ParaphraseUnit71.She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that ”no” is a word never learned to say to her.She thinks that her sister has a form control of her life and that she can always have anything she wants, and life is extremely generous to her.2.My fat keeps me hot in zero weather.Because I am very fat, I feel hot even in frozen weather.3.Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue.J C, who is famous for his witty and glib tongue, has to try hard if he wants to catch up with me.4.It seems to me I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight, with my head turned in whichever way is farthest from them.When I talked to them,I’m always ready to leave as quickly as possible, and turn my head away from them in order to avoid them as much as possible because of nervousness.5.She would always look anyone in the eye.She would always look at somebody directly and steadily, not feeling embarrassed or ashamed.6.She washed us in a river if make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn’t necessarily need to know.She imposed on us lots of falsities and a lot of knowledge that was totally useless to us.7.Like good looks and money, quickness passes her by.She is not bright just as she is neither good-looking nor rich.8.Meanwhile Asalamalakim is going through motions with Maggie’s hand.Meanwhile A is trying to shake hands with M in a fancy and elaborate way.9.Though, in fact,I probably could have carried it back beyond the Civil War through the branches.In fact, I could have traced it back before the Civil War through the family branches.10.He just stood there grinning, looking down on me like somebody inspecting a Model A car. He just stood therewith a grin on his face and looked at me as if inspecting something old and out-of-date.11.Every once in a while he and Wangero sent signals over my head.Now and then he and Dee communicated through eye contact in a secretive way.12.“I can remember Grandma Dee without the quilts”.I don’t need the quilts to remind me of grandma Dee. She lives in my memory all the time.Uint81. “What is one winter more?”What dose it matter if we wait for another winter?2. Sher Takhi, who called Korphe’s widely dispersed faithful to prayer five times a day without the benefit of amplification, filled the small room with his booming voice.S T had a booming voice, and without the advantage of amplification his voice fiiled the small room. He called K’s believers, who were widely scattered to pray five times a day.3. As the moon rose over Korphe K2, they danced around the fire and taught Mortenson verses from the great Himalayan Epic of Gesar, beloved across much of the roof of the world, and introduced him to their inexhaustible supply of Balti folk songs.As the moon went up high in the sky above KK2,the villagers danced around the fire and taught M lines from the Himalayan Epic of G, beloved across most part of the Himalayas which is the highest part of the world, and introduced him to the traditional Balti folk songs which were so rich that it could never be used up.4. The fact that it wasn’t written down didn’t make it any less real.The fact that balti didn’t have a written history didn’t mean that its rich history wasn’t real.5. He’d had too much trouble getting one school off the ground to think on Hoerni’s scale.He had had so much trouble getting the plan of building one school started successfully. And he had to concentrate on completing this one and had no time or energy to think on the large scale of building more schools envisioned by Hoerni.6. The old man led the former climber uphill for an hour, on legs still strong enough to humble the much younger man.The old man led M to climb the mountain for an hour. Although Haji Aliwas old, his legs were still strong enough to leave the younger man far behind who thus felt ashamed.7. The air had the fresh-scrubbed clarity that only comes with altitude.The air was so clear as if it had been just scrubbed. You can have such clear air only when you get toa certain high altitude.8. “You have to understand , in these villages, a ram id like a firstborn child,prize cow, and family pet all rolled into one,”Mortenson explains.“You have to know, in this village, a ram valued as precious as a firstborn child, a prize cow and a family pet combined.” Mortenson explains.Unit111. Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.The landscape makes your imagination vivid, and you believe that the creation of the whole universe was begun right here.2. But warfare for the Kiowas was preeminently a matter of disposition rather than of survival, and they never understood the grim, unrelenting advance of the U.S.Cavalry.Warfare was important for the Kiowas more because they fought out of their habit , character and nature than for the sake of survival. Therefore, they never figured out why the US Cavalry kept attacking so fiercely and cruelly.3. My grandmother was spared the humiliation of those high gray walls by eight or ten years... My grandmother was born eight or ten years after that event, so she did not suffer the humiliation of being