高英2--修辞汇总
Lesson1
1. Wind and rain now wiped the house. ----metaphor(暗喻)
2. The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. ----simile (明喻)
3. The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. -----simile
4. …it seiz ed a 600,00 gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles away. ----personification(拟人)
5. Rcihelieu Apartments were smashed apart as if by a gigantic fist, and 26 people perished. ----
6. …the Salvation Army’s canteen trucks and Red Cross volunteers and staffers were going wherever possible to distribute hot drinks, food, clothing and bedding. -----
7. The federal government shipped 4,400,000 pounds of food, moved in mobile homes, set up portable classrooms, opened offices to provide low-interest, long-term business loans. ----
8. We can batten down and ride it out. -----metaphor
9. Everybody out the back door to the cars!—ellipsis (省略)
10. Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them. -----simile
11. Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point-----transferred epithet移就
12. Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees, and blown down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads----metaphor; simile
Lesson2
1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. -----simile
2. 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 and nobody notices that they are gone. -----alliteration押头韵
3. ... and sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in
unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies. ----simile
4. And really it was almost like watching a flock of cattle to see the long column, a mile or two miles of armed men, flowing peacefully up the road, while the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direction, glittering like scraps of paper. ----- simile
5. The little crowd of mourners –all men and boys, no women—threaded their way across the market place between the piles of pomegranates and the taxis and the camels, wailing
a short chant over and over again.--—elliptical sentence
6. A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed.—- hyperbole
7. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews, many of them old grandfathers with flowing grey beards, all clamoring for a cigarette. -----transferred epithet
8. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.—-synecdoche(提喻)
9. As the storks flew northward the Negroes were marching
southward—a long, dusty column, infantry, screw-gun batteries, and then more infantry, four or five thousand men in all, winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of iron wheels.—---onomatopoeia
10. Not hostile, not contemptuous, not sullen, not even inquisitive. —--elliptical sentence
11. This wretched boy, who is a French citizen and has therefore been dragged from the forest to scrub floors and catch syphilis in garrison towns, actually has feelings of reverence before a white skin. —-synecdoche提喻
Lesson3
1. … and no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows. ---mixed-metaphor or metaphor
3. … that suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place, and all at once there was a focus. ----metaphor
4. The glow of the conversation burst into flames. ----metaphor
5. We had traveled in five minutes to Australia.
-----metaphor/hyperbole
The fact that their marriages may be on the rocks, or that their love affairs have been broken or even that they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern.--—metaphor 6. The conversation was on wings. ----metaphor
8. The bother about teaching chimpanzees how to talk is that they will probably try to talk sense and so ruin all conversation. -----sarcasm反讽
9. They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side by side with each other, did not delve into each other's lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings. -----simile
10. … we ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant. ----metaphor
11. Otherwise one will bind the conversation, one will not let it flow freely here and there. ----metaphor
12. We would never hay gone to Australia, or leaped back in time to the Norman Conquest. ----metaphor
13. They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side by side with each other, did not delve into, each other’s lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings.—-simile
14. Is the phrase in Shakespeare? ----metonymy换喻、转喻
15. The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the ends of the earth.—simile
16. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King’s English slips and slides in conversation.—alliteration
17. When E.M.F orster writes of “the sinister corridor of our age,” we sit up at the vividness of the phrase, the force and even terror in the image.—--metaphor
Lesson4
1. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do, for we dare not meet a power full challenge at odds and split
asunder.—antithesis
2.…in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.—metaphor
3. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.—regression (回环:A-B-C)
