高级英语-张汉熙版 paraphrase

UNIT1 Face to Face with Hurricane Camille

1. We're elevated 23 feet. (para 3)

We' re 23 feet above sea level.

2. The place has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever bothered it. (para 3)

The house has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever caused any damage to it.

3. We can batten down and ride it out. (para 4)

We can make the necessary preparations and survive the hurricane without much damage.

4. The generator was doused, and the lights went out. (para 9)

Water got into the generator and put it out. It stopped producing electricity, so the lights also went out.

5. Everybody out the back door to the cars! (para 10)

Everybody go out through the back door and run to the cars.

6. The electrical systems had been killed by water. (para 11)

The electrical systems in the car had been put out by water.

7. John watched the water lap at the steps, and felt a crushing guilt. (para 17)

As John watched the water inch its way up the steps, he felt a strong sense of guilt because he blamed himself for endangering the whole family by deciding not to flee inland.

8. Get us through this mess, will You? (para 17)

Oh God, please help us to get through this storm safely.

9. She carried on alone for a few bars; then her voice trailed away. (para 21)

Grandmother Koshak sang a few words alone and then her voice gradually grew dimmer and stopped.

10. Janis had just one delayed reaction. (para 34)

Janis displayed rather late the exhaustion brought about by the nervous tension caused by the hurricane.

UNIT 4Inaugural Address

1. And yet the same revolutionary beliet for which our forebears fought is still at issue around the globe (para

2)

Our ancestors fought a revolutionary war to maintain that all men were created equal and God had given them certain unalienable rights which no state or ruler could take away from them. But today this issue has not yet been decided in many countries around the world.

2. This much we pledge--and more. (para 5)

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

3. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. (para 5)

United and working together we can accomplish a lot of things in a great number of joint undertakings.

4. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. (para 9)

We will not allow any enemy country to subvert this peaceful revolution which brings hope of progress to all our countries.

5. our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace (para 10)

The United Nations is our last and best hope of survival in an age where the instruments of war have far surpassed the instruments of peace.

6. to enlarge the area in which its writ may run (para 10)

We pledge to help the United Nations enlarge the area in which its authority and mandate would continue to be in effect or in force.

7. before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental