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大学英语精读3的Paraphrase㈡ 1. Y et, there was always in me…… somewhere else.P However, I always felt that I should pay a visit to some other places.2. I wandered the world through books.P I learned many aspects of the world by reading books.3.One poem committed to memory……in my mind.P I still remember one poem I learned in grade school.4.Perhaps only a truly discontented child……as I was.P Perhaps only a child who is truly dissatisfied with the reality can be attracted by books as I was.5.Perhaps restlessness is a necessary corollary of devoted literacy.P Perhaps if a person really devotes himself or herself to reading and writing, he or she is bound to be restless.6.by the lure of what……normal childhood.P by the power of attracting which was an instinctive and normal thing to any child at my age 7.But the best part of me……and bring them to life.P But the best part ……at home: But my most unforgettable memory was always at home……8.In books I have traveled……but into my own.P While reading books, I have not only traveled to different places in the world, but roamed around my own inner world.9.There was waking, …… was never really a stranger.P Between the tome I woke up and the tome I went to sleep, I just read books, which is a parallel universe to me. And in this universe, I might be a newcomer, but was never a stranger. 10. My real, true world. My perfect island.P To me, these books were a real, true world, as well as a perfect island on which I preferred to stay.11.…as though she was starving and the book was bread.P Jamaica Kincaid was reading books with great eagerness, as if the books were her food. 12.Reading has always been my home,…… invincible companion.P Reading has always given me joy and comfort, food and drink, and strength and companionship.13. and come outside …… in their separateness.P and come into contact with the reality, who think themselves superior to others and feel shame To be friends with them.14. Had television and the movies supplanted books?P Had books given way to televisions and the movies ? Or\ Had books been replaced by televisions and the movies?15.We are the people who……went out of print.P We are the people who would make sure that Pride and Prejudice would always be available.16.It was still in the equivalent of ……one another.P We still found each other like we did when we were young17."Until I feared I would lose it,……To Kill a Mockingbird. P We often say that the starving know the value of food and the man dying of thirst knows the value of Water.㈣1. …done his business like a dog at the road side,……P He had emptied his bowels or passed water (urinated) like a dog at the roadside,……2. got scant thanks :P He seldom expressed his thanks to the people who had offered him some food 3. They were not quite sure…… Now he was back at his home.P Some were mad about wealth; some thirsted for power; some were crazy about sex……4. they amused himP These mad or insane people made him think that they were all ridiculous.5. He thought everybody lived……anxiously.P He thought that our life is too complicated, too costly, and gives us too much pressure. He argued that we should simplify our life.6. He was not the first to inhabit…out of principle.P He was not the first to live in a cask. But he was the first who ever did so because he wanted to, not by necessity, not being forced to . He based it on aprinciple.7. But he taught chief by example.P Diogenes also taught by talking to people, but he mainly taught by setting an example for others to learn from.8. Diogenes answered "I'm trying to find a man."P He actually meant that all people he could see were only half-men. Here the word "man" means a true man.by Diogenes' standard.9. …that will come after you lose the use of your hands.P … that so-called happiness will occur when your hands become useless.10. And so he lived……P And that was how he lived……11. Only twenty, Alexander was far older and……restrained and chivalrous.P Alexander looked far older than a man of his age normally does, and was much wiser than man of his age normally is.12. It is of course “ the people” who were amazed, not “silence”P here were the people who were amazed, but remained silent.13 .hey took it as a paradox. P They regarded it as a paradox.14. But Alexander meant it P But Alexander really meant what he had said.15. He knew that of all men then alive……the beggar were free.P Alexander knew that of all the people alive at that time, he was free because he had absolute power and Diogenes was free because he didn’t need any power.㈤1.There was once a town……in harmony with its surroundings.×Once upon a time there was a town in the central part of America where all living things2. Then some evil spell settled on the community:……but even among children.× Then, as by some evil power, disaster struck the community: strange diseasesquickly struck down large numbers of children; the cattle and sheep became ill and died.3.… a harsh reality we all shall know.×… some serious consequence that we all have to face.4.…a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.× ...a history of how living things and their environment affect and relate to eachother.5.… the physical form and the habits of the earth’s vegetation…by the environment.×… the physical features and habits of the living things on earth have been Greatly shaped by their surroundings.6.… but it has changed in character.×… but the nature of this power to alter the environment has changed.7.This pollution is for the most irrecoverable.×In most case, the polluted air, soil, rivers and the sea cannot be restored to their original natural state.8. Or they pass mysteriously……from once pure wells.×Or they get deeper into underground streams, undergo some chemical processes somewhere, and then become new substances that contaminate wells, kill plants and make cattles as well as people that drink the water sick.9. Given time---time not in years……a balance has been reached.×When the environment changes, living things can adapt to their new surroundings, but it is a long process and it takes thousands of years for life to be in harmony with their modified world again.10. But in the modern world there is no time.×But in the modern world when man’s power to tamper with nature has become so great and he is so eager to change nature for short-term benefits, he does not think of the long-term interest of his own species.11. The rapidity of change follows…… deliberate pace of nature.×Man is changing nature rapidly while nature adjusts to the changes slowly. Therefore adjustment can never keep up with change, and a new balance between living things and their environment can hardly be reached.12. Radiation is now the unnatural creation of man’s tampering with the atom.×In the past, radiation was only sent out from radioactive substances in certain rocks; today man creates such harmful rays by causing the nucleus of the atom of such substances as radium to split.13.The chemicals are the synthetic creation of man’s tampering with the atom.× Nature dose not produce such things as chemicals. Chemicals are man-made and the results of man’s creative power.㈤14.And even this,……in an endless stream;….×It would take some magic power to make living things adjust to these chemicals in the life of generations. Even if this were possible, it would be useless, because new chemicals are continuously being created and produced.5. …find their way into actual use:×…manage to enter the market and be sold to farmers16. described as “ pests”×referred to as destructive insects17.