4. All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days.—allusion引典; climax递进
5. And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.—antithesis, regression回环
6 We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change. ----parallelism
7. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike….—alliteration
8. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or i11, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. ----–parallelism; alliteration
9. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do, for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder. ----antithesis对句
10. To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe… ------
11. …struggling to break the bonds of mass misery…---- metaphor
12. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. -----antithesis
13. … to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty. ---repetition\metaphor
14. And if a beachhead of co-operation may push back the jungle of suspicion…-----metaphor
15. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us. -----antithesis 16.And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house. -----metaphor
17. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. -----extended metaphor
18. …to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak… ----metaphor
With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds… -----parallelism
Lesson5
1.Read, then, the following essay which undertakes to demonstrate that logic, far from being a dry, pedantic discipline, is a living, breathing thing, full of beauty, passion, and trauma.—-metaphor
2. Charles Lamb, as merry and enterprising a fellow as you will meet in a month of Sundays, unfettered the informal essay with his memorable Old China and Dream’s Children.—metaphor
2. Cool was I and logical. ----inversion (倒装)
3. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a
chemist's scales, as penetrating as a scalpel. ----metaphor 5. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear. ----metaphor or -mixed-metaphor
Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox. ----metaphor 6. I was not one to let my heart rule my head. ----metonymy 转喻
7. "I may do better than that," I said with a mysterious wink (眨眼) and closed my bag and left. ----transferred epithet 8. She thought this over for a minute and decided she liked it. ----
9. Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still smoldered. ----metaphor
10. After all, you don't have to eat a whole cake to know it's good. ----metaphor
11. We went to the Knoll, the campus trysting place, and we sat down under an old oak, and she looked at me expectantly. -----allusion
12. Just as Pygmalion loved the perfect woman he had fashioned,
----allusion
13.I was not Pygmalion; I was Frankenstein, and my monster had me by the throat. ----allusion
The time had come to change our relationship from academic to romantic. ----assonance (半)谐音
14. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning.—antithesis
15. What’s Polly to me, or me to Polly?—parody
"Your girl," I said, mincing no words. ----litotes (间接肯定) 16. This loomed as a pr oject of no small dimensions… -----litotes or understatement
17. Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still smoldered. Maybe somehow I could fan them into flame.—-metaphor or extended metaphor
18. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear. ----synecdoche (提喻)
He has hamstrung his opponent before he could even start. ----metaphor
19. Over and over and over again I cited instances pointed out flaws, kept hammering away without let-up. ----metaphor 20. Suddenly, a g1immer of intelligence—the first I had seen--came into her eyes. ----metaphor
21 I saw a chink of light. And then the chink got bigger and the sun came pouring in and all was bright. -----metaphor 22. You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars and the constellations of outer space. -----hyperbole; metaphor
23. He's a liar. He's a cheat. He's a rat. ----climax (递进) Look at me--a brilliant student, a tremendous intellectual, a man with an assured future. Look at Petey--a knot-head, a jitterbug, a guy who'll never know where his next meal is coming from. -----antithesis对句
Lesson7
1. Here was the very heart of industrial America, the center of its most lucrative and characteristic activity, the boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on
earth—and here was a scene so dreadfully hideous, so intolerably bleak and forlorn that it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke.—metaphor; hyperbole; parallelism; antithesis
2. Here was wealth beyond computation, almost beyond imagination—and here were human habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alley cats.—hyperbole; antithesis
2. What I allude to is the unbroken and agonizing ugliness, the sheer revolting monstrousness, of every house in sight. ----transferred epithet
3. …, there was not one in sight from the train that did not insult and lacerate the eye. ----hyperbole; double negatives (双否)
