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Paraphrase & TranslationLesson 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 all atonce there was a focus.Then suddenly a magical transformation took place and there was a f ocal subject to talk about.1.There is always resistance in the lower classes to any attempt by anupper 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。
Lesson 11．And it is an activity only of humans.And it is a human unique activity．2．Conversation is not for making a point.Conversation is not to convince others．3．In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to be lose.In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are willing to be lose.4.Bar friends are not deeply involved in each other’s lives.Bar friends are not deeply concerned with 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 field, but we sit down to beef.These animals are called cattle in English, when they are alive and feeding in the fields；but when we sit down at the table to eat, we call their meat beef in French．7. The new ruling class had built a cultural barrier against him by building their French against his own language.The new ruling class had caused the cultural contradictions between the ruling class and native English by regarding French superior to English.8.English had come royally into its own.English had gained recognition by the King．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 made fun by the lower classes. 10. The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there.There is still opposition to cultural monopoly.11. There is always a great danger that “words will harden into things for us”We tend to make the mistake that we regard the things as they represent.12. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King’s English slips and slides in conversation.Even the most educated and literated people will not always use the formal English in their conversation．Lesson 21. The burying--ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot.The burying-ground is just a huge piece of wasteland full of mounds of earth, looking like a deserted construction land.2.All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that fact.All colonial empires are built by exploiting the local people.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 they work hard without enough food for a few years. Finally they die and are buried in the hills graves without any mark to identify them.4. A carpenter sits crosslegged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lighting speed.A carpenter sits crossing his legs at an old-fashioned lathe, making round chair-legs very fast.5. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews.Immediately, Jews rushed out of their dark hole-like rooms nearby in a frenzy madness.6.every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury.Every one of these Jews considers the cigarette as a somewhat piece of luxury which they can not possibly afford.7. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.However, a white-skinned European is easy to notice in a fair way.8. In a tropical landscape one’s eye takes in everything except the human being.Against the background of a tropical landscape, people could notice everything but they cannot see local people.9. No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distressed AreasNo one would propose the cheap trips to the slums．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.The real life of nine-tenths of the people is that there is no end to their extremely hard work in order to get a little food from an eroded 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 should work like an animal．12.People with brown skins are next door to invisible.People who have brown skins are almost invisible．13. Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki uniforms...The soldiers wore second—hand khaki uniforms which covered their beautiful well—built bodies．14. How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?How long will it take for them to attack us?15. Every white man there had this thought stowed somewhere or other in his mind.It is certain that every white man realized this.Lesson31.And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebears fought is still at issue around the globe...And yet the same revolutionary belief which is the aim of our ancestors is still in dispute around the world.2. This much we pledge--and more.This much we promise to do and we promise to do more.3. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures.If we are united, there is almost nothing we can not do through a lot of cooperation.4. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers.But this peaceful revolution which can bring hope in a peaceful way can not fall victims to enemy country.5. .... Our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of pace...The United Nations is our last and best hope in the era where means of launching war have far surpassed means of keeping peace.6. ...to enlarge the area in which its writ may run...to increase the area where the UN’s written documents may be effective.7....before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction...before the evil atom weapon made possible by science destroy all human beings in a planned way or by accident.8...yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind’s final war... However both trying to change that unstable balance of weapons and this balance of weapons could prevent human beings from launching their final war.9. So let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness...So let us begin once again to realize that politeness does not mean weakness.10. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.I suggest both sides try to use science to make wonders for human beings rather than terrors.11. ...each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. There are Americans from every generation who answer the call of the country to prove their loyalty to the country.12. 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...Our certain reward is our good conscience and history will judge our deeds, therefore, let us try to be pioneers in building our beloved country.Unit51.The slighted mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged...At the very mention of this postwar period ,middle-aged people begin to think about it longingly.2.The rejection of Victorian gentility was , in any case ,inevitable .In any case,an American could not avoid casting aside middle-class respectability and affected refinement.3.The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian social structure...The war only helped to speed up the breakdown of the Victorian social structure.4...it was tempted ,in America at least, to escape its responsibilities and retreat behind an air of naughty alcoholic sophistication...In America at least,the young people were strongly inclined to shirk their responsibilities. They pretended to be worldly-wise, drinking and behaving naughtily.5.Prohibition afforded the young the additional opportunity of making their pleasures illicit...The young found greater pleasure in drinking because Prohibition, by making drinking unlawful,added a sense of adventure.6...our young men began to enlist under foreign flags.Our young men joined the armies of foreign countries to fight in the war.7....they “wanted to get into the fun before the whole thing turned belly up.”The young wanted to take part in the glorious adventure before the whole ended.8...they had outgrown towns and families...These young people could no longer adapt themselves to lives in their hometowns or their families.9..the returning veteran also had to face the sodden,Napoleonic cynicism of Versailles,the hypocritical do-goodism of Prohibition...The returning veteran also had to face the stupid cynicism of the victorious allies in Versailles who acted as cynically as Napoleon did,and to face Prohibition which the lawmakers hypocritically assumed would do good to the people.10.Something in the tension-ridden youth of America had to “give”...