高英Paraphrase专项复习

UNIT 1

2. Conversation is not for making a point.

Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view.

friends are not deeply involved in each other’s lives.

People who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not intimate friends for

they are not deeply absorbed in each other’s lives.

are cattle in the fields,but we sit down to beef.

These animals are called cattle when they are alive and fed in the fields;

but when we

sit down at the table to eat, we call their meat beef.

8....English had come royally into its own.

The English language received proper recognition and was used by the King once more.

rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there.

There still exists in the working people, as in the early Saxon peasants, a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class.

UNIT 2

colonial empires are in reality founded upon this fact.

All the imperialists build up their empires by treating the people in the colonies like

animals(by not treating the people in the colonies as human beings)

carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe,turning chair-legs at lightening speed.

Sitting with his legs crossed and using a very old-fashioned lathe, a carpenter quickly

gives a round shape to the chair-legs he is making.

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

luxury.

Every one of these poor Jews looks on the cigarette as a piece of luxury which they

could not possibly afford.

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

beings

10...for nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless,backbreaking struggle

to wring a little food out of an eroded soil.

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

long before they turn their guns in the other direction

UNIT 3

much we pledge---and more.

We promise to do this much and we promise to do more.

4....our last best hope in an age where the instrument of war have far

outpaced the instruments of pace....

The United Nations is our last and best hope of survival in an age where the tools to wage war have far surpassed and exceeded the tools to keep peace.

6....before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf

all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.

Before the terrible forces of destruction, which atomic bombs can now release, wipe

out mankind, which may be planned or brought about by an accident.

let us begin anew,remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness...

Let us start over again. We must bear in mind that being polite does not mean one is weak.

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

to its national loyalty.

Americans of every generation have been called upon to prove their loyalty to their

country (by fighting and dying for their country’s cause).