高级英语6 Paraphase-期末考试 复习答案
综合英语册paraphrase(带附标准答案)
ParaphraseUnit11.My plan was to keep my ears open and my mouth shut and hope no one would notice I was a freshman.I planned to be observant and silent so that nobody would notice that I was a freshman.2.Popularity was not so important: running with the crowd was no longer a law of survival.It didn’t matter whether you were widely liked or not: you did not have to follow other people so as to be accepted by everybody else.3.This was my big chance to do my own thing, be my own woman----if I could get past my preoccupationwith doing everything perfectly.College offered a great chance for me to do my own thing and have my own style so long as I could give up the attempt to be perfect in everything.Unit21.He didn’t realize how hard his maxim hit. It often returns to haunt and rebuke me by raising the criticalproblem of priorities.He did not realize how much impact his works had on me. They often come to my mind and make me think of the important problem of priorities, and this is always the time I feel quite uneasy.2.But in the light of time’s perspective their deceptive prominence fades; with a sense of loss we recall theimportant tasks pushed aside.But as time passes, the urgent things gradually lose their seemingly importance, and at the same time we suffer from a sense of loss as we recall the important tasks that are left undone.Unit31.Food to my countrymen is one of the ecstasies of life, to be thought about in advance; to be smotheredwith loving care throughout its preparation; and to have time lavished on it in the final pleasure of eating. Food to us Chinese is one of the greatest joys in life: It is thought about before being prepared; it is treated with lots of love and care while being prepared; and when it is ready, it is enjoyed with excessive amount of time.2.It is this increased sensuality and the desire for great freedom age-bound habits in the West, combinedwith the inherent sensual concept of Chinese food, always quick to satisfy the taste buds, that is at the root of the sudden and phenomenal spread of Chinese food throughout the length and breadth of the Western World.The main reason for the sudden and tremendous popularity of Chinese food throughout the whole Western world lies in two facts: One is the increased desire for sensual pleasures and freedom from age-old customs in the West; the other is the notion of physical pleasure provided by Chinese food which is always ready to satisfy the taste of the eater.Unit51. But it did list his“survivors”quite accurately.But the obituary did list the family members of the dead man quite accurately.贓熱俣阃歲匱阊邺镓騷。
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Lesson One1. Everybody, except me, is born with the ability to think.2. Y ou could hear the fresh air struggling with difficulty to find its way to his chest, because he was unaccustomed to this. (whichwas blocked in his chest and striving to get through it). He would stagger or be thrown off balance, and his face would go white because of the shock of the unexpected visit of fresh air. He would step away unsteadily to his desk and fell into the chair, unable to do anything for the rest of morning3. On this occasion, it seemed that it was not his thought but his natural instinct that ruled him, which he was unable to resist.4. T echnically speaking, it is about as incompetent as most businessmen's golf, as dishonest as most politicians' intentions, or as incoherent as most books that get written.”5. They usually represent the great majority in agreement. We had better respect them instead of distaining them, because the number of them is much larger than us and we are surrounded by them.6. It is probably human nature to enjoy agreement because it seems to bring peace, security, comfort, and harmony, which is the same nature that leads cows to graze in the same manner on the side of a hill. (or Man likes to be unanimous, it’s just the same as the cows, which like eating the grass …7. The second contradiction I have detected is to hear that our Prime Minister mentioned to offer great benefit to India and meanwhile put independence-fighters like Nehru and Gandhi into prison. The third contradiction is to hear that American politicians talk about peace but refuse to join the association of nations to maintain world peace. It’s true that this may bring a short instance of pleasure.8. I put my arm stealthily around her waist and said in low voice that if we were talking about the number of people who believe in certain kind of religion, I would bet on the Buddhists. She was frightened and fled away from me because of my delinquent behavior and our contradictory opinions on religion.9. What had happened to Ruth and me now happened again. I had still some very close friends supporting me as usual. But mygrade-one thinking frightened away many of my acquaintances, who took the girls similar to Ruth.(But my acquaintances, together with their girls, were frightened away by my grade-one thinking.) Lesson Three1.For most students, they begin their study of history with a textbook in which there are a great number of names, dates and statistics for them to remember.(or Most students often study history through remembering a large amount of names, dates and statistics in thick textbooks.)2. History used to be an ordinary matter of memorizing “facts”, but now it turns to be an act of making the right choice out of many interpretations. Truth in history becomes a matter of personal likesor dislikes.3. They can only feel that absolutely opposed (or completely different) arguments about an event cannot both be right. However, it’s beyond their knowledge to decide which one should be right.4. They will find out information about the “Zimmerman Note”, an order the German Foreign Secretary, Arthur Zimmerman, sent to his minister in Mexico, which instructed the minister to propose an alliance to the Mexican government, in case a war may break out. Mexico, with the German financial support, was to go to war against the U.S. and re-conquer her lost territories from New Mexico, Texas and Arizona, which the United States had taken from Mexico in the Mexican War.5. Can we wipe out all the differences? We can (eliminate all disagreement) if our knowledge could give us a perfect model that completely explained human behavior. Unfortunately no such model has ever existed.Lesson Lix1. They are only based on tradition, or on somebody’s strong statement, but are not supported even by the least amount of proof.2. But if they were exchanged when they were infants and brought up in different homes and under different influences, then the staunchest Roman Catholic would be the staunchest Presbyterian, and vice versa. This shows that our beliefs are largely influenced by our surroundings.3. We can conclude based on all our knowledge of psychology, that each would have grown up having exactly the opposite beliefs to what they have now.4. …we may still remember that in th e history of human development, there have been too many cases that the previous “obvious truths” were proved wrong when new knowledge and reason had been developed.5. It took many scientists of greatest learning hundreds of years to struggle against the assumption that the planets moved in circles. The success of getting rid of that assumption is one of the miracles in human history.6. Many modern people are hard to believe that for some time men had ever thought they were thinking with their hearts.7. We hold and cling to some beliefs merely because it is in our interest to believe them. (or it brings benefit or advantage to us to do so.)But people who hold some beliefs through self-interest usually will not admit this.8. Many people are unconsciously forced to hold a belief because he has become an important person in his group. (or a certain group of people)Lesson Nine1. But I may take the liberty of suggesting (or make bold to suggest) that you’ll find my idea of fun more interesting than Ivan’s? (So I guess you’d better choose to play the game with me.)2. He nodded toward Ivan, who was standing in the corner of the room, whose chest was as big and thick as a barrel.3. Y our brain will be competing with mine. Y our skill will be competing with mine. Y our strength and endurance will be competing with mine. It will be just like outdoor chess. And in the game our stakes are our precious lives.4. He was on a small island surrounded by the sea. What he could do was restricted within the limit of the island.5. He performed a series of complicated loops; He moved round and round, covering the same trail again and again so as to confuse his pursuer, remembering all the things he learned in fox hunt and the way the hunted fox tried to escape.6. It made him tremble all over. (Or: A feeling of horror swept over him. )7. He had had the same kind of experience in France, when he haddug a hole just in time to save himself from death. However, that urgent moment seemed nothing compared with this time.8. For Rainsford, a minute seemed as long as a year because hewas so frightened and anxious.9. “Y our Burmese tiger pit has killed one of my best dogs.’’10. “Rainsford can now sleep in this wonderful bed, and he is thewinner.” Rainsford came to a conclusion.。
高级英语6 Paraphase-期末考试 复习答案教学提纲
3Yet for all the trouble procrastination may incur, delay can often inspire and revive a creative soul. Jean Kerr, author of many successful novels and plays, says that she reads every soup-can and jamjar label in her kitchen before settling down to her typewriter. Many a writer focuses on almost anything but his task—for example, on the Coast and Geodetic Survey of Maine'sFrenchmanBays imagination with names like Googins Ledge, Blunts Pond, Hio Hill and Burnt Porcupine, Long Porcupine, Sheep Porcupine and Bald Porcupine islands.
高级英语(1)第三版 Lesson 6 Mark Twain Paraphrase&Translation 答案
1) Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure2) The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied-- a cosmos.3) All would resurface in his books, together with the colorful language that he soaked up with a memory that seemed phonographic4) Steamboat decks teemed not only with the main current of pioneering humanity, but its flotsam of hustlers, gamblers, and thugs as well.5) He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in Nevada's Washoe region.6) Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist.7) "It was a splendid population – for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home...8) 'Well, that is California all over’'"9) "What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges."10) The last of his own illusions seemed to have crumbled near the end.参考答案1) Mark Twain is known to most Americans as the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel Huckleberry Finn, which are generally acknowledged to be his greatest works. Huck Finn is noted for his simple and pleasant journey through his boyhood which seems eternal and Tom Sawyer is famous for his free roam of the country and his adventure in one summer which seems never to end. The youth and summer are eternal because this is the only age and time we knew them. They are frozen in that age or season for all readers.2) In his new profession he could meet people of all kinds. His work on the boat made it possible for him to meeta large variety of people. It is a world of all types of characters.3) All would reappear in his books, written in the colorful language that he seemed to be able to remember and record as accurately as a phonograph.4) Steamboat decks were filled with people of pioneering spirit (people who explored and prepared the way for others) and also lawless people or social outcasts such as hustlers, gamblers and thugs.5) He took a horse-drawn public vehicle and went west to Nevada, following the flow of people in the Gold Rush.6) Mark Twain began working hard to became well known locally as a newspaper reporter and humorist.7) Those who came pioneering out west were energetic, courageous and reckless people, because those who stayed at home were slow, dull and lazy people.8) That's typical of California.9) If we relaxed, rested or stayed away from all this crazy struggle for success occasionally and kept the daring and enterprising spirit, we would be able to remain strong and healthy and continue to produce great thinkers. 10) At the end of his life, he lost the last bit of his positive view of man and the world.1)汤姆很聪明,丝毫不亚于班上的第一名学生。
新编英语教程第六册练习册paraphrase答案
Unit 11. Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of light that leaves you a changed person--not only changed, but changed for the better.The most inspiring and gratifying fact of life is the unexpected spark of enlightenment that makes you different and a better person than before.2. He came across the street, finally, muffled in his ancient overcoat, shapeless felt hat pulled down over his bald head, looking more like an energetic gnome than an eminent psychiatrist.A t last he walked over from the other side of the street, wrapped in his old-fashioned overcoat, his bald head covered by a shapeless felt hat. He looked like a dwarfish old man full of energy rather than a well-known psychiatrist.3. The woman who spoke next had never married because of a sense of obligation to her widowed mother; she recalled bitterly all the marital chances she had let go by.The next speaker on the tape was a woman who had remained single because she thought she was obliged to take care of her mother who was a widow. She still remembered and told others miserably about all the chances of marriage she had missed.4. In the end, if you let it become a habit, it can become a real roadblock, an excuse for not trying any more.Eventually, if you f orm a habit of saying “if only”, the phrase can really turn to an obstruction, providing you with an excuse for giving up trying anything at all.5. ... you never got out of the past tense. Not once did you mention the future.…you are always thinking of the past, regretting and lamenting. You did not look forward to what you can do in the future at all.6. ''My, my,'' said the Old Man slyly. ''If only we had come down ten seconds sooner, we'd have caught that cab, wouldn't we?''The Old Man said to me tr ickily, using the phrase “if only” on purpose, “If only we’d got here ten seconds earlier, we’d have caught the cab.” I laughed and understood what he meant. So I followed his advice and said, “Next time I’ll run faster”.Unit 21. Moses pleaded a speech defect to rationalize his reluctance to deliver Jehovah's edict to Pharaoh. Moses justified his unwillingness to pass Jehovah’s order to Pharaoh, saying that he was “slow of speech”.2. Yet for all the trouble procrastination may incur, delay can often inspire and revive a creative soul.Delay leads to problems. However, in many cases, it can often stimulate the creativity in an artist.3. He notes that speedy action can be embarrassing or extremely costly.He points out that hastiness may give rise to decision which turn out to be humiliating or expensive.4. Bureaucratization, which flourished amid the growing burdens of government and the greater complexity of society, was designed to smother policymakers in blankets of legalism, compromise and reappraisal---and thereby prevent hasty decisions from being made.Excessive red-tape(官样文章;繁文缛节) developed because public administration was expanding in scope and because society was growing more and more complicated. In this sense, red-tape helped those in charge of policy to be fully engaged in enormous amount of paperwork and judgment, thus making it impossible for an immature decision to result.5. ...many of my friends go through agonies when they face a blank page.