(Under all this force and pressure)something in the youth of America,who were already very tense ,had to break down.11....it was only natural that hopeful young writers , their minds and pens inflamed against war, Babbittry, and “Puritanical”gentility, should flock to the traditional artistic center...It was only natural that hopeful young writers ,whose minds and writings were full of violent anger against war, Babbittry,and “Puritanical”gentility,should come in largen numbers to live in Greenwich Village, the traditional artistic center.12.Each town had its “fast”set which prided itself on itself on its unconventionality...Each town was proud that it had a group of wild ,reckless people,who lived unconventional lives.Unit71.With a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the city Omelas .The loud ringing of the bells, which sent the frightened swallows flying high, marked the beginning of the F estival of Summer in Omelas.2. ..Their high calls rising like the swallows’ crossing flights over the music and singsing.The shouting of the children could be heard clearly above the music and singing like the calls of the swallow s flying by overhead.3. ..Exercised their restive horses before the race.The riders were putting the horses through some exercises because the horses were eager to startand stubbornly resisting the control of the riders.4. Given a description such as this one tends to make certain assumptions.After reading the above description the reader is likely to assume certain things.5. This is the treason of artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. An artist betrays his trust when he does not admit that evil is nothing fresh nor novel and pain is very dull a nd uninteresting.6. They were nature, intelligent, passionate adults whose lives were not wretched.They were fully developed and intelligent grown-up people full of intense feelings and they were not misera ble people.7. Perhaps it would be best if you imagined it as your own fancy bids, assuming it will rise to the occas ion.Perhaps it would be best if the reader pictures Omelas to himself as his imagination tells him, assuming his i magination will be equal to the task.8. The faint insistent sweetness of drooz may perfume the way of the city.The faint but compelling sweet scent of the drug drooz may fill the streets of the city.9. Perhaps it was born defective, or perhaps it has become imbecile through fear, malnutrition and neg lect.Perhaps the child was mentally retarded because it was born so or perhaps it has become very foolish and s tupid because of fear, poor nourishment and neglect.10. Its habits are too uncouth for it to respond to humane treatment.The habits of the child are so crude and uncultured that it will show no sign of improvement even if it is trea ted kindly and tenderly.11. Their tears at the bitter injustice dry when they begin to perceive the terrible justice of reality, and to accept it.They shed tears when they see how terribly unjust they have been to the child, but these tearsdry up when t hey realize how just and fair though terrible reality was.Unit81.....below the noisy arguments , the abuse and the quarrels , there is a reservoir of instinctivefellow-feeling...The English people may hotly argue and abuse and quarrel with each other , but there still exists a lot of natural sympathetic feelings for each other in their hearts.2....at heart they would like to take a whip to the whole idle troublesome mob of them.What the wealthy employers would really like to do is to whip all the workers whom they regard as lazy and troublesome.3...there are not many of these men , either on the board or the shop floor...There are not many snarling shop stewards in the workshop,nor are there many cruel wealthy employers on the board of directors.4.It demands bigness ,and they are suspicious of bigness.The contemporary world demands that everything should be done on a big scale and the English do not trust bigness.5.Against this , at least superficially ,Englishness seems a poor shadowy show...At least on the surface ,when Englishness is put against the power and success of Admass , Englishness seems to put up a rather poor performance.6....while Englishness is not hostile to change,it is deeply suspicious of change for change’s sake... Englishness is not against change, but it believes that changing just for change’s sake and not other useful purposes is very wrong and harmful.7.To put cars and motorways before houses seems to Englishness a communal imbecility.To regard cars and motorways as more important than houses seems to Englishness a public stupidity.8.I must add that while Englishness can still fight on ,Admass could be winning.I must further say that while Englishness can go on fighting, there is a great possibility for Admass to win.9.It must have some moral capital to draw upon,and soon it may be asking for an overdraft. Englishness draws its strength from a reservoir of strong moral and ethical principles ,and soon it may be asking for strength which this reservoir of principles cannot provide.10.They probably believe ,as I do , that the Admass”Good Life”is a fraud on all counts.There people probably believe ,as I do,that the “Good Life”promised by Admass is false and dishonest in all respects.11...he will not even find much satisfaction in this scrounging messy existence, which does nothing for a man’s self-respect.He will not even find much satisfaction in this untidy and disordered life where he manages to live as a parasite by sponging on people. This kind of life does not help a person to build up any self-respect.12.To them the House of Commons is a remote squabbling-shop.These people consider the House of Commons as a place rather far away from them where some people are always quarreling and arguing over some small matters.13...heavy hands can fall on the shoulders that have been shrugging away politics.They were very wrong to ignore politics for they can now suddenly and for no reason be arrested and thrown into prison.Unit101. It is a complex fate to be an American.The fate of an American is complicated and hard to understand.2...they