高级英语2Paraphrase

Lesson2

1 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 site.

2 all colonial empires are in reality founded upon the fact.

All the imperialists build up their empires by treating the people in the colonies like

animals, instead of treating them 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 they work for a few years, work hard and starve, finally they die

and are buried in graves without a name.

4.a carpenter sits crosslegged at a prehistoric lathe turning chair-legs at lighting

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 a great number of Jews rushed out wildly excited from their dark

hole-like cells everywhere.

6 …every one of them looks on a cigarettes as a more or less impossible luxury.

Every one of these poor Jews considers the cigarettes as a piece of luxury which they

can not possibly afford.

7 still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.

However, a white-skinned European is always easy to be noticed.

8 in a tropical landscape one’s eye takes in everything except the human beings.

If u take a look at the natural scenery in a tropical region, u 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 for these trips would not be interesting.

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.

For ninety percent of the people, life is very hard, by working extremely hard, they

can only produce a little food from 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 belonged to the lowest in the

community, that she was only fit for doing heavy work and carrying heavy burdens

like an animal.

12 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.

They 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 us .

15 every white man there had this thought stowed somewhere or other in his

mind.

every white man had this thought hidden somewhere in his mind.

Lesson 3

1 and it is an activity only of humans.

and conversation is an activity which is found only among human beings.

2 conversation is not for making a point.

Conversation is not far 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 is good 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 in each other’s 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.(boeuf)

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 difficult for the

English to accept for 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 as 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