高级英语第二册 张汉熙版 7-14课课后答案paraphrase 有对照

第七课aA 1…boy and man, I had been through it often before.

As a boy and later when I was a grown-up man, I had of- ten travelled through the region.

2. But somehow I had never quite sensed its appaling desolation.

But somehow in the past I never really perceived how shocking and wretched this whole region was.

3….it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke.

This dreadful scene makes all human endeavors to advance and improve their lot appear as a ghastly,saddening joke.

4.The country itself is not uncomely, despite the grim of the endless mills.

The country itself is pleasant to look at, despite the sooty dirt spread by the innumerable mills in this region.

5.They have taken as their model a brick set on end.

The model they followed in building their houses was a brick standing upright. / All the houses they built looked like bricks standing upright.

6.This they have converted into a thing of dingy clapboards, with a narrow, low-pitched roof.

These brick-like houses were made of shabby,thin wooden boards and their roofs were narrow and had little slope.

7.When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring.

When the brick is covered with the black soot of the mills it takes on the color of a rotten egg.

8.Red brick, even in a steel town, ages with some dignity.

Red brick, even in a steel town, looks quite respectable with the passing of time. / Even in a steel town, old red bricks still appear pleasing to the eye.

9.I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer.

I have given Westmoreland the highest award for ugliness after having done a lot of hard work and research and after continuous praying.

10.They show grotesqueries of ugliness that, in retroapect, become almost diabolical.

They show such fantastic and bizarre ugliness that, in looking back, they become almost fiendish and wicked./ When one looks back at these houses whose ugliness is so fantastic and bizarre, one feels they must be the work of the devil himself. 11.It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror.

It is hard to believe that people built such horrible houses just because they did not know what beautiful houses were like.

12.on certain levels of the American race, indeed, there seems to be a positive libido for the ugly…

People in certain strata of American society seem definite- ly to hunger after ugly things; while in other less Chris- tian strata, people seem to long for things beautiful.

13.they meet, in some unfathomable way, its obscure and unintelligible demands.

These ugly designs, in some way that people cannot un- derstand, satisfy the hidden and unintelligible demands of this type of mind.

14….they made it perfect in their own sight by putting a completely impossible penthouse, painted a staring yellow, on top of it.

They put a penthouse on top of it, painted in a bright, conspicuous yellow color and thought it looked perfect but they only managed to make it absolutely intolerable.

15.out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.

From the intermingling of different nationalities and races in the United States emerges the American race which hates beauty as strongly as it hates truth．

第八课

1….by the very fact of production, he has risen above the animal kingdom…

Because of the fact itself that man produces, he has developed far beyond all other animals.

2.Work is also his liberator from nature, his creator as a social and independent being.

Work also frees man from nature and makes him into a social being independent of nature.

3…all are expressions of the creative transformation of nature by man’s reason and skill.

All the above-mentioned work shows how man has trans formed nature through his reason and skill.

4.There is no split of work and play, or work and culture.

Therefore pleasure and work went together so did the cultural development of the worker go hand in hand with the work he was doing.

5.Work became the chief factor in a system of “innerwordly asceticiam,”an answer to man’s sense of aloneness and isolation.

Work became the chief element in a system that preached an austere and self-denying way of life. Work was the only thing that brought relief to those who felt alone and isolat ed leading this kind of ascetic life.

6.Work has become alienated from the working person.

In capitalist society the worker feels estranged from or hostile to the work he is doing.

7. Work is a means of getting money, not in itself a meaningful human activity.

Work helps the worker to earn some money; and earning money only is an activity without much significance or pur pose. 8…a pay check is not enough to base one’s self-respect on.

Just earning some money is not enough to make a worker have a proper respect of himself.

9…most industrial psychologists are mainly concerned with the manipulation of the worker’s psyche,

Most industrial psychologists are mainly trying to manage and control the mind of the worker.

10.It is going to pay off in cold dollars and cents to management.

Better relations with the public will yield larger profits to management. The management will earn larger profits if