon firing to celebrate Grant had put an end to the war.。
现代大学英语精读5 重点paraphrase+单词总结
Lesson 1Paraphrase1...when I suggested that this behavior might be grounds for sending the student on a brief vacation. (Para 14)One student had some radical comments on the author's class and the author got a little bit angry so that he suggested the school should suspend the student's schooling. But the dean of students thought the author was just too annoyed.The story the speaker tells the audience here is hilarious, but not to be taken seriously. In the United States, university students do write about their professors on their blogs—and write evaluations of their courses, critiquing their professors' teaching skills. So a student could have criticized the speaker for teaching a boring class and the speaker might defend himself by saying that he had a cold. But the story is basically all fantasy. The speaker's serious point may be that students expect professors to entertain them; the professors who are good entertainers receive high evaluations, but the criterion is superficial. Less flashy teachers who think deeply can be the ones from whom the students learn the most.2.Black limousines pulled up in front of his office and disgorged decorously suited negotiators. (Para.16)These were obviously officials from that country's embassy sent to negotiate with the professor about this case. The whole thing had become a tough diplomatic issue.3. Did my pal fold? Nope, he's not the type. But he did not enjoy the process. (Para.16)Did my friend back down? No, he is not the type of person who will easily give up his principles under pressure. But he did not like the experience he had to endure. This again is an interesting anecdote, but not a very good example, because the student involved is too special.4. The idea that a university education really should have no substantial content, should not be about what John Keats was disposed to call Soul-making, is one that you might think professors and university presidents would be discreet about. (Para. 19)Professors and presidents do not think the content of the courses really matters much, because they are soon forgotten anyway. It shouldn't be about soul-making either. The speaker is surprised that professors and presidents are actually by and large quite frank about what they think are the aims of education. They do not hide their views because they do not feel embarrassed.soul-making: moral cultivation, character-building, and intellectual developmentdiscreet: careful about keeping/preventing something from being known or noticed by many people 言语谨慎的,说话小心不让人抓辫子的5. …and common sense is something to respect, though not quite—peace unto the formidable Burke—to revere. (Para. 28)常识是应该尊重的东西,但不一定崇拜希望其令人钦佩的伯克先生别生气。
现代大学英语精读5,第1.2.课后paraphrase和翻译答案1
现代大学英语精读5,第1.2.课后paraphrase和翻译答案1Lesson11.The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so manycenturies that they are nobody is not easy.It is no easy job to educate a people who have been told over centuries that they were inferior and of no importance to see that they are humans, the same as any other people.2.Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weaponagainst the long night of physical slavery.If you break the mental shackles imposed on you by white supremacists, if you really respect yourself, thinking that you are a Man, equal to anyone else, you will be able to take part in the struggle against racial discrimination.3.The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his ownbeing and signs with the pen and ink of assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation.The liberation of mind can only be achieved by the Negro himself/herself.Only when he/she is fully convinced that he/she is a Man/W oman and is not inferior to anyone else, can he/she throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and become free.4.Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at itsbest is power correcting everything that stands against love.Power in the best form of function is the carrying out of the demands of justice with love and justice in the best form offunction is the overcoming of everything standing in the way of love with power.5.At that time economic status was considered the measure of the individual’sability and talents.At that time, the way to evaluate how capable and resourceful a person was to see how much money he had made (or how wealthy he was).6.…the absence of worldly goods indicated a want of industrious habits and moralfiber.A person was poor because he was lazy and not hard-working and lacked asense of right and wrong.7.It is not the work of slaves driven to their tasks either by the task, by thetaskmaster, or by animal necessity.This kind of work cannot be done by slaves who work because the work has to be done, because they are forced to work by slave-drivers or because they need to work in order to be fed and clothed.8.…when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars iseliminated.…when the unfair practice of judhing human calue by the amount of mone ya person has irs done away with.9.He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocksthe door to the meaning of ultimate reality.Those who harbor hate in their hearts cannot grasp the teachings of God.Only those who have love can enjoy the ultimate happiness in Heaven.10.Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure ofcreeds and an anemia of deeds.Let us be dissatisfied until America no longer only talk about racial equality but is unwilling or reluctant to take action to end such evil practice as racial discrimination.Lesson 11. A white lie is better than a black lie.一个无关紧要的谎言总比一个恶意的谎言要好。