4. There was not a single decent house within eye range from the Pittsburgh suburbs to the Greensburg yards，and there was not one that was not misshapen, and there was not one that was not shabby. ----hyperbole; repetition; double negatives
5. The country itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the endless mills.—litotes or understatement
6. Obviously, if their were architects of any professional sense or dignity in the region, they would have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides—a chalet with a high-pitched roof, to throw off the heavy winter snows, but still essentially a low and clinging building, wider than it was tall.-—ridicule （讽刺）
7. This they have converted into a thing of dingy clapboards, with a narrow, low-pitched roof. ----inversion (倒装)
8. On their deep sides they are three, four and even five stories high; on their low sides they bury themselves swinishly in the mud. ----metaphor
9.But what brick! -----ellipsis (省略)
10. …, and so they have the most loathsome (丑陋的) towns and villages ever seen by mortal eye (人世间). ---- hyperbole/synecdoche
11. I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer. ----irony;
12. And one and all they are streaked in grime, with dead and eczematous patches of paint peeping through the
streaks.—metaphor
13. When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring.—ridicule, metaphor
14. I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer.—irony
15. Safe in a Pullman, I have whirled through the gloomy, God-forsaken villages of Iowa and Lansas, and the malarious tidewater hamlets of Georgia.—antonomasia (换称：专有名词指代一般名词) or allusion
16. It is as if some titanic and aberrant genius, uncompromisingly inimical to man, had devoted all the ingenuity of Hell to the making of them.—hyperbole, irony
17. They like it as it is: beside it, the Parthenon would no doubt offend them.—irony
18. It is that of a Presbyterian grinning.—metaphor
19. …one blinked before them as one blinks before a man with his face shot away. simile
20.A few linger in memory, horrible even there: a crazy little church just west of Jeannette ----personification
21 …set like a dormer-window on the side of a bare, leprous hill…----- simile
22. a steel stadium like a huge rattrap somewhere further down the line. ----simile
23. They like it as it is: beside it, the Parthenon (帕特农神庙) would no doubt offend them. ---- antonomasia (换称：专有名词指代一般名词) or allusion
24. When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring. ----metaphor 25. It is as if some titanic and aberrant genius, uncompromisingly inimical to man, had devoted all the ingenuity of Hell to the making of them. ----hyperbole; irony
26. Such ghastly designs, it must be obvious, give a genuine delight to a certain type of mind. ----synecdoche (提喻) 27. Thus I suspect (though confessedly without knowing) that the vast majority of the honest folk of Westmoreland county, and especially the 100% Americans among them, actually admire
the houses they live in, and are proud of them. -----irony; sarcasm
28. It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror. ---irony
Lesson 8 Three Cups of Tea (Excerpts) Translation 1. 当他被人从河里救出来时，几乎半死不活了。 2. 在我上一次访问这个村子时，那里还没有学校。现在一所小学已经屹立在山顶上。 3. 他恢复了知觉，睁开眼睛，想努力搞清楚发生了什么事，为什么他躺在那里。 4. 展览会上最吸引观众的是新奇的电子产品。 5. 温室里的许多奇花异草引起大家争先拍照。 6. 这位作家出生于一个大家庭，他的家谱可以追溯到十五代以前。 7. 当地少数民族在杀牲口前，先要举行一番宗教仪式，请求上苍允许他们杀生。 8. 村民们贫穷的事实并非说明他们就愚昧无知。 9. 志愿者们的共同努力使得项目开展起来了。 10. 登山者感到头晕，几乎站立不住，一是由于过度疲劳，也是因为太饥饿了。 参考译文 1. When he was saved from the river, he was more dead than alive. 2. On my previous visit, there was no school, but now one stands on the mountain. 3. As he came to himself, he opened his eyes, trying to figure out waht had happened and why he was lying there. 4. At the exhibition there were many novel electronic products that attracted the attention of visitors. 5. People were keen on taking pictures of the many exotic flowers and plants in the greenhouse. 6. This writer came from a large, prominent family whose genealogy streches back fifteen generations. 7. Before killing an animal, the indigenous ethnic people usually hold rituals to request permission from their God. 8. The fact that the villagers are poor doesn’t mean they are ignorant or stupid. 9. The volunteers made concerted efforts and got the project off the ground. 10. The climber felt so dizzy that he could hardly stand up, as much from over exhaustion as from starvation. 1.他把网上的流传当成一个笑话，不予理睬。（dismiss as） He dismissed the story circulating on the Internet as a joke. 2.马克?吐温的《竞选州长》是一篇着名的短篇故事。(run for) Mark Twain’s “Running for Governor” is a famous short story. 3.对于遭受灾难的人们，我们应该毫无保留地帮助他们。(reach out to) We should reach out to those who suffer from disasters without reservation. 4.考虑到他们没有经验，他们的工作成绩还是相当不错的。(given) Given their lack of experience, their work should be considered as quite good. 5.她是在华裔人占主导地位的社区里长大的。(predominantly) She grew up in a community where the inhabitants were predominantly of Chinese origin. 6.心情不好不能成为你对同事粗暴的理由。(justify) Being in a bad mood cannot justify your rude attitude toward your colleagues 7.警方把这件事视作“误解”而草草了事。(dismiss...as) The police dismissed the incident as a case of misunderstanding.