…all this though the intended target……weeds or insects.×…all these serious consequences come about perhaps just because man wants to destroy a few weeds or insects.18. Can anyone believe it is pos sible……but “ biocides”.×Such number of poisons stored on the surface of the earth will surely make it unfit for all living things.19. destructive insects often undergo a “flare-back” or resurgence×The pests often return in even larger numbers.20.Thus the chemical war is never won,……in its violent crossfire.×Therefore, this fight between man and pests wil1 never come to an end, and all living things are affected by or fall victim to this chemical war.21.brought the threat of disease and d eath even to their own kind…× brought the threat of disease and death even to human beings themselves22.Nature has introduced……checks and balances.×Nature keeps living things in proportion, regulating their number through the check and balance mechanisms of itself23.… the devotion of immense acreage to a single crop×…planting a single crop on large aera of farmlan24. Such a system set the stage for……insect population.×Such a way of farming creates favorable conditions for the rapid increase of particular insects.25. In new territory,……in its native land,…×In new territory, since there are no natural enemies as those that did not allow it to multiply or grow too rapidly in their native land,……26. Thus it is no accident that ……are in troduced species.×That’s why the most trouble-making insects in this country are not native but introduced, which is not accidental at all.27. the explosive power of outbreaks and new invasions×the power of insects to multiply/breed in large numbers suddenly and quickly and their power to invade new territories28.We have subjected enormous numbers of people to……without their knowledge.×By spraying insecticides on food grains,vegetables and fruit, we have caused large number of people to absorb harmful chemicals without asking whether theywould like to do so and often without their knowing it.㈨1.In some respects, globalization is merely a trendy word for an old process.× To some extent, globalization is not new. The world has always been in the process of market expansion. What is new is the term "globalization", which became fashionable only recently.2.A decade later, even after Asia's 1997-98 financial crisis, private capital flows dwarf governmental flows.×Ten years later, even after Asia's financial crisis of 1997-98, private capital flows are still greater in number than governmental capital flows.3. The recent takeover struggle between British and German wireless giants isexceptional only for its size and bitterness.×The only difference between the recent takeover struggle between British and German radio giants and other cases is that this takeover is much bigger and a lot more bitter.4.Behind the merger boom lies the growing corporate conviction that many markets have become truly global.× The reason for the merger boom is that more and more business people now believe that many markets have truly become global. They are no longer producing just for the people in their own country. They want to combine or merge with others to become multinational companies.5. Among poorer countries, the best sign of support is the clamor to get into the World Trade Organization ... And 32 are seeking membership.×Many poorer countries want to join the World Trade Organization. This shows that they support globalization.6.Despite its financial crisis, rapid trade expansion and economic growth sharply cut the number of the desperately poor.×In spite of the financial crisis, rapid increase of trade and economic growth drastically reduced the number of the very poor people.7. two problems could neutralize its potential benefits.×… two problems could offset the possible benefits.8.The global economy may be prone to harsher boom-bust cycles than national economies individually.×Once integrated with the world market, nations will naturally be more vulnerable to the fluctuations of the world economy. The capital flows in and out a country, for example, can create a boom or bust very quickly and with much harsher effects.9.The Asian financial crisis raised questions on both counts.×The Asian financial crisis brought these two questions to people's attention: investment funds were not well used and trade flows became too lopsided.10.The ensuing spending boom in turn aided Europe, Japan, and the United States by increasing imports from them.×The growth in spending that followed helped Europe, Japan, and the United States by increasing imports from them.㈨11.What prevented the Asian crisis from becoming a full-scale economic downturn has been the astonishing U.S. economy.× It was the surprisingly vigorous growth of the U. S. economy that saved the Asian crisis from escalating into an all-round economic depression.12.The world economy.., has been flying on one engine.× The world economy has been driven by only one country's economy, namely the economy of the United States. In other words, the world has become too dependent on one country's prosperity.13... a slowdown or recession--reflecting a decline in the stock market, a loss ofconsumer confidence or higher interest rate-- might snowball into an international slump.×…a slowdown of the U.S. economy might develop into a serious international depression because the world economy is so dependent on it.14.Japan is projected to grow ...×Japan is expected to grow ... / Japan is predicted to ... / Japan is estimated to 15. If the forecasts materialize--and the OECD's growth estimates for Japan exceed most private forecasts--they will restore some balance to the world economy and relieve fears of a global recession.×If the forecasts come true--and the Os growth estimates for Japan are higher than most private forecasts---they will, to some extent, help the world economy return to its earlier balance, and reduce the fear of a worldwide recession.16. It remains possible that abrupt surges of global capital, first moving into Asia andthen out, will have caused, with some delay, a larger instability.×It is still possible that sudden increase or withdrawal of the world's capital, first moving into Asia and then out of it, will have made Asia more unstable.17. It is precisely this logic that has persuaded so many countries to acceptglobalization.×It is exactly this way of thinking that has persuaded so many countries.18 .But this does not mean that a powerful popular backlash, with unpredictableconsequences, is not possible.×But this does not mean that a powerful hostile reaction from ordinary people, which will have unpredictable consequences, is not possible.19.A plausible presumption is that practical politicians would try to protect their constituents from global gluts.× We can presume that practical politicians would no doubt try to protect their voters from the flood of products from other countries.20.If too many countries did, globalization could implode.×If too many countries tried to protect their constituents from global gluts, globalization could collapse violently from the inside.21.It's a scary prospect. Economic interdependence cuts both ways.22.It's a terrifying possibility. Economic mutual dependence can have good and bad effects.。

