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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。

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 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 farsurpassed means of keeping peace.6. ...to enlarge the area in whichits writ may run...to increase the area where the UN’s written documents may beeffective.7....before the dark powers ofdestruction unleashed by scienceengulf all humanity in planned oraccidental 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 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 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.Perhaps it would be best if the reader pictures Omelas to himself ashis imagination tells him, assuminghis imagination will be equal to the task.8. The faint insistent sweetness of drooz may perfume the way ofthe 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 andneglect.Perhaps the child was mentally retarded because it was born so or perhaps it has become very foolish and 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 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 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.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 ofhis origins.10. American writers do not havea fixed society to describe.American writers live in a mobile society where nothing is fixed, so they do not have a fixed society to describe.11..Every society is really governed by hidden laws, by unspoken but profound assumptions on thepart of the people.Every society is influenced and directed by hidden laws, and bymany things deeply felt andtaken for granted by the people, though not openly spoken about.。

------ conversation ．soil ．Lesson 1 Lesson 2 11. She accepted her status as an 1．And it is an activity only of 1. The burying--ground is merely old woman, that is to say as a humans. a huge waste of hummocky earth, beast of burden.And it is a human unique activity ．like a derelict building-lot. She took it for granted that as an 2．Conversation is not for making The burying-ground is just a huge old woman she should work like ana point. piece of wasteland full of mounds animal ．Conversation is not to convince of earth, looking like a deserted 12.People with brown skins areothers ．construction land. next door to invisible.3．In fact, the best 2. All colonial empires are in People who have brown skins are conversationalists are those who reality founded upon that fact. almost invisible ．are prepared to be lose. All colonial empires are built by 13. Their splendid bodies wereIn fact, the best conversationalists exploiting the local people. hidden in reach-me-down khakiare those who are willing to be 3. They rise out of the earth, they uniforms...lose. sweat and starve for a few years, The soldiers wore second —hand 4.Bar friends are not deeply and then they sink back into the khaki uniforms which covered their involved in each other ’s lives. nameless mounds of the beautiful well —builtbodies ．Bar friends are not deeply graveyard. 14. How long beforethey turn concerned with each other ’s They are born. Then they work hard their guns in the other direction? private lives. without enough food for a few How long will it take for them to5....it could still go ignorantly years. Finally they die and are attack us?on... buried in the hills graves without 15. Every white man there hadThe conversation could go on any mark to identify them. this thought stowed somewhere without anybody knowing who was 4. A carpenter sits crosslegged at or other in his mind.right or wrong ． a prehistoric lathe, turning It is certain that every white man6. There are cattle in the field, chair-legs at lighting speed. realized this.but we sit down to beef. A carpenter sits crossing his legs at Lesson3These animals are called cattle in an old-fashioned lathe, making 1.And yet the same revolutionary English, when they are alive and round chair-legs very fast. belief for which our forebearsfeeding in the fields ；but when we 5. Instantly, from the dark holes fought is still at issue around thesit down at the table to eat, we call all round, there was a frenzied globe...their meat beef in French ．rush of Jews. And yet the same revolutionary7. The new ruling class had built a Immediately, Jews rushed out of belief which is the aim of ourcultural barrier against him by their dark hole-like rooms nearby ancestors is still in dispute around building their French against his in a frenzy madness. the world.own language . 6.every one of them looks on a 2. This much we pledge--andThe new ruling class had caused cigarette as a more or less more.the cultural contradictions impossible luxury. This much we promise to do and between the ruling class and native Every one of these Jews considers we promise to do more.English by regarding French the cigarette as a somewhat piece 3. United, there is little we cannot superior to English. of luxury which they can not do in a host of cooperative8.English had come royally into possibly afford. ventures.its own. 7. Still, a white skin is always If we are united, there is almost English had gained recognition by fairly conspicuous. nothing we can not do through athe King ．However, a white-skinned lot of cooperation.9．The phrase has always been European is easy to notice in a fair 4. But this peaceful revolution ofused a little pejoratively and even way. hope cannot become the prey of facetiously by the lower classes. 8. In a tropical landscape one ’s hostile powers.The phrase, the king ’s English has eye takes in everything except But this peaceful revolution which always been used disrespectfully the human being. can bring hope in a peaceful wayand made fun by the lower classes. Against the background of a can not fall victims to enemy10. The rebellion against a tropical landscape, people could country.cultural dominance is still there. notice everything but they cannot 5. .... Our last best hope in an age There is still opposition to cultural see local people. where the instruments of war monopoly. 9. No one would think of running have far outpaced the 11.There is always a great cheap trips to the Distressed instruments of pace... danger that“words will harden Areas The United Nations is our last andinto things for us ”No one would propose the cheap best hope in the era where meansWe tend to make the mistake that trips to the slums ．of launching war have farwe regard the things as they 10 ．...for nine-tenths of the surpassed means of keeping peace. represent. people the reality of life is an 6. ...to enlarge the area in which12. Even with the most educated endless, back-breaking struggle its writ may run...and the most literate, the King ’s to wring a little food out of an to increase the area where the UN ’English slips and slides in eroded soil. s written documents may be conversation. The real life of nine-tenths of the effective.Even the most educated and people is that there is no end to 7....before the dark powers ofliterated people will not always use their extremely hard work in order destruction unleashed by sciencethe formal English in their to get a little food from an eroded engulf all humanity in planned or---accidental self-destruction... sophistication... lived unconventional lives.before the evil atom weapon made In America at least,the youngpossible by science destroy all people were strongly inclined to Unit7human beings in a planned way or shirk their responsibilities. They 1. With a clamor of bells that setby accident. pretended to be worldly-wise, the swallows soaring, the Festiva 8...yet both racing to alter that drinking and behaving naughtily. l of Summer came to the city Om uncertain balance of terror that 5.Prohibition afforded the young elas.stays the hand of mankind ’s final the additional opportunity of The loud ringing of the bells, whic war... However both trying to making their pleasures illicit... h sent the frightened swallows flyi change that unstable balance of The young found greater pleasure ng high, marked the beginning of t weapons and this balance of in drinking because Prohibition, by he Festival of Summer in Omelas. weapons could prevent human making drinking unlawful,added a 2. ..Their high calls rising like the beings from launching their final sense of adventure. swallows ’crossing flights over t war. 6...our young men began to enlist he music and singsing.7. So let us begin anew, under foreign flags. The shouting of the children could remembering on both sides that Our young men joined the armies be heard clearly above the music a civility is not a sign of weakness.. . of foreign countries to fight in the nd singing like the calls of the swal So let us begin once again to war. lows flying by overhead.realize that politeness does not 7....they “wanted to get into the 3. ..Exercised their restive horses mean weakness. fun before the whole thing before the race.8. Let both sides seek to invoke turned belly up. ”The riders were putting the horsesthe wonders of science instead of The young wanted to take part in through some exercises because t its terrors. the glorious adventure before the he horses were eager to startI suggest both sides try to use whole ended. and stubbornly resisting the contr science to make wonders for 8...they had outgrown towns and ol of the riders.human beings rather than terrors. families.. . 