高英(2)paraphrase

高级英语（2）paraphrase

Lesson 12. Loons

1. with a face that seemed totally unfamiliar with laughter.(Para. 2)

with a face that was dead serious, never laughed

2. Sometimes old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get mixed up in

Saturday-night brawl (Para. 2)

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

3. her attendance had always been sporadic and her interest in school work negligible. (Para. 3)

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

4. she existed for me only as a vaguely embarrassing presence. (Para. 3)

（Her presence would make me feel uneasy. ）

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

5. She dwelt and moved somewhere with my scope of vision… (Para. 3)

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

6. If it came to a choice between Grandmother Macleod and Piquette, Piquette would win hands down, nits or not. (Para. 14)

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

7.My acquaintance with Indians was not extensive(para.22)

8.She remained as both a reproach and a mystery to me.(para.47)

9.★Her defiant face, momentarily, became unguarded and unmasked, and in her eyes there was a terrifying hope. (Para. 60)

此时此刻，她那揭下面具和保护罩的脸上露出的是一副坚强不屈、敢于挑战一切的神情，她的眼神里也透出一种强烈得令人畏惧的渴望。

（At that time, we could see an expression of challenge on her face, which was so intense that it filled people with terror. ）

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 struck people as terrifying.

10. she looked a mess, to tell you the truth, a real slattern, dressed any old how. (Para. 69)

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. (Para.

69)

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,cafes with neon signs,the penetrating odoursof potato chips and hot dogs.(para.72)

13.Perhaps they had gone away to some far place of belonging.Perhaps they had been unable to find such a place,and had simply died out,having ceased to care any longer whether they lived or not.(para.74)

Lesson 2. Marrakech

1.The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot.

The Burying-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（, and nobody notices that they are dead.）