Lesson Two: Two KindsParaphrase1.I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size.I imagined myself as different types of prodigy, trying to find out which one suited me thebest.2.I had new thoughts, willful thou ghts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts.I had new thoughts, which were filled with a strong spirit of disobedience and rebellion.3.The girl had the sauciness of a Shirley Temple.The girl was Shirley Temple—like, slightly rude but in an amusing way.4.It felt like worms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my chest, but it also felt good, asif this awful side of me had surfaced, at last.When I said those words, I felt that some very nasty thoughts had got out of my chest, and so T felt scared. But at the same time I felt good, relieved, because those nasty things had been suppressed in my heart for some time and they had got out at last.5.And I could sense her anger rising to its breaking point. I wanted to see it spill over.I could feel that her anger had reached the point where her self—control would collapse, andI wanted to see what my mother would do when she lost complete control of herself.6.The lid to the piano was closed, shutting out the dust, my misery, and her dreams.When the lid to the piano was closed, it shut out the dust and also put an end to my misery. Phrases1.With almost no money down 几乎用不着交首付，几乎可以全部用贷款来买房2.The raised hopes and failed expectations 那些过高的希望和达不到的期盼3.Shorting out 短路4.The showpiece of our living room 我们起居室里的一件摆设5.Stiff-lipped smile 尴尬不自然的笑容6.Frighteningly strong 惊人地强大7.Follow their own mind 我行我素Sentence1.Instead of getting big fat curls, I emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black fuzz.我的头发没有做出我要的大卷花，而是给我弄成一头乱蓬蓬的黑色小卷毛。