现代大学英语精读5Paraphrase
Lesson 1Paraphrase1. The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so many centuries that they are nobody is not easy.It is no easy job to educate a people who have been told over centuries that they were inferior and of no importance to see that they are humans, the same as any other people.2. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.If you break the mental shackles imposed on you by white supremacists, if you really respect yourself, thinking that you are a Man, equal to anyone else, you will be able to take part in the struggle against racial discrimination.3. The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation.The liberation of mind can only be achieved by the Negro himself/herself. Only when a negro is fully convinced that he/she is a Man/Woman and is not inferior to anyone else, can he/she throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and become free.4. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.Power in its best form of function is the carrying out of the demands of justice with love and justice in the best form of function is the overcoming of everything standing in the way of love with power.5. At that time economic status was considered the measure of the individual’s ability and talents.At that time, the way to evaluate how capable and resourceful a person was to see how much money he had made (or how wealthy he was).6. …the absence of worldly goods indicated a want of industrious habits and moral fiber.A person was poor because he was lazy and not hard-working and lacked a sense of right and wrong.7. It is not the work of slaves driven to their tasks either by the task, by the taskmaster, or by animal necessity.This kind of work cannot be done by slaves who work because the work has to be done, because they are forced to work by slave-drivers or because they need to work in order to be fed and clothed.8. …when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.... when the unfair practice of judging human value by the amount of money a person has is done away with.9. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.Those who harbor hate in their hearts cannot grasp the teachings of God. Only those who have love can enjoy the ultimate happiness in Heaven.10. Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds.Let us be dissatisfied until America no longer only talk about racial equality but is unwilling or reluctant to take action to end such evil practice as racial discrimination. Lesson twoParaphrase1. I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size.2.I imagined myself as different types of prodigy, trying to find out which one suited me the best.3.I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts.I had new thoughts, which were filled with a strong spirit of disobedience and rebellion.3. The girl had a sauciness of a Shirley Temple.The girl was somewhat like Shirley Temple, a bit rude, but in an amusing way.4. It felt like worms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my chest, but it also felt good, as if this awful side of me had surfaced, at last.When I said those words, I felt that some very nasty thoughts had got out of my chest and so I felt scared. But at the same time I felt good, relieved, because those nasty things had been suppressed in my heart for some time and they had got out at last.5. And I could sense her anger rising to its breaking point, I wanted to see it spill over.I could feel that her anger had reached the point where hex self-control wouldcollapse, and wanted to see what my mother would do when the lost complete control of herself.6. The lid to the piano was closed, shutting out the dust, my misery, and her dreams.When the lid to the piano was closed, it shut out the dust and also put an end to my misery and her dreams.Lesson threeParaphrase1. Yet globalization…“is a reality, not a choice”. (Para. 2)Yet globalization is not something that you can accept or reject, it is already a matter of life which you will encounter and have to respond to every day.2. Popular factions sprout to exploit nationalist anxieties. (Para. 5)Political groups with broad support have come into being to take advantage of existing worries and uneasiness among the people about foreign "cultural assault".3. …where xenophobia and economic ambition have often struggled for theupper hand. (Para. 5)... in China, the two trends of closed-door and open-door policies have long been struggling for dominance.4. Those people out there should continue to live in a museum while we will have showers hat work. (Para. 6)The Chinese people should continue to live a backward life