一．词语修辞格 (1) simile 明喻 它根据人们的联想，利用不同事物之间的相似点，借助比喻词(如like，as等)起连接作用，清楚地说明甲事物在某方面像乙事物 I wandered lonely as a cloud. ( W. Wordsworth: The Daffodils )我像一朵浮云独自漫游。They are as like as two peas. 他们两个长得一模一样。 His young daughter looks as red as a rose. 他的小女儿面庞红得象朵玫瑰花。 ① “Mama,” Wangero said sweet as a bird .“C an I have these old quilts?” ② Hair is all over his head a foot long and hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tail. ③ My skin is like an uncooked（未煮过的）barley pancake. ④ The oratorial（雄辩的）storm that Clarence Darrow and Dudley Field Malone blew up in the little court in Dayton swept like a fresh wind though the schools… ⑤ I see also the dull（迟钝的）, drilled（训练有素的）, docile（易驯服的）, brutish（粗野的）masses of the Hun soldiery plodding（沉重缓慢地走）on like a swarm（群）of crawling locusts（蝗虫）. （1）metaphor 暗喻 暗含的比喻。A是B或B就是A。 All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players演员. ( William Shakespeare )整个世界是座舞台，男男女女，演员而已。 Education is not the filling of a pail桶, but the lighting of a fire. ( William B. Yeats )教育不是注满一桶水，而是点燃一把火。 ① It is a vast（巨大的）, sombre（忧郁的）cavern（洞穴）of a room,… ② Mark Twain --- Mirror of America ③ main artery（干线）of transportation in the young nation's heart ④ The Duchess of Croydon kept firm, tight rein on her racing mind. ⑤ Her voice was a whiplash（鞭绳）. ⑥ We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air, until, with God’s help, we have rid the earth of his shadow and liberated its peoples from his yoke（枷锁）. （2）metonymy 借代，转喻 用一事物的名称来代替另一事物，当然这一事物与另一事物是有关联的。 The White House has denied the report that more troops will be sent to Iraq. He lives by the pen. (=writing). 他以写作为生。 He is too fond of the bottle (=drinking). 他太贪杯了。 ① The Washington Post, in an editorial captioned "Keep Your Old Webster's" ② ...his pen would prove mightier than his pickaxe（镐） （3）synecdoche 提喻 以部分指代整体
这是我整理的，希望对大家有用。蓝色部分是重点词汇。 第一课 1、一条蜿蜒的小路隐没在树荫深处。 A winding path loses itself in the shadowy distance of the woods. 2、集市上有许多小摊子，出售的货物应有尽有。 At the bazaar, there are many stalls where goods of every conceivable kind are sold. 3、我真不知道到底是什么事让他如此生气。 I really don’t know what it is that has made him so angry. 4、新出土的铜花瓶造型优美，可有精细、复杂的传统图案。 The newly unearthed bronze vase is pleasing in form and engraved with delicate and intricate traditional designs. … 5、在山的那一边是一望无际的大草原。 Beyond the mountains there is a vast grassland that extends as far as the eye can see. 6、他们决定买那座带有汽车房的房子。 They decided to buy that house with a garage attached. 7、教师们坚持对学生严格要求。 The teachers make a point of be ing strict with the students. 8、这个小女孩很喜欢她的父亲。 The girl is very much attached to her father. 9、为了实现四个现代化，我们认为有必要学习国外的先进科学技术。 To achieve the four modernization, we make a point of learn ing from the advanced science and technology of other countries. | 10、黄昏临近时，天渐渐暗下来了。 As dusk fell, daylight faded away. 11徒工仔细地观察他的师傅，然后照着干。 The apprentice watched his master carefully and then followed suit. 12、吃完饭弗兰克常常帮助洗餐具。 Frank often took a hand in the washing-up after dinner.