学习-----好资料Lesson one1.Virtue is, indeed must be, self-centered.(para4)正确的行动是，确实也必须是以自我为中心的。

By right action, we mean it must help promote personal interest.2.The essentials are familiar: the poverty of the poor was the fault of the poor. And it wasbecause it was product of their excessive fecundity…..(para5)他的基本观点为人熟知：穷人的贫穷是他们咎由自取，贫穷是热门过度生育的结果The poverty of the poor was caused by their having too many children.3.Poverty being caused in the bed meant that the rich were not responsible for either itscreation or its amelioration. (para6)贫穷源于过度生育意味着富人不应该为产生贫穷和解决贫穷承担责任The rich were not to blame for the existence of poverty so they should not be asked toundertake the task of solving the problem.4.It is merely the working out of a law of nature and a law of God(para8)这是自然规律和上帝的意志在起作用。

It is only the result or effect of the law of the survival of the fittest applied to nature or tohuman society.5.It declined in popularity, and reference to it acquired a condemnatory tone.(para9)然而在20世纪，人们认为社会学中的达尔文进化论有点过于残酷，遭到了普遍的质疑，人们提及它都带有谴责的口吻。

Unit 11. They did not make me happy, however, as this was the day I was to be thrown into school for the first time.(1)Paraphrase:But my new clothes did not bring any happiness to me, because it was the day I was forced to go to school for the first time.2.“Why school?” I asked my father. “What have I done?”(3)Paraphrase:Why do I have to go to school? I don’t think I’ve done anything wrong to be punished like this.3. I did not believe there was really any good to be had in tearing me away from my home and throwing me into the huge, high-walled building. (5)Paraphrase:I didn’t think it was useful to take me away from home and put me into that building with high walls.4. It was not all a matter of playing and fooling around. (15)Paraphrase:What we did at school wasn’t just playing and wasting time doing nothing useful.5. In addition, the time for changing one’s mind was over and gone and there was no question of ever returning to the paradise of home. (16)Paraphrase:Besides, it was impossible for us to quit school and return to the good old days when we stayed home playing and fooling around all day. Our childhood was gone, never to come back.Unit 21. If banks were required to sell wallets and money belts, they might act less like churches. (para. 1) Paraphrase:Banks act like churches which usually control people’s life and can interfere in people’s life. So, the author thinks it is ridiculous for banks to act like churches.2. It was lunchtime and the only officer on duty was a fortyish black man with short, pressed hair, a pencil mustache, and a neatly pressed brown suit. (para. 3)Paraphrase:uncurled hair, a thin mustache looking like a line drawn by a pencil, and a neat and tidy brown suit3. Everything about him suggested a carefully dressed authority. (para. 3)Paraphrase:Everything about him—his clothes, manner, etc. indicated that he was a carefully dressed man who had an important position and power.4. I moved in for the kill. (para. 19)Paraphrase:5. I zeroed in on the officer. (para. 20)Paraphrase:I’m going to have a strong argument to silence the bank officer.6. Look, … we’re just wasting each other’s time. (para. 29)Paraphrase:Look, let’s stop talking about this because it is a waste of time./You are just talking nonsense. I don’t want to listen to you any more.7.… has been shaking this boy down… (para. 30)Paraphrase:… has been getting money from the boy by using threats…8. Anyway, the police are on the case… (para. 30)Paraphrase:Anyway, the police are working on the case…9. Not that I ever heard of. (para. 32)Paraphrase:I have never heard of such rules.Unit 31. My husband moved into our house as is the way with us in Esarn. (para. 1)Paraphrase:When we got married, we followed the tradition in Esarn and my husband came to live with my family.2. He has ears which don’t hear, a mouth which doesn’t speak, and eyes that don’t see. ( para. 2) Paraphrase:He does not notice what is happening around us and to our children, nor does he express his thoughts and feelings. (The woman is complaining that her husband does not bother about their children’s troubles.)3. … and it is no longer fertile, bleeding year after year and, like us, getting old and exhausted. (para. 3) Paraphrase:Our land is getting poorer with each passing year, like us who are getting old, weak and tired.4.… but in a bad year, it’s not only the ploughs that break but our hearts, too. (para. 3)Paraphrase:When there is a draught, the soil is so hard that it breaks the ploughs and we feel so sad that our hearts break too.5. Only ten years ago, you could barter for things, but now it’s all cash. (para. 4)Paraphrase:Just ten years ago, we could exchange one thing for another, but now we have to buy everything from the market.6. Shops have sprung up, filled with colorful plastic things and goods we have no use for. (para. 4) Paraphrase:Shops have suddenly appeared in the village selling attractive plastic things and things we don’t need.7. As for me, I wouldn’t change, couldn’t change even if I wanted to. (para. 7)Paraphrase:I didn’t want to change myself and my life, and actually I did not have the ability to change even if I wanted to.8. Yes, this bag of bones dressed in rags can still plant and reap rice from morning till dusk. (para. 7) Paraphrase:Though I’m poor, old and weak, I can still work in the rice field all day.9. I am at peace with the land and the