4. Given a description such as thi 9. ...each generation of These young people could no s one tends to make certain assu Americans has been summoned longer adapt themselves to lives in mptions.to give testimony to its national their hometowns or their families. After reading the above descriptio loyalty. 9..the returning veteran also had n the reader is likely to assume cer There are Americans from every to face the sodden,Napoleonic tain things.generation who answer the call of cynicism of Versailles,the 5. This is the treason of artist: a r the country to prove their loyalty hypocritical do-goodism of efusal to admit the banality of evto the country. Prohibition... il and the terrible boredom of pai 10. With a good conscience our The returning veteran also had to n.only sure reward, with history the face the stupid cynicism of the An artist betrays his trust when he final judge of our deeds, let us go victorious allies in Versailles who does not admit that evil is nothing forth to lead the land we love... acted as cynically as Napoleon fresh nor novel and pain is very du Our certain reward is our good did,and to face Prohibition which ll and uninteresting.conscience and history will judge the lawmakers hypocritically 6. They were nature, intelligent,our deeds, therefore, let us try to assumed would do good to the passionate adults whose lives we be pioneers in building our people. re not wretched.beloved country. 10.Something in the They were fully developed and inte Unit5 tension-ridden youth of America lligent grown-up people full of inte 1.The slighted mention of the had to “give ”... nse feelings and they were not mis decade brings nostalgic (Under all this force and erable people.recollections to the pressure)something in the youth of 7. Perhaps it would be best if you middle-aged... America,who were already very imagined it as your own fancy biAt the very mention of this postwar tense ,had to break down. ds, assuming it will rise to the oc period ,middle-aged people begin 11 ....it was only natural that casion.to think about it longingly. hopeful young writers , their Perhaps it would be best if the rea 9.The rejection of Victorian minds and pens inflamed against der pictures Omelas to himself as gentility was , in any war, Babbittry, and “Puritanical ”his imagination tells him, assuming case ,inevitable . gentility, should flock to the his imagination will be equal to th In any case,an American could not traditional artistic center... e task.avoid casting aside middle-class It was only natural that hopeful 8. The faint insistent sweetness o respectability and affected young writers ,whose minds and f drooz may perfume the way of refinement. writings were full of violent anger the city.10.The war acted merely as a against war, Babbittry,and The faint but compelling sweet sce catalytic agent in this breakdown “Puritanical ”gentility,should nt of the drug drooz may fill the st of the Victorian social structure... come in largen numbers to live in reets of the city.The war only helped to speed up Greenwich Village, the traditional 9. Perhaps it was born defective, the breakdown of the Victorian artistic center. or perhaps it has become imbecil social structure. 12.Each town had its “fast ”set e through fear, malnutrition and 4...it was tempted ,in America at which prided itself on itself on its neglect.least, to escape its unconventionality... Perhaps the child was mentally ret responsibilities and retreat Each town was proud that it had a arded because it was born so or pe behind an air of naughty alcoholic group of wild ,reckless people,who rhaps it has become very foolish a------nd stupid because of fear, poor no before houses seems to wn special individualities.urishment and neglect. Englishness a communal 4. I do not think that could have11. Its habits are too uncouth for imbecility. made this reconciliation here.it to respond to humane treatm To regard cars and motorways as I don't think I could have acceptedent. more important than houses in America my Negro status withoThe habits of the child are so crud seems to Englishness a public ut feeling ashamed.e and uncultured that it will show stupidity. 5...it is easier to cut across socialno sign of improvement even if it i 8.I must add that while and occupational lines there thans treated kindly and tenderly. Englishness can still fight it is here.12. Their tears at the bitter injust on ,Admass could be winning. It is easier in Europe for people ofice dry when they begin to perce I must further say that while different social groups and occupaive the terrible justice of reality, Englishness can go on fighting, tions to intermingle and have sociand to accept it. there is a great possibility for al intercourse.They shed tears when they see ho Admass to win. 6. A man can be as proud of beinw terribly unjust they have been to 9.It must have some moral g a good waiter as of being a gothe child, but these tearsdry up w capital to draw upon,and soon it od actor, and in neither case feelhen they realize how just and fair t may be asking for an overdraft. threatened. In Europe a good wait hough terrible reality was. Englishness draws its strength from er and a good actor are equally pra reservoir of strong moral and oud of their social status and posit Unit8ethical principles ,and soon it may ion. They are not jealous of each o11.....below the noisy arguments , be asking for strength which this ther and do not live in fear oflosin the abuse and the quarrels , there reservoir of principles cannot g their position.is a reservoir of instinctive provide. 7. I was born in New York, but hafellow-feeling... 10 .They probably believe ,as I do , ve lived only in pockets of it.The English people may hotly that the Admass ”Good Life ”is a I was born in New York but have livargue and abuse and quarrel with fraud on all counts. ed only in some small areas of theeach other , but there still exists a There people probably believe ,as I city.lot of natural sympathetic feelings do,that the “Good Life ”promised 8. This reassessment, which canfor each other in their hearts. by Admass is false and dishonest in be very painful, is also very valua 12....at heart they would like to all respects. ble.take a whip to the whole idle 11...he will not even find much The reconsideration of the signific troublesome mob of them. satisfaction in this scrounging ance and importance of many thinWhat the wealthy employers would messy existence, which does gs that one had taken for granted ireally like to do is to whip all the nothing for a man ’s self-respect. n the past can be very painful, tho workers whom they regard as lazy He will not even find much ugh very valuable.and troublesome. satisfaction in this untidy and 9. On this acceptance, literally, th 13...there are not many of these disordered life where he manages e life of a writer depends.men , either on the board or the to live as a parasite by sponging on The life of a writer really depends oshop floor... people. This kind of life does not n his accepting the fact that no ma There are not many snarling shop help a person to build up any tter where he goes or what he doe stewards in the workshop,nor are self-respect. s he will always carry the marks ofthere many cruel wealthy 12.To them the House of his origins.employers on the board of Commons is a remote 10. American writers do not have directors. squabbling-shop. a fixed society to describe.14.It demands bigness ,and they These people consider the House American writers live in a mobile sare suspicious of bigness. of Commons as a place rather far ociety where nothing is fixed, so thThe contemporary world demands away from them where some ey do not have a fixed society to dthat everything should be done on people are always quarreling and escribe.a big scale and the English do not arguing over some small matters. 11..Every society is really governetrust bigness. 13...heavy hands can fall on the d by hidden laws, by unspoken b15.Against this , at least shoulders that have been ut profound assumptions on the superficially ,Englishness seems a shrugging away politics. part of the people.poor shadowy show... They were very wrong to ignore Every society is influenced and d At least on the surface ,when politics for they can now suddenly irected by hidden laws, and by Englishness is put against the and for no reason be arrested and many things deeply felt andpower and success of Admass , thrown into prison. taken for granted by the people, th Englishness seems to put up a Unit10 ough not openly spoken about.rather poor performance. 1. It is a complex fate to be an A16....while Englishness is not merican.hostile to change,it is deeply The fate of an American is complicsuspicious of change for change ’ated and hard to understand.s sake... 2...they were no more at home inEnglishness is not against change, Europe than I was.but it believes that changing just They were uneasy and uncomfortafor change ’s sake and not other ble in Europe as I was.useful purposes is very wrong and 3...we were both searching for oharmful. ur separate identities.17.To put cars and motorways They were all trying to find their o---。