…many of my friends have a hard time the moment they attempt to put pen to paper.Unit 31. Of course, my father is a gentleman of the old school, a member of the generation to whom a good deal of modern architecture is unnerving; but I suspect---I more than suspect, I am convinced---that his negative response was not so much to the architecture as to a violation of his concept of the nature of money.Brought up in the old tradition, my father is naturally not prepared to accept the idea of modern architecture; his objection to it, I would assume, indeed I should say I am pretty sure, is not a result of his strong dislike of the physical building itself, but rather that of his refusal to change his attitude towards money.2. If a building's design made it appear impregnable, the institution was necessarily sound, and the meaning of the heavy wall as an architectural symbol dwelt in the prevailing attitude toward money, rather than in any aesthetic theory.If a building was made to look sturdy/invulnerable, it would be accordingly regarded as reliable, and the significance of the thick walls would be measured not by their artistic value, but by their seeming ability to provide a safe location for money.3. In a primitive society, for example, men pictured the world as large, fearsome, hostile, and beyond human control.P eople in a primitive society, for example, saw the world as an enormous planet full of fear, hatred and disorder.4.The principal function of today's wall is to separate possible undesirable outside air from the controlled conditions of temperature and humidity which we have created inside.Today a wall serves mainly as a physical means to protect the desired atmosphere inside from being disturbed by anything unwelcome outside.5. To repeat, it is not our advanced technology, but our changing conceptions of ourselves in relation to the world that determine how we shall build our walls.Again, the decisive factor that can influence the design of a wall is not the advancement of science and technology, but our ever-changing attitude towards our place in this world.Unit 41. He was a man of exuberant fancy, and, withal, of an authority so irresistible that, at his will, he turned his varied fancies into facts.He was a man rich in whimsies, and intolerant of any act bold enough as to challenge his authority. When his mind caught upon something, absurd as it might be, he would do everything to make sure that it was done in the way he wished.2. When every member of his domestic and political systems moved smoothly in its appointed course, his nature was bland and genial; but whenever there was a little hitch, and some of his orbs got out of their orbits, he was blander and more genial still, for nothing pleased him so much as to make the crooked straight, and crush down uneven places.When all his subjects behaved in such a manner as they were told to, he could be gentle and kind. And he could even be more so, if anything not conforming to what he expected should occur, because that offered a great chance for him to see the undesirable removed, a thing he was most delighted in doing.3. He could open either door he pleased: he was subject to no guidance or influence but that of the aforementioned impartial and incorruptible chance.He enjoyed total freedom to choose what to do: he was not directed or influenced by anyone as to which door to open. The only thing that was decisive in terms of his fate was the above-mentioned chance, granted to all the accused alike.4. This element of uncertainty lent an interest to the occasion which it could not otherwise have attained.The fact that no one could tell for sure what might happen (to the accused) made this from of trial more attractive than any other form of justice.5. Thus the masses were entertained and pleased, and the thinking part of the community could bring no charge of unfairness against this plan; for did not the accused person have the whole matter in his own hands?Thus people enjoyed coming here to watch, and those guided by reason in the society could not possibly question the fairness of this form of trial; for was it not the fact that all the accused were given equal chances to make decisions upon their won destiny?Unit51. This semi-barbaric king had a daughter as blooming as his most florid fancies, and with a soul as fervent and imperious as his own.This semi-barbaric king had a daughter as exuberant as the wildest of his notions, a daughter who possessed a nature as fierce and tyrannical as his own.2. Of course, everybody knew that the deed with which the accused was charged had been done.It was, of course, known to all that he was guilty of the offense of conducting an affair with the princess.3. ...; but the king would not think of allowing any fact of this kind to interfere with the workings of the tribunal, in which he took such great delight and satisfaction.…,even though the ki ng was well aware that the love affair had taken place, he would still refuse to let the normal method of deciding guilt or innocence be disturbed, because he was extremely enthusiastic about his way of setting matters of this kind.4. ...; but gold, and the power of a woman's will, had brought the secret to the princess..…; but because she had the money, and above all, because her determination was so irresistible, the princess was able to get access to the secret.5. He understood her nature, and his soul was assured that she would never rest until she had made plain to herself this thing, hidden to all other lookers-on, even to the king.He knew her so well that he was perfectly positive that she would never cease to search for the secret, which remained unknown to all other spectators, even to the king himself.Unit 61. There seems to be a general assumption that brilliant people cannot stand routine; that they needa varied, exciting life in order to do their best.It is generally believed that a colorless life can freeze a creative mind, and that only a colorful life can inspire a man to creative work.2. The outstanding characteristic of man's creativeness is the ability to transmute trivial impulses into momentous consequences.One of the wonders human creativity works is that man can make full use of even insignificant feelings to produce far-reaching results.3. An eventful life exhausts rather than stimulates.A life full of diversions stops man’s creativity instead of activating it.4. It is usually the mediocre poets, writers, etc.,who go in search of stimulating events to release their creative flow.Only literary artists of an average type rely on excitements in life as a source for their creative work./ Great poets, writers, etc., create works of art out of trivial and common subject.5. People who find dull job unendurable are often dull people who do not know what to do with themselves when at leisure.People who are unable to see how to be patient with repetitious work are usually those who are unable to see where to find fun in life when it comes to relaxation.。
大学高级英语第六册课文Paraphrase自整理版本
L 【2 】esson 1 Sexism in School1. Education is not a spectator sport. (p3)Education is something that all students should participate in.2. When students participate in classroom discussion they hold more positive attitudestoward school, and that positive attitudes enhance learning. (p3)When students participate in classroom discussion they are more inclined to think that going to school is useful, and the positive attitudes facilitate learning.3. It is no coincidence that girls are more passive in the classroom and score lower thanboys on SATs. (p3)It is not surprising that the two things, namely, girls being more passive in the classroom and scoring lower than boys should be causally related.4. Most teachers claim that girls participate and are called on in class as often as boys.(p4)Most teachers state that girls participate and are asked to speak in class as often as boy.5. But a three-year study we recently completed found that this is not true; vocally, boysclearly dominate the classroom. (p4)Based on a three-year study, we found that this is not true; in terms of oral participation, boys clearly speak much more in classroom.6. When we showed teachers and administrators film of a classroom discussion andasked who was talking more, the teachers overwhelmingly said the girls were. (p4) When we showed teachers and people responsible for the running of a school a video of a classroom discussion and asked who was talking more, the teachers almost all said the girls were.7. But in reality, the boys in the film were out-talking the girls at a ratio of three to one.(p4)But in reality, the boys in the video were talking more than the girls at a speed of three to one.8. Half of the classroom covered language arts and English-subjects in which girlstraditionally have excelled; the other half covered math and science --- traditionally made domains. (p5)Half of the classroom covered the skills in using the language for effectivecommunication and literary appreciation. And girls usually do better in these subjects.The other half covered math and science which traditionally belong to male field.9. Our research contradicted the traditional assumption that girls dominate classroomdiscussion in reading, while boys are dominant in math. (p7)Our research denied the truth of the traditional supposition that girls control classroom discussion in reading, while boys control the discussion in math.10. We found that whether the subject was language arts and English or math andscience, boys got more than their fair share of teacher attention. (p7)We found that whether the subject was skills in using the language for effective communication and English or math and science, boys got more teacher attention than is supposed to be fair.11. Some critics claim that if teachers talk more to male students, it is simply becauseboys are more assertive in grabbing their attention --- a classic case of the squeaky wheel getting the educational oil. (p8)Some critics state firmly that if teachers talk more to male students, it is simply because boys are more aggressive in catching their attention --- a typical example of the notice --- arresting students getting more attention from the teacher.12. However, male assertiveness is not the whole answer. (p8)However, male’s mere assertive cannot completely answer the question.13. Girls are often shortchanged in quality as well as in quantity of teacher attention. (p10)Girls are often not given enough teacher attention what they deserve in quality as well as in quantity.14. Years of experience have shown that the best way to learn something is to do ityourself; classroom chivalry is not only misplaced, it is detrimental. (p13)Years of experience have shown that the best way to learn something is to do it yourself; “let me do for you” behavior is not only improper, it is harmful.15. During classroom discussion, teachers in our study reacted to boys’ answers withdynamic, precise and effective responses, while they often gave girls bland and diffuse reactions. (p13)During classroom discussion, teachers in our study re acted to boys’ answers with energetic, accurate and effective responses, while they often gave girls indifferent and general reactions.16. Despite caricatures of school as a harsh and punitive place, fewer than 5 percent ofthe teachers’ reactions were critic ism, even of the mildest sort. (p15)Although school is often mockingly described as a place where students are badly treated and often punished.17. Too often, girls remain in the dark about the quality of their answers. (p18)Too often, girls are kept completely uninformed about the quality of their answers. 18. Unfortunately, acceptance, the imprecise response packing the least educationalpunch, gets the most equitable sex distribution in classroom. (p18)It is unfortunate that the least useful kind of feedback is distributed between boys and girls most impartially, while the more useful kinds of feedback are heavily biased towards boys. Thus the overall result is that the feedback boys receive much more beneficial than that for girls.19. Active students receiving precise feedback are more likely to achieve academically.And they are more likely to be boys. (p18)Any active student who receives precise feedback can achieve more in his or her studies. And boys are more likely to be active and to receive such feedback, and so are more likely to succeed.20. By high school, some girls become less committed to careers, although their gradesand achievement-test scores may be as good as boys’. (p20)By high school, some girls are not so devoted to the subject they have been studying, despite their academic study as good as boys’.21. Many girls’ interests turn to marriage or stereotypically female jobs. (p20)Many girls’ interests turn to marriage or jobs which are conventionally believed to be taken up by women only.22. The sexist communication game is played at work, as well as at school. (p23)The conversation among people which exhibits elements of sexism not exists in the field of work but also at school.23. Classes taught by these trained teachers had a higher level of intellectual discussionand contained more effective and precise teacher responses for all students. (p28) Classes taught by these trained teachers had a higher level of the discussion which is full of intelligence and contained more effective and accurate teacher responses for all students.Lesson 2 Philosophers among the Carrots1. I asked myself if it was still permissible to take pleasure in the profession ofhousewife and not be a traitor to the cause. (p1)I was wondering whether it is possible for me to get pleasure by working as ahousewife while at the same time still devoted to the Women’s Lib.2. I recalled Socrates saying that, “The unexamined life is not worth living,” and decidedthat maybe it was time to examine mine. (p1)I remembered Socrates’ saying that, “The life of few profound consideration andcareful choice is not a meaningful one”, and decided that maybe it was time to look at my life very carefully to see if any lessons could be drawn from it or any changes needed to be made in it.3. If I hadn’t been to college, I wouldn’t have been that significant analogy, I thoughtsmugly, depositing an orange pit in the sink as I finished the salad (or did I learn that in high school?). (p2)I feel proud of knowledge I have acquired from college which descend in scale. Isplitted an orange pit into the kitchen sink after I had finished eating the salad. (If I didn’t learn that in high school, which part of the compulsory education was, I should not feel so indebted to Women’s Lib.)4. Then, as I eyed a bowl of cooked carrots speculatively, sizing them up for carrot cakeof marinated vegetable salad and opting for the cake which I knew would be seconded by my husband and sons, (p3)Then, as I watched a bowl of cooked carrots thoughtfully, estimating whether they would be better for making salad, and deciding on the cake which I knew would be supported by my husband and three sons,5. I followed the train of my thoughts which was chugging off into philosophical realmsled by Archimedes who said, “Any object placed in a fluid displaces its weight; an immersed object displaces its volume,” (p3)My thoughts, led by Archimedes, wandered away into the kingdom of philosophy. He said, “When an object floats on the liquid we can know its weight, which is equal to the weight of the liquid it has displaced; when an object immersed in the liquid we can know its volume which is equal to the volume of the liquid it has displaced.”6. Muttering, along with Emerson, that “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of littleminds…” I dumped in a couple of spoonfuls of applesauce to make it come out right.