condition of my life. (para. 9)Paraphrase:I am content with my land and accept my situation in life without complaint.10. I have been forcing silence upon her all these years, yet she had not once complained of anything. (para. 9) Paraphrase:All these years, I hardly talk with her or listen to her, so she has to keep silent about her thoughts and feelings, but she has never told anyone else about her unhappy feelings about my silence.11. Still the land could not tie them down or call them back. (para. 10)Paraphrase:My children grew up and had happy days on this land, but this could not prevent them from leaving for cities or attract them back from cities.12. Sickness comes and goes, and we get back on our feet again. (para. 11)Paraphrase:Inevitably we sometimes fall ill, but when we get well again we can always get back to our normal life and work on our land.Unit 41. Ausable was, for one thing, fat… Though he spoke French and German passably, he had never altogether lost the New England accent he had brought to Paris from Boston twenty years ago. (para. 2) Paraphrase:Ausable was, for one reason, fat… His French and German were not very good, but acceptable. Although he had been in Paris for twenty years, he never lost the American accent.2. …a sloppy fat man who, instead of having messages slipped into his hand by dark-eyed beauties, gets only an ordinary telephone call making an appointment in his room. (para. 4)Paraphrase:…an untidy fat man just has an ordinary phone call agreeing to meet somebody later in his room. There are no other imagined things as a beautiful lady with dark eyes putting a slip of message secretly into his hand.3. The fat man chuckled to himself as he unlocked the door of his room and stood as aside to let his frustrated guest enter. (para. 4)Paraphrase:The fat man laughed to himself when he opened the door of his room and gave way to his dissatisfied guest. 4. You are disillusioned. (para. 5)Paraphrase:You are disappointed because what you believe in has turned out to be wrong.5. Before long you will see a paper, a quite important paper for which several men and women have risked their lives, come to me in the next-to-last step of its journey into official hands. (para. 5)Paraphrase:Soon you will see a document/a report come to me. Several people took chances in order to get it. When I receive the paper, I will place it in the hands of the proper authorities.By then I will have fulfilled my mission.6. For halfway across the room, a small automatic pistol in his hand, stood a man. (para. 6)Paraphrase:In the middle of the room, there was a man with a small automatic pistol in his hand.7. I’m going to raise the devil with the management this time. (para. 11)Paraphrase:(He was making up a story, which turned out to be a trap for Max.To make Max swallow this bait, Ausable pretended to be angry with the management and explained to Fowler (not to Max) why he was going to complain to the management about the balcony.)8. It might have saved me some trouble had I known about it. (para. 12)Paraphrase:If I had known about it, I would not have spent so much effort.9. I wish I knew how you learned about the report, … (para. 15)Paraphrase:I want to know how you succeeded in finding out the report, but I have no idea.10. Keeping his body twisted so that his gun still covered the fat man and his guest, … (para. 22) Paraphrase:He twisted his body in order to point his gun right at the fat man and his guest.Unit 61. My ancient jeep was straining up through beautiful countryside when the radiator began to leak. (para. 1) Paraphrase:When the radiator started to drip, my old jeep was trying hard to climb up the mountain in the scenery rural area.2. The over-heated engine forced me to stop at the next village, which consisted of a small store and a few houses that were scattered here and there. (para. 1)Due to the high temperature of the engine, I had to stop at the next village, which contained a small shop and several houses that were loosely distributed.3. He, in turn, inspected me carefully, as if to make sure I grasped the significance of his statement. (para. 3) Paraphrase:Then he examined me with great caution in the way of ensuring whether I understood the importance of his words.4. As a product of American education, I had never paid the slightest attention to the green banana, except to regard it as a fruit whose time had not yet come. (para. 5)Paraphrase:As someone educated in the United States, I naturally had never paid any attention to the green banana, except to take it as a fruit which was not yet ripe or which was not yet ready to be picked and eaten.5. It was my own time that had come, all in relation to it. (para. 5)Paraphrase:It was me who had come to know the green bananas, and everything connected with it. According to the author, every civilization has special geniuses (symbolized by the green banana), which have existed for many years. But they will not come to your notice and benefit you until and unless you are ready to go out and meet them. 6. I had been wondering for some time about what educators like to call “learning moments”, and I now knew I had just experienced two of them at once. (para. 5)Paraphrase:The two things that suddenly dawned on him are: the fact that every civilization has wonderful treasure to share with others and the idea that every village, town, region or country has a right to regard itself as