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 builta 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 usethe formal English in theirconversation．Lesson 21.The burying--ground is merelya huge waste of hummockyearth, 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 workhard without enough food for afew years. Finally they die and areburied in the hills graves withoutany mark to identify them.4.A carpenter sits crosslegged ata prehistoric lathe, turning chair-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.e very 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 ofrunning cheap trips to theDistressed AreasNo 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 likean animal．12.P eople 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 wecannot do in a host ofcooperative ventures.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 farsurpassed means of keepingpeace.6.to enlarge the area in whichits writ may run...to increase the area where theUN’s written documents may beeffective.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. .. H owever 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 ..... e ach 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 anycase ,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 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 toenlist under 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 the tension-ridden youth of America had to“give”...(Under all this force andpressure)something in the youthof America,who were already verytense ,had to break down.11 ... i t was only natural thathopeful young writers , theirminds and pens inflamed againstwa r, 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 onits unconventionality...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 ofthe 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 musicand 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 you imagined it as your own fancybids, assuming it will rise to theoccasion.Perhaps it would be best if the reader pictures Omelas to himself ashis imagination tells him, assuminghis imagination will be equal to the task.8.The faint insistent sweetness of drooz may perfume the way ofthe city.The faint but compelling sweet scent 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 percei ve the terrible justice of reality, a nd 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 totake 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 deeplysuspicious of change for change’ssake...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 strengthfrom a reservoir of strong moraland ethical principles ,and soon itmay be asking for strength whichthis reservoir of principles cannotprovide.10.They probably believe ,as Ido , that the Admass”Good Life”is a fraud on all counts.There people probably believe ,as Ido,that the “Good Life”promisedby Admass is false and dishonestin all 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 spongingon people. This kind of life doesnot help 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 accepted in America my Negro status without feeling ashamed.5...it is easier to cut across socialand occupational lines there than it 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 the city.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.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 ofhis origins.10.American writers do not havea fixed society to describe.American writers live in a mobile society where nothing is fixed, so they do not have a fixed society to describe.11.E very society is really governed by hidden laws, by unspoken but profound assumptions on thepart 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.。