were no more at home in Europe than I was.They were uneasy and uncomfortable in Europe as I was.3...we were both searching for our separate identities.They were all trying to find their own special individualities.4. I do not think that could have made this reconciliation here.I don't think I could have accepted in America my Negro status without feeling ashamed.5...it is easier to cut across social and occupational lines there than it is here.It is easier in Europe for people of different social groups and occupations to intermingle and have social int ercourse.6. A man can be as proud of being a good waiter as of being a good actor, and in neither case feel thre atened. In Europe a good waiter and a good actor are equally proud of their social status and position. They are not jealous of each other and do not live in fear of losing their position.7. I was born in New York, but have lived only in pockets of it.I was born in New York but have lived only in some small areas of the city.8. This reassessment, which can be very painful, is also very valuable.The reconsideration of the significance and importance of many things that one had taken for granted in the past can be very painful, though very valuable.9. On this acceptance, literally, the life of a writer depends.The life of a writer really depends on his accepting the fact that no matter where he goes or what he does he will always carry the marks of his origins.10. American writers do not have a fixed society to describe.American writers live in a mobile society where nothing is fixed, so they do not have a fixed society to descri be.11..Every society is really governed by hidden laws, by unspoken but profound assumptions on the part of the people.Every society is influenced and directed by hidden laws, and by many things deeply felt andtaken for granted by the people, though not openly spoken about.。
Unit11.And it is an activity only of humans.And conversation is an activity found only among human beings.2.Conversation is not for making a point.Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our ideas or points of views.3.In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose.In fact , people who 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 a pub are not close friends for theyare 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.These animals are called cattle when they are alive and feed 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 buildingtheir 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.English received proper recognition and was used by the King once more.9.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 disrespectfully and jokingly by the lower classes.(The working people often mock the proper and formal language of the educated people.)10.The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there.As the early Saxon peasants , the working people still have a spirit ofopposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class.11.There is alway s a great danger that “ words will harden into things for us. ”There is always a great danger , as Carlyle put it , that we might forget thatwords are only symbols and take them for things they are supposed to represent.Unit21. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like aderelict building-lot.The buring-ground is nothing more than a huge piece of wasteland full ofmounds of earth looking like a deserted and abandoned piece of land on whicha 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 colonieslike 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, andthen 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 dieand are buried in graves without a name.4. A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legsat 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 ofJews .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 impossibleluxuryEvery one of these poor Jews looked on the cigarette as a piece of luxurywhich 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 areas10. 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．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。
高英2 Unit 1III. Paraphrase1. And conversation is an activity which is found only among human beings.2. 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.3. In fact a person who really enjoys and is skilled at conversation will not argue to win or force others to accept his point of view.4. People who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not intimate friends for they are not deeply absorbed or engrossed in each other's lives.5. The conversation could go on without anybody knowing who was right or wrong.6. 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 meat beef.7. The new ruling class by using French instead of English made it difficult for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the rulers.8. The English language received proper recognition and was used by the king once more.9. The phrase, the King's English, has always been used disparagingly and jokingly by the lower classes. The working people very often make fun of the proper and formal language of the educated people.10. 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 that we might forget that words are only symbols and take them for things they are supposed to represent.Ⅳ. Practice with Words and ExpressionsA.1. on the rocks: (colloquial) in or into a condition of ruin or catastrophe2. get out of bed on the wrong side: to be cross or in a bad temper for the day3. on wings (on the wing): flying or while flying; in motion or while moving or traveling4. turn up one's nose at: to sneer at, to scorn5. in another’ shoes: in another’s position6. come into its own: to receive what properly belongs to one, especially acclaim or recognition7. sit up at: (colloquial) to become suddenly alertB.1.Ignorant implies a lack of knowledge, either generally (an ignorant man) or on some particular subject (ignorant of the reason of their quarrel);illiterate implies a failure to conform to some standard of knowledge, especially an inability to read or write;uneducated implies a lack of formal or systematic education, as of that required in schools (his brilliant, though uneducated mind);unlearned suggests a lack of learning, either generally or in some specific subject (unlearned in science).2.Scoff implies a showing of scorn or contempt as a manifestation of doubt, cynicism, irreverence, etc. (they scoffed at his diagnosis of the disease);sneer implies a display of contempt, disparagement, etc, as by a derisive smile or scornful insinuating tone of voice (“You call this a dinner?" he sneered.);jeer suggests openly insulting, coarse remarks or mocking laughter (the crowd jeered at the speaker);gibe implies a taunting or mocking, either in amiable teasing or in sarcastic reproach (he kept gibing at me for my clumsiness);flout suggests a treating with contempt or disdain, especially by ignoring or rejecting (to flout the law).C.Explain1. No one knows how the conversation will go as it moves aimlessly and desultorily or asit becomes spirited and exciting.2. It is not a matter of interest if they are cross or in a bad temper.3. Bar friends, although they met each other frequently, did not delve into each other's lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings.4. Suddenly a miraculous change in the conversation took place.5. The conversation suddenly became spirited and exciting.6. The Elizabethan writers spread the English language far and wide.7. I have always had an eager interest in dictionaries.8. Even the most educated and literate people use non-standard, informal, colloquial English in their conversation.9. Otherwise one will tie up the conversation and will not let it go on freely.10. We would never have talked about Australia, or the language barrier in the time of the Norman Conquest.V. TranslationA.1.动物之间的信息交流，不论其方式何等复杂，也称不上谈话。