while we live comfortably with all modern conveniences.5. Westernization…is a phenomenon shot through with inconsistencies and populated by very strange bedfellows. (Para. 7)... westernization is a concept full of self-contradiction and held by people of very different backgrounds or views.6. You don’t have to be cool to do it; you just have to have the eye. (Para. 10)In trying to find out what will be the future trend, you do not need to be fashionable yourself. All you need is awareness, that is to say, you need to be on the alert, to be observant.7. He…was up in the cybersphere far above the level of time zones. (Para. 19)He was moving around, playing a game through the Internet with people living in different time zones, thus their activity on the computer broke down time zone limit.8. In the first two weeks of business the Gucci Store took in a surprising $100,000. (Para. 22)The Gucci store did not expert that in the first two weeks of its opening in Shanghai business could be so good.9. Early on I realized that I was going to need some type of compass to guide me through the wilds of global culture. (Para. 29)From the very beginning I know I need some theory as guideline to help me in my study of global cultures as globalization, to guide me through such a variety of cultural phenomena..10. The penitence may have been Jewish, but the aspiration was universal. (Para.39)The way of showing repentance might be peculiar to the Jews, but the strong desire of gaining forgiveness from God is common, shared by all.Lesson fourParaphrase1. Pianos and models, Paris, Vienna and Berlin, masters and mistresses, are not needed by a writer. (Para. 1)If you want to be a musician or a painter, you must own a piano or hire models, and you have to visit or even live in cultural centers like Paris, Vienna and Berlin. And also you have to be taught by masters and mistresses. However, if you want to be a writer, you don't need all this.2. She would have plucked the heart out of my writing. (Para. 3)Those conventional attitudes would have taken away the most important part of my writing, the essence of my writing.3. Thus, whenever I felt the shadow of her wing or the radiance of her halo upon my page, I took up the inkpot and flung it at her. (Para. 3)Thus, whenever I felt the influence of the Victorian attitudes on my writing, I fought back with ail my power.4. For though men sensibly allow themselves great freedom in these respects, I doubt that they realize or can control the extreme severity with which they condemn such freedom in women. (Para. 5)It was a sensible thing for men to give themselves great freedom to talk about the body and their passions. But if women want to have the same freedom, men condemn such freedom in women. And I do not believe that they realize how severely they condemn such freedom in women, nor do I believe that they can control their extremely severe condemnation of such freedom in women,5. Indeed it will be a long time still, I think, before a woman can sit down to writea book without finding a phantom to be slain, a rock to be dashed against. (Para.6)It will take a long time for women to rid themselves of false values and attitudes and to overcome the obstacle to telling the truth about their body and passions.6. Even when the path is nominally open — when there is nothing to prevent a woman from being a doctor, a lawyer, a civil servant —there are many phantoms and obstacles, as I believe, looming in her way. (Para. 7)Even when the path is open to women in name only, when outwardly there is nothing to prevent a woman from being a doctor, a lawyer, a civil servant, inwardly there are still false ideas and obstacles impeding a woman's progress.7. You have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto exclusively owned by men. (Para. 7)(Through fighting against the Angel in the House, through great labor and effort,) you have gained a position or certain freedom in a society that has been up to now dominated by men.Lesson71. It took me a long time to get rid of illusions and realize the simple and apparent truththat I am nobody but myself. It was a painful process. I started with high expectations only to be deeply disappointed and thoroughly disillusioned.2. I am perfectly normal physically and I am a natural product of history; my growthreflects history. When things seemed likely to happen to me, other things had been equal (or unequal) eighty-five years ago.3. About 85 years ago, they were told that they were freed from slavery and becameunited with the white people in all the essential things having to do with the common interests of our country, but in social life the blacks and whites still remain separated.4. In these days before I realized I was an invisible man, I imagined that I wouldbecome a successful man like Booker T. Washington.5. On the one hand, I felt embarrassed that i wanted to run away from the ballroom. Onthe other hand, I took pity on the girl and so wanted to protect the naked girl from the eyes of the other men, I wanted to love her tenderly because she was anattractive girl, but at the same time I wanted to destroy her because after all she was the