(p3)Saying in a low voice, quoting from Emerson that “To observe a rule rigidly is an abominable quality of unintelligent people” I poured a couple of spoonfuls of applesauce to taste better.7. Buddha has his Bo tree, I have my refrigerator. (p4)Just as Buddha received heavenly inspiration to found Buddhism under the Bo tree, so I get new understanding about housewives and philosophy by gazing into the depth of the refrigerator.8. You can’t ste p twice in the same river. (p4)Please rest assured that what you are washing today is different from what you washed yesterday.9. I saw about me the variety in unity and unity in variety spoken of by my aestheticsprofessor. (p4)I saw the principle spoken by my aesthetics professor which means to see uniformityin differences and see differences in uniformity. Applied to my case, “unity” means that all the clothes I had to wash were dirty clothes and “variety” means that every piece to be washed was different from every other piece.10. I indulged in aggressive fantasies against my dear family as I picked up a necktiedraped on a lamp, a pair of tennis shoes under the couch, a cache of peanut shells beneath a newspaper and remembering William James’ comment that“Even a pig has a philosophy,” I wondered angrily what theirs was. (p5)I allowed myself to develop a lot of hostile and angry thoughts against my dearhusband and three sons when I picked up a tie draped on a lamp, a pair of tennis shoes under the couch, a secret store of peanut shells beneath a newspaper and remembering William James’ comment that “Even a pig has an attitude to life.” So I wondered since they were like pigs, they must have had one too. (Anyone may find an excuse for their behavior.)11. ……wi th a wave of willfulness (p6)……with a sudden burst of determination to go my own way12. In my present state of mind I found this the quintessence of good sense and I walkedout of house and into the car, leaving the breakfast dishes on the table. (p6)In my present mood, I found this the best representation of human wisdom.13. I smiled enigmatically as I continued to stir the chicken soup and quoted AlexanderPope, “All chaos is but order misunderstood,” then added with composure that I hadpurchase a new dress. (p7)I smiled in a way which showed there was something secret about her when Icontinued to stir the chicken soup and quoted Alexander Pope, “All chaos is in fact not chaos, but is order which ha s been mistaken for chaos.”14. But, without becoming the least bit ruffled, I replied, in the words of Pascal, “Ah, butthe heart has its reasons the mind knows not of.” (p8)……sometimes you do something out of emotion which is not based on any reason. 15. Whatever is, is good. (p9)Reality is good. It is good, because everything is created by God.Lesson 3 The Power of Habit1. Habit is a second nature! Habit is ten times nature. (p1)Habit is a second born quality. It is so deeply fixed that you simply follow your habit without thinking.2. …… the degree to which this is true no one probably can appreciate as well as onewho is a veteran soldier himself. (p1)Only the experienced soldier can best recognize the truth of the duke’s statement.3. The daily drill and the years of discipline end by fashioning a man completely overagain, as to most of the possibilities of his conduct. (p1)It takes many years of daily training of mind and qualities to create a completely new person, as far as his possible patterns of behavior are connected.4. a practical joke (p2)sb. who plays a trick on sb. else so as to make the victim foolish5. The drill had been thorough, and its effects had become embodied in the man’snervous structure. (p2)The training had completed in any way, and its e ffects had become a part of man’s nervous system.6. Rider less cavalry-horses, at many a battle, have been seen to come together and gothrough their customary evolutions at the sound of the bugle-call. (p3)Without a rider, soldier who fight on horseback at many battles, have been to gather together and take part in their habitual drills as soon as they heard sound of trumpet.7. Most domestic beasts seem machines almost pure and simple, undoubting,unhesitatingly doing from minute to minute the duties they have been taught, and giving no sign that possibility of an alternative ever suggests itself to their mind. (p3) Most beasts raised at home are completely like machines, and no doubt, never hesitate to do the duties they have been taught all the time and give no indication that they have never come up with other options.8. …… by his new responsibilities, (p4)…… things he had to face or manage in the new environment,9. Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent.(p4)Habit is a regulating force that maintains established order of society and prevents any sudden change in it.10. It alone is what keeps up all with the bounds of ordinance. (p4)It keeps us all in the different professional, geographical, or social positions designated to us by law or fate.11. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted bythose brought up to tread therein. (p4)Because of habit, those who have been trained to work in that place since their childhood will not give up those most difficult and unpleasant occupation.12. It protects us from invasion by the natives of the desert and the frozen zone. (p4)It makes the natives of the desert and the frozen zone stay in their own place because of habit.13. It dooms us all to fight out the battle of life upon the lines of our nature or our earlychoice, and to make the best of a pursuit that disagrees, because there is no other for which we are fitted, and it is too late to begin again. (p4)Habit determines that one will stay and work hard till the end of life in a disagreeable occupation which he was brought to follow or chose early in our life, and try to accept and manage it as well as he can. Because there is no other choice for which we are suitable, and it is too late to begin again.14. Although at the age of twenty-five you see the professional mannerism settling downon the young commercial traveler. (p4)By age 25, your future career has been settled down and you have formed peculiar habits in work.15. You see the little lines of cleavage running through the character, the tricks of thought,the prejudices, the ways of the “shop”, in a word, from which the man can by-and-by no more escape than his coat sleeve can suddenly fall into a new set of folds. (p4) You get the genera l idea of the traits of one’s personality, the particular way of thinking, the personal preference, the ways in which one does one’s business, they are all fixed habits. Therefore, the man cannot escape his old habits he has acquired just as his coat sleeve cannot suddenly fall into a new set of folds which has been ironed into it.16. It is best he should not escape. (p4)It is most desirable he should not eacape.17. Hardly ever is a language learned after twenty spoken without a foreign accent;If one learns a language after the age of twenty, he will almost never sound like a native speaker, but only like a foreigner;18. Hardly, ever can a youth transformed to the society of his betters unclean andnasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. (p5)Any young man who has been promoted to a higher social position may learn to give up his nasal accents and other bad habits that have been brought up in him by his early education.19. An invisible law, as strong as gravitation, keeps him within his orbit, arranged thisyear as he was the last; and how his better-clad acquaintances continue to get the things they wear will be for him a mystery till his dying day. (p5)A person’s old habits, as powerful as gravity, make him to take con trol over hisbehaviors…20. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at ease upon the interest of thefound. (p6)The calculation of good habits formed is just like the investment of money in a project, if you can form a good habit in your early years, you can benefit a lot from them and enjoy the comfortable life in the future.21. The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody ofautomatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work. (p6)Most of the trivial items in our life can become a habit and can be taken of our conscious mind which therefore can be used for more important task.22. Full half the time of such a man goes to deciding, or regretting, of matters whichought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.(p6)Such man spends not less than half of his time deciding or regretting which should be deeply fixed and really should not all matters for his conscious thinking at all.Lesson 4 The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen1. They spoke to each other rarely in their incomprehensible tongue. (p1)They hardly ever spoke during the meal, and when they did speak, they spoke in a way that the author cannot understand what they are talking about.2. Sometimes the pretty girl who sat in the window beyond gave them a passing glance,but her own problem seemed too serious for her to pay real attention to any in the world except herself and her companion. (p1)Sometimes the pretty girl who sat near window over there gave them a casual glance, but she was so much troubled by her own problem that she couldn’t pay any attentions to others but to herself and her fiancé.3. …… petite in a Regency way, oval like a miniature, though she had a harsh way ofspeaking --- perhaps the accent of the school, Roedean or Cheltenham Ladies’ College, which she not long ago left. (p2)…… her face was small, delicate, and clean, and was as oval-shaped as a miniature, representing the typical feminine face admired as perfect by Regency time, though she spoke in a firm, commanding tone and an upper-class manner, typical of those who had been educated at a highly prestigious school for upper-class young women, which she graduated not long ago.4. Her companion appeared a little distraught. (p4)Her partner seemed somewhat worried or upset about what to do next.5. I could see them as two miniatures hanging side by side on white wood panels. (p5)I could see them to be two small portraits hanging side by side as decorations for thesurface of a wall.6. He should have been a young officer in Nelson’s navy in the days when a certainweakness and sensitivity were no bar to promotion. (p5)He should have had an easy access to promotion in Nelson’s navy despite some weakness and sensitivities as he had some feminine features which would beadmired by people then.7. She deserved a better life. (p6)She could have enjoyed an easier life than toiling as a novelist.8. You know you don’t get on with him. This way we shall be quite independent. (p8)You know you don’t have a good relationship with your uncle. If we do as I have said we shall be quite independent.9. My mother says that writing is a good crutch… (p13)She disapproves of writing as the main thing (a career), but though writing is good only as an auxiliary support.10. a pretty solid crutch (p14)If you should think writing is support, I would argue that it is a pretty solid support. It can be the main source of a living.11. I see what you mean. (p26)I understand what you are trying to say.12. I was on the side of his mother. It was a humiliating thought, but I was probably abouther mother’s age. (p26)I agreed with his mother that writing should not be a career, but only a support.Although knowing oneself to be old would cause discomfort and embarrassment, I was actually about her mother’s age and therefore quite in a position to advise her and her future.13. …… “the long defeat of doing nothing well” (p27)…… “the frustration of being unable to write anything good for many years”14. ……, by performance an d not by promise. (p27)……, by what you have actually written, not by any indication of potential success in you.15. I didn’t know you’d ever been there. (p29)The polite way of saying “I know you have never been there (so how can you write about a place you don’t know?)16. A fresh eye’s terribly important. (p30)It’s all good to see something new.17. Perhaps, we’d go better to marry when you come back. (p37)It will be more sensible of us to get married when you come back.18. ……couldn’t you observe a bit more near home? Here in London. (p47)…… why go off to St. Tropez? Couldn’t you write something about here, about London?19. Darling, you’re awfully decorative, but sometimes --- well, you simply don’t connect.(p51)You look awfully good. (If we go out together, I can feel proud of being accompanied by such a handsome young man.) But you haven’t got intelligence, you absolutely don’t connect one meaning to author.20. …… bowed to each other, as though they were blocked in doorway. (p54)…… yielded apologetically to each ot her in such a manner as if they have dumped into each other in a doorway, as one was going out and the other coming in21. I had thought the two young people matching miniatures, but what a contrast in factthere was. The same type of prettiness could contain weakness and strengthens.(p55)I had wrongly believed that the two young people were a good match for their looks.But now I saw they were so different in nature. The same pretty looks could mean a weak character in some people, but a strong character in others.22. Her Regency counterpart, I suppose, would have borne a dozen children without theaid of anesthetics, while he would have fallen an easy victim to the first dark eyes in Naples. (p55)If she had lived in Regency time, she would have been able to give birth to a dozen children without the use of anesthetics. However, if he had been a young officer in Nelson’s navy and had called at the port of Naples, he would easily have been secured by the first Italian woman he met after setting foot ashore.23. I did n’t like to think of her as the Mrs. Humphrey Ward of her generation --- not that Iwould live so long. (p55)I dreaded the thought of her becoming a well-established writer. This was notbecause I would live so long as to see her become another Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the Mrs. Humphrey Ward of her time. But this was because I was deeply aware that the further she went along a writer’s road, the more severely she was sure to suffer.24. Old ages saves us from the realization of a great many fears. (p55)Being old enable we to avoid seeing many unpleasant things happen. Because we are old, we will not live to see a great many things we fear actually happen.25. ……, and she didn’t look like Mrs. Humphrey Ward. (p55)……, Mrs. Humphrey Ward looked plain, while she looked pr etty, and her photo on the back of the jacket would help make the book well received by reviewers as well as readers.26. Sometimes you are so evasive I think you don’t want to marry me at all. (p57)evasive: deliberately avoiding the major topic of getting married。
高级英语6 Paraphase-期末考试 复习答案