the center of the world.7. The cultures of the world are full of unexpected green bananas with special value and meaning. (8) Paraphrase:The green bananas have become a symbol of hidden treasures from every culture. For proper understanding of a piece of writing, it is often important to notice such symbolic language and to know what the symbols stand for.Unit 81. He had his thumb out and held a gas can in his other hand. (para. 1)Paraphrase:He held his thumb out and the gas can to show that he was out of gas and needed a lift to the nearest gas station. Generally speaking, at the same time of holding his thumb out, a hitchhiker also has a board in his hand, on which the name of the place he wants to go is written. Here, the gas can shows that the young man has run out of gasoline for his car.2. Leaving him stranded in the desert did not bother me so much. (para. 2)Paraphrase:Because the author thought it was sensible for him to do so and did so indeed as a matter of course as other people would do the same in the situation.It shows that it was really something common. The real issue then was not that he didn’t help the young man3. It would be cashless journey through the land of the almighty dollar. (para. 5)Paraphrase:I would travel without a penny through the country where money was extremely important.4. I rose early…and a sign displaying my destination to passing vehicles “America”. (para. 6)Paraphrase:Because what he wanted to do was to discover America and American people. The destination of the journey was Cape Fear, just literally, but the real destination was to seek understanding of the country and its people. 5. In Montana they told me to watch out for the cowboys in Wyoming. In Nebraska they said people would not be as nice in Iowa. (para.7)Paraphrase:They suggest that the people there (probably people everywhere), were more or less provincial (another sub-concept of ethnocentric?). They tended to make false assumptions about people in other places, i.e. the people in their place were nicer/better than those in other places.6. I didn’t know whether to kiss them or scold them for stopping. (para. 8)Paraphrase:(Because the situation when the two little ladies stopped for the author was, in his eyes, potentially dangerous for them. He says so to emphasize both the kindness and courage the ladies showed in that particular situation.)7. Once when I was hitchhiking unsuccessfully in the rain, a trucker pulled over, locking his brakes so hard he skidded on the grass shoulder. (Para. 9)Paraphrase:(Because he had to. Otherwise he would not be able to stop right before the author. It shows the mental struggle that was probably going on in the driver’s mind. He was once robbed at knifepoint by a hitchhiker, which made it more difficult for him to make such a decision at the moment than others. However, he chose to stop finally and his kindness was thereby highlighted.)8. Those who had the least to give often gave the most. (para.10)Paraphrase:Poor people are often more generous. They are often ready/willing to give comparatively more of what they have to those in need than rich people.9. Now we’re talking, I thought. (para.12)Paraphrase:Now he knew what I wanted and the talk was going in the right direction.10. “When we do, ” he said, “it’s usually kin.” (Para. 13)Paraphrase:(The local people do not usually entertain/receive guests at home.) They only do this for their kin relatives. 11. In spite of everything, you can still depend on the kindness of strangers. (para.15)(It means the fact that there are people who are indifferent to other people’s needs/ who refuse to help others/who may hesitate to help and people may say about lack of compassion in our society and a generally moral decay in our society. I find, however, on the whole you can still depend on the kindness of strangers.)Unit 91. The impressiveness was normal and not for show, for spectators were few. (para. 1)Paraphrase:The police officer walked that way habitually, not to attract attention or admiration because there were few people in the streets to be impressed. The description shows that the policeman quite enjoyed his work.2. Trying doors as he went, swinging his club with many clever movements, turning now and then to cast his watchful eye down the peaceful street, the officer, with his strongly built form and slight air of superiority, made a fine picture of a guardian of the peace. (para. 2)Paraphrase:From how he looked and what he did on the beat, we can see that the policeman was competent at, confident of, proud of, and dutiful to his job. All these factors gave people the impression that he was a trustworthy protector of the peace. ( Notice how a string of present participles are used as adverbials to vividly describe the policeman’s actions.)3. The area was one that kept early hours. (para. 2)Paraphrase:People in that area closed their stores pretty early.4. The next morning I was to start for the West to make my fortune. (para. 7)Paraphrase:The next morning I was going to leave (New York) for the West as planned to make a lot of money and get rich.5. We figured that in twenty years each of us ought to have our fate worked out and our fortunes made, whatever they were going to be. (para. 7)Paraphrase:We thought by that time we would have found out our fate and known how much we have achieved materially—whether our fortune huge or small.6. But after a year or two we lost track of each other. (para. 9)Paraphrase:We wrote letters and kept in touch with each other for a year or two, and then we stopped writing and haven’t heard from or heard of each other. Now neither of us knows what has happened or is happening to the other. 