put into a stone corral.4. It was a ling journey toward dawn,and it led to a golden age.They moved toward the south and east, where the sun rises, and also toward the beginning of a new era, which led to the greatest moment of their history.5. They acquired horses, and their ancient nomadic spirit was suddenly free of the ground. They got horses, and galloping on horseback made them free to move, thus liberating their ancient nomadic spirit.6. Clusters of trees and animals grazing far in the distance cause the vision to reach away and wonder to build upon the mind.Far in the distance, there are clusters of trees and animals eating grass. This landscape makes it possible to see far into the distance and admire the scene.7. I was never sure that I had the right to hear,so exclusive were they of all mere custom andcompany.I was not sure that I had any right to overhear her praying, which did not follow any customary way of praying, and which I guess she did not want anyone else to hear.8. Transported so in the dancing light among the shadows of her room, she seemed beyond the reach of time. But that was illusion; I think I knew then that I should not see her again.In this way she was completely and inexplicably moved to another state in the dancing light among the shadows of he room, and it seemed that she would live forever. But that was a false idea, I realized the fact that this was going to be my last time to see her.9. The women might indulge themselves; gossip was at once the mark and compensation of their servitude.The women who usually stayed at home and serve their men, might have a chance to enjoy themselves by gossiping with the other women on such occasion as a reward for their servitude.Unit121....but as I looked out over the bow,the prospects of a good catch looked bleak.But when I looked out over the bow, it was not possible to catch a large amount of fish.2....about the tunnel he was digging through time.About the ice core sample marked by annual layer,which can show the different degrees of pollution from year to year.3.Industry meant coal,and later oil,and we began to burn lots of it --bringing rising levels of CO2,with its ability to trap more heat in the atmosphere and slowly warm the earth.The development of industry meant the use of large amounts of coal and later petroleum as fuels to generate power.When coal and oil are burned they emit carbon dioxide(co2) into the air which keeps more heat near the earth.When the level of carbon dioxide emissions in the air becomes high,heat will find it difficult to get through it to go into higher altitudes.Therefore,the temperature of the earth gets warmer.4.Considering such scenarios is not a purely speculative exercise.Thinking about how a series of events might happen as a consequence of the thinning of the polar cap is not just a kind of practice in conjecture: it has got practical value.5.Acre by acre, the rainforest is being burned to create fast pasture for fast-food beef... Gradually trees in the rainforest are burned and the land is cleared and turned into pasture where cattle can be raised quickly and slaughtered and the beef can be used in hamburgers6....which means we are silencing thousands of songs we have never even heard.Since miles of forest are being destroyed and the habit of these rare birds no longer exists, thousands of birds which we have not even had a chance to see will become extinct.7.And why do other images,though sometimes equally dramatic,produce instead a kind of paralysis,focusing our attention not on ways to respond but rather on some convenient,less painful distraction?And why do other symbols, though sometimes no less surprising, only cause a kind of loss and inactivity and we concentrate our attention not on the ways to deal with them but, instead, on some other distractions which are easy and less painful to handle?8.This increase in heat seriously threatens the global climate equilibrium that determines the pattern of winds,rainfall, surface temperatures,ocean currents, and sea level.The global climate balance determines the pattern of winds,rainfall, surface temperatures,ocean currents, and sea level. Once this state of balance is broken, winds,rainfall and ocean currents willbecome abnormal; surface temperature ane sea level will rise.9.So far, however, we seem oblivious of the fragility of the earth’s natural systems.So far, we seem unaware that the earth’s natural systems are delicate.10.They are symptoms of an underlying problem broader in scope and more serious than any we have ever faced.They are signs and indications showing that there exists a much greater and more serious problem than we have ever encountered.Unit131. I observe with amusement how totally the concerns of the world,which once absorbed me to the exclusion of all else except an occasional relaxation with poetry or music, have lost interest for me even to the extent of a bored distaste.I was once so completely absorbed in the important affairs of the world that I devoted all my attention, time and energy to them and only occasionally did I allow myself a little rest