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。

高英张汉熙版第三版2paraphrase答案+原句Unit 1 Pub Talk and the King’s English1.And it is an activity only of human.And conversation is an activity which is found only among human beings．2．Conversation is not for making a point.Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view．3．In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose.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．Bar friends are not deeply involved in each other’s lives.People who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not intimate friends for they are not deeply absorbed or engr ossed in each other’s lives．5. …i t 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 feeding in the fields；but when we sit down at the table to eat, we call their meat 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 difficult for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the rulers．8．English had come royally into its own.The English language received proper recognition and was used by the King once more．9. The phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower classes. The phrase，the King's English，has always been used disrespectfully and jokingly by the lower classes．The working people very often make fun of the proper and formal language of the educated people．10. The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there.There still exists in the working people，as in the early Saxon peasants，a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class．11. There is always a great danger, as Carlyle put it, that “words will harden into things for us.”There is always a great danger that we might forget that words are only symbols and take them for things they are supposed to represent．From 409Unit 2 Marrakech1. 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 and abandoned construction site.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.3. They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard.They are born. Then for a few years they work, toil and starve.Finally they die and are buried in graves without a name, and nobody notices that they are dead.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 in a tropical region, you see everything but the human beings.9. No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distressed Areas.No one would think of organizing cheap trips for the tourists to visit the poor slum areas.10. …for nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless, back-breaking struggle to wring a little food out of an eroded soil.Life is very hard for ninety percent of the people. With hardbackbreaking 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 she was only fit for doing heavy work like an animal．From 40912. People with brown skins are next door to invisible.People with brown skins are almost invisible．13．Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki uniforms…The Senegalese soldiers were wearing ready-made khaki uniforms which hid their beautiful well-built bodies．14. How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?How much longer before they turn their guns around and attack the colonialist rulers? 15．Every white man there had this thought stowed somewhere or other in his mind.Every white man, had this thought hidden somewhere or other in his mind．Unit3 Inaugural Address1. And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebears fought is still at issue around the globe...Our ancestors fought a revolutionary war to maintain that all men were created equal and God had given them certain unalienable rights which no state or ruler could take away from them. But today this issue has not yet been decided in many countries 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.United and working together we can accomplish a lot of things in a great number of joint undertakings.4. …our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace…The UN is our last and best hope of survival in an age where the instruments of war have far surpassed the instruments of peace.5. …to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.We pledge to help the United Nations enlarge the area in which its authority and mandate would continue to be in effect or in force.6. …before the dark powers of destruction un leashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.Before the terrible forces of destruction, which atomic bombs can now release, wipe out mankind, which may be planned or brought about by an accident.From 4097. …yet both racing t o alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind’s final war.Yet both groups of nations are trying to change as quickly as possible this uncertain balance of terrible military power which restrains each group from launching mankind's final war.8. So let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness,…So let us start once again and let us remember that being polite is not a sign of weakness.9. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of scienceinstead of its terrors.Let both sides try to call forth the wonderful things that science can do for mankind instead of the frightful things it can do.10. …each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testi mony to its national loyalty. Americans of every generation have been called upon to prove their loyalty to their country . 11. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,…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 to the best of our ability.Unit 4 Love Is a Fallacy1. A nice enough young fellow, you understand, but nothing upstairs.He is a nice enough young fellow, you know, but he is empty-headed.2. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason.A passing fashion or craze, in my opinion, shoes a complete lack of reason.3.I should have known they’d come back when the Charleston came b ack.I ought to have known that raccoon coat would come back to fashion when the Charleston dance, which was popular in the 1920s, came back4. All the Big Men on Campus are wearing them. Where’ve you been?All the important and fashionable men on campus are wearing them. How come you don’t know?5. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear.My brain, which is a precision instrument, began to work ata high speed.6. With one omission, Polly fitted these specifications perfectExcept for one thing (intelligence) Polly had all other requirements.7. She was not yet of pin-up proportions, but I felt that time would supply the lack. She already had the makings.From 409She was not as beautiful as those girls in posters but I felt sure she would become beautiful enough after some time.8. In fact, she veered in the opposite direction.In fact, she was in the opposite direction, that is, she is not intelligent but rather stupid.9. In other words, if you were out of the picture, the field would be open. Is that right?If you stop dating her, others would be free to compete to get her as a girlfriend.10. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning.His head turned back and forth. Every time he looked his desire for the coat grew stronger and his resolution not to give away Polly become weaker.11. This loomed as a project of no small dimensions,To teach her to think appeared to be rather big task.12. Admittedly it was not a prospect fraught with hope, but I decided to give it one more try.One must admit the outcome does not look very hopeful, but I decided to try one more time.13. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.There is a limit to what any human being can bear.14. I was not Pygmalion; I was Frankenstein, and my monster had me by the throat.I planned to be Pygmalion, to fashion an ideal wife for myself, but I turned out to be Frankenstein because Polly ultimately rejected me and ruined my plan.15. Frantically I fought back the tide of panic surging through me; at all costs I had to keep cool. Desperately I tried to stop the feeling of panic that was overwhelming me.Unit 5 The Sad Young Men1.Theslightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle aged.At the very mention of this post-war 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 its middle-class respectability and affected refinement.3. The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian so cial 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 responsibili ties 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.From 4095.Prohibition afforded t he young the additional opportunityof making their pleasures illicit,…The young people found greater pleasure in their drinking because Prohibition, by making drinking unlawful added a sense of adventure.6…our young men began to enlist under foreign f lags.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 people wanted to take part in the glorious ad-venture before the whole war ended. 8….they had outgrown towns and families…These young people could no longer adapt themselves to lives in their home towns or their families.9…the returning veteran also had to face…the hypocritical do-goodism of Prohibition,…The returning veteran also had 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”…Something in the youth of America, who were already very tense, had to break down.11…it w as 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 filled with violent anger against war, Babbitry, and "Puritanical" gentility, should come in great numbers to live in Greenwich Village, the traditional artistic centre.12. Each town had its ”fast” set which prided itself on itsunconventionality,…Each town was proud that it had a group of wild, reckless people, who lived unconventional lives.Unit 6 Loving and Hating New York1.Nowadays New York is out of phase with American taste…Nowadays New York cannot understand nor follow the taste of the American people.2.New York even prides itself on being a holdout from prevailing American trends,…New York boasts that it is a city that resists the prevailing trends (styles, fashion)of America. 3…sitcomes cloned an d canned in Hollywood, and the Johnny Carson show live, preempt the airwaves from California.Situation comedies made in Hollywood and the actual performance of Johnny Carson now replace the scheduled radio and TV programs for California.4. it is making something of a comeback as a tourist attraction.From 409New York is regaining somewhat its status as a city that attracts tourists.5.To win in New York is to be uneasy…A person who wins in New York is constantly disturbed by fear and anxiety, because he is afraid of losing what he has won in the fierce competition.6.nature’s pleasures are much qualified in New York.The chance to enjoy the pleasures of nature is very limited.7…the city’s bright glow arrogantly obscures the heavens.At night the city of New York is aglow with lights and seems proudly and haughtily to darken the night sky.8.But the purity of a bohemian dedication can be exaggerated.But a pure and wholehearted devotion to a Bohemian life style can be exaggerated.9.In both these roles it ratifies more than it creates.In both these roles of banking and communications head- quarters, New York starts or originates very few things but gives its stamp of approval to many things created by people in other parts of the country.10.The television generation grew up in the insistent presence of hype,…The television generation was constantly and strongly influenced by extravagant promotional advertising.11. those who are writing ambitious novels sustain themselves in the magazines.Authors writing long serious novels earn their living in the meantime by also writing articles for popular magazines.12.Broadway, which seemed to be succumbing to the tawdriness of its environment, is astir again.Broadway, which seemed unable to resist the cheap, gaudy shows put on in the surrounding areas, is once again busy and active.13.The defeated are not hidden away somewhere else on the wrong side of town.Those who failed in the struggle of life, the down-and-outs, are not hidden away in slums or ghettoes where other people can't see them.14.The place constantly exasperates, sometimes exhilarates.New York constantly irritates and annoys very much but at times it also invigorates and stimulates.From 409。

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。

Lesson 1.Paraphrase：1. We're elevated 23 feet. (para 3)We' re 23 feet above sea level.2. The place has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever bothered it. (para 3) 2. The house has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever caused any damage to it.3.We can batten down and ride it out. (para 4) 3. We can make the necessary preparations and survive the hurricane without much damage.4. The generator was doused, and the lights went out. (para 9) 4. Water got into the generator and put it out. It stopped producing electricity, so the lights also went out.5. Everybody out the back door to the cars! (para 10) 5. Everybody go out through the back door and run to the cars.6. The electrical systems had been killed by water. (para 11) 6. The electrical systems in the car had been put out by water.7. John watched the water lap at the steps, and felt a crushing guilt. (para 17) 7. As John watched the water inch its way up the steps, he felt a strong sense of guilt because he blamed himself for endangering the whole family by deciding not to flee inland.8. Get us through this mess, will You? (para 17) 8. ()h God, please help us to get through this storm safely.9. She carried on alone for a few bars; then her voice trailed away. (para 21) 9. Grandmother Koshak sang a few words alone and then her voice gradually grew dimmer and stopped.10. Janis had just one delayed reaction. (para 34) 10. Janis displayed rather late the exhaustion brought about by the nervous tension caused by the hurricane.1.Simile: 1. The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. (comparingthe passing of children to the passing of buckets of water in a fire brigade when fighting a fire)2. The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. (comparing the soundof the wind to the roar of a passing train)Metaphor : 1. We can batten down and ride it out. ( comparing the house in a hurricane to a ship fighting a storm at sea) 2. Wind and rain now whipped the house. (Strong wind and rain was lashing the house as if with a whip.)Translation1) 每架飞机起飞之前必须经过严格的检查。