7. You see, the West is a pretty big place, and I kept running around over it pretty lively. (para. 9) Paraphrase:I kept moving around in the West, never staying in the same place for long. (And that’s why it was hard for us to keep track of each other.)8. …and it’s worth it if my old partner turns up. (para. 9)If my old friend comes to meet me as he promised, I would think my trouble of travelling so far is fairly rewarded.9. He was a kind of slow man, though, good fellow as he was. (para. 13)Paraphrase:However, he wasn’t very smart, even thought he was a good person.10. I’ve had to compete with some of the sharpest brains going to get my money. (para. 13 )Paraphrase:In order to make money, I had to compete with the most shrewd and crafty people.11. A man gets stuck in New York. It takes the West to make a man really keen. (para. 13) Paraphrase:A man is unable to go very far or to be very successful in New York where life is boring and opportunities for change are few. He has to go to the West to become an eager and exciting person.The man from the west means that New York City was “civilized”; it had too many laws, and that getting rich quickly was less likely. In the West, however, one could by-pass the rules, and though being tougher and smarter one could become rich very fast.12. I should say not! (para. 16)Paraphrase:Of course I am not going to leave immediately.13. The few foot passengers in that quarter hurried dismally and silently along with coat collars turned high and pocketed hands. (para. 18 )Paraphrase:There were few people in the street of this part of the city. They had turned their coat collars high and kept their hands in their pockets for warmth. They didn’t look happy and were walking fast without saying anything. 14. “Bless my heart!” exclaimed the new arrival. (para. 21)Paraphrase:“Bless my heart!” the man who had just arrived said aloud in surprise.15. It’s Bob, sure a fate. (para. 22)Paraphrase:Definitely it’s you, Bob.16. How has the West treated you, old man? (para. 22)Paraphrase:How well did you do in the West, old friend?17. …we’ll go around to a place I know of, and have a good long talk about old times. （para. 26）I’ve heard of a place, so let’s go there and we will have a long talk about those happy days we spent together in the past. Note that probably the plainclothes policeman was thinking: I’ll take you to the police station and you will tell me about the crimes you committed in the past.18. At the corner stood a drugstore brilliant with electric lights. (para. 28)Paraphrase:There was a drugstore at the corner. Its electric lights were on and it was very bright inside.19. Chicago thinks you may come over our way and telegraphs us she wants to have a chat with you. (para. 31) Paraphrase:The Chicago Police Department thinks you may come to New York, sent us a telegraph and asked us to help them track you down and arrest.20. Going quietly, are you? That’s sensible. (para. 31)Paraphrase:You won’t put up a fight and resist arrest, will you. That (cooperating will us without causing any disturbance) is the right thing to do.21. Somehow I couldn’t do it myself, so I went around and got a plain clothes man to do the job. (para. 33) Paraphrase:For some reason I couldn’t arrest you myself, so I had a policeman not wearing a uniform do it.Jimmy had mixed feelings. He knew what his duty was. But the memories of their friendship, the expressions of Bob’s undying respect and admiration for him and the fact that Bob had come all the way from a thousand miles away just to keep the appointment made 20 years before must have deeply touched him. Therefore, he could not bring himself to arrest Bob.Unit 101. The end of manual labor was liberating. (1)Paraphrase:Mandela is talking about forced labor. He felt liberated after the manual labor had been ended.2. To survive in prison, one must develop ways to take satisfaction in one’s daily life. (2)Paraphrase:In order not to die and go on living in prison, prisoners must cultivate ways to learn to enjoy themselves in their daily life.3. But eventually they gave in, and we were able to cut out a small garden on a narrow patch of earth against the far wall. (3)Paraphrase:But finally they agreed unwillingly, and we were able to mark out a small garden on a strip of earth against the wall in the distance.4. At the time, some of my comrades joked that I was a miner at heart, for I spent my days in a wasteland and my free time digging in the courtyard. (4)Paraphrase:had been deserted for a long time and my spare time digging in the courtyard.5. The authorities did not regret giving permission, for once the garden began to flourish, I often provided the warders with some of my best tomatoes and onions. (5)Paraphrase:The person in charge didn’t feel regretful that they had allowed me to have a garden because as soon as the garden began to grow well, I often gave the warders some of my best tomatoes and onions.6. I told her this small story at great length. I do not know what she read into that letter, (11)Paraphrase:I told her this small story in detail. I do not know whether she understood the meaning of the letter more than it did.。