高英第六册修辞整理（仅供参考） Lesson one 1 This is, in some ways an admirable solution. Irony 2 however Malthus was himself not without a certain felling of reasonability. Double negative 4 The elimination of the poor is nature’s way of improving the race. Irony 5 It has again become a major philosophical, literary, and rhetorical preoccupation, and an economically not unrewarding enterprise. Double negative irony 6 It is then argued that the government is inherently incompetent, except as regards weapons design and procurement and the overall management of the Pentagon irony 7 The allegation of government incompetence is associated in our time with the general condemnation of the bureaucrat–again excluding those associated with national defense. The only form of discrimination that is still permissible–that is, still officially encouraged irony 8 When these aberrations have occurred they have, oddly enough, all been in the Pentagon. Irony .9 All this would seem a considerable achievement for incompetent and otherwise ineffective people. Alliteration
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Lesson10 The Trial That Rocked the World I． 1)In the 1920s，when he was a teacher at a secondary school in Dayton，a little town in the mountains of Tenessee，he was charged with teaching evolution and had to be present in the court．The trial。however，rocked the world．After the trial，he studied at the University of Chicago and became a geologist for an oil company later． 2)The struggles were in fact struggles between ignorance and wisdom．religion and science．That showed the spread of science and truth was no easy task．3)Because the result would effect the whole country，even the world． 4)Darrow and Malone thought that the Bible could co—exist with the Evolution Theory and it was acceptable for a Christion to be an evolutionist．Besides，the Bible should not be interpreted and accepted literally．Bryan just thought the opposite way. 5) The trial began with prayer by a local
第一课 1)一条蜿蜒的小路淹没在树荫深处。 A zig-zag path loses itself in the shadowy distance of the woods. 2）集市上有许多小摊子，出售的货物应有尽有。 At the bazaar there are many stalls where goods of every conceivable kind are sold. 3）我真不知道到底是什么事让他如此生气。 I really don't know what it is that has made him so angry. 4）新出土的铜花瓶造型优美，刻有精细、复杂的传统图案。The newly unearthed bronze vase is pleasing in form and engraved with delicate and intricate traditional designs. 5）在山的那边是一望无际的大草原。 Beyond the mountains there is a vast grassland that extends as far as the eye can see. 6）他们决定买那座带有汽车房的房子。 They decided to buy that house with. a garage attached. 7）教师们坚持对学生严格要求。 The teachers make a point of being strict with the students. 8）这个小女孩非常喜欢他的父亲。 This little girl is very much attached to her father. 9）为实现四个现代化，我们认为有必要学习外国的先进科学技术。 To achieve the four modernization, we make a point of learning
moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Barry Goldwater *Brutus: Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I love d Rom e more. Apostrophe呼语、省略符号:a sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or person or personifi ed abstraction absent or present. *For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel. Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him. Assonance类韵:repetition of the same sound in words close to each other. *Thy kingdom come, thy will be done. Asyndeton连接词省略:lack of conjunctions between coordina te phrases, clauses, or words. *We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any ha rdships, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure t he survival and the success of liberty. J. F. Kennedy, I naugural *But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. Lincoln, Get tysburg Address