Unit 1 Pub Talk and the King’s English1.And it is an activity only of human.And conversation is an activity which is found only among human beings．2．Conversation is not for making a point.Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view．3．In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose.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．Bar friends are not deeply involved in each other’s lives.People who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not intimate friends for they are not deeply absorbed or engrossed in each other’s lives．5. …i t 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 feeding in the fields；but when we sit down at the table to eat, we call their meat 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 difficult for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the rulers．8．English had come royally into its own.The English language received proper recognition and was used by the King once more．9. The phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower classes. The phrase，the King's English，has always been used disrespectfully and jokingly by the lower classes．The working people very often make fun of the proper and formal language of the educated people．10. The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there.There still exists in the working people，as in the early Saxon peasants，a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class．11. There is always a great danger, as Carlyle put it, that “words will harden into things for us.”There is always a great danger that we might forget that words are only symbols and take them for things they are supposed to represent．From 409Unit 2 Marrakech1. 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 and abandoned construction site.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.3. They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard.They are born. Then for a few years they work, toil and starve. Finally they die and are buried in graves without a name, and nobody notices that they are dead.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 in a tropical region, you see everything but the human beings.9. No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distressed Areas.No one would think of organizing cheap trips for the tourists to visit the poor slum areas.10. …for nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless, back-breaking 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 she was only fit for doing heavy work like an animal．From 40912. People with brown skins are next door to invisible.People with brown skins are almost invisible．13．Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki uniforms…The Senegalese soldiers were wearing ready-made khaki uniforms which hid their beautiful well-built bodies．14. How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?How much longer before they turn their guns around and attack the colonialist rulers? 15．Every white man there had this thought stowed somewhere or other in his mind.Every white man, had this thought hidden somewhere or other in his mind．Unit3 Inaugural Address1. And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebears fought is still at issue around the globe...Our ancestors fought a revolutionary war to maintain that all men were created equal and God had given them certain unalienable rights which no state or ruler could take away from them. But today this issue has not yet been decided in many countries 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.United and working together we can accomplish a lot of things in a great number of joint undertakings.4. …our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace…The UN is our last and best hope of survival in an age where the instruments of war have far surpassed the instruments of peace.5. …to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.We pledge to help the United Nations enlarge the area in which its authority and mandate would continue to be in effect or in force.6. …before the dark powers of destruction un leashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.Before the terrible forces of destruction, which atomic bombs can now release, wipe out mankind, which may be planned or brought about by an accident.From 4097. …yet both racing t o alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind’s final war.Yet both groups of nations are trying to change as quickly as possible this uncertain balance of terrible military power which restrains each group from launching mankind's final war.8. So let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness,…So let us start once again and let us remember that being polite is not a sign of weakness.9. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.Let both sides try to call forth the wonderful things that science can do for mankind instead of the frightful things it can do.10. …each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testi mony to its national loyalty. Americans of every generation have been called upon to prove their loyalty to their country . 11. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,…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 to the best of our ability.Unit 4 Love Is a Fallacy1. A nice enough young fellow, you understand, but nothing upstairs.He is a nice enough young fellow, you know, but he is empty-headed.2. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason.A passing fashion or craze, in my opinion, shoes a complete lack of reason.3.I should have known they’d come back when the Charleston came b ack.I ought to have known that raccoon coat would come back to fashion when the Charleston dance, which was popular in the 1920s, came back4. All the Big Men on Campus are wearing them. Where’ve you been?All the important and fashionable men on campus are wearing them. How come you don’t know?5. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear.My brain, which is a precision instrument, began to work at a high speed.6. With one omission, Polly fitted these specifications perfectExcept for one thing (intelligence) Polly had all other requirements.7. She was not yet of pin-up proportions, but I felt that time would supply the lack. She already had the makings.From 409She was not as beautiful as those girls in posters but I felt sure she would become beautiful enough after some time.8. In fact, she veered in the opposite direction.In fact, she was in the opposite direction, that is, she is not intelligent but rather stupid.9. In other words, if you were out of the picture, the field would be open. Is that right?If you stop dating her, others would be free to compete to get her as a girlfriend.10. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning.His head turned back and forth. Every time he looked his desire for the coat grew stronger and his resolution not to give away Polly become weaker.11. This loomed as a project of no small dimensions,To teach her to think appeared to be rather big task.12. Admittedly it was not a prospect fraught with hope, but I decided to give it one more try.One must admit the outcome does not look very hopeful, but I decided to try one more time.13. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.There is a limit to what any human being can bear.14. I was not Pygmalion; I was Frankenstein, and my monster had me by the throat.I planned to be Pygmalion, to fashion an ideal wife for myself, but I turned out to be Frankenstein because Polly ultimately rejected me and ruined my plan.15. Frantically I fought back the tide of panic surging through me; at all costs I had to keep cool. Desperately I tried to stop the feeling of panic that was overwhelming me.Unit 5 The Sad Young Men1.Theslightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle aged.At the very mention of this post-war 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 its middle-class respectability and affected refinement.3. The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian so cial 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 responsibili ties 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.From 4095.Prohibition afforded t he young the additional opportunity of making their pleasures illicit,…The young people found greater pleasure in their drinking because Prohibition, by making drinking unlawful added a sense of adventure.6…our young men began to enlist under foreign f lags.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 people wanted to take part in the glorious ad-venture before the whole war ended. 8….they had outgrown towns and families…These young people could no longer adapt themselves to lives in their home towns or their families.9…the returning veteran also had to face…the hypocritical do-goodism of Prohibition,…The returning veteran also had 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”…Something in the youth of America, who were already very tense, had to break down.11…it w as 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 filled with violent anger against war, Babbitry, and "Puritanical" gentility, should come in great numbers to live in Greenwich Village, the traditional artistic centre.12. Each town had its ”fast” set which prided itself on its unconventionality,…Each town was proud that it had a group of wild, reckless people, who lived unconventional lives.Unit 6 Loving and Hating New York1.Nowadays New York is out of phase with American taste…Nowadays New York cannot understand nor follow the taste of the American people.2.New York even prides itself on being a holdout from prevailing American trends,…New York boasts that it is a city that resists the prevailing trends (styles, fashion)of America. 3…sitcomes cloned an d canned in Hollywood, and the Johnny Carson show live, preempt the airwaves from California.Situation comedies made in Hollywood and the actual performance of Johnny Carson now replace the scheduled radio and TV programs for California.4. it is making something of a comeback as a tourist attraction.From 409New York is regaining somewhat its status as a city that attracts tourists.5.To win in New York is to be uneasy…A person who wins in New York is constantly disturbed by fear and anxiety, because he is afraid of losing what he has won in the fierce competition.6.nature’s pleasures are much qualified in New York.The chance to enjoy the pleasures of nature is very limited.7…the city’s bright glow arrogantly obscures the heavens.At night the city of New York is aglow with lights and seems proudly and haughtily to darken the night sky.8.But the purity of a bohemian dedication can be exaggerated.But a pure and wholehearted devotion to a Bohemian life style can be exaggerated.9.In both these roles it ratifies more than it creates.In both these roles of banking and communications head- quarters, New York starts or originates very few things but gives its stamp of approval to many things created by people in other parts of the country.10.The television generation grew up in the insistent presence of hype,…The television generation was constantly and strongly influenced by extravagant promotional advertising.11. those who are writing ambitious novels sustain themselves in the magazines.Authors writing long serious novels earn their living in the meantime by also writing articles for popular magazines.12.Broadway, which seemed to be succumbing to the tawdriness of its environment, is astir again.Broadway, which seemed unable to resist the cheap, gaudy shows put on in the surrounding areas, is once again busy and active.13.The defeated are not hidden away somewhere else on the wrong side of town.Those who failed in the struggle of life, the down-and-outs, are not hidden away in slums or ghettoes where other people can't see them.14.The place constantly exasperates, sometimes exhilarates.New York constantly irritates and annoys very much but at times it also invigorates and stimulates.From 409。