immediate cause of our embarrassment6. If I should try my best and win the fight, then 1 would be winning against the bet ofthat white man, who shouted "I got my money on the big boy." In that case I would not behave with humility, and yet my speech talked about humility as the essence of success. So maybe I should let that big boy win without putting up resistance, for this was time for me to show humility.7. Make full use of what you have and do the best you can. Take this attitude in makingfriends in every honorable way, making friends with people of different races among whom we live.8. You were not trying to seem clever in a disrespectful way, were you, boy? We intendto do the right thing by setting you up as role model, but you must never forget who you are.Lesson 81. I knew that Oppenheimer was a man of great talent but his way of showing his talentat my seminars caused uneasiness and resentment among people, especially among his fellow students.2. Since those attending the conference were people devoted to poetry, such an anecdote,though interesting, might not be appreciated by the audience.3. There were two reasons for my going to the conference set against the reasons for mynot going and they became decisive in my final decision.4. According to my view, Spender belongs to the group whose writings about their lives,experiences, that is whose autobiographies, are more interesting than their literary works.5. Like Dirac, Auden was outstanding in clarity. He was also outstanding in thepowerful use of the language and the sense of fun about serious issues. All these greatly fascinated me.6. Spender’s record of his visit is interesting not only because of the things he mentionsbut also because of the things he does not say.7. In his book, Spender fails to give a connected, complete picture of Oppenheimer anddoes not mention that Oppenheimer’s background and situation has quite a lot to do with Spender.8. The real person looked much better than the pictures.9. Maybe one should not attach too much importance to appearance.10. He had live longer than any of his more famous friends but traces or influences ofthese friends, especially those of Auden, could still be found on him.Lesson 91. Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think,is where Creation was begun.The landscape makes your imagination vivid and lifelike, and you believe that the creation of the whole universe was begun right here.2. But warfare for the Kiowas was preeminently a matter of disposition rather than ofsurvival, and they never understood the grim,unrelenting advance of the U.S. Cavalry.The Kiowas often fought, just because they were good warriors, because they fought out of habit, character, nature, not because they needed extra land or material gains for the sake of surviving and thriving. And they could not understand why the U. S.Cavalry never gave up pushing forward even when they had won a battle.3. My grandmother was spared the humiliation of those high gray walls by eight or ten years.Luckily, my grandmother did not suffer the humiliation of being put into a closure for holding animals, for She was born eight or ten years after the event.4. It was a long journey toward dawn, and it led to a golden age.They moved toward the east, where the sun rises, and also toward the beginning of a new culture, which led to the greatest moment of their history.5. They acquired horses, and their ancient nomadic spirit was suddenly free of the ground. Now they got horses. Riding on horseback, instead of walking on football, gave them this new freedom of movement, thus completely liberating their ancient nomadic spirit.6. From one point of view, their migration was the fruits of an old prophecy, for indeed they emerged from a sunless world.In a sense, their migration confirmed the ancient myth that they entered the world from a hollow log,for they did emerge from the sunless world of the mountains.7. The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see, and they were bent and blind in the wilderness.Their stature was measured by the distance they could see. Yet, because of the dense forests, they could not see very far, and they could hardly stand straight.8. Clusters of trees and animals grazing far in the distance cause the vision to reach away and wonder to build upon the mind.The earth unfolds and the limit of the land is far in the distance, where there are clusters of trees and animals eating grass.This landscape makes one see far and broadens one's horizon.9. Not yet would they veer southward to the caldron of the land that lay below;they must wean their blood from the northern winter and hold the mountains a while longer in their view.They would not yet change the direction southward to the land lying below which was like a large kettle. First, they must give their bodies some time to get used to the plains. Secondly, they did not wants to lose sight of the mountains so soon.10. I was never sure that I had the right to hear, so exclusive were they of all merely custom and company.I was not sure that I had any right to overhear her praying, which did not follow any customary way of praying, add which I guess she did not want anyone else to hear.11. Transported so in the dancing light among the shadows of her room she seemed beyond the reach of time.But that was illusion; I think I knew then that I should not see her again.In this way she was entranced in the dancing light among the shadows of her room, and she seemed to be timeless(what she represented would last forever).12. The women might indulge themselves; gossip was at once the mark and compensation of their servitude.On these special occasions, women might make loud and elaborate jokes and talk amongthemselves. Their gossip revealed their position as servants of men and also a reward for their servitude.。