Unit 2 The Fine Art of Putting Things OffMichael Demarest1"Never put off till tomorrow," exhorted Lord Chesterfield in 1749, "what you can do today." That the elegant earl never got around to marrying his son's mother and had a bad habit of keeping worthies like Dr. Johnson cooling their heels for hours in an anteroom attests to the fact that even the most well-intentioned men have been postponers ever. Quintus Fabius Maximus, one of the great Roman generals, was dubbed "Cunctator " (Delayer) for putting off battle until the last possible vinum break. Moses pleaded a speech defect to rationalize his reluctance to deliver Jehovah's edicts to Pharaoh. Hamlet, of course, raised procrastination to an art form.2The world is probably about evenly divided between delayers and do-it-nowers. There are those who prepare their income taxes in February, prepay mortgages and serve precisely planned dinners at an ungodly 6:30 . The other half dine happily on leftovers at 9 or 10, misplace bills and file for an extension of the income tax deadline. They seldom pay credit-card bills until the apocalyptic voice of Diners threatens doom from Denver. They postpone, as Faustian encounters, visits to barbershop, dentist or doctor.3Yet for all the trouble procrastination may incur, delay can often inspire and revive a creative soul. Jean Kerr, author of many successful novels and plays, says that she reads every soup-can and jamjar label in her kitchen before settling down to her typewriter. Many a writer focuses on almost anything but his task—for example, on the Coast and Geodetic Survey of Maine's Frenchman Bay and Bar Harbor, stimulating his imagination with names like Googins Ledge, Blunts Pond, Hio Hill and Burnt Porcupine, Long Porcupine, Sheep Porcupine and Bald Porcupine islands.4From Cunctator's day until this century, the art of postponement had been virtually a monopoly of the military ("Hurry up and wait"), diplomacy and the law. In former times, a British proconsul faced with a native uprising could comfortably ruminate about the situation with Singapore Sling in hand. Blessedly, he had no nattering Telex to order in machine guns and fresh troops. A U.S. general as late as World War II could agree with his enemy counterpart to take a sporting day off, loot the villagers' chickens and wine and go back to battle a day later. Lawyers are among the world's most addicted postponers. According to Frank Nathan, a nonpost-poning Beverly Hills insurance salesman, "The number of attorneys who die without a will is amazing."5Even where there is no will, there is a way. There is a difference, of course, between chronic procrastination and purposeful postponement, particularly in the higher echelons of business. Corporate dynamics encourage the caution that breeds delay, says Richard Manderbach, Bank of America group vice president. He notes that speedy action can be embarrassing or extremely costly. The data explosion fortifies those seeking excuses for inaction—another report to be read, another authority to be consulted. "There is always," says Manderbach, "a delicate edge between having enough information and too much."6His point is well taken. Bureaucratization, which flourished amid the growing burdens of government and the greater complexity of society, was designed to smother policymakers in blankets of legalism, compromise and reappraisal—and thereby prevent hasty decisions from being made. The centralization of government that led to Watergate has spread to economic institutions and beyond, making procrastination a worldwide way of life. Many languages are studded with phrases that refer to putting things off—from the Spanish maana to the Arabic bukra fil mishmish (literally "tomorrow in apricots," more loosely "leave it for the soft spring weather when the apricots are blooming").7Academe also takes high honors in procrastination. Bernard Sklar, a University of Southern California sociologist who churns out three to five pages of writing a day, admits that "many of my friends go through agonies when they face a blank page. There are all sorts of rationalizations: the pressure of teaching, responsibilities at home, checking out the latest book, looking up another footnote."8Psychologists maintain that the most assiduous procrastinators are women, though many psychologists are (at $50-plus an hour) pretty good delayers themselves. Dr. Ralph Greenson, a professor of clinical psychiatry (and Marilyn Monroe's onetime shrink), takes a fairly gentle view of procrastination. "To many people," he says, "doing something, confronting, is the moment of truth. All frightened people will then avoid the moment of truth entirely, or evade or postpone it until the last possible moment." To Georgia State Psychologist Joen Pagan, however, procrastination may be a kind of subliminal way of sorting the important from the trivial. "When I drag my feet, there's usually some reason," says Fagan. "I feel it, but I don't yet know the real reason."9In fact, there is a long and honorable history of procrastination to suggest that many ideas and decisions may well improve if postponed. It is something of a truism that to put off making a decision is itself a decision. The parliamentary process is essentially a system of delay and deliberation. So, for that matter, is the creation of a great painting, or an entree, or a book, or a building like Blenheim Palace, which took the Duke of Marlborough's architects and laborers 15 years to construct. In the process, the design can mellow and marinate. Indeed, hurry can be the assassin of elegance. As . White, author of Sword in the Stone, once wrote, time "is not meant to be devoured in an hour or a day, but to be consumed delicately and gradually and without haste." In other words, pace Lord Chesterfield, what you don't necessarily have to do today, by all means put off until tomorrow.Unit3. Walls and Barriers --Eugene Raskin1My father's reaction to the bank building at 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City was immediate and definite: “ You won't catch me putting my money in there!" he declared." Not in that glass box!"2Of course, my father is a gentleman of the old school, a member of the generation to whom a good deal of modern architecture is unnerving; but I suspect—I more than suspect, I am convinced—that his negative response was not so much to the architecture as to a violation of his concept of the nature of money.3In his generation money was thought of as a tangible commodity—bullion, bank notes, coins—that could be hefted, carried, or stolen. Consequently, to attract the custom of a sensible man, a bank had to have heavy walls, barred windows, and bronze doors, to affirm the fact, however untrue, that money would be safe inside. If a building’s design made it appear impregnable, the institution was necessarily sound, and the meaning of the heavy wall as an architectural symbol dwelt in the prevailing attitude toward money, rather than in any aesthetic theory.4But that attitude toward money has of course changed. Excepting pocket money, cash of any kind is now rarely used; money as a tangible commodity has largely been replaced by credit, a bookkeeping-banking matter. A deficit economy, accompanied by huge expansion, has led us to think of money as a product of the creative imagination. The banker no longer offers us a safe, he offers us a service—a service in which the most valuable elements are dash and a creative flair for the invention of large numbers. It is in no way surprising, in view of this change in attitude, that we are witnessing the disappearance of the heavy-walled bank. The Manufacturers Trust, which my father distrusted so heartily, is a great cubical cage of glass whose brilliantly lighted interior challenges even the brightness of a sunny day, while the door to the vault, far from being secluded and guarded, is set out as a window display.5Just as the older bank asserted its invulnerability, this bank by its architecture boasts of its imaginative powers. From this point of view it is hard to say where architecture ends and human assertion begins. In fact, there is no such division; the two are one and the same.6It is in the understanding of architecture as a medium for the expression of human attitudes, prejudices, taboos, and ideals that the new architectural criticism departs from classical aesthetics. The latter relied upon pure proportion, composition, etc., as bases for artistic judgment. In the age of sociology and psychology, walls are not simply walls but physical symbols of the barriers in men’s minds.7In a primitive society, for example, men pictured the world as large, fearsome, hostile, and beyond human control. Therefore they built heavy walls of huge boulders, behind which they could feel themselves to be in a delimited space that was controllable and safe; these heavy walls expressed man’s fear of the outer world and his need to find protection, however illusory. It might be argued that the undeveloped technology of the period precluded the construction of more delicate walls. This is of course true. Still it was not technology, but a fearful attitude toward the world, which made people want to build walls in the first place. The greater the fear, the heavier the wall, until in the tombs of ancient kings we find structures that are practically all wall, the feat of dissolution being the ultimate fear.8And then there is the question of privacy—for is has become questionable. In some Mediterranean cultures it was not so much the world of nature that was feared, but the world of men. Men were dirty, prying, vile, and dangerous. One went about, if one could afford it, in guarded litters, women went about heavily veiled, if the went about at all. Ones’ house was surrounded by a wall, and the rooms faced not out, but in, toward a patio, expressing the prevalent conviction that the beauties and values of life were to be found by looking inward, and by engaging in the intimate activities of a personal as against a public life. The rich intricacies of the decorative arts of the period as well as its contemplative philosophies are as illustrative of this attitude as the walls themselves.9We feel different today. For one thing, we place greater reliance upon the control of human hostility, not so much by physical barriers, as by the conventions of law and social practice—as well as the availability of motorized police. We do not cherish privacy as much as did our ancestors. We are proud to have our women seen and admired, and the same goes for our homes. We do not seek solitude; in fact, if we find ourselves alone for once, we flick a switch and invite the whole world in through the television screen. Small wonder, then, that the heavy surrounding wall is obsolete, and we build, instead, membranes of thin sheet metal or glass.10The principal function of today’s wall is to separate possibly undesirable outside air from the controlled conditions of temperature and humidity which we have created inside. Glass may accomplish this function, though there are apparently a good many people who still have qualms about eating, sleeping, and dressing under conditions of high visibility; they demand walls that will at least give them a sense of adequate screening. But these shy ones are a vanishing breed. The Philip Johnson house in Connecticut, which is much admired and widely imitated, has glass walls all the way around, and the only real privacy is to be found in the bathroom, the toilette taboo being still unbroken, at least in Connecticut.11To repeat, it is not our advanced technology, but our changing conceptions of ourselves in relation to the world that determine how we shall build our walls. The glass wall expresses man’s conviction that he can and does master nature and society. The “open plan” and the unobstructed view are consistent with his faith in the eventual solution of all problems through the expanding efforts of science. This is perhaps why it is the most “advanced” and “forward-looking” among us who live and work in glass houses. Even the fear of the cast stone has been analyzed out of us.From: T. Cooley,Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash ofleaves you a changed person –not only changed, but changed for the better.答; The most inspiring and gratifying fact of life is the unexpected spark of enlightenment that makes you different and a better person than before.2\ He came across the street, finally, muffled in his ancient overcoat, shapeless felt hat pulled down over his bald head, looking more like an energetic gnome than an eminent psychiatrist. 答: At last he walked over from the other side of the street wrapped in his old-fashioned overcoat, his bald head covered by a shapeless felt hat. He looked like a dwarfish old man full of energy rather than a well-known psychiatrist. 3\ The woman who spoke next had never married because of a sense of obligation to her widowed mother; she recalled bitterly all the marital chances she had let go by.答: The next speaker on the tape was a woman who had remained single because she thought she was obliged to take care of her mother who was a widow. She still remembered and told others miserably about all the chances of marriage she had missed.4\ In the end, if you let it become a habit, it can become a real roadblock, an excuse for not trying any more. 答;Eventually, if you form a habit of saying “if only”, the phrase can really turn to an obstruction, providing you with an excuse for giving up trying anything at all.5\ …you never got out of the past tense. Not once did you mention the future.答:you are always thinking of the past, regretting and lamenting. You did not look forward to what you can do in the future at all.6\ “My, my,” said the Old Man slyly. “If only we had come down ten seconds sooner, we’d have caught that cab, wouldn’t we” I laughed and picked up the cue. “Next time I’ll run faster.”答:T he Old Man said to me trickily, using the phrase “if only” on purpose, “If only we’d got here ten seconds earlier, we’d have caught the cab.” I laughed and understood what he meant. So I followed his advice and said, “Next timeI’ll run faster”.1\ Moses pleaded a speech defect to rationalize his reluctance to deliveredict to Pharaoh. Hamlet. 答; Moses justified his unwillingness to pass Jehovah’s order to Pharaoh, saying that he was “slow of speech”.2\ Yet for all the trouble procrastination may incur, delay can often inspire and revive a creative soul. 答; Delay leads to problems. However, in many cases, it can often stimulate the creativity in an artist。
高级英语答案 答案 unit 6 人与自然(paraphrase)
人与自然单元Section A Text OneThe Obligation to EndureI. Filling in the blanks with the words and expressions provided, making some change when necessary1. tranquilized2. lethal3. sugarcoat4. mesmerized5. sinister6. insipid7. tamper with8. heredity9. flagrant 10. impetuous11. mutations 12. lingers 13. vernacular 14. lodging 15. inadvertenceII. Using the appropriate form of the words given in the brackets to fill in the blanks1.surroundings2.contaminations3.irrecoverable4. irreversible5.mysteriously6.inhabitants7. inventiveness8. implications9. escalation 10.vindication III.1.The quick change and the speed with which new situations are created follow thereckless / hasty and careless / thoughtless pace of man instead of the leisurely / unhurried pace of nature.2.I am saying, rather, that control must be based on realities instead of on imagined /invented situations, and that the methods used should not destroy us at the same time the insects are destroyed. (destroy the insects and human beings together) 3.Have we been so obsessed / tempted / captivated that we accept something lessinferior or harmful as an unavoidable fact, as if we had given up the determination or the dream to cherish something good?IV. Testing your general knowledge1—5 A D B B B 6-10 A ACCC 11-15 BDB D CV. Proofreading the following passage1. acreage 改为acreages2. of 改为by3. conceive to 去掉to4. simplify 改成simplifying5. limit 改为a limit6. adopted 改为adapted7. another 改为other8. construction 改为destruction9. chances 改为chance 10. rich 改为richlySection A Text TwoThe Good EarthI. Filling in the blanks with the words and expressions provided, making some change when necessary1. resilient2. complying3. imperil4. siege5. complacent6. eons7. metropolis8. ameliorated9. mandated 10. respiratory11. emissions 12. odorless 13. extincted 14. conceived 15. culpritII. Using the appropriate form of the words given in the brackets to fill in the blanks1.toxicity2.emits3.dramatically4. bleaknessplacency/ complacence6.amelioration7. pollutants8. extinction9. ruinously plianceIII. Translating the short paragraph into Chinese积极的发展趋势是不是意味着可以不再关心环境问题了?当然不是。