by reading poetry or listening to music.2. Or maybe Laura’s unwitting influence has called it out.Or maybe my suppressed inclination has been called out under Laura’s unintentional influence.3. Dismissive as a Pharisee, I regarded as moonlings all those life was lived on a less practical plane.I was as careless of others as a Pharisee an I viewed with contempt all those who lived a less practical life than my own and regarded them as inhabitants on the moon.4. A hard materialism was my creed, accepted as a law of progress; any ascription of disinterested motives aroused not only my suspicion but my scorn.I firmly believed in materialism which in my opinion represented the law of human progress. When people said they did thing s out of unselfish motives, I suspected them and viewed them with contempt.5. And now see how I stand, as sentimental and sensitive as any old maid doing water colours of sunsets!Just imagine how I have changed now. Here I stand, sentimental and sensitive, like an old unmarried woman painting a water-color picture of the sunset.6. I want my fill of beauty before I go.I want to enjoy beauty as much as I can before I die.7. ...no longer what people believe me to be, a middle-aged journalist tsking a holiday on an ocean-going liner, but a liberated being, bathed in mythological waters,an Endymion young and strong, with a god for his father and a vision of the world inspired from Olympus.At this moment I am not the middle-aged journalist that people believe me to be,spending a holiday on an ocean-going liner,I have now become a liberated person,bathed in magic waters,and I feel I am like Endymion,a young and strong youth who has a god for his father and gifted with the power to see the world inspired by the gods at Olympus.8. All weight is lifted from my body; I’m one with the night...I feel that I am weightless and totally absorbed by the night and united with the night.9. Thus,I imagine,must the pious feel cleansed on leaving the confessional after the solemnity of absolution.Therefore, I imagine devoted religious people must fell as clean and pure as I do now when they leave the solemn confessional after gaining pardon for their sins.10. So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura’s character, so austere in the foreground but nurturing what treasures of tenderness, like delicate flowers, for the discovery of the venturesome.In this way I let myself freely imagine what the innermost part of Laure’s character presents. She looks so severe outwardly, but inwardly she is full of tenderness--tenderness like delicate flowers waiting for the daring to discover them.11. We might all take a lesson from him, knowing the latitude we can permit ourselves.We should all learn from the albatross and also know how far we can allow ourselves to go.12. This is the new Edmund Carr with a vengeance.Here I’m born anew, completely different from the past.13. ...the Pacific alone dwarfs all the continents put together.The Pacific ocean alone is much larger than all the continents combined.14. I have been exhilarated by two days of storm, but above all I love these purposeless days in which I shed all that I have ever been.The storm that lasted for 2 days has made me extremely excited and happy , but above all, I love these idle days in which I throw off all the qualities, perspectives, values and everything else that made me as what I was;I’m born anew.Uint141. I suppose they will be rounded up in hordes.I think the Red Army men will be surrounded and captured in very large numbers.2. Hitler was counting on enlisting capitalist and Right Wing sympathies in this country and the U.S.A.Hitler was hoping that if he attacked Russia, he would win the support of capitalist and Right Wing in Britain and the USA.3. Winant said the same would be true of the USA.Winant said the United States would adopt the same attitude.4. If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.I would say a word in favor of anyone who is attacked by Hitler, no matter how bad, how wicked or evil he had been in the past.5. The Nazi regime is devoid of all theme and principle except appetite and racial domination. The Nazism has no lofty and righteous principle or goal, and cares only its ambition to conquer the western emisphere and to enslave the other people.6. I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky,still smarting from many a British whipping,delighted to find what they believe is an easier and a safer prey.I see the German bombers and fighters flying in the sky attacking Russian army. They were once beaten by the British Royal Air Force,and now are happy because they think their new enemy in Russia is much easier and safer to conquer.7. We shall be strengthened and not weakened in determination and in resources.We shall be more determined and shall make better and fuller use of our resources.8. Let us redouble our exertions, and strike with united strength while life and power remain. Let us strengthen our unity and our efforts in the fight against Nazi Germany when we have not yet been overwhelmed and when we are still powerful.。