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.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.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.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．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 directionHow 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.Lesson3yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebears fought is stillat 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 nota 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.Unit4nice enough young fellow, you understand ,but nothing upstairs.He is a nice enough young fellow,you know , but he is empty-headed., I submit, are the very negation of reason.A passing fashion or craze ,in my opinion, shows a complete lack of reason.should have known they‟ d come back when the Charleston came back.I should have known that raccoon coats would come back to fashion when the Charleston dance, which was popular in the 1920s,came back.4.“All the Big Men on Campus are wearing them. Where …ve you been”All the important and fashionable men on campus are wearing them. How come you don’t knowbrain , that precision instrument, slipped into high gear.My brain, which is precision instrument, began to work at high speed.one omission, Polly fitted these specifications perfectly.Except for one thing(intelligence)Polly had all the other requirements.was not yet of pin-up proportions, but I felt sure that time would supply the lack.She was not as beautiful as those girls in posters but I felt sure she would become beautiful enough after some time.fact, she veered in the opposite direction.In fact, she went in the opposite direction,that is , she was not intelligent but rather stupid.9.“ In other words ,if you were out of the picture,the field would be open. Is that right”If you were no longer involved with her, others would be free to compete to get her as a girlfriend.and forth his head swiveled , desire waxing, resolution waning.His head turned back and forth (looking at the coat and then looking away from the coat). Every time he looked his desire for the coat grew stronger and his resolution not to abandon Polly became weaker.loomed as a project of no small dimensions...To teach her to think seemed to be a rather big task.it was not a prospect fraught with hope ,but I decided to give it one more try.One must admit the outcome did not look very hopeful, but I decided to tryone more time.is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.There is a limit to what any human being can bear .was not Pygmalion; I was Frankenstein , and my monster had me by the throat.I planned to be Pygmalion, to fashion an ideal wife for myself, but I turned out to be Frankenstein because Polly ultimately rejected me and ruined my plan.I fought back the tide of panic surging through me .Desperately I tried to stop the feeling of panic which was overwhelming me.Unit5slighted 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.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.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.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 theirhometowns 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.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.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.Unit61. Nowadays New York is out of phase with American taste...Nowadays New Yorkers can‟t understand nor follow the taste of the American people and often disagree with American politics.2. New York even prides itself on being a holdout from prevailing American trends...New York is proud that it is a city that resists the prevailing fashion or styles of America and that it remains to be a place where people can escape uniformity.3. ...sitcoms cloned and canned in Hollywood, and the Johnny Carson show live, preempt the airways fromCalifornia...Situation comedies made in Hollywood and the live talk show of Johnny Carson now dominate the radio and TV programs in California.4. ... It is making something of a comeback as a tourist attraction...New York is making attempts to regain its status as a city that attracts tourists .5. To win in New York is to be uneasy...Even when a person whins in New York ,he may well be anxious and fearful, for he is afraid of losing what he has gained in the coming fierce competition.6. Nature‟ pleasures are much qualified in New York.Since New York is a large and crowed city with a lot of tall buildings ,the chance to enjoy the pleasures of nature is very limited here.7. ...the city‟s bright glow arrogantly obscures the heavens.At night, the lights of New York are so proudly bright that the sky seems to be darkened.8. But the purity of a bohemian dedication can be exaggerated.But the pure and wholehearted devotion to a bohemian lifestyle can be overstated.9. In both these roles it ratifies more than it creates.In both these roles of banking and communications headquarters, New York creates very few things but approves many things started by people in other parts of the country.10. The television generation grew up in the insistent presence of hype...The television generation was continually and strongly affected by extravagant promotional advertising.11. ...those who are writing ambitious novels sustain themselves on the magazines.Writers producing long serious novels also earn their living by writing articles for popular magazines.12. Boardway, which seemed to be succumbing to the tawdriness of its environment, is astir again.Boardway,which seemed to be giving up to the cheap ,gaudy shows put on in the surrounding areas,now becomes flourishing and busy again.13. The defeated are not hidden away somewhere else on the wrong side of town.Those who failed in the struggle of life ,the down-and-outs ,do no hide themselves away in slums where other people cannot see them.14. The place constantly exasperates,at times exhilarates.New York constantly irritates and annoys very much but sometimes it also stimulates.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 swa llows flying high, marked the beginning of the Festival of S ummer in Omelas.2. ..Their high calls rising like the swallows’crossing fli ghts over the music and singsing.The shouting of the children could be heard clearly above the music and singing like the calls of the swallows flying b y overhead.3. ..Exercised their restive horses before the race.The riders were putting the horses through some exercises bec ause the horses were eager to startand stubbornly resisting the control of the riders.4. Given a description such as this one tends to make certa in 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 b anality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.An artist betrays his trust when he does not admit that evi l is nothing fresh nor novel and pain is very dull and uni nteresting.6. They were nature, intelligent, passionate adults whose live s 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 you imagined it as your ownfancy bids, assuming it will rise to the occasion.Perhaps it would be best if the reader pictures Omelas to h imself as his imagination tells him, assuming his imagination will be equal to the task.8. The faint insistent sweetness of drooz may perfume the wa y 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 neglect.Perhaps the child was mentally retarded because it was born so or perhaps it has become very foolish and stupid because of fear, poor nourishment and neglect.10. Its habits are too uncouth for it to respond to humanetreatment.The habits of the child are so crude and uncultured that it will show no sign of improvement even if it is treated ki ndly and tenderly.11. Their tears at the bitter injustice dry when they beginto 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 they realize how just and fair though terrible reality was.Unit101. It is a complex fate to be an American.The fate of an American is complicated and hard to understan d.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 s tatus without feeling ashamed.5...it is easier to cut across social and occupational linesthere than it is here.It is easier in Europe for people of different social groups and occupations to intermingle and have social intercourse.6. A man can be as proud of being a good waiter as of be ing a good actor, and in neither case feel threatened. In E urope a good waiter and a good actor are equally proud of their social status and position. They are not jealous of ea ch other and do not live in fear of losing their position.7. I was born in New York, but have lived only in pocketsof 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 ver y 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 depen ds.The life of a writer really depends on his accepting the fac t that no matter where he goes or what he does he will al ways 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 f ixed, so they do not have a fixed society to describe.11..Every society is really governed by hidden laws, by unspo ken but profound assumptions on the part of the people.Every society is influenced and directed by hidden laws, and by many things deeply felt and taken for granted by the people, though not openly spoken ab out.。