Translation (Unit 1) ?After citing many facts and giving a number of statistical figures, he finally drove home his point. ?It took us half a year more or less to carry through the research project. ?What he said was so subtle that we could hardly make out his true intention. ?His new book looks squarely at the contemporary social problems. ?The younger generation today are very much alive to the latest information found on the Internet. ?It is a matter of opinion whether a foreign language is more easily learned in one’s childhood or otherwise. ?Never lose heart in the face of a setback; take courage and deal with it squarely. ?Rice, meat, vegetables, and fruit constitute a balanced diet. Translation （Unit 2) 1.One man’s effort is not enough to cope with such a complicated situation. 2.When do you think the new IT regulations will take effect? 3.The chances of winning a prize in a lottery are slim; perhaps only a one-in-a-hundred chance. 4.It is deplorable that many a youngster has fallen victim to the use of drugs. 5.There is virtually no one who is in favor of his proposal. 6.Beware of the swindler with a slick tongue and a smiling face. 7.Don’t touch the bag! Th e explosive in it may blow up at any minute. Your life will be at risk. 8.He looked quite confident about the job, though some doubts lurked in the depth of his mind Translation （Unit 3) 9. 1.He honked his car horn to alert the pedestrians. 10.2.The fast development of Information Technology is an outstanding example of human endeavor. 11.3.Mary groped for the appropriate words to express her indebtedness to her teacher. 12.4.The school principal’s plain words conveyed a message of challenge to the young people. 13.5.Don’t tamper with the wires, or you may cause a short circuit. 14.6.He thought he could beat everyone at the competition, but his excessive confidence failed him. 15.7.What he said seemed simple and clear, but there was an implied meaning that we couldn’t quite fathom. 16.8.He tried to steer the group’s random talk towards some constructive subjects. 17. .Translation (Unit 4) 1.Can I be exempt from the regular physical examination this year? I just had one three months ago before I went to the summer camp. 2.Could you tell me again what I should do next? 3.What you said yesterday has slipped out of my mind. 4.We all assumed that Dave was a trustworthy person, but it turned out that we were wrong.
高英2--修辞汇总 Lesson1 1. Wind and rain now wiped the house. ----metaphor(暗喻) 2. The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. ----simile (明喻) 3. The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. -----simile 4. …it seiz ed a 600,00 gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles away. ----personification(拟人) 5. Rcihelieu Apartments were smashed apart as if by a gigantic fist, and 26 people perished. ---- 6. …the Salvation Army’s canteen trucks and Red Cross volunteers and staffers were going wherever possible to distribute hot drinks, food, clothing and bedding. ----- 7. The federal government shipped 4,400,000 pounds of food, moved in mobile homes, set up portable classrooms, opened offices to provide low-interest, long-term business loans. ----
Lesson 1 1) Little donkeys thread their way among the throngs of people. little donkeys went in and out among the people and from one side to another 2) Then as you penetrate deeper into the bazaar, the noise of the entrance fades away, and you come to the muted cloth-market. Then as you pass through a big crowd to go deeper into the market, the noise of the entrance gradually disappear, and you come to the much quieter cloth-market. 3) they narrow down their choice and begin the really serious business of beating the price down they drop some of items that they don't really want and begin to bargain seriously for a low price. 4) he will price the item high, and yield little in the bargaining He will ask for a high price for the item and refuse to cut down the price by any significant amount. 5) As you approach it, a tinkling and banging and clashing begins to impinge on your ear As you get near it, a variety of sounds begin to strike your ear. X．1)一条蜿蜒的小路淹没在树荫深处 A zig-zag path loses itself in the shadowy distance of the woods. 2)集市上有许多小摊子，出售的货物应有尽有 At the bazaar there are many stalls where goods of every conceivable kind are sold. 3) 我真不知道到底是什么事让他如此生气。 I really don't know what it is that has made him so angry. 4)新出土的铜花瓶造型优美，刻有精细、复杂的传统图案。 The newly unearthed bronze vase is pleasing in form and engraved with delicate and intricate traditional designs. 5)在山的那边是一望无际的大草原。 Beyond the mountains there is a vast grassland that extends as far as the eye can see. 6)他们决定买那座带有汽车房的房子。 They decided to buy that house with. a garage attached. 7）教师们坚持对学生严格要求。 The teachers make a point of being strict with the students. 8）这个小女孩非常喜欢他的父亲。 This little girl is very much attached to her father.
