现代大学英语精读3 课文 Paraphrase

UNIT 1

…identity is determined by genetic endowment, shaped by environment, and influenced by chance events.

…our identity is decided by our genes (inherited from parents), greatly influenced by environment we live in and affected by some unexpected events.

First, there is functional independence, which involves the capability of individuals to take care of practical and personal affairs, such as handling finances, choosing their own wardrobes, and determining their daily agenda.

First, there is the independence in handling everyday life situations, which involves the ability to solve practical problems, such as how to spend money wisely, choosing their own clothes, and determining what they are going to do everyday.

Fourth is freedom from “excessive guilt, anxiety, mistrust, responsibility, inhibition, resentment, and anger in relation to the mother and father.’’

Children often feel very guilty in relation to their parents because they think they have done something wrong; they are also anxious because they are always eager to please their parents; they sometimes feel unhappy because they think that their parents have not fair to them; they feel that they are responsible to their parents for everything they do; they are always afraid of not saying the right thing or not behaving properly; all these may make them angry with their parents or make them resentful. These feelings reflect their emotional dependence on their parents. When they grow up, they usually strive for the freedom from such dependence.

Perh aps one of the most stressful matters…as men or women.

Perhaps young college students feel most distressed in finding out their sexual identity, including associating with the opposite sex and designing their future roles as men or women.

Probably nothing can make students feel lower or higher emotionally than the way they are relating to whomever they are having a romantic relationship with.

When students are in a romantic relationship with the opposite sex, they are most likely to feel unhappy or happy emotionally.

dragging his feet with a dismayed, dejected look on his face.

walking slowly and listlessly, looking very unhappy and disappointed

“to drag one’s feet” is often used figuratively to mean”to delay deliberately”

The local authorities are dragging their feet closing small coal mines.

During the course I had come to realize that while my world was expanding and new options were opening for me, my father, who was in his sixties, was seeing his world shrink and his options narrow. (6)

From the course I learnt, I had discovered that different from my expanding world and more opportunities; my father was beginning to realize that his world was getting smaller and his choices fewer.