现代大学英语精读4-基础英语paraphraseUnit 1 Text ⅠThinking as a HobbyParaphrases of the Text1.The leopard was Nature, and he was being natural.(3)The leopard symbolizes Nature,which stands for all animal needs or desires.美洲豹象征着自然，它在那里显得很自然而已。

2.Nature had endowed the rest of the human race with a sixth sense and left meout.(15)Everybody, except me ,is born with the ability to thin大自然赋予其余的所有的人第六感觉却独独漏掉了我。

3.You could hear the wind trapped in the cavern of his chest and struggling with allthe unnatural impediments. His body would reel with shock and his ruined face go white at the unaccustomed visitation.(19) 你能听到风被他的胸腔堵住，遇到障碍物艰难前进发出的声音。

他的身体因为不习惯这样的感觉而摇摇晃晃，脸色变得惨白。

4.In this instance, he seemed to me ruled not by thought but by an invisible andirresistible spring in his neck.(20)Mr. Houghton’s deeds told me that he was not ruled by thought, instead, he would feel a strong urge to turn his head and look at the girls.在这种情况下，我认为他不是受思想，而是受他后颈里某个看不到却无法抗拒的发条的控制。

Lesson11.The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so many centuries thatthey are nobody is not easy.It is no easy job to educate a people who have been told over centuries that they were inferior and of no importance to see that they are humans, the same as any other people.2.Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against thelong night of physical slavery.If you break the mental shackles imposed on you by white supremacists, if you really respect yourself, thinking that you are a Man, equal to anyone else, you will be able to take part in the struggle against racial discrimination.3.The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being andsigns with the pen and ink of assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation.The liberation of mind can only be achieved by the Negro himself/herself. Only when he/she is fully convinced that he/she is a Man/Woman and is not inferior to anyone else, can he/she throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and become free.4.Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is powercorrecting everything that stands against love.Power in the best form of function is the carrying out of the demands of justice with love and justice in the best form of function is the overcoming of everything standing in the way of love with power.5.At that time economic status was considered the measure of the individual’s ability andtalents.At that time, the way to evaluate how capable and resourceful a person was to see how much money he had made (or how wealthy he was).6.…the absence of worldly goods indicated a want of industrious habits and moral fiber.A person was poor because he was lazy and not hard-working and lacked a sense of rightand wrong.7.It is not the work of slaves driven to their tasks either by the task, by the taskmaster, or byanimal necessity.This kind of work cannot be done by slaves who work because the work has to be done, because they are forced to work by slave-drivers or because they need to work in order to be fed and clothed.8.…when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.…when the unfair practice of judging human value by the amount of money a person has is done away with.9.He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door tothe meaning of ultimate reality.Those who harbor hate in their hearts cannot grasp the teachings of God. Only those who have love can enjoy the ultimate happiness in Heaven.10.Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and ananemia of deeds.Let us be dissatisfied until America no longer only talk about racial equality but is unwilling or reluctant to take action to end such evil practice as racial discrimination.Lesson 11. A white lie is better than a black lie.一个无关紧要的谎言总比一个恶意的谎言要好。

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Another School Year—What For?It would certify that he had specialized in pharmacy, but it would further certify that he had been exposed to some of the ideas mankind has generated within its history.The B.S. certificate would indicate/prove that the holder had special training in pharmacy, but it would also show that he/she had been introduced to some great ideas in the history of human civilization.You will see to it that the cyanide stays out of the aspirin, that the bull doesn’t jump the fence, or that your client doesn’t go to the electric chair as a result of your incompetence.As a pharmacist, you should at least make sure that your medicine is not mixed up with poison. If you are an engineer, you should at least be able to make a fence to keep out wild animals. If you become a lawyer, you should at least make sure an innocent person is not sentenced to death because you do not know how to defend your client.If you have no time for Shakespeare, for a basic look at philosophy, for the continuity of the fine arts, for that lesson of man’s development we call history—then you have no business staying in college.If you don’t want to improve your mind and broaden your horizon by studying a little literature, philosophy, the fine arts and history, you shouldn’t be here at college. Our colleges inevitably graduate a number of such life forms, but it cannot be said that they went to college; rather the college went through them—without making contact.Our colleges always produce such people. We cannot help that. But we can’t say that these people have received a proper college education. It is more accurate to say that these college years have just passed them by without leaving anything on them. There is not time enough in a single lifetime to invent for oneself everything one needs to know in order to be a civilized human.To become a civilized person, you need to know many things, and you cannot find out everything by yourself, because your life is too short.If you are too much in a hurry, or too arrogantly proud of your own limitation, to accept as a gift to your humanity some pieces of the minds of Aristotle, or Chaucer, or Einstein, you are neither a developed human nor a useful citizen of a democracy. You will not be considered as a civilized human being or a responsible citizen of a democratic society if you only care about making money, not realizing the importance of the thinking of Aristotle, Chaucer, Einstein as something that will help cultivate in you the quality of being a human.A university has no real existence and no real purpose except as it succeeds in putting you in touch, both as specialists and as humans, with those human minds your human mind needs to include.Only when university successfully helps the students expose to the ideas that make them civilized human beings can we say it has real purpose to exist.More Crime and Less Punishment。

Unit 1Paraphrase1. Ours is an era of conspicuous technological upheaval. But the purported gains of new technology----rising incomes, greater productivity----seem to elude us. (P6)1. It is obvious that technology in modern age has brought about great changes. Nevertheless, we have not yet benefited from the supposed gains of new technolo gy—rising income and greater productivity.2. Genuine thought is discouraged. The same thought-deadening process afflicts American managers. (P7)2. Creative thought is not appreciated. American managers have been troubled b y the fact that independent and active thinking gives way to dumb numbers. Translation1.这项计划为智力迟钝者提供长期的照顾。

（retarded）1. The program offers long-term care for the mentally retarded.2.他有一台又粗笨又庞大的旧电脑，速度慢，使用麻烦。

（cumbersome, bulky）2. He’s got a cumbersome, bulky, old computer—it’s slow and complicated to use.3.他沿着房间后部慢慢移动，尽量不引起别人的注意。