高级英语第二册1-6单元paraphrase问题及答案
Lesson One Face to Face with Hurricane Camille1.We’re elevated 23 feet.We' re 23 feet above sea level.2. The place has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever bother it.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.We can make the necessary preparations and survive the hurricane without much damage.4. The generator was douse, and the lights went out.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!Everybody go out through the back door and run to the cars.6. The electrical systems had been killed by water.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.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?Please God, please help us to get through this storm safely.9. She carried on alone for a few bars; the her voice trailed away.Grandmother Koshak sang a few words alone and then her voice gradually grew dimmer and stopped.10. Janis had just one delayed reaction.Janis displayed rather late the exhaustion brought about by the nervous tension caused by the hurricane.Lesson Two Marrakech1.The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelictbuilding-lot.The burning-ground is nothing more than a huge piece of wasteland full of mounds of earth looking like a deserted and abandoned piece of land on which a building was going to be put up.2.All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that 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).3. They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard.They are born. Then for a few years they work, toil and starve. Finally they die and are buried in graves without a name.4. A carpenter sits crosslegged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed.Sitting with his legs crossed and using a very old-fashioned lathe, a carpenterquickly gives a round shape to the chair-legs he is making.5. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews. Immediately from their dark hole-like cells everywhere a great number of Jews rushed out wildly excited.6. every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury.Every one of these poor Jews looked on the cigarette as a piece of luxury which they could not possibly afford.7. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.However, a white-skinned European is always quite noticeable.8. In a tropical landscape one’s eye takes in everything except the human beings.If you take a look at the natural scenery in a tropical region, you see everything but the human beings.9. No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distressed Areas.No one would think of organizing cheap trips for the tourists to visit the poor slum areas (for these trips 42V.Ⅵ.Ⅶ. would not be interesting).10.for nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless, back-breaking struggle to wring a little food out of an eroded soil.life is very hard for ninety percent of the people.With hard backbreaking toil they can produce a little food on the poor soil.11.She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say as a beast of burden.She took it for granted that as an old woman she was the lowest in the community,that。
新编英语教程6课后习题paraphrase答案
新编英语教程6课后习题paraphrase答案Unit 31.Brought up in the old tradition, my father is naturally not prepared to accept the idea of modern architecture; his objection to it, I would assume, indeed I should say I am pretty sure, is not a result of his strong dislike of the physical building itself, but rather that of his refusal to change his attitude towards money.2.If a building was made to look sturdy/invulnerable, it would be accordingly regarded as reliable, and the significance of the thick walls would be measured not by their artistic value, but by their seeming ability to provide a safe location for money.3.People in a primitive society, for example, saw the world as an enormous planet full of fear, hatred and disorder.4.Today a wall serves mainly as a physical means to protect the desired atmosphere inside from being disturbed by anything unwelcome outside.5.Again, the decisive factor that can influence the design of a wall is not the advancement of science and technology, but our ever-changing attitude towards our place in this world.Unit 41.He was a man rich in whimsies, and intolerant of any act bold enough as tochallenge his authority. When his mind caught upon something, absurd as it might be, he would do everything to make sure that it was done in the way he wished.2.When all his subjects behaved in such a manner as they were told to, he could be gentle and kind. And he could even be more so, if anything not conforming to what he expected should occur, because that offered a great chance for him to see the undesirable removed,a thing he was most delighted in doing.3.He enjoyed total freedom to choose what to do: he was not directed or influenced by anyone as to which door to open. The only thing that was decisive in terms of his fate was the above-mentioned chance, granted to all the accused alike.4.The fact that no one could tell for sure what might happen (to the accused) made this from of trial more attractive than any other form of justice.5.Thus people enjoyed coming here to watch, and those guided by reason in the society could not possibly question the fairness of this form of trial; for was it not the fact that all the accused were given equal chances to make decisions upon their won destiny?Unit51.This semi-barbaric king had a daughter as exuberant as the wildest of his notions, a daughter who possessed a nature as fierce and tyrannical as his own.2.It was, of course, known to all that he was guilty of the offense of conducting an affair with the princess.3.…,even though the king was well aware that the love affair had taken place, he would still refuse to let the normal method of deciding guilt or innocence be disturbed, because he was extremely enthusiastic about his way of setting matters of this kind.4..…; but because she had th e money, and above all, because her determination was so irresistible, the princess was able to get access to the secret.5.He knew her so well that he was perfectly positive that she would never cease to search for the secret, which remained unknown to all other spectators, even to the king himself.。
《高级英语》课后练习paraphrase答案
1. I sat there and for the first time felt that it was possible for a writer and a reader to become true friends. The writer and reader could exchange feelings as well as ideas. Such exchange might not be as close as that among my family members, yet it is personal and private communication indeed2. Whenever I finished reading a book, I would tell my teachers about what I had learned so as to enjoy the praise and encouragement from my teachers for my hard work.3. Although I worked very hard on reading, I found reading could also be pleasant or amusing. I began to enjoy that feeling of loneliness or isolation reading had brought me.4. Although I enjoyed reading very much, yet the way I read was not correct, for I was only fascinated by books and I did not have any ideas of my own. Instead, I tried to form such ideas from reading.5. But, as a persistent and hardworking boy who believed in everything teachers or professors said, I managed to read The Republic without missing a single word. 1.Ame rica’s schools are always controlled by those government officials in charge of education system. To tell how powerful/influential these people are, we could make a contrast between America’s schools and America’s universities, which are quite beyond the control or command of those officials.2.“The University should be built upon the complete freedom of the human thought.Because in this university, we are free to seek after truth and stick to it; and we are secure to tolerate any error as long as we are allowed to fight against it with the power of reason.”3.America’s universities and professors in charge of these institutions stress that students should not only develop the habit of independent thinking, but also strive to broaden their mind, delve into their textbooks, and have a precise command of knowledge.4.These days freshman students to America’s research/best universities are not always up to the admission standard. To maintain the education quality, our universities have to enroll large numbers of foreign students with excellent educational background .5.We have to allow foreign students to enter our universities so as to solve the problem caused by public schools’ failure in education. It is just like that we have to allow foreign capital to come into our county so as to solve the problem of negative trade balance. These solutions can not work forever.1. As a Puerto Rican girl brought up in US, I have a strong desire to be accepted as a native, and I feel quite angry about people’s bias against me, cau sed by my Hispanic appearance.2. As a girl I was brought up under constant watch of my parents, who believe my chastity/virginity and proper behavior/decency are something that are equal/equivalent / so much related to our family reputation.3. In her native place, a Hispanic girl is kept safe by her big family and their religion. If she was assaulted/offended/insulted by a man, the offender would surely getpunished.4. My pro friends are surprised to find that even today some people, including those who are well educated, still have bias against people from a different cultural background.5. In his eyes, I was simply a typical Latin girl of humble origins, just one of the stereotyped images in his prejudiced mind.1.It was a joke; we all regarded ourselves as smart college freshmen, and thoughtthat in the world we could get everything as long as we asked.2.Back in the 17th century, Spinoza thought that although ambition and lust werenot classified as diseases, they could make people go crazy and insane.3.Most of us have to face the great success our friends (or enemies) achieved, whoused to start their career at the same time as we did, but now they are much more successful than we are.4.In addition to all these external criteria which are used to measure success, there isanother thing which you hate most, that is, your internal voice. This voice kept reminding you that how successful you could have been and how miserable you are now, because you failed to meet your goals.5.The world is also full of people who are so ambitious, so exhausted by work andoverwork that the things they do on the way to success are of no value at all. For them, life is a long journey which only promises future reward. Y ou are doing this or that which you really don’t like to do only because you believe that you will be rewarded and get what you want someday in future.1.From the very beginning of the world, God said that work was bad, shameful,oppressive and life-long suffering. If Adam and Eve had not sinned ,human beings would have enjoyed great glory and could have lived in the paradise joyfully and permanently without having to work.2.The Protestant work ethic was formed in the instructions of ML and JC. This workethic regards work as a sacred and holy mission, and to accomplish this mission, the worker cooperates with God to change our world.3. Finally, men and women emphasize more on realizing their own personal values. This expectation seems natural and even meaningful but sometimes people who expect too much of themselves will become self-centered and their requirements will never be satisfied. As a result, they will be isolated from the rest of the world and livea vacant and lonely life.4. Americans, who always complain about their job, should talk with those jobless young people living in the poor area, who with whose painful experience, know far better than anyone else how important and respectable it is to have a job.。
高级英语课后习题paraphrase和translation部分答案
高级英语课后习题paraphrase和translation部分答案P a r a p h r a s e&T r a n s l a t i o n Lesson 11.Conversation is not for making a point.Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view. In a conversation we should not try to establish the force of an idea or argument.2.The new ruling class had built a cultural barrier against him bybuilding their French against his own language.The new ruling class by using French instead of English made it difficult for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the rules.3.The phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and evenfacetiously by the lower classes.The phrase, the King’s English, has always been used disparagingly and joking by the lower classes. The working people very often make fun of the proper and formal language of the educated people. 4....that suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place, and allat once there was a focus.Then?suddenly?a?magical?transformation?took?place?and? there?was ?a?focal?subject?to?talk?about.1.There is always resistance in the lower classes to any attempt byan upper class to lay down rules for “English as it should be spoken.”每当上流社会想给“规范英语”指定一些条条框框时,总会遭到来自下层人名的抵制。
现代大学英语第六册paraphrase答案(整理版1,4,5,6,9,10,11)