⾼级英语第三版第⼆册张汉熙1-6-8课课后paraphraseUnit1it is an activity only of humans.And conversation is an activity found only among human beings.is not for making a point.Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our ideas or points of views. fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose.In fact , people who are good at conversation will not argue to win or force others to accept his ideas.friends are not deeply involved in each other’s lives.）People who meet each other for a drink in a pub are not close 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.are cattle in the fields ,but we sit down to beef.These animals are called cattle when they are alive and feed in the fields , but when we sit down at the table to eat, we call their meet beef.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.had come royally into its own.(English received proper recognition and was used by the King once more.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 often mock the proper and formal language of the educated people.)rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there.As the early Saxon peasants , the working people still have a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class. is always a great danger that “ words will harden into things for us. ”There is always a great danger , as Carlyle put it , that we might forget that words are only symbols and take them for things they are supposed to represent.，Unit21.The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelictbuilding-lot.The buring-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 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.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 ina 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 areas10. 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．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。
高级英语2第三版课后答案【篇一：高级英语第三版第二册课后翻译】in which animals communicate with each other, they do not indulge in anything that deserves the name of conversation.不管动物之间的交流方式多么复杂，它们不能参与到称得上是交谈的任何活动中。
2. argument may often be a part of it, but the purpose of the argument is not to convince. there is no winning in conversation.争论会经常出现于交谈中，但争论的目的不是为了说服。
交谈中没有胜负之说。
3. perhaps it is because of my upbringing in english pubs thati think bar conversation has a charm of its own.或许我从小就混迹于英国酒吧缘故，我认为酒吧里的闲聊别有韵味。
4. i do not remember what made one of our companions say it ---she clearly had not come into the bar to say it , it was not something that was pressing on her mind---but her remark fell quite naturally into the talk.我不记得是什么使得我的一个同伴说起它来的---她显然不是来酒吧说这个的，这不是她事先想好的话题----但她的话相当自然地插入到了交谈中。
5. there is always resistance in the lower classes to anyattempt by an upper class to lay down rules for “english as it should be spoken .”下层社会总会抵制上层社会企图给“标准英语”制定得规则。
1.Conversation is an activity which is found only among human beings. 2Conversation is not for persuad ing others to accept our idea or point of view. 3.In fact ,a person who really enjoys andis skilled at conve rsation will not argue to win or force others to accept his point of view.4. People who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not intimate friends for they are not de eply absorbed or engrossed in each other’s lives.5.The conversation could go on without anybody know ing who was right or wrong.6. These animals are called cattle when they are alive and feeding in the fie lds; but when we sit down at the table to eat , we call their meat beef7.The new ruling class by using Fr ench instead of English made it difficult for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the rulers.8.Th e English language received proper recognition and became an official language.9.The phrase "the Kin g's English" has always been used disparagingly or jokingly by the lower classes. 10. There still exists in the working people a spirit of opposition to the cultural control of the ruling class. 11.There is always a g reat danger that we might forget that words are only symbols and take them for things they are supposed to represent1.The burying-ground is just a huge piece of wasteland full of mounds of earth, looking like a deserted construction land.2. All colonial empires are built by exploiting the local people.3. They are born. Then they work hard without enough food for a few years. Finally they die and are bur ied in the hills graves without any mark to identify them.4. A carpenter sits crossing his legs at an old-f ashioned lathe, making round chair-legs very fast.5. Immediately, Jews rushed out of their dark hole-lik e rooms nearby in a frenzy madness.6.Every one of these Jews considers the cigarette as a somewhat piece of luxury which they can not possibly afford.7. However, a white-skinned European is easy to notice in a fair way.8.Against the background of a tropical landscape, people could notice everything but they cannot see local people.9. No one would propose the cheap trips to the slums． 10．The real life of nine-tenths of the people is that there is no end to their extremely hard work in order to get a little food from an eroded soil． 11. She took it for granted that as an old woman she should work like an ani mal．12. People who have brown skins are almost invisible． 13.The soldiers wore second—hand khak i uniforms which covered their beautiful well—built bodies． 14. How long will it take for them to attack us?15. It is certain that every white man realized this.1. Our ancestors fought a revolutionary war to maintain that all men were created equal and God had gi ven them certain unalienable rights which no state or ruler could take away from them. But today this iss ue has not yet been decided in many countries around the world.2. This much we promise to do and w e promise to do more.3. United and working together we can accomplish a lot of things in a great numb er of joint undertakings.4. We will not allow any enemy country to subvert this peaceful revolution whic h brings hope of progress to all our countries.5. The United Nations is our last and best hope of surviva l in an age where the instruments of war have far surpassed the instruments of peace.6. We pledge to help the United Nations enlarge the area in which its authority and mandate would continue to be in effe ct or in force.7. before the terrible forces of destruction, which science can now release, overwhelm m ankind; before this self-destruction, which may be planned or brought about by an accident, takes place8. Yet both groups of nations are trying to change as quickly as possible this uncertain balance of terrible military power which restrains each group from launching mankind's final war. 9. So let us start once a gain (to discuss and negotiate)and let us remember that being polite is not a sign of weakness. 