现代大学英语精读5_第1.2.3.5课后paraphrase和翻译答案

Lesson1
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 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 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 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 1
1. 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。

2.To upset this cultural homicide, the Negro must rise up with an affirmation of his own
Olympian manhood.
为了挫败各种蓄意培植的低人一等的心态，黑人必须直起腰来宣布自己高贵的人格。

3.…with a spirit straining toward true self-esteem, the Negro must throw off the manacles of
self-abnegation…黑人必须一种竭尽全力自尊自重的精神，大胆抛弃自我克制的枷锁。

4.What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love
without power is sentimental and anemic.必须懂得没有爱的权利是毫无节制的、易被滥用的，而没有权利的爱则是多愁善感、脆弱无力的。

5.It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the
major crisis of our times.正是这种邪恶的权利和没有权势的道义的冲突构成了我们时代的主要危机。

6.Now early in this century this proposal would have been greeted with ridicule and
denunciation, as destructive of initiative and responsibility.
在本世纪之初，这种建议会受到嘲笑和谴责，认为它对主动性和责任感其负面作用。

7.The fact is that the work which improves the condition of mankind, the work which extends
knowledge and increases power and enriched literature and elevates thought, is not done to secure a living.事实上，人们从事改善人类出镜的工作，从事传播知识、增强实力、丰富文学财富以及升华思想的工作并不是为了谋生。

8.…it can spend billions of dollars to put God’s children on their own two feet right here on
earth.它能够花费几十亿美元帮助上帝的孩子自立于这个世界。

9.Furthermore, few if any violent revolutions have been successful unless the violent minority
had the sympathy and support of the nonresistant majority.除非主张暴力的少数人得到大多数人的同情与支持，不和他们对抗，否则，暴力革命很少或者说几乎没有成功的。

10.Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but is bends towards justice.
我们要懂得道义的苍穹长又长，但它终将落向正义。

Lesson2
1. I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size.
I imagined myself as different types of prodigy, trying to find out which one suited me the best.
2. 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 the sauciness of a Shirley Temple.
The girl was Shirley Temple—like, slightly 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 her self—control would collapse,
and I wanted to see what my mother would do when she 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.
Lesson 2
1. 我的头发没有做出我要的大卷花，而是给我弄成一头乱蓬蓬的黑色小卷毛。

2. 在她告诉我答案前，她对了对手中的杂志，看看赫尔辛基是否能这样发音。

3. 她似乎被这音乐吸引住了。

这钢琴曲不长，但有点狂乱，有着迷人的特点，乐曲一开始时快节奏的，接着是欢快跳动的节拍，然后又回到嬉戏的部分。

4. 如果她的才气和她的脾气一样大，她早就出名了。

5. 我最喜欢练习的部分是花哨的谢幕行礼的动作：先出右脚，脚尖点在地毯的玫瑰图案上，身子侧摆，左腿弯曲，抬头，微笑。

6. 一股凉气从头顶开始，然后一点点传到全身。

但我却不能停止演奏，双手好像着了魔似的。

我不停地想，我的手指会调整好，就像火车会被扳倒正确的轨道上。

7. 她的脸部失去了表情，嘴巴紧闭，双臂无力地垂下。

她退出了房间，神色惊异，好像一小片枯黄的树叶被风吹走了，那样的单薄、脆弱、毫无生气。

8. 我第一次，或好像感觉是第一次，注意到右边的乐曲。

它的名称是“心满意足”。

我也试着弹这首曲子。

它的曲调比较轻松，但节奏同样流畅，不是很难。

“祈求的孩子”较短、较慢，而“心满意足”更长、更快一些。

在我弹了几遍后，我意识到，原来这两个曲子是同一首歌的两个组成部分。

Lesson 3
1.Yet globalization… “is a reality, not a choice”.
Y et 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.
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 upper hand…
…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 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 by very 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 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.
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 me through 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 3
1.Today we are in the throes of a worldwide reformation of cultures, a tectonic shift of 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”。

2.Whatever their backgrounds or agendas, these critics are convinced that Western —often
equated with American —influences will flatten every cultural crease, producing, as one observer terms it, one big “McWorld”.
不管他们的背景和纲领如何，这些对全球化持反对态度的人深信西方的影响——往往等同于美国的影响——会把所有文化上的差异一一压平，就像一位观察家所说的，最终产生一个麦当劳世界，一个充斥美国货和美国价值观的世界。

3.But I also discovered that cultures are as resourceful, resilient, and unpredictable as the people
who compose them.
不过我也发现文化就如同构成文化的民族一样，善于随机应变，富有弹性而且不可预测。

4.It’s really hard to be original these days, so the easiest way to come up with new stuff is to
mix things that already exist.
现今原创极为困难。

因此，最容易的办法就是把现存的东西组合在一起，拿出一个新玩意儿来。

5.The Cosmopolitan, plunging necklines and all, is read by 260,000 Chinese women every
month.
26万中国妇女每个月都在阅读《时尚》杂志，那些开领低胸的画页及其他内容。

6.The lights went out, and for a moment the only sound in the darkness was the whirring of an
expensive camera on auto-rewind.
灯光熄灭，有一阵子，黑暗中唯一的声音就是一部价格按贵的照相机自动倒卷时发出的声音。

7.They received a lot from local cultures, but they also kept their own identity.
他们从当地文化吸收了不少东西，但仍然保持了自己的本色。