Lesson 1 How to get the poor off our conscience1.Virtue is ... self-centered.By right action, we mean it must help promote personal interest.2....(poverty) was a product of their excessive fecundity...The poverty of the poor was caused by their having too many children.3....the rich were not responsible for either its creation or its amelioration.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.It is only the result or effect of the law of the survival of the fittest applied to nature of to human society.5. It declined in popularity, and references to its acquired a condemnatory tone.People began to reject Social Darwinism because it seemed to glorify brutal force and oppose treasured values of sympathy, love and friendship. Therefore, when it was mentioned, it was usually the target of criticism.6....the search for a way of getting the poor off our conscience was not at an end; it wasonly suspended.The desire to find a way to justify the unconcern for the poor had not been abandoned, it had only been put off.7. ...only rarely given to overpaying for monkey wrenches, flashlights, coffee makers, andtoilet seats.Government officials, on the whole, are good, it is very rare that some would pay high prices for office equipment to get kickbacks.8.This is perhaps our most highly influential piece of fiction.It is a very popular story and has been accepted by many but it is not true.9.Belief can be the servant of truth---but even more of convenience.Belief can be useful in the search for truth, but more often than not it is accepted because it is convenient and self-serving.10.George Gilder... Who tells too…the cruel spur of their own suffering to ensure effort...George Gilder advances the view that only when the poor suffer from great misery will they be stimulated to make great efforts to change the situation, in other words, suffering is necessary to force the poor to work hard.Lesson4 nettles1.How all my own territory would be altered, ad if a landslide had gone through it andskimmed off all meaning except loss of Mike.The impact of Mike's leaving on my life was beyond my imagination. I didn't expect that Mike's leaving would have such a tremendous power that it would change the meaning of my existence completely. All my thoughts were about loss of Mike.2.During that time of life that is supposed to be a reproductive daze, with the woman'smind all swamped by maternal juices, we were still compelled to discuss Simone de Beauvoir and Arthur Koestler and "The Cocktail Party".At that time, we were young mothers, and we were supposed to lead a terribly busy life full of confusion and bewilderment caused by giving birth to and raising babies. And our minds were supposed to be fully occupied by how to feed the babies and things like that. However, in the midst of all this we still felt the need to discuss some of the important thinkers of our time like Simone de Beauvoir and Arthur Koestler and T.S.Eliot's sophisticated work "The Cocktail Party".3....I would be frightened, not of any hostility but of a kind of nonexistence.I would be frightened, and my fear was not caused by my neighbor's visibly hostile and violentway of life, but by a kind of formless and hidden emptiness and meaninglessness of human existence. What happened around me was totally irrelevant to me, and I felt very isolated and alienated.4.She did not ask me---was it delicacy or disapproval?---about my new life.She did not ask me about my new life, either out of subtle consideration for my feeling about this sensitive subject or out of disapproval for my new life style.5.I t would be a sleazy thing to do, in the house of his friends.It would be a morally low thing, an indecent thing to commit infidelity in the house of a friend.6.I knew now that he was a person who had hit rock bottom.I knew that he was a person who had experienced the worst in life, the hardest experience aperson might have to endure.7.He and wife knew that together and it bound them, as something like that would eitherbreak you apart or bind you, for life.They experienced the worst together and they knew what it was like and understood the meaning of that experience. Such an experience posed the gravest test to people. If they stood the test, their friendship or marriage would be strengthened, and a sacred bondage would be formed between them. but if they failed the test, their relationship would be broken and they would flow on gently and8.Not risking a thing yet staying alive as a sweet trickle, an underground resource. Withthe weight of this now stillness on it, this seal.If they acted on love, they would take risks. They wouldn't do that or go further in their relationship, but they would rather let their love remain as a sweet trickle, which would flow on gently and...Lesson 5 The One Against the Many1. ....the national rejection of dogmatic preconceptions about the nature of the social andeconomic orderThere are such prejudices in an arrogant manner about the characteristic of the social order and economic order and they take it for granted. The country just rejected such prejudice.2. Nor can one suggest that Americans have been consistently vulnerability to secular ideology ever afterNo one can say that Americans have never been tempted by the approach of understanding, preserving or transforming the world according to rigid dogmas.3.and any intellect so shaped was ...ever afterA mind influenced by Calvinist theology would surely find it somewhat difficult to resist otherideological temptations to ideological thinking.4. Pragmatism is no more wholly devoid...experiencePragmatism is not completely free from abstract ideas just as ideology is not completely free from experience, that is to say, abstract ideas have a place in pragmatism just as experience hasa role in ideology.5. As an ideologist, however, Jefferson....historical curiosityAs a man following a fixed set of beliefs, Jefferson is only an interesting historical figure. His beliefs are out of date and are irrelevant to present-day reality.6....whose central dogma is confided to the custody of an infallible priesthoodTheir central beliefs are imprisoned by the whole body of priests who are always effective. 1....where free men may find partial truths, but where ...on Absolute TruthIn this universe a person whose mind is unconstrained may be able to discover relation truths but no man on earth can claim that he has already grasped the one and only truth.2.But ideology is a drug; no matter how ...it still persists.Ideology has the characteristic of a narcotic. In spite of the fact that it has been proved wrong many times by experience, people still long to commit themselves to ideology.3....the only certainty in an.....abuseThe only thing that is sure of a despotic system is the unrestricted exercise of power.10. The distinctive human triumph...lies in the capacity to understand the frailty of humanstriving ...nonethelessThe most outstanding achievement of humanity is they know that no matter how hard they try, they cannot achieve Absolute truth, yet they continue to make great efforts and refuse to give up.Lesson6 Death of a pig1. It is a tragedy enacted on most farms with ...The murder, being premeditated, is in thefirst degree...and the smoked bacon and ham provide...questionedThe tragedy has an ending---the killing of a pig and the serving of its meat. The killing deliberately planned and carried out efficiently, is the most type of murder. However, whether pigs should end their lives that way has never been questioned.2. A pig couldn't ask for anything better or none has, at any rateA pig could not ask for any better living conditions; at least no pig has ever complained. In aword, my pig lived in a pleasant environment3.You could see him down there at all hours, his white face parting ...his stethoscopedangling ...and grinning his corrosive grinFred was quite excited about the event. He was down at the pigpen all the time. Because of his swollen joints, he moved about unsteadily. His face set apart the grass along the fence as he moved about. He was like a doctor, with his long, drooping ears dangling like a stethoscope, and he scrabbled on the ground as if he were prescribing some medicine.4.When the enema bag appeared, and the bucket of warm suds, his happiness...full chargeof the irrigationWhen it was time to dose the pig, Fred became even more excited, and he managed to get through the fence, and acted as if he was taking charge of the medical treatment.5....and the premature expiration of a pig is...a sorrow in which it feels fully involvedIf a pig dies before he is supposed to, it is a serious matter for the whole community to remember. The whole community would share the sadness for his death.6.I have written this account in penitence and in grief, as a man who...and to explainmy...so many raised pigsThe purpose of this essay is to show that I am sorry for what has happened to my pig,since I have failed to raise the pig and cannot provide a reason why my pig could didn't grow the way other pigs have grown.7.The grave in the woods is unmarked, but ...and I know he and I...on flagless …ownchoosingThe pig's grave in the woods doesn't have a tombstone, but whenever somebody wants to visit it, Fred will show him the way. I know we will often visit it, separate or together, when we need to ponder over problems or when we are depressed.Lesson 9 The Bluest Eye1.Perhaps because they don’t have hometowns……and it never leaves them.This is perhaps because they only have places of birth, but no places where there feel at home and which they identify themselves with. But these girls are strongly influenced by their hometowns, and the influence stays with them forever even they leave their hometowns.2.Wherever it erupts, this Funk, they wipe it away…they find it and fight it until it dies.The brown girls try hard to repress their emotions and passions. However, these natural human emotions cannot be wiped out totally. Sometimes they will emerge and burst out. And they will develop, become stronger and stay with them. So whenever and wherever this Funk bursts out, the brown girls will do their best to stifle it.3.As long as his needs were physical, she could meet them—comfort and satiety.If these needs were physical, she could meet them. She could make him comfortable and give him enough or even more than enough to satisfy his physical needs.4.She had seen this little girl all of her life.Geraldine had seen black girls like Pecola at many places and many times in the past.5.Eyes that questioned nothing and asked everything.On the one hand, they (girls like Pecola) were ignorant and uncomprehending. They did not ask the question that why their lives were so miserable. On the other hand, as they were poverty-stricken and practically had nothing, their eyes revealed their desire for anything that could make their lives easier.6.The end of the world lay in their eyes, and the beginning, and all the waste in between.In the eyes of these girls one can see that they were in despair, without any hope for the future, and that their life was nothing but a waste.7.The girls grew up knowing nothing of girdles……the bills of their caps backward.As the girls were growing into young women, they had never worn girdles to make their figure look slimmer, and thus more elegant; and when the boys grew up, they just began to wear their caps with the bills turned backward to indicate that they had become adults.Lesson 10 Notes on the English Character1.Saint George may caper on banners and……who delivers the goods.As Saint George is a hero, the person of arms, symbolizing chivalry, his image often appears on banners, and his name is often mentioned in the speeches of politicians. Saint George is used as a symbolic figure for political purposes. But John Bull is a tradesman and he delivers the goods we need in our daily life while making money at the same time.2.With its boarding-houses, its compulsory games……all proportion to itsnumbers.The English public schools have unique features. First, all boys live in boarding houses. Second, sports and games are organized and compulsory as part of the school curricular. Third, older students have special duties to help control younger students while the latter must do jobs for the former. Lastly, great emphasis is placed on good form and team spirit. These features enable the public school students to have disproportionately great influence.3.Note the word “bankrupt”……anxious to meet any liabilities.Pay attention to my use of the word “bankrupt”, a word related to business. This reveals my identity as a member of the commercial nation, who would be careful and sensible enough to avoid any risks of failing to pay their debts.4.But my friend spoke as an Oriental……but of kingly munificence andsplendor.But my friend expressed his views as a member of the Oriental countries. They are nourished by a tradition of great generosity and richness, which is different from the English tradition of middle-class prudence.5.True love in this differs from gold and clay……not to take away.In this aspect, true love is different from material things such as clay or even gold which can be divided and taken away. Yet, if we share true love, it will never diminish.6.I will now descend from that dizzy……my business of notetaking.In the above anecdote, I have become an example of the English man for the moment. That put men in a high position which makes me dizzy and its unfamiliar to me. I will now come down from that height and return to my role as your commentator on the characteristics of the English man.7.Such a combination is fruitful, and anyone who possesses it had gone a longway toward being brave.The Englishman’s nervous system acts promptly and feels slowly. The combination of the two qualities is useful, and anyone who has this combination is most likely to be brave.8.Since literature rests on national character……hidden spirits…we see.As literature is based on national character, there must be in the English nature hidden resources of passion that have produced the great romantic literature we see.9.“Oh, I’m used to Bernard Shaw; monkey tricks don’t hurt me.That kind of criticism is just like Bernard Shaw’s attacks. It is nothing new and I’m used to these tricks and jokes; they won’t do any harm to me.10.And the “tolerant humorous attitude”...bounded by the titter and the guffaw.The Englishmen think they have a tolerant and humorous attitude toward criticism.In fact it is not so, because their attitude is limited by uncomfortable laughter, which indicates that beneath the surface of their tolerant humorous attitude, they are uneasy. When they try to be humorous and brush aside criticism, they would titter and guffaw. Such uncomfortable laughter is a sign of uneasiness.11.The cats are all out of their bags, and diplomacy cannot recall them.I have already made all my opinions known to you. What is said is said, and beingdiplomatic cannot unsay what has been said.Lesson 11 Beauty1.The festival of marriage has……can see their glory.In wedding ceremony, time seems to go slowly so everybody, even a fool, could observe things clearly and see how wonderful they are.2.So I can make up my darling……in her girlhood.My daughter may feel she has missed something when she was young. If so, I wish I could make compensation to her now, before she is married.3.The glow of happiness has to cool……crystallize into memory.With the passing of time, you will feel a bit more detached from the happy event and then you can recall things more clearly and they will stick in your mind.4. A wedding gown will eventually grow ……seep out of the brightest day.The clothes made for the occasion of wedding, though kept in a box specially treated to repel moths, will have a moldy smell as time goes on; flowers will gradually lose their color and die and even the brightest day will grow dim.5.I feel certain that genuine beauty……alone but out in the world.I firmly believe that true beauty is not shallow and it exists not because we think itexists but because it actually exists outside of us.6.Yet I persist in believing there is……this tingle than an evolutionary reflex.An evolutionary response cannot adequately explain why there is this physical feeling of excitement. There must be another more important reason—beauty.7.You cannot pursue the law of nature……without pumping into the beauty.If you try to study the law of nature, very soon you will encounter beauty. The study of the law of nature will inevitably lead to the discovery of beauty.8.Because the Creation puts……beauty is free and inexhaustible.Since the birth of the universe, everything in it has revealed its own wonder continuously. Unlike ordinary commodities which cost money and whose supply is limited, beauty is free and inexhaustible.9.Beauty feeds us from the same source that created us.When God created us, He also created beauty.10. I find in that infinity a profound source of meaning and hope.This close relationship makes us see life is meaningful and worth living. Human beings are exactly and wonderfully made for life on Earth. We are powerful. We can appreciate beauty. We have a bright future.。
高级英语期末paraphrase及翻译