10. Let b oth sides try to call forth the wonderful things that science can do for mankind instead of the frightful thin gs it can do. 11. Americans of every generation have been called upon to prove their loyalty to their coun try (by fighting and dying for their country's cause).12.Let history finally judge whether we have done our task welt or not, but our sure reward will be a good con-science for we will have worked sincerely and tothe best of our ability.}1. He is a nice enough young fellow, you know, but he is empty-headed.2. A passing fashion or craze, in my opinion, shoes a complete lack of reason.3. I ought to have known that raccoon coat would come b ack to fashion when the Charleston dance, which was popular in the 1920s, came back4. All the import ant and fashionable men on campus are wearing them. How come you don’t know?5. My brain, which i s a precision instrument, began to work at a high speed.6. Except for one thing (intelligence) polly had a ll other requirements.7. She was not as beautiful as those girls in posters but i felt sure she would beco me beautiful enough after some time.8. In fact, she was in the opposite direction, that is, she is not intell igent but rather stupid.9. If you are no longer involved with her (if you stop dating her) others would be fr ee to compete to get her as a girlfriend.10. His head turned back and forth (looking at the coat then looking away from the coat). Every time he l ooked his desire for the coat grew stronger and his resolution not to give away polly become weaker. 11. To teach her to think appeared to be rather big task. 12. 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 any human being can bear.14. I planned to be Pygmalion, to fashion an ideal wife for myself, but i turned out to be Frankenstein be cause polly(the result/product of my hard work) ultimately rejected me and ruined my plan. 15. Desperat ely i tried to stop the feeling of panic that was overwhelming me.1. At the about very mention of this postwar period middle-aged people begin to think it longingly.2. In any case all American couldn’t avoid casting aside middle-class respectability and affected refinem ent.3. the war only helped to speed up the breakdown of the Victorian social4. America at least, the yo ung people were strongly inclined to shirk their responsibilities. They pretended to be worldly-wise, drinki ng and behaving naughtily.5.The young found greater pleasure in drinking because Prohibition, by maki ng drinking unlawful，added a sense of adventure.6. our young men joined the armies of foreign countries to fight in the war.7. The young wanted to take part in the glorious adventure before the whole war ended. 8. These young people could no longer adapt themselves to lives in their hometowns or their families. 9. The returning v eteran also had to face the stupid cynicism of the victorious allies in Versailles who acted as cynically as Napoleon did, and to face Prohibition which the lawmakers hypocritically assumed would do good to the people. 10. (Under all this force and pressure) st. in the youth of America, who were already very tense, had to break down. 11. It was only natural that hopeful young writers, whose minds and writings were f ull of violent anger against war, and "Puritanical" gentility, should come in large numbers to live in Green wich Village, the traditional artistic center. 12. Each town was proud that it had a group of wild, reckless people, who lived unconventional lives.1.this belief reflecting waste and greed are too bad to be excused:the real cause of global warming are not natural phenomenon but human factors such as waste and greed,which are embodied in this belief.and by now it is easy to see how foolish this belief is.2. It is assumed that the supposed possibility of limitlessness came about from the fact that the industrial revolution coincided with discovery of natural resources in the new world(the american continent) that became suddenly exploitable.however,it is not clear how to relate the ideals of the supposed limitlessness of resources with their eventual exhaustion3.Making the doctrine of limitlessness a normal standard of belief and behavior has produced a sort of moral reduction,namely,the strong wish to be efficient regardless of any cost ,and not to be hindered by complexity4.Connectedness.with.other,respect,reverent,responsibility,accountability,and self-subordination are allreduced to the minimum.our present leaders and heroes are especially favored by and are bad examples of this culture. 5.Thus putting an x mark on a paper voting ballot no longer converts our idea of voting no longer reflects our idea of voting.we don’t believe we are voting property if some high technology is not involved 6.We are not likely to get another planet to use up a careless way to offset error in damaging this one 7.The hope that we can solve the problems of industrialism by using small amounts of more technology seems at last to be losing position 8.If we dig into our cultural tradition,we are going to find a concern with religion,which, at least,completely destroys the belief that the individual life exists in a selfish way,and the destruction of this belief forces people to consider and examine seriously what human beings are and what human beings ought to be 9.This community economics is entirely different from the predatory economy of bringing large profits to the powerful and disadvantages and even ruin to the powerless 10.At the present time,quite a few writers,critics,and teachers of literature,as well as scientists and technicians,regard satan’s and fuastus’ defiance as possible and heroic1. Science is engaged in the task of making its basic concepts understood and accepted by scientists all over the world.2. The car model, called Fiesta, seems to have disappeared completely.3. The idea of a world car is similar to the idea of having a world style for architecture. /As architecture w as moving toward a common International Style, it was natural for the automobile to do the same.4. Things that are happening in auto making are similar to those happening in architecture.5. The mod ern man no longer has very distint individual traits shaped by a special environment and culture．6．The disadvantage of being a cosmopolitan is that he loses a home in the old sense of the world．7．The benefit of being a cosmopolitan is that he begins to think the old kind of home probably restricts his development and activities． 8．The compelling force of technology to universalize cannot be resist ed． 9．When every artist thought it was his duty to show his contempt for and objection to the Eiffel To wer which they considered an irreverent architectural structure． 10．People used to firmly believe that the things they saw around them were real solid substances but this has now been thrown into doubt by science, 11.The disappearance of history frees the mind of traditional concepts. It is like what Madame B-P says of the flexible and pliable quality that was beyond human powers and absolutely new.12Thatpe rhaps, shows how far logically modern aesthetic can go．The solid banks can become almost abstract a nd invisible．This is perhaps the furthest limit of how solid objective things may be disappearing．。