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U n i t1T e x tⅠT h i n k i n g a s a H o b b y Paraphrases of the Text1.The leopard was Nature, and he was being natural.(3)The leopard symbolizes Nature,which stands for all animal needs or desires.美洲豹象征着自然,它在那里显得很自然而已。
2.Nature had endowed the rest of the human race with a sixth sense andleft me out.(15)Everybody, except me ,is born with the ability to thin大自然赋予其余的所有的人第六感觉却独独漏掉了我。
3.You could hear the wind trapped in the cavern of his chest andstruggling with all the unnatural impediments. His body would reelwith shock and his ruined face go white at the unaccustomedvisitation.(19)你能听到风被他的胸腔堵住,遇到障碍物艰难前进发出的声音。
他的身体因为不习惯这样的感觉而摇摇晃晃,脸色变得惨白。
4.In this instance, he seemed to me ruled not by thought but by aninvisible and irresistible spring in his neck.(20)Mr. Houghton’s deeds told me that he was not ruled by thought, instead, he would feel a strong urge to turn his head and look at the girls.在这种情况下,我认为他不是受思想,而是受他后颈里某个看不到却无法抗拒的发条的控制。
5.Technically, it is about as proficient as most businessmen’s golf, ashonest as most politician’s intentions, or to come near my ownpreoccupation - as coherent as most books that get written.(23)This ironical sentence shows that the author not only considers those people incompetent, dishonest and incoherent but also despises most businessmen, distrust most politicians and dislikes most publications.从技术上而言,它娴熟如同商人玩高尔夫,诚实如同政客的意图,或者——更接近我自己的领域——有条理如同大多数写出来的书。
6.We had better respect them, for we are outnumbered andsurrounded.(24)The Grade 3 thinkers usually represent the great majority, so we has to respect them because we are surrounded by them.我们最好尊重他们,因为我们处于他们的包围之中,势单力薄。
7.Man enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the sideof a hill.(24)The author thinks that just like cows always eat the grass of the same side of a hill, it is probably human nature to enjoy agreement because it seems to bring peace, security, comfort and harmony.人是一种爱群居的动物,就象牛喜欢沿着山坡的同一条道路吃草一样喜爱共识。
8.I slid my arm round her waist and murmured breathlessly that if wewere counting heads, the Buddhists were the boys for my money. Shefled. The combination of my arm and those countless Buddhists was too much for her.(27)我伸手揽过她的腰屏住呼吸低声说,如果算人数我该捐钱给佛教徒。
露丝的确是为我好,因为我人这么好。
但是我的手臂加上那些数不胜数的佛教徒实在让她无法忍受了。
9.It was Ruth all over again. I had some very good friends who stood byme, and still do. But my acquaintances vanished, taking the girls with them.(32)What had happened to Ruth and me now happened again. My grade-two thinking frightened away many of my acquaintances.又是露丝的问题。
我曾有一些很要好的朋友站在我这边,他们现在仍然站在我这边。
但是我的熟人都不见了,带着他们的女孩子消失了。
Unit 2 Text ⅠSpring SowingParaphrases of the Text1....sleep and yet on fire with excitement, for it was the first day of theirfirst spring sowing as man and wife.(3)Although they were still not fully awake, the young couple was already greatly excited, because that day was the first day of their first spring sowing since getting married.有些困乏,也很兴奋,因为这是他们作为夫妇第一个春播的第一天。
2.But somehow the imminence of an event that had been long expectedloved, feared and prepared for made them dejected.(3)The couple had been looking forward to and preparing for this spring planting for a long time. But now that the day had finally arrived, strangely, they felt somehow a bit dejected, unhappy, sad, or depressed.但是随着春播的迫近,这一他们为之期待许久,热爱,害怕和准备的大事的临近,他们反而有些沮丧。
3.Mary, with her shrewd woman’s mind, thought of as many things asthere are in life as a woman would in the first joy and anxiety of her mating.(3)Mary, like all sharp and smart women, thought of everything that was going to happen in the rest of her life. At that time, she had the complex thoughts of a woman at the first crucial moment of her marriage. She was filled with joy and anxiety and was bothered by many thoughts.玛丽用她精明的女性的思维,思考着一个女人在新婚生活中所得到的快乐和生活中的琐事。
4.Martin fell over a basket in the half-darkness of the barn, he swore andsaid that a man would be better off dead than (4)It would be better for him to die than tripped over a basket.马丁再昏暗的谷仓中被一只篮子绊倒了。
5.And somehow, as they embraced,all their irritation and sleepiness leftthem. And they stood there embracing until at last Martin pushed her from him with pretended roughness and said:“Come, come, girl, it will be sunset before we begin at this rate.”(4)All the anger, unhappiness and drowsiness melted away with their hug. They remained in each others arms until finally Martin pushed her away, with pretended roughness.他们就这样拥抱着,直到最后马丁推开了玛丽,并假装强硬的说道:“来吧,快点,姑娘,再这样下去当我们开始时太阳都要下山了。