高级英语期末paraphrase及翻译Lesson fourParaphrase1."Don't worry, son, we'll show them a few tricks," (para 2)“Don’t worry, young man, we’ll do a few things to outwit the prosecution.”2.The case had erupted round my head. (para 3)The case had come down upon me unexpectedly and violently. I was suddenly engulfed by the whole affair.3. no one, least of all I, anticipate that my case would snowball into one of the most famous trials in U. S. history. (para 9) I was the last one to expect that my case would develop into one of the most famous trials in American history.4."That's one hell of a jury!" (para 12)“This is a completely inappropriate jury, too ignorant and partial.”5."Today it is the teachers, "he continued, "and tomorrow the magazines, the books, the newspapers. (para 14)Today the teachers are put on trial because they teach scientifictheory; soon the newspapers and magazines will not be allowed to express new ideas, to spread knowledge of science.6. "There is some doubt about that," Darrow snorted. (para 19) “It is doubtful whether man has reasoning power”, said Darrow sarcastically, scornfully.7. …accused Bryan of calling for a duel to the death between science and religion. (para 23)…accused Bryan of demanding that a life or death struggle be fought between science and region.8. Spectators paid to gaze at it and ponder whether they mightbe related. (para 26)People had to pay in order to have a look at the ape and to consider carefully whether apes and humans could have a common ancestry.9. Now Darrow sprang his trump card by calling Bryan as a witnessfor the defense. (para 30)Darrow surprised everyone by asking for Bryan as a witness for Scopes which was a brilliant idea.10.My heart went out to the old warrior as spectator s pushed by him to shake Darrow's hand.Darrow had gotten the best of Bryan, who looked helplessly lost and pitiable as everyone ignored him and rushed past him to congratulate Darrow. When I saw this, I felt sorry for Bryan. Translation1 我没有预料到会卷入这场争端。
高级英语期末paraphrase及翻译
高级英语期末paraphrase及翻译Lesson fourParaphrase1."Don't worry, son, we'll show them a few tricks," (para 2)“Don’t worry, young man, we’ll do a few things to outwit the prosecution.”2.The case had erupted round my head. (para 3)The case had come down upon me unexpectedly and violently. I was suddenly engulfed by the whole affair.3. no one, least of all I, anticipate that my case would snowball into one of the most famous trials in U. S. history. (para 9) I was the last one to expect that my case would develop into one of the most famous trials in American history.4."That's one hell of a jury!" (para 12)“This is a completely inappropriate jury, too ignorant and partial.”5."Today it is the teachers, "he continued, "and tomorrow the magazines, the books, the newspapers. (para 14)Today the teachers are put on trial because they teach scientific theory; soon the newspapers and magazines will not be allowed to express new ideas, to spread knowledge of science.6. "There is some doubt about that," Darrow snorted. (para 19) “It is doubtful whether man has reasoning power”, said Darrow sarcastically, scornfully.7. …accused Bryan of calling for a duel to the death between science and religion. (para 23)…accused Bryan of demanding that a life or death struggle be fought between science and region.8. Spectators paid to gaze at it and ponder whether they might be related. (para 26)People had to pay in order to have a look at the ape and to consider carefully whether apes and humans could have a common ancestry.9. Now Darrow sprang his trump card by calling Bryan as a witnessfor the defense. (para 30)Darrow surprised everyone by asking for Bryan as a witness for Scopes which was a brilliant idea.10.My heart went out to the old warrior as spectator s pushed by him to shake Darrow's hand.Darrow had gotten the best of Bryan, who looked helplessly lost and pitiable as everyone ignored him and rushed past him to congratulate Darrow. When I saw this, I felt sorry for Bryan. Translation1 我没有预料到会卷入这场争端。
高英教材课后练习paraphrase参考答案
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】LESSON2PARAPHRASE:1.Serious-looking men were so absorbed in their convention that they seemednot to pay any attention to the crowds about them.2.At last the taxi trip came to an end and I suddenly discovered that I was infront of the gigantic City Hall.3.The rather striking picture of traditional floating houses among high, modernbuilding represents the constant struggle between traditional Japanese culture and the new, Western style.4.I suffered from a strong feeling of shame when I thought of the prospect ofmeeting the mayor of Hiroshima in my socks.5.The few Americans and Germans also seemed to feel restrained like me.6.After three days in Japan one gets quite used to bowing to people as a ritual ingreeting and to show gratitude.7.I was on the point of showing my agreement by nodding when a suddenlyrealized what he meant. His words shocked me out of my sad dreamy thinking.8.…and nurses walked by carrying surgical instrument which were nickelplated and even healthy visitors when they see those instruments could not help shivering.9.I have the chance to raise my moral standard because of the illness.LESSON 4PARAPHRASE :1.“Don’t worry, young man, we’ll do a few things to outwit the prosecution.”2. I was suddenly engulfed by the whole affair.3. I was the last one expect my case would develop into one of the most famous trials in American history.4. “This is a completely inappropriate jury, to ignorant and partial.”5. Today the teachers are put on trial because they teach scientific theory; soon the newspapers and magazines will not be allowed to express new idea, to spread knowledge of science.6. “It’s doubtful whether man has reasoning power,”said Darrow sarcastically scornfully.7. …accused Bryan of demanding that a life or death struggle be fought between science and religion.8. People paid in order to have a look at the ape and to consider carefully whether apes and humans could have a common ancestry.9. Darrow surprised everyone by asking for Bryan as a witness for Scopes which wasa brilliant idea.10. Darrow had gotten the best of Bryan, who looked helplessly lost and pitiable as everyone ignored him and hushed past him to congratulate Darrow. When I saw this, I felt sorry for Bryan.LESSON5PARAPHRASE:1.This dreadful scene makes all human endeavors to advance and improve their lotappear as a ghastly, saddening joke.2.The country itself is pleasant to look at, despite the sooty dirt spread byinnumerable mills in this region.3.The model they followed in building their houses was a brick standing upright.4.These brick-like houses were made of shabby, thin wooden boords and their roofswere narrow and had little slope.5.When the brick is covered with the black soot of the mills it takes on the color of arotten egg.6.Red brick, even in a steel town, looks quite respectable with the passing of time.7.I have given Westmoreland the highest award for ugliness after having done a lotof hard work and research and after continuous praying.8.They show such fantastic and bizarre ugliness that, in looking back, they becomealmost fiendish and wicked.9.It’s hard to believe that people built such horrible houses just because they did notknow what beautiful houses were like.10.People in certain strata of American society seem definitely to hunger after uglythings; while in other less Christian strata, people seem to long for things beautiful.LESSON 6PARAPHRASE:1.Mark twain is known to most Americans as the author of The adventures ofHuckleberry Finn. Huck Finn is noted for his simple and pleasant journey through his boyhood which seems eternal and Tom Sawyer is famous for his free roam of the country and his adventure in one summer which seems never to end. Theyouth and summer are eternal because the only age and time we knew them. They are frozen in that age/season for all readers.2.His work on the boat made it possible for him to meet a large variety of people. Itis a world of all type of characters.3.All would reappear in his book, written in the colorful language that he seemed tobe able to remember and record as accurately as a phonograph.4.Steamboat decks were filled with people who explored and prepared the way forothers and also lawless people or social outcasts such as hustlers, gamblers and thugs.5.He took a horse-drawn public vehicle and went west to Nevada, following theflow of people in the Gold Rush.2.Mark Twain began to work as hard as a newspaper reporter and humorist tobecome well to known locally.3.Those who came pioneering out west were energetic, courageous and recklesspeople, because those who stayed at home were the slow, dull and lazy people.4.That’s typical of California.5.If we relaxed, rested or stayed away from all this crazy struggle for successoccasionally and to produce great thinkers.6.At all end of his life, he lost the last bit of his positive view of man and the world.LESSON 9PARAPHRASE:1.After heated debate and compromises, the Constitution was finally adopted by theConstitutional Convention and 39 out of 55 delegates signed the document. But the “three-fifths” clause and the twenty years allowed for the slave trade showed the slave issue was not solved, so the process of forming a more perfect union did not end with the enforcement of the Constitution.2.My personal background and my success story, rising from rags to riches, alsoteaching me the importance of unity.3.I am deeply ingrained, through my experience in the United States, with the ideathat America is not a total of saddling everything together but is the product of fusion, of sharing the same creed.4.In spite of all announcements that America was not ready for a black president,that I would fail in people demanded unity and change.5.People were encouraged to judge me from the perspective of a black candidate,raising the question of whether the United States would fare better with a black president. However, we won the great victories even in some of the more conservative states, states with stronger racial bias.6.The week before the Democrats were to select delegates to the nationalconvention in South Carolina, attacks on me, on blacks became more frequent, more intense.7.At one end of the entire range of opinion, there are people who say that I decidedto run because I wanted to show black and white should have equal opportunity and I wanted to play on the desires naive liberals to achieve racial harmony without making great effort.8.It is impossible for me to cast him off just as it is impossible for me to repudiatethe black community.LESSON 14PARAPHRASE:7.“I think the Red Army men will be surrounded and captured in every largenumbers.”8.Hitler was hoping that if he attracted Russia, he would win in Britain and the USthe support of those who were enemies of Communism.9.Winant said the United States would follow the same policy.10.I would a word in favor of anyone who is attacked by Hitler, no matter how bad,how wicked or evil he had been in the past.11.The Nazi state does not have any ideal or guiding principle at all. All it has is astrong desire for conquest and rule by the Aryan race, the allegedly most superior race in the world.12.“I see German bombers and fighters in the sky, which have suffered severe lossesin the aerial Battle of England and now feel happy because they think they can easily beat the Russia air force without heavy loss ”13.“We shall be more determined and shall make better and fuller use of ourresources.”14.Let us strengthen our unity and our efforts in the fight against Nazi German whenwe have not yet been overwhelmed and when we are still powerful.。
综合英语教程6 第二版 Paraphrase 答案整理 Unit 1- Unit 14
Unit 11、“I was beside myself with excitement: my imagination fuelled by glamorous shots of the popular Hollywood temptresses.”I was extremely excited when I imagined myself in attractive pictures like those of popular actresses in Hollywood.2、Tears of frustration threatened to break fee as I wondered for the umpteenth time why the unfeeling teacher couldn’t look past my clothes for once and see the obedient and eager-to-participate young girl beneath.I could hardly hold back my tears because of frustration as I wondered, as I had many, many times before, why the unsympathetic teacher couldn’t overlook my clothes for once and notice How submissive and eager I was to participate.Unit 21、.writers compose in a kind of collaborative heat,knocking ideas against one another until t hey spark.”...writers work in a kind of cooperation by engaging themselves in heated discussions and argum ents about different ideas until they come up with really brilliant ones.2.Unless they adjust to the new medium,professional writers can come across as self-importan t blowhards in debates with more nimble networkers.”If they do not adjust themselves to the medium of netwriting,they can make themselves look co nceited and self-important in online debates with more quick-witted and flexible networkers.Unit 31、ever the learned say about a book, however unanimous they are in their praise of it, unless it interests you, it is no business of yours.”Even though many scholars highly praise a book, you don’t have to read it at all if you don’t find it interesting.2、when my work is done and I feel at ease, but not inclined for mental exercise of a strenuous character, I read history, essayswhen I finish my work, and I feel relaxed, and don’t want to beat my brains, I usually read history, essaysUnit 41、…securing admission to a top-flight university provides a child with an irrevocable passport to success,guaranteeing a life of uninterrupted economic mirth.…entering a first-rate university will certainly put children on the road to success and promise a w ealthy life.2.Here it is never entirely clear what parents are looking for,particularly in high-profile instituti ons whose renown has in some way preceded them.Given that the parents are already familiar with the achievements of the college.It is not clear w hat the parents come to search.Unit 51.The more the teaching of formal religion declines,or takes a sociological form,the less God appears to great numbers of people as a God of Love,resuming his older form of a watchful,min atory power,to be placated and cajoled.Religion seems to be a watchful dog with a threatening appearance and becomes less comforting when it loses its credibility or when it distances itself from people by taking a sociological form.2.Superstition in general is linked to man’s yearning to know his fate,and to have some hand i n deciding it.Generally,superstition has something to do with man’s strong desire to know what will happen t o him in the future and his wish to have some control over his fate.Unit 61.When we travel,we put aside our defenses,our anxiety,and invite regression.We go backw ard instead of forward.We cultivate our hysteria.When we travel,our alertness is slackened and our anxiety relieved;we turn our eyes to the past ,to what once happened instead of to what will happen in the future.We do not try to control ou rselves or suppress our desires any more.2.The centrifugal tendency turns centripetal,and modern travel books may be about the absen ce of things just as the classic books are about their presence.The tendency to travel in order to see the exotic world has become one to examine ourselves,an d modern travel books may focus on what we have“eliminated or edited out”of our culture,just as the classic travel books focus on what is still there.Unit 71.The best any of them can hope for is the honor of being a district or county vice-chairman,a k ind of separate-but-equal position which a woman is rewarded for years of faithful envelope st uffing and card-party organizing.After years of devoted service,the highest position a woman can expect to get is county vice-chai rman ----an auxiliary and subordinate position which can be regarded as an extension of the“sep arate-but-equal”doctrine to the nation’s political life concerning sex differentiation.2.The women of a nation mold its morals,its religion,and its politics by the lives they live. The women of a nation strongly influence its morals,its religion,and its politics by their actionsUnit 81.The insight gleaned from that experience is really as commonplace as was the experience it self:life’s gifts are precious --- but we are too heedless of them.The truth gathered from that experience is really very common or ordinary,just as the experience itself:Life’s gifts are precious,but we are often blind to them.2.Put them all together,exalt them above their present imperfections,add to them the vision of humankind redeemed,forever free of need and strife and you have a future lighted with the radiant colors of hope.Put all these virtues together,glorify them despite the fact that they are still imperfect,add to th em the wisdom of humankind that is saved from sins and no longer suffers from poverty and figh ting,and then we will have a future glowing with hope.Unit 91.The other thing to be avoided is clinging to youth in the hope of sucking vigour from its vitalit y.The other thing one should avoid is being emotionally attached to young people,from whom one hopes to draw energy and vigor.2....and it is in this sphere that the wisdom born of experience can be exercised without being oppressive.