8.Linking humanity’s natural impulse, its common d estiny。

相互联系是人类自有的欲望，是其共同的命运。

9.They are the powerful cords of the heart.
这种连接靠的是强有力的心灵的纽带
Lesson 5 Love Is a Fallacy
1. I believe following passing crazes shows a complete lack of sound judgment.
2. One afternoon, when I went back to my dorm, Petey was lying on his bed. He wore such a depressed look that I came to the conclusion at once that he was suffering from appendicitis.
3. My brain, which is as precise as a chemist's scales, began to work at high speed.
4. She was beautiful and attractive enough to arouse the desires and passions of men, but 1 would not let feelings or emotions get the upper hand of reason or good sense.
5. She was not yet fully developed like pin-up girls but 1 felt sure that, given time, she would fill up and become just as glamorous.
6. In fact, she went in the opposite direction. This is a sarcastic way of saying that she was rather stupid.
7. If you're no longer involved with her (if you stop dating her) others would be free to compete for her friendship.
8. His head turned hack and forth (looking at the coat then looking away from the coat). Every time he looked, his desire for the coat grew stronger and his resolution not to give away Polly became weaker.
9. To teach her to think appeared to be a very big task, and at first I even thought of giving her back to Petey.
10. There is a limit to what any human being can bear.
B. Sentences
1. 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》和《梦中的孩子》两篇文章，这两篇文章可以说解放了散文。

2. 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，逻辑是一个活生生的事物，充满美丽、激情和心灵的创伤。

3. 我的头脑和发电机一样的强大，和药剂师的天平一样精确，和手术刀一样锐利。

4. 她亭亭玉立、体态优雅，这一切表明她出身高贵。

5. 我一下子打开了手提箱，露出气味刺鼻的一团毛乎乎的东西。

6. 这么可爱的人可不容易找。

7. 我要是意志不坚定，我就不是我了。

8. 我皱了一下眉头，但鼓足勇气地继续往下讲。

9. 也许，在她死火山般的脑袋里，还有一点余火仍在闪烁冒烟。

10. 这回菠莉该动心了（应该能达到我的目的了），我双臂交叉在胸前想道。

Lesson 4
1. Regulating my steps
指导我向前走
2. The family purse
家庭财力/经济
3. Caught her by the throat
扼住她的喉咙
4. In the depths of our unconscious being
在无意识的最深层
5. To speak without the figure
不用修辞手段、直截了当地说
6. The extreme conventionality of the other sex
男性极端的因循守旧
7. Upon what terms
以什么为条件/在什么样的条件下
1. It was she who used to come between me and my paper when I was writing reviews.就是她，在我写评论时，总是在我和我的写作之间制造麻烦。

2. I now record the one act ---on charm for my living.下面我要说说多少是我自己决定做的一件事情，当然做此事的功劳主要还应归功于我的了不起的祖先，是他们给我留下了一笔财产——比如说每年五百英镑吧——这样我就不必完全靠女人的魅力去谋生了。

3. I do not believe that anybody ---to human skill.我相信，只有妇女在人类知识所设计的全部艺术和专业领域中用创造形式表达自己的情感后，她们才能知道什么是妇女。

4. He wants to see the same faces…---illusive spirit, the imagination.他希望在他写作时，他每天见的人，读的书，做的事都是相同的，这样任何事物都不会打破他生活的幻想，也不会搅乱他的四处探求以及对那令人难以捉摸的东西——想象力的突然发现。

5. Be that as it may, I want you to imagine me writing a novel in a state of trance.尽管如此，我请你想象我在迷睡的状态中写小说。

6. The consciousness of what---- unconsciousness.她意识到男人们会如何议论一个敢讲有关激情真话的女人，这使她从艺术家的无意识状态中惊醒了。

7. Inwardly, I think,--- prejudices to overcome.从内心精神方面看，情况颇为不同。

妇女还要与许多鬼怪展开斗争，还有许多偏见需要去克服。

8. To discuss and define ---difficulties be solved.议论和界定这些障碍是十分重要的，因为只有如此我们才能共同努力克服困难。

9. Those aims cannot be ---questioned and examined.那些目的是什么，对这个问题我们不能想当然，而要不断地提出疑问和进行审视。

Lesson 4
1.(Pianos and models,) If you want to be musician or painter, you must own a piano or hire
models, and you have to visit or even live in culture 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.) 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) Thus, whenever I felt the influence of the Victorian attitudes on
my writing, I fought back with all my power.
4.(For though men sensibly) It was a sensible thing for men to given 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 sever condemnation of such freedom in women.
5.(Indeed it will be a long time still,) 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) 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) (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 dominate by men.
Lesson 6
1.(Absence of evidence) The fact that we do not have evidence showing that there is life
beyond Earth does not mean that we can come to the conclusion that there is actually no life beyond Earth.
2.(…examining them for the) …examing these planets to see if the surrounding atmosphere can
be identified as fitting for life.
3.(The optimists figure) Those who are optimistic think that as time goes on, they will
someday get the signal sent out by an alien civilization.
4.(That’s what we need) Originally, we regard our world as the only one in the universe which
is inhabited by intelligent humans, but we need to change our view and regard this world as one of many in the universe.
5.(True believers and skeptics) Neither those who genuinely believe that space aliens are
lurking in our midst nor those who firmly reject such an idea are likely to change their views and join the other side.
6.(The alien is a Hollywood) The alien is a character used too much in Hollywood films so it
has become hackneyed but the idea of extraterrestrial life was not first brought up by Hollywood.
7.(…the absence of detectable) …the fact th at no life had been detected on Mars was a
terrible blow to exobiology which did not recover from the blow in the following twenty years.
8.(Everyone realized the historical) Everyone knew that if what appeared to be microfossils
were confirmed to be such, then the discovery would be of historic significance; but if they proved to be something else, the adverse effect that followed would be equally dramatic.
9.(…if you rewound the tape) …if the evolution on Earth were to take place a second time, a
human being who is genetically similar to us would be the result of such evolution.
10.(So before we worry about) Since there is no much work we need to do here in this world,
let us first concentrate on doing some solid research and drop discussions about drafting messages to another civilization out there.。