高级英语2第三版答案【篇一：高级英语第一册第三版课后翻译+paraphrase】=txt>1. we’re 23 feet above sea level.2. the house has been here since 1915, andno hurricane hasever caused any damage to it.3. we can make the necessary preparations and survive thehurricane without much damage.4. water got into the generator and put it out. it stoppedproducing electricity, so the lights also went out.5. everybody goes out through the back door and runs to thecars!6. the electrical systems in the car (the battery for the starter)had been put out by water.7. as john watched the water inch its way up the steps, he felta strong sense of guilt because he blamed himself forendangering the whole family by deciding not to flee inland.8. oh god, please help us to get through this storm safely9. grandmother koshak sang a few words alone and then hervoice gradually grew dimmer and finally stopped.10. janis displayed the fear caused by the hurricanerather late.1. 每架飞机起飞之前必须经过严格的检查。

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。

The Future of the EnglishParaphrase1.The English people may hotly argue and abuse and quarrel with each other but there still exists a lot of natural sympathetic feeling for each other.2. What the wealthy employers would really like to do is to whip all the workers whom they consider to be lazy and troublesome people.3. There are not many snarling shop stewards in the work-shop, nor are there many cruel wealthy employers on the board of managers (or governing board of a factory).4. The contemporary world demands that everything be done on a big scale and the English do not like or trust bigness.5. At least on the surface, when Englishness is put against the power and success of Admass, English ness seems to put up a rather poor weak performance.6. Englishness is not against change, but it believes that changing just for changing and for no other useful purpose to be very wrong and harmful.7. To regard cars and motorways as more important than houses seems to Englishness a public stupidity~8. I must further say that while Englishness can go on fighting, there is a great possibility of Admass winning.9. 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 supply.10. These 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 his 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. These people think of the House of Commons as a place rather far away where some people are always quarreling and arguing over some small matter.13. If a dictator comes to power, these people then will soon learn in the worst way that they were very wrong to ignore politics for they can now suddenly and for no reason be arrested and thrown into prison.TranslationA1.他们甚至比自己想象中的英国人还要不同，倒是同他们自己感觉中的英国人差不多。

Lesson 1.Paraphrase：1. We're elevated 23 feet. (para 3)We’ re 23 feet above sea level。

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The place has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever bothered it。

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The house has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever caused any damage to it。

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We can batten down and ride it out. (para 4) 3. We can make the necessary preparations and survive the hurricane without much damage。

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The generator was doused，and the lights went out. （para 9）4。

Water got into the generator and put it out. It stopped producing electricity, so the lights also went out.5. Everybody out the back door to the cars！（para 10）5。

Everybody go out through the back door and run to the cars.6。

The electrical systems had been killed by water。

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The electrical systems in the car had been put out by water.7. John watched the water lap at the steps，and felt a crushing guilt。