II . 1) little donkeys thread their way among the throngs of people. little donkeys went in and out among the people and from one side to another 2) Then as you penetrate deeper into the bazaar, the noise of the entrance fades away, and you come to the muted cloth-market. Then as you pass through a big crowd to go deeper into the market, the noise of the entrance gradually disappear, and you come to the much quieter cloth-market. 3) they narrow down their choice and begin the really serious business of beating the price down they drop some of items that they don't really want and begin to bargain seriously for a low price. 4) he will price the item high, and yield little in the bargaining He will ask for a high price for the item and refuse to cut down the price by any significant amount. 5) As you approach it, a tinkling and banging and clashing begins to impinge on your ear As you get near it, a variety of sounds begin to strike your ear. X．1)一条蜿蜒的小路淹没在树荫深处 A zig-zag path loses itself in the shadowy distance of the woods. 2)集市上有许多小摊子，出售的货物应有尽有At the bazaar there are many stalls where goods of every conceivable kind are sold. 3) 我真不知道到底是什么事让他如此生气。I really don't know what it is that has made him so angry. 4)新出土的铜花瓶造型优美，刻有精细、复杂的传统图案。The newly unearthed bronze vase is pleasing in form and engraved with delicate and intricate traditional designs. 5)在山的那边是一望无际的大草原。Beyond the mountains there is a vast grassland that extends as far as the eye can see.
Lesson1 1. Wind and rain now wiped the house. ----metaphor(暗喻) 2. The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. ----simile (明喻) 3. The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. -----simile 4. …it seized a 600,00 gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles away. ----personification(拟人) 5. Rcihelieu Apartments were smashed apart as if by a gigantic fist, and 26 people perished. ---- 6. …the Salvation Army’s canteen trucks and Red Cross volunteers and staffers were going wherever possible to distribute hot drinks, food, clothing and bedding. ----- 7. The federal government shipped 4,400,000 pounds of food, moved in mobile homes, set up portable classrooms, opened offices to provide low-interest, long-term business loans. ---- 8. We can batten down and ride it out. -----metaphor 9. Everybody out the back door to the cars!—ellipsis (省略) 10. Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them. -----simile 11. Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point-----transferred epithet移就 12. Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees, and blown down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads----metaphor; simile Lesson2 1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. -----simile 2. 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 and nobody notices that they are gone. -----alliteration押头韵 3. ... and sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies. ----simile 4. And really it was almost like watching a flock of cattle to see the long column, a mile or two miles of armed men, flowing peacefully up the road, while the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direction, glittering like scraps of paper. ----- simile 5. The little crowd of mourners –all men and boys, no women—threaded their way across the market place between the piles of pomegranates and the taxis and the camels, wailing a short chant over and over again.--—elliptical sentence 6. A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed.—- hyperbole 8. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.— 9. As the storks flew northward the Negroes were marching southward—a long, dusty column, infantry, screw-gun batteries, and then more infantry, four or five thousand men in all, winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of iron wheels.—---onomatopoetic words symbolism 10. Not hostile, not contemptuous, not sullen, not even inquisitive. —--elliptical sentence 11. This wretched boy, who is a French citizen and has therefore been dragged from the forest to scrub floors and catch syphilis in garrison towns, actually has feelings of reverence before a white skin. —-synecdoche 提喻 no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows. 3. … that suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place, and all at once there was a focus. ----metaphor 4. The glow of the conversation burst into flames. ----metaphor