高级英语第三版第二册答案 【篇一：高级英语第三版第二册paraphrase 】of humans.and conversation is an activity found only among human beings.2.conversation is not for making a point.conversation is not for persuading others to accept our ideasor points of views.3.in fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose.in fact , people who 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 a pub are not close 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.these animals are called cattle when they are alive and feed in the fields , but when we sit down at the table to eat, we calltheir meet beef.7.the new ruling class had built a cultural barrier against himby building their french against his own language.the new ruling class by using french instead of english madeit hard for the english to accept or absorb the culture of the rulers.8.english had come royally into its own.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 often mock the proper and formal language of the educated people.)10.the rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there.as the early saxon peasants , the working people still have a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class.11.there is always a great danger that “words will harden into things for us. ”there is always a great danger , as carlyle put it , that we might forget that words are only symbols and takethem for things they are supposed to represent.1. the burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot.1.the buring-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.2. all the imperialists build up their empires by treating the people in the colonies like animals (by not treating the peoplein 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 ofthe graveyard.3. 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 cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed.4. 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 .5. 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 luxury6. 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.7. however, a white-skinned european is always quite noticeable.8. in a tropical landscape ones eye takes in everything except the human beings.8. 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.9. no one would think of organizing cheap trips for the tourists to visit the poor slum areas10. 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.10. life is very hard for ninety percent of the people ．with hard backbreaking toil they can produce a little food on the poorsoil ．11. she accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say asa beast of burden.11.she took it for granted that as an old woman she was the lowest in the community ，that 。
高级英语第三版第二册答案【篇一：高级英语第三版第二册paraphrase】of humans.and conversation is an activity found only among human beings.2.conversation is not for making a point.conversation is not for persuading others to accept our ideas or points of views.3.in fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose.in fact , people who 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 a pub are not close 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.these animals are called cattle when they are alive and feed 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.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 often mock the proper and formal language of the educated people.)10.the rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there.as the early saxon peasants , the working people still have a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class.11.there is always a great danger that “ words will harden into things for us. ” there is always a great danger , as carlyle put it , that we might forget that words are only symbols and take them for things they are supposed to represent.1. the burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot.1.the buring-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.2. 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.3. 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 cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed.4. 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 .5. 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 luxury6. 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.7. however, a white-skinned european is always quite noticeable.8. in a tropical landscape ones eye takes in everything except the human beings.8. 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.9. no one would think of organizing cheap trips for the tourists to visit the poor slum areas10. 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.10. 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 asa beast of burden.11.she took it for granted that as an old woman she was the lowest in the community，that。
Lesson 11．And it is an activity only of humans.And it is a human unique activity．2．Conversation is not for making a point.Conversation is not to convince others．3．In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to be lose.In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are willing to be lose.4.Bar friends are not deeply involved in each other’s lives. Bar friends are not deeply concerned with 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 field, but we sit down to beef.These animals are called cattle in English, when they are alive and feeding in the fields；but when we sit down at the table to eat, we call their meat beef in French．7. The new ruling class had built a cultural barrier against him by building their French against his own language.The new ruling class had caused the cultural contradictions between the ruling class and native English by regarding French superior to English.8.English had come royally into its own.English had gained recognition by the King．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 made fun by the lower classes.10. The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there. There is still opposition to cultural monopoly.11. There is always a great danger that “words will harden into things for us”We tend to make the mistake that we regard the things as they represent.12. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King’s English slips and slides in conversation. Even the most educated andliterated people will not always usethe formal English in theirconversation．