Unit 1 Pub Talk and the King’s English1.And it is an activity only of human.And conversation is an activity which is found only among human beings．2．Conversation is not for making a point.Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view．3．In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose.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．Bar friends are not deeply involved in each other’s lives.People who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not intimate friends for they are not deeply absorbed or engrossed in each other’s lives．5. …i t 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 feeding in the fields；but when we sit down at the table to eat, we call their meat 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 difficult for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the rulers．8．English had come royally into its own.The English language received proper recognition and was used by the King once more．9. The phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower classes. The phrase，the King's English，has always been used disrespectfully and jokingly by the lower classes．The working people very often make fun of the proper and formal language of the educated people．10. The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there.There still exists in the working people，as in the early Saxon peasants，a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class．11. There is always a great danger, as Carlyle put it, that “words will harden into things for us.”There is always a great danger that we might forget that words are only symbols and take them for things they are supposed to represent．From 409Unit 2 Marrakech1. 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 and abandoned construction site.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.3. They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard.They are born. Then for a few years they work, toil and starve. Finally they die and are buried in graves without a name, and nobody notices that they are dead.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 in a tropical region, you see everything but the human beings.9. No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distressed Areas.No one would think of organizing cheap trips for the tourists to visit the poor slum areas.10. …for nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless, back-breaking 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 she was only fit for doing heavy work like an animal．From 40912. People with brown skins are next door to invisible.People with brown skins are almost invisible．13．Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki uniforms…The Senegalese soldiers were wearing ready-made khaki uniforms which hid their beautiful well-built bodies．14. How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?How much longer before they turn their guns around and attack the colonialist rulers? 15．Every white man there had this thought stowed somewhere or other in his mind.Every white man, had this thought hidden somewhere or other in his mind．Unit3 Inaugural Address1. And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebears fought is still at issue around the globe...Our ancestors fought a revolutionary war to maintain that all men were created equal and God had given them certain unalienable rights which no state or ruler could take away from them. But today this issue has not yet been decided in many countries 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.United and working together we can accomplish a lot of things in a great number of joint undertakings.4. …our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace…The UN is our last and best hope of survival in an age where the instruments of war have far surpassed the instruments of peace.5. …to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.We pledge to help the United Nations enlarge the area in which its authority and mandate would continue to be in effect or in force.6. …before the dark powers of destruction un leashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.Before the terrible forces of destruction, which atomic bombs can now release, wipe out mankind, which may be planned or brought about by an accident.From 4097. …yet both racing t o alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind’s final war.Yet both groups of nations are trying to change as quickly as possible this uncertain balance of terrible military power which restrains each group from launching mankind's final war.8. So let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness,…So let us start once again and let us remember that being polite is not a sign of weakness.9. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.Let both sides try to call forth the wonderful things that science can do for mankind instead of the frightful things it can do.10. …each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testi mony to its national loyalty. Americans of every generation have been called upon to prove their loyalty to their country . 11. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love,…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 to the best of our ability.Unit 4 Love Is a Fallacy1. A nice enough young fellow, you understand, but nothing upstairs.He is a nice enough young fellow, you know, but he is empty-headed.2. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason.A passing fashion or craze, in my opinion, shoes a complete lack of reason.3.I should have known they’d come back when the Charleston came b ack.I ought to have known that raccoon coat would come back to fashion when the Charleston dance, which was popular in the 1920s, came back4. All the Big Men on Campus are wearing them. Where’ve you been?All the important and fashionable men on campus are wearing them. How come you don’t know?5. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear.My brain, which is a precision instrument, began to work at a high speed.6. With one omission, Polly fitted these specifications perfectExcept for one thing (intelligence) Polly had all other requirements.7. She was not yet of pin-up proportions, but I felt that time would supply the lack. She already had the makings.From 409She was not as beautiful as those girls in posters but I felt sure she would become beautiful enough after some time.8. In fact, she veered in the opposite direction.In fact, she was in the opposite direction, that is, she is not intelligent but rather stupid.9. In other words, if you were out of the picture, the field would be open. Is that right?If you stop dating her, others would be free to compete to get her as a girlfriend.10. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning.His head turned back and forth. Every time he looked his desire for the coat grew stronger and his resolution not to give away Polly become weaker.11. This loomed as a project of no small dimensions,To teach her to think appeared to be rather big task.12. Admittedly it was not a prospect fraught with hope, but I decided to give it one more try.One must admit the outcome does not look very hopeful, but I decided to try one more time.13. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.There is a limit to what any human being can bear.14. I was not Pygmalion; I was Frankenstein, and my monster had me by the throat.I planned to be Pygmalion, to fashion an ideal wife for myself, but I turned out to be Frankenstein because Polly ultimately rejected me and ruined my plan.15. Frantically I fought back the tide of panic surging through me; at all costs I had to keep cool. Desperately I tried to stop the feeling of panic that was overwhelming me.Unit 5 The Sad Young Men1.Theslightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle aged.At the very mention of this post-war 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 its middle-class respectability and affected refinement.3. The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian so cial 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 responsibili ties 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.From 4095.Prohibition afforded t he young the additional opportunity of making their pleasures illicit,…The young people found greater pleasure in their drinking because Prohibition, by making drinking unlawful added a sense of adventure.6…our young men began to enlist under foreign f lags.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 people wanted to take part in the glorious ad-venture before the whole war ended. 8….they had outgrown towns and families…These young people could no longer adapt themselves to lives in their home towns or their families.9…the returning veteran also had to face…the hypocritical do-goodism of Prohibition,…The returning veteran also had 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”…Something in the youth of America, who were already very tense, had to break down.11…it w as 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 filled with violent anger against war, Babbitry, and "Puritanical" gentility, should come in great numbers to live in Greenwich Village, the traditional artistic centre.12. Each town had its ”fast” set which prided itself on its unconventionality,…Each town was proud that it had a group of wild, reckless people, who lived unconventional lives.Unit 6 Loving and Hating New York1.Nowadays New York is out of phase with American taste…Nowadays New York cannot understand nor follow the taste of the American people.2.New York even prides itself on being a holdout from prevailing American trends,…New York boasts that it is a city that resists the prevailing trends (styles, fashion)of America. 3…sitcomes cloned an d canned in Hollywood, and the Johnny Carson show live, preempt the airwaves from California.Situation comedies made in Hollywood and the actual performance of Johnny Carson now replace the scheduled radio and TV programs for California.4. it is making something of a comeback as a tourist attraction.From 409New York is regaining somewhat its status as a city that attracts tourists.5.To win in New York is to be uneasy…A person who wins in New York is constantly disturbed by fear and anxiety, because he is afraid of losing what he has won in the fierce competition.6.nature’s pleasures are much qualified in New York.The chance to enjoy the pleasures of nature is very limited.7…the city’s bright glow arrogantly obscures the heavens.At night the city of New York is aglow with lights and seems proudly and haughtily to darken the night sky.8.But the purity of a bohemian dedication can be exaggerated.But a pure and wholehearted devotion to a Bohemian life style can be exaggerated.9.In both these roles it ratifies more than it creates.In both these roles of banking and communications head- quarters, New York starts or originates very few things but gives its stamp of approval to many things created by people in other parts of the country.10.The television generation grew up in the insistent presence of hype,…The television generation was constantly and strongly influenced by extravagant promotional advertising.11. those who are writing ambitious novels sustain themselves in the magazines.Authors writing long serious novels earn their living in the meantime by also writing articles for popular magazines.12.Broadway, which seemed to be succumbing to the tawdriness of its environment, is astir again.Broadway, which seemed unable to resist the cheap, gaudy shows put on in the surrounding areas, is once again busy and active.13.The defeated are not hidden away somewhere else on the wrong side of town.Those who failed in the struggle of life, the down-and-outs, are not hidden away in slums or ghettoes where other people can't see them.14.The place constantly exasperates, sometimes exhilarates.New York constantly irritates and annoys very much but at times it also invigorates and stimulates.From 409。

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.The life of a writer really depends o精品文档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。