…and it is in this area of impersonal interests(such as academic and artist interests)that the wisd om you have accumulated in your life can be practiced without putting any pressure on your child ren and grandchildren.Unit 101. deliberate September--- in its own time and tempo--begins to sum up another summer. September – coming as scheduled and in its unhurried pace – begins to reap what summer has yielded.2.the plant commits its future to the seed and the root. The insect stows tomorrow in the egg and the pupa.The plant entrusts its future to the seed and the root. The insect produces the egg and pupa in which its future is stored.3. By september’s end the treasure chest of autumn begins to “spill over” with wealth.By the end of September, the autumn season has gathered in an overwhelming abundance of wealth.Unit 111.possession is one with loss.Possession is the same as loss, because when one gains the possession of something, he loses something else or he also gains the risk of losing that possession.2.and perhaps i shall come to this in time. I shall wall in and fence out until i really taste the sweets of property.Perhaps I shall also build high stone walls before it is too late, i shall keep the wood exclusively to myself and enjoy the satisfaction of being a man of property.Unit 121.If the great myth ... of America is the story of progress, then Disney World is a place that masquerades as the happy ending, in which progress culminates in a utopia of transcendence that undoes the fallen state of nature, society and ourselves..…if the great myth of America is the story of progress,then Disney World servesas the happy ending in which progress reaches the ideal state of utopia that goes beyond limits of our physical world and changes the decadent state of nature,society and ourselves.2.... it does so by inviting us to regress to a state of happiness before the fall from childhood, with simplified visions of life that filter out the difficult truths of the self and society..…it does so by inviting us to see a world that is free from imperfection and to retreatto a happy period before childhood ended which is marked by unsophistication, free from moral decay, both individual and social.Unit 131.But it is necessary to write a letter to a friend --and forthwith troops of gentle thoughts invest themselves, on every hand, with chosen words.But it is necessary to write a letter to a friend, and the moment he begins to do it, affectionate thoughts immediately flood into his head and are expressed in well-chosen words.2.how beautiful, on their approach to this beating heart, the steps and forms of the gifted and the true!How beautiful are the walking steps and shapes of the two persons who are gifted and devoted, when they approach the one who is waiting for them in excitement!3....as many thought in succession substantiate themselves, well shall by and by stand in a new world of our own creation...As many thoughts become reality one after another, we shall eventually live in a brand -new world created by ourselves, and then we will no longer be strangers or travelers in traditional world.Unit 141.“What is a course of history or philosophy, or poetry , no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine oflife ,compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?”任何学术课程,如历史、哲学或诗歌,无论多么深刻或选择得多么恰当,无论我们结交的最优秀的人,或确立的最佳生活方式,都不如与自然的直接接触和对周围事物的直接观察好。
(完整word版)高级英语课后习题答案
Lesson 1 Paraphrase:1. We're elevated 23 feet. Our house is 23 feet above sea level。
2. The place has been here since 1915,and no hurricane has ever bothered it。
The house was built in 1915 and since then no hurricane has done any damage to it。
3. We can batten down and ride it out。
We can prepare ourselves for the hurricane and manage to survive it without much damage.4. The generator was doused, and the lights went out. Water got into the generator, and it didn't work。
As a result,the lights were put out.5。
Everybody out the back door to the cars! Everybody go out though the back door and get into the cars. 6. The electrical system had been killed by water. The electrical system in the cars had been destroyed by water.7. John watched the water lap at the steps, and felt a crushing guilt。
When John watched the water inch its way up the steps, he felt a strong sense of guilt because he blamed himself for understanding the ferocity of Camille and endangering the whole family by making the wrong decision not flee inland。
完整word版,高级英语(1)第三版Lesson6MarkTwainParaphraseTranslation答案
1) Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure2) The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied-- a cosmos.3) All would resurface in his books, together with the colorful language that he soaked up with a memory that seemed phonographic4) Steamboat decks teemed not only with the main current of pioneering humanity, but its flotsam of hustlers, gamblers, and thugs as well.5) He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in Nevada's Washoe region.6) Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist.7) "It was a splendid population – for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home...8) 'Well, that is California all over’'"9) "What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges."10) The last of his own illusions seemed to have crumbled near the end.参考答案1) Mark Twain is known to most Americans as the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel Huckleberry Finn, which are generally acknowledged to be his greatest works. Huck Finn is noted for his simple and pleasant journey through his boyhood which seems eternal and Tom Sawyer is famous for his free roam of the country and his adventure in one summer which seems never to end. The youth and summer are eternal because this is the only age and time we knew them. They are frozen in that age or season for all readers.2) In his new profession he could meet people of all kinds. His work on the boat made it possible for him to meeta large variety of people. It is a world of all types of characters.3) All would reappear in his books, written in the colorful language that he seemed to be able to remember and record as accurately as a phonograph.4) Steamboat decks were filled with people of pioneering spirit (people who explored and prepared the way for others) and also lawless people or social outcasts such as hustlers, gamblers and thugs.5) He took a horse-drawn public vehicle and went west to Nevada, following the flow of people in the Gold Rush.6) Mark Twain began working hard to became well known locally as a newspaper reporter and humorist.7) Those who came pioneering out west were energetic, courageous and reckless people, because those who stayed at home were slow, dull and lazy people.8) That's typical of California.9) If we relaxed, rested or stayed away from all this crazy struggle for success occasionally and kept the daring and enterprising spirit, we would be able to remain strong and healthy and continue to produce great thinkers. 10) At the end of his life, he lost the last bit of his positive view of man and the world.1)汤姆很聪明,丝毫不亚于班上的第一名学生。
综英paraphrase答案汇总
Unit 11. A writer who is particular about the exactness of an expression in English will never feel happy with a word which fails to express an idea accurately.2. To a certain extent, the process of finding the right words to use is a process of perfection where you try to search for words that may most accurately express your thoughts and feelings, and words that may most effectively make your listeners and readers understand your thoughts and feelings.3. Finding the most suitable word to use is in no sense easy. But there is nothing like the delight we shall experience when such a word is located.4. Once we are able to use language accurately, we are in a position to fully understand our subject matter.Unit 21. What happens is that the Mediterranean, the cradle of many ancient cultures, is seriously polluted. It is the first of the seas that has been made to suffer from a situation resulting from development mixed with an irresponsible mentality.2. Further, while the places such as Cannes and Tel Aviv dispose of their wastes through a pipe stretching out only half a mile from the shore, most cities do not even bother to do that but simply dump their sewage directly into the sea along the coastline.3. There is an even bigger hazard hidden in the seafood dishes that are forever so appealing to the holiday-makers.4. Factories are set up around the coastline, few of which, including the most sophisticated, have been equipped with a satisfactory system for dealing with their effluents.Unit 31. This natural ability of intuitively getting to the essence of a subject was the key to the great discoveries made by him in science. This natural gift and his unusual awareness of beauty.2. His engrossment in ideas was incredibly intense and deep. When attackinga problem difficult to solve, he kept attempting to deal with it with great effort, just as an animal chases and bites a weaker animal it preys upon until the latter gives in.3. He would look lost in thought, thinking about something distant, and yetmeditating within himself. He did not seem to be in deep thought, nor did he knit his brows --- he was just in self-contained peaceful contemplation.4. The theories, considered isolated one by one, was really credible, so much so that they seem to be simple and clear. But when considered together, they were so strongly contradictory to each other that a less learned scholar would have given up one or the other completely and would no longer take up the issue again.5. Einstein’s work was done quietly with pencil on paper and seemed to be far removed from the confusion of everyday life, but his ideas were so radical that they led to strong arguments and made people unreasonably angry.Unit 41. They will be functioning a generation hence: the normal and obvious causes of the invisibility of American poor will still hold true in a generation from now.2. The irony in this …: the reverse (state of affairs) / the incongruity of this …3. This process has been magnified with the poor throughout the country: This process of having the poor disappear from sight has been developing rapidly allover the country.4. There is not even a cynical political motive for caring abut the poor, as in the old days: In the old days, there might be some concern for the poor shown by some people to achieve their own purposes. Their motive of doing so would be cynical, or doubtful. But today, there is not even that kind of concern.Unit 51. Children have become television addicts, devoting much of the time when they are together to watching TV.2. Television is not simply just one among many important factors that may influence a child today.3. Television has brought about great changes in family life, playing the dominant role is shaping the lives of children today.4. … the television has its magic power over people. As soon as the television is on, people stop talking and doing anything else, growing to be lifeless statues before the TV screen. They will remain so till the end of the program.5. The moment a child sits down to watch television is the moment his growth towards maturity is suspended.Unit 61. When I got ready to enter college, I was expecting a college education in some definite fields. I was very eager to know the answers to some questions difficult to understand, and that has made me work and improve myself; especially in areas of study where there were no prompt answers, but there were endless questions.2. When he read or recited Greek poetry, it seemed that what was described in the verse became alive; both the romantic ideas and the poetical lines sounded like beautiful music, and I, just like him, was motivated to be neither a hero in poetry nor a poet who created poetry, but only a student of Greek culture and poetry, in such a way that I would be able to interpret Greek poetry.3. “Come on, boy. The world belongs to you --- you are expected to do creative thinking and to act creatively for the world. There is still a lot to be accomplished, and a lot to be found out. No poem written can be called the greatest and no railroad built can be the best. The perfect state has yet to be conceived. Everything has yet to be done.”4. What I was hearing was the unrestrained, earnest, and sparkling interchanges of great intellect as sharp as first-rate tools. They were always polite, speaking one at a time; no one speak to anyone in secret and no one digressed; they all spoke when there was an issue everyone was interested in; and while they were explaining something, anyone, no matter whether he was for or against the issue, would tell others what he knew about a philosopher’s opinion or a poet’s phrase in order to clarify or to beautify the theme.5. It was too great and too various for me to personify with my boyish imitations and heroism.Life was so good and so different in kind that I was not able to express what it was like with my youthful mind and boldness.。
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2The world is probably about evenly divided between delayers and do-it-nowers. There are those who prepare their income taxes in February, prepay mortgages and serve precisely planned dinners at an ungodly 6:30 p.m. The other half dine happily on leftovers at 9 or 10, misplace bills and file for an extension of the income tax deadline. They seldom pay credit-card bills until the apocalyptic voice of Diners threatens doom fromDenver. They postpone, as Faustian encounters, visits to barbershop, dentist or doctor.
3Yet for all the trouble procrastination may incur, delay can often inspire and revive a creative soul. Jean Kerr, author of many successful novels and plays, says that she reads every soup-can and jamjar label in her kitchen before settling down to her typewriter. Many a writer focuses on almost anything but his task—for example, on the Coast and Geodetic Survey of Maine'sFrenchmanBayandBar Harbor, stimulating his imagination with names like Googins Ledge, Blunts Pond, Hio Hill and Burnt Porcupine, Long Porcupine, Sheep Porcupine and Bald Porcupine islands.
Unit 2 The Fine Art of Putting Things Off
Michael Demarest
1"Never put off till tomorrow," exhorted Lord Chesterfield in 1749, "what you can do today." That the elegant earl never got around to marrying his son's mother and had a bad habit of keeping worthies like Dr. Johnson cooling their heels for hours in an anteroom attests to the fact that even the mo been postponers ever. Quintus Fabius Maximus, one of the great Roman generals, was dubbed "Cunctator " (Delayer) for putting off battle until the last possible vinum break. Moses pleaded a speech defect to rationalize his reluctance to deliver Jehovah's edicts to Pharaoh. Hamlet, of course, raised procrastination to an art form.