Lesson 21. The burying--ground is merelya huge waste of hummocky earth,like a derelict building-lot.The burying-ground is just a hugepiece of wasteland full of moundsof earth, looking like a desertedconstruction land.2.All colonial empires are inreality founded upon that fact.All colonial empires are built byexploiting the local people.3. They rise out of the earth, theysweat and starve for a few years,and then they sink back into thenameless mounds of thegraveyard.They are born. Then they work hardwithout enough food for a fewyears. Finally they die and areburied in the hills graves withoutany mark to identify them.4. A carpenter sits crosslegged ata prehistoric lathe, turningchair-legs at lighting speed.A carpenter sits crossing his legs atan old-fashioned lathe, makinground chair-legs very fast.5. Instantly, from the dark holesall round, there was a frenziedrush of Jews.Immediately, Jews rushed out oftheir dark hole-like rooms nearbyin a frenzy madness.6.every one of them looks on acigarette as a more or lessimpossible luxury.Every one of these Jews considersthe cigarette as a somewhat pieceof luxury which they can notpossibly afford.7. Still, a white skin is alwaysfairly conspicuous.However, a white-skinnedEuropean is easy to notice in a fairway.8. In a tropical landscape one’seye takes in everything exceptthe human being.Against the background of atropical landscape, people couldnotice everything but they cannotsee local people.9. No one would think of runningcheap trips to the DistressedAreasNo one would propose the cheaptrips to the slums．10．...for nine-tenths of thepeople the reality of life is anendless, back-breaking struggleto wring a little food out of aneroded soil.The real life of nine-tenths of thepeople is that there is no end totheir extremely hard work in orderto get a little food from an erodedsoil．11. She accepted her status as anold woman, that is to say as abeast of burden.She took it for granted that as anold woman she should work like ananimal．12.People with brown skins arenext door to invisible.People who have brown skins arealmost invisible．13. Their splendid bodies werehidden in reach-me-down khakiuniforms...The soldiers wore second—handkhaki uniforms which covered theirbeautiful well—built bodies．14. How long before they turntheir guns in the other direction?How long will it take for them toattack us?15. Every white man there hadthis thought stowed somewhereor other in his mind.It is certain that every white manrealized this.Lesson31.And yet the same revolutionarybelief for which our forebearsfought is still at issue around theglobe...And yet the same revolutionarybelief which is the aim of ourancestors is still in dispute aroundthe world.2. This much we pledge--andmore.This much we promise to do andwe promise to do more.3. United, there is little we cannotdo in a host of cooperativeventures.If we are united, there is almostnothing we can not do through alot of cooperation.4. But this peaceful revolution ofhope cannot become the prey ofhostile powers.But this peaceful revolution whichcan bring hope in a peaceful waycan not fall victims to enemycountry.5. .... Our last best hope in an agewhere the instruments of warhave far outpaced theinstruments of pace...The United Nations is our last andbest hope in the era where meansof launching war have far精品文档surpassed means of keeping peace.6. ...to enlarge the area in which its writ may run...to increase the area where the UN’s written documents may be effective.7....before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction... before the evil atom weapon made possible by science destroy all human beings in a planned way or by accident.8...yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind’s final war...However both trying to change that unstable balance of weapons and this balance of weapons could prevent human beings from launching their final war.9. So let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness... So let us begin once again to realize that politeness does not mean weakness.10. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.I suggest both sides try to use science to make wonders for human beings rather than terrors.11. ...each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty.There are Americans from every generation who answer the call of the country to prove their loyalty to the country.12. 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... Our certain reward is our good conscience and history will judge our deeds, therefore, let us try to be pioneers in building our beloved country.Unit51.The slighted mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to themiddle-aged...At the very mention of this postwar period ,middle-aged people begin to think about it longingly.2.The rejection of Victorian gentility was , in anycase ,inevitable .In any case,an American could not avoid casting aside middle-class respectability and affectedrefinement.3.The war acted merely as acatalytic agent in this breakdownof the Victorian social structure...The war only helped to speed upthe breakdown of the Victoriansocial structure.4...it was tempted ,in America atleast, to escape itsresponsibilities and retreatbehind an air of naughty alcoholicsophistication...In America at least,the youngpeople were strongly inclined toshirk their responsibilities. Theypretended to be worldly-wise,drinking and behaving naughtily.5.Prohibition afforded the youngthe additional opportunity ofmaking their pleasures illicit...The young found greater pleasurein drinking because Prohibition, bymaking drinking unlawful,added asense of adventure.6...our young men began to enlistunder foreign flags.Our young men joined the armiesof foreign countries to fight in thewar.7....they “wanted to get into thefun before the whole thingturned belly up.”The young wanted to take part inthe glorious adventure before thewhole ended.8...they had outgrown towns andfamilies...These young people could nolonger adapt themselves to lives intheir hometowns or their families.9..the returning veteran also hadto face the sodden,Napoleoniccynicism of Versailles,thehypocritical do-goodism ofProhibition...The returning veteran also had toface the stupid cynicism of thevictorious allies in Versailles whoacted as cynically as Napoleondid,and to face Prohibition whichthe lawmakers hypocriticallyassumed would do good to thepeople.10.Something in thetension-ridden youth of Americahad to “give”...