高级英语(复习)

Lesson 9 Paraphrase

1. …with a face that seem totally unfamiliar with laughter…

...with a face that was dead serious, never laughed.

2. Sometimes old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get mixed up in a Saturday-night brawl…

Sometimes old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get involved in a rough, noisy quarrel or fight on a Saturday night after much drinks of liquor.

3. … her attendance had always been sporadic and her interest in schoolwork negligible.

She often missed her classes and had little interest in schoolwork.

4. …she existed for me only as a vaguely embarrassing presence…

I only knew her as someone who would make other people feel ill at ease because of the way she looked, spoke and behaved.

5. She dwelt and moved somewhere within my scope of vision.

She lived and moved somewhere within my range of sight. But I paid little attention to her: she was almost invisible for me.

6. Grandmother Macleod and Piquette, Piquette would win hands down, nits or not.

If my mother had to make a choice between Grandmother Macleod Piquette, she would certainly choose the latter without hesitation, no matter whether the latter had the nits or not.

7. My acquaintance with Indians was not extensive.

I didn’t know many Indians.

8. …she remained both a reproach and a mystery to me.

I blame myself ( for being unable to make Piquette’s response warmer) and the same time found her mysterious

9. Her defiant face, momentarily, became unguarded and unmasked, and in her eyes there was a terrifying hope. Normally, she was defensive and sensitive as if her face were guarded and marked. But in a brief moment when she was saying this, there was an expression of defiance on her face, which was her true emotion. In her eyes there was a kind of hope which was so intense and violent that it stuck people as terrifying.

10. …she looked a mess, to tell you the truth, a real slattern, dress any old how…

She looked very messy, dirty and untidy, dressed in a very careless way.

11. She was up in court a couple of times --- drunk and disorderly, of course.

She was taken to court a couple of times because she was drunk and disorderly as one could expect.

12. The one store had become several dozen, and the settlement had all the attributes of a flourishing resort --- hotels, a dance-hall, cafés with noen signs, the penetrating odours of potato chips and hot dogs.

There had been only one store in the past, but now there were several dozen stores. The settlement had all the characteristics of a flourishing resort such as hotels, a dance-hall, cafes lighted by neon signs, the strong smells of potato chips and hot dogs.