高级英语第三版paraphrase-2

高级英语第三版paraphrase-2

汉熙高级英语第三版中的Paraphrase

高级英语第二册

Lesson 1 Pub Talk and the King’s English

1. And it is an activity only of humans.

And conversation is an activity which is found only among human beings.

Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our ideas or points of views. In a conversation we should not try to establish the force of an idea or argument.

3. In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose.

In fact, people who really enjoy and are good at conversation will not argue to win or force others to accept his ideas.

4. Bar friends are not deeply involved in each other’s lives.

People who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not close/

intimate friends for they are not deeply absorbed in each other’s private lives.

5. ...it could still go ignorantly on.

The conversation could go on without anybody knowing who was right or wrong.

6. There are cattle in the fields ,but we sit down to beef (boeuf ).

These animals are called cattle when they are alive and feeding in the fields; but when we sit down at the table to eat, we call their meet beef.

7. The new ruling class had built a cultural barrier against him by building their French against his own language.

The new ruling class by using French instead of English made it hard for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the rulers.

8. ...English had come royally into its own.

The English received proper recognition and was used by the King once more.

9. The phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower classes.

The phrase, the King’s English,has always been used disrespectfully and

jokingly by the lower classes. (The working people very often make fun of the proper and formal language of the educated people.)

10. The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there.

There still exists in the working people, as in the early Saxon peasants, a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class.

11. There is always a great danger, as Carlyle put it, that “ words will harden into things for us.”

There is always a great danger that we might forget that words are only symbols and take them for things they are supposed to represent.

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 this 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 died and are buried in graves without a name, and nobody notices that they are dead.

4. A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed.

Sitting with his legs crossed and using a very old-fashioned lathe, a carpenter quickly 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, all loudly demanding a cigarette.

6. …every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury.

Every one of these poor Jews looks 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./ However, people always notice anyone with a white skin.

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.

10. …for nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless, backbreaking struggle to wring a little food out of an eroded soil.

Life is very hard for ninety percent of the people. They can produce a little food on the poor soil With hard backbreaking toil．

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 she was only fit for doing heavy work like an animal．

12. People with brown skins are next door to invisible.

People with brown skins are almost invisible．

13. Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki uniforms…

The Senegales soldiers were wearing second-hand ready-made khaki uniforms which hid their beautiful, well—built bodies．

14. How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?

How much longer before they turn their guns around and attack the colonialist rulers?

15. Every white man there had this thought stowed somewhere or other in his mind.

Every white man there had this thought hidden somewhere in his mind．

Lesson 3 Inaugural Address (January 20, 1961)

1. And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebears fought is still at issue around the globe....

Our ancestors fought a revolutionary war to maintain that all men were created equal and God had given them certain unalienable rights which no state or ruler could take away from them. But today this issue has not yet been settled in many countries around the world .

2. This much we pledge--- and more.

We promise to do this and we promise to do more.

3. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures.

United and working together we can accomplish a lot of things in a large number of joint bold undertakings.

4. ...our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace...

The United Nations is our last and best hope of survival in an age where the tools to wage war have far surpassed and exceeded the tools to keep peace.

5. ...to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.

We pledge to help the United Nations enlarge the area in which its authority and mandate would continue to be in effect or in force.

6. ....before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.

Before the terrible forces of destruction, which atomic bombs can now release, wipe out mankind, which may be planned or brought about by an accident.

7. ....yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the band of mankind’s final war.

Yet both groups of nations are trying to change as quickly as possible this uncertain balance of terrible military power that restrains each group from launching mankind’s final war.

8. So let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness...

Let us start once again. We must bear in mind that being polite does not mean one is weak.

9. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.

Let both sides try to use science to produce good and beneficial things for man instead of employing it to bring frightful destruction.

10. ....each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty.

Americans of every generation have been called upon to prove their loyalty to their country (by fighting and dying for their country’s cause).

11. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love...

We still lead the country we love , knowing our sure reward will be a good conscience, and history will finally judge whether we have done our task well or not.

Lesson 4 Love Is a Fallacy

1. A nice enough young fellow, you understand, but nothing upstairs.

He is a nice enough young fellow, you know, but he is empty-headed.

2. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason.

A passing fashion or craze, in my opinion, shows a complete lack of reason.

3. I should have known they’d come back when the Charleston came back.

I should have known that raccoon coats would come back to fashion when the Charleston dance, which was popular in the 1920s, came back.

4. “All the Big Men on Campus are wearing them. Where’ve you been?”

All the important and fashionable men on campus are wearing them. How come you don’t know?

5. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear.

My brain, which is precision instrument, began to work at high speed.

6. With one omission, Polly fitted these specifications perfectly.

Except for one thing (intelligence) Polly had all the other requirements.

7. She was not yet of pin-up proportions, but I felt sure that time would supply the lack.

She was not as beautiful as those girls in posters but I felt sure she would become beautiful enough after some time.

8. In fact, she veered in the opposite direction.

In fact, she went in the opposite direction, that is, she was not intelligent but rather stupid.

9. “In other words, if you were out of the picture, the field would be open. Is that right?”

If you were no longer involved with her (if you stopped dating her), others would be free to compete to get her as a girlfriend.

10. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning.

His head turned back and forth (looking at the coat and then looking away

from the coat). Every time he looked his desire for the coat grew stronger and his resolution not to abandon/ give away Polly became weaker.

11. This loomed as a project of no small dimensions...

To teach her to think appeared to be a rather big task.

12. Admittedly it was not a prospect fraught with hope, but I decided to give it one more try.

One must admit the outcome does not look very hopeful, but I decided to try one more time.

13. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.

There is a limit to what any human being can bear.

14. I was not Pygmalion; I was Frankenstein, and my monster had me by the throat.

I planned to be Pygmalion, to fashion an ideal wife for myself, but I turned out to be Frankenstein because Polly (the result/ product of my hard work) ultimately rejected me and ruined my plan.

15. Frantically I fought back the tide of panic surging through me.

Desperately I tried to stop the feeling of panic that was overwhelming me. Lesson 5 The Sad Young Men