(Under all this force andpressure)something in the youth ofAmerica,who were already verytense ,had to break down.11....it was only natural thathopeful young writers , theirminds and pens inflamed againstwar, Babbittry, and “Puritanical”gentility, should flock to thetraditional artistic center...It was only natural that hopefulyoung writers ,whose minds andwritings were full of violent angeragainst war, Babbittry,and“Puritanical”gentility,shouldcome in largen numbers to live inGreenwich Village, the traditionalartistic center.12.Each town had its “fast”setwhich prided itself on itself on itsunconventionality...Each town was proud that it had agroup of wild ,reckless people,wholived unconventional lives.Unit71.With a clamor of bells that setthe swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the city Omelas.The loud ringing of the bells, which sent the frightened swallows flying high, marked the beginning of the Festival of Summer in Omelas.2. ..Their high calls rising like theswallows’ crossing flights over the music and singsing.The shouting of the children couldbe heard clearly above the music and singing like the calls of the swallows flying by overhead.3. ..Exercised their restive horsesbefore the race.The riders were putting the horsesthrough some exercises because the horses were eager to startand stubbornly resisting the control of the riders.4. Given a description such as this one tends to make certain assumptions.After reading the above description the reader is likely to assume certain things.5. This is the treason of artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.An artist betrays his trust when hedoes not admit that evil is nothingfresh nor novel and pain is very dull and uninteresting.6. They were nature, intelligent,passionate adults whose lives were not wretched.They were fully developed and intelligent grown-up people full of intense feelings and they were not miserable people.7. Perhaps it would be best if youimagined it as your own fancy bids, assuming it will rise to the occasion.精品文档Perhaps it would be best if the rea der pictures Omelas to himself as his imagination tells him, assuming his imagination will be equal to the task.8. The faint insistent sweetness of drooz may perfume the way of the city.The faint but compelling sweet sce nt of the drug drooz may fill the st reets of the city.9. Perhaps it was born defective, or perhaps it has become imbecil e through fear, malnutrition and neglect.Perhaps the child was mentally ret arded because it was born so or pe rhaps it has become very foolish a nd stupid because of fear, poor no urishment and neglect.10. Its habits are too uncouth for it to respond to humane treatm ent.The habits of the child are so crud e and uncultured that it will show no sign of improvement even if it i s treated kindly and tenderly. 11. Their tears at the bitter injust ice dry when they begin to perce ive the terrible justice of reality, and to accept it.They shed tears when they see ho w terribly unjust they have been to the child, but these tearsdry up w hen they realize how just and fair t hough terrible reality was.Unit81.....below the noisy arguments , the abuse and the quarrels , there is a reservoir of instinctive fellow-feeling...The English people may hotly argue and abuse and quarrel with each other , but there still exists a lot of natural sympathetic feelings for each other in their hearts. 2....at heart they would like to take a whip to the whole idle troublesome mob of them. What the wealthy employers would really like to do is to whip all the workers whom they regard as lazy and troublesome.3...there are not many of these men , either on the board or the shop floor...There are not many snarling shop stewards in the workshop,nor are there many cruel wealthy employers on the board of directors.4.It demands bigness ,and they are suspicious of bigness.The contemporary world demands that everything should be done ona big scale and the English do nottrust bigness.5.Against this , at leastsuperficially ,Englishness seems apoor shadowy show...At least on the surface ,whenEnglishness is put against thepower and success of Admass ,Englishness seems to put up arather poor performance.6....while Englishness is nothostile to change,it is deeplysuspicious of change for change’s sake...Englishness is not against change,but it believes that changing justfor change’s sake and not otheruseful purposes is very wrong andharmful.7.To put cars and motorwaysbefore houses seems toEnglishness a communalimbecility.To regard cars and motorways asmore important than housesseems to Englishness a publicstupidity.8.I must add that whileEnglishness can still fighton ,Admass could be winning.I must further say that whileEnglishness can go on fighting,there is a great possibility forAdmass to win.9.It must have some moralcapital to draw upon,and soon itmay be asking for an overdraft.Englishness draws its strength froma reservoir of strong moral andethical principles ,and soon it maybe asking for strength which thisreservoir of principles cannotprovide.10.They probably believe ,as I do ,that the Admass”Good Life”is afraud on all counts.There people probably believe ,as Ido,that the “Good Life”promisedby Admass is false and dishonest inall respects.11...he will not even find muchsatisfaction in this scroungingmessy existence, which doesnothing for a man’s self-respect.He will not even find muchsatisfaction in this untidy anddisordered life where he managesto live as a parasite by sponging onpeople. This kind of life does nothelp a person to build up anyself-respect.12.To them the House ofCommons is a remotesquabbling-shop.These people consider the Houseof Commons as a place rather faraway from them where somepeople are always quarreling andarguing over some small matters.13...heavy hands can fall on theshoulders that have beenshrugging away politics.They were very wrong to ignorepolitics for they can now suddenlyand for no reason be arrested andthrown into prison.Unit101. It is a complex fate to be an American.The fate of an American is complicated and hard to understand.2...they were no more at home inEurope than I was.They were uneasy and uncomfortable in Europe as I was.3...we were both searching for our separate identities.They were all trying to find their own special individualities.4. I do not think that could havemade this reconciliation here.I don't think I could have acceptedin America my Negro status without feeling ashamed.5...it is easier to cut across socialand occupational lines there thanit is here.It is easier in Europe for people ofdifferent social groups and occupations to intermingle and have social intercourse.6. A man can be as proud of being a good waiter as of being a good actor, and in neither case feelthreatened. In Europe a good waiter and a good actor are equally proud of their social status and position. They are not jealous of each other and do not live in fear of losing their position.7. I was born in New York, but have lived only in pockets of it.I was born in New York but have lived only in some small areas of thecity.8. This reassessment, which canbe very painful, is also very valuable.The reconsideration of the significance and importance of many things that one had taken for granted in the past can be very painful, though very valuable.9. On this acceptance, literally, the life of a writer depends.精品文档The life of a writer really depends o n his accepting the fact that no ma tter where he goes or what he doe s he will always carry the marks of his origins.10. American writers do not havea fixed society to describe. American writers live in a mobile s ociety where nothing is fixed, so th ey do not have a fixed society to d escribe.11..Every society is really governed by hidden laws, by unspoken b ut profound assumptions on the part of the people.Every society is influenced and d irected by hidden laws, and by many things deeply felt and taken for granted by the people, th ough not openly spoken about.精品文档。
