高英(2)paraphrase

高级英语（2）paraphrase

Lesson 12. Loons

1. with a face that seemed totally unfamiliar with laughter.(Para. 2) with a face that was dead serious, never laughed

2. Sometimes old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get mixed up in Saturday-night brawl (Para. 2)

Sometimes old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get involved in a rough, noisy quarrel or fight on a Saturday night after much drinking of liquor.

3. her attendance had always been sporadic and her interest in school work negligible. (Para. 3)

She often missed her classes and had little interest in schoolwork.

4. she existed for me only as a vaguely embarrassing presence. (Para. 3) （Her presence would make me feel uneasy. ）

I only knew her as someone who would make other people feel ill at east because of the way she looked, spoke and behaved.

5. She dwelt and moved somewhere with my scope of vision… (Para. 3)

She lived and moved somewhere within my range of sight. But I paid little attention to her: she was almost invisible for me.

6. If it came to a choice between Grandmother Macleod and Piquette, Piquette would win hands down, nits or not. (Para. 14)

If my mother had to make a choice between Grandmother MacLeod and Piquette, she would certainly choose the latter without hesitation, no matter whether the latter had nits or not.

7. My acquaintance with Indians was not extensive(para.22)

8. She remained as both a reproach and a mystery to me.(para.47)

9.★Her defiant face, momentarily, became unguarded and unmasked, and in her eyes there was a terrifying hope. (Para. 60) 此时此刻，她那揭下面具和保护罩的脸上露出的是一副坚强不屈、敢于挑战一切的神情，她的眼神里也透出一种强烈得令人畏惧的渴望。

（At that time, we could see an expression of challenge on her face, which was so intense that it filled people with terror. ）

Normally, she was defensive and sensitive as if her face were guarded and marked.

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But in a brief moment when she was saying this, there was an expression of defiance on her face, which was her true emotion. In her eyes there was a kind of hope which was so intense and violent that it struck people as terrifying.

10. she looked a mess, to tell you the truth, a real slattern, dressed any old how. (Para. 69)

She looked very messy, dirty and untidy, dressed in a very careless way.

11. She was up in court a couple of times—drunk and disorderly, of course. (Para. 69)

She was taken to court a couple of times because she was drunk and disorderly as one could expect.

12.The one store had become several dozen,and the settlement had all the attributes of a flourishing resort--hotels,a dance-hall,cafes with neon signs,the penetrating odoursof potato chips and hot dogs.(para.72)

13.Perhaps they had gone away to some far place of belonging.Perhaps they had been unable to find such a place,and had simply died out,having ceased to care any longer whether they lived or not.(para.74)

Lesson 2. Marrakech

1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot.

The Burying-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（, and nobody notices that they are dead.）

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4. A carpenter sits crosslegged 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, all loudly demanding a cigarette.

6. …every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury. Every one of these poor Jews looks 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 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 (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.

Life is very hard for ninety percent of the people. They can produce a little food on the poor soil only with hard backbreaking toil.

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. 12．People with brown skins are next door to invisible. People with brown skins are almost invisible.

13. The splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki uniforms. …

The Senegalese soldiers were wearing second-hand 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?

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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 4. Inaugural Address

1. 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 settled in many countries around the world.

2. This much we pledge—and more.We promise to do this much 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 bold undertakings.

5. …our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace…

The United Nations is our last and best hope of survival in an age where the tools to wage war have far surpassed and exceeded the tools to keep peace.

6. …to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.

We pledge to help the United Nations enlarge the areas in which its authority and mandate could continue to be in effect or in force.

7. …before the dark powers of destruction unleashed 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.

8. …yet both racing to 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.

9. So let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of

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weakness,…

Let us start over again. We must bear in mind that being polite does not mean one is weak.

10. 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.）

Let both sides try to use science to produce good and beneficial things for man instead of employing it to bring frightful destruction.

11. …each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty.

Americans of every generation have been called upon to prove the loyalty to their country (by fighting and dying for their country’s cause). .

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,…

We will lead the country we love, knowing our sure reward will be good conscience, and history will finally judge whether we have done our task well or not.

Lesson 14 Loving and Hating New York

1. Nowadays New York is out of phase with American taste …

Nowadays New York cannot understand nor follow the taste of the American people and is often in disagreement with American politics.

2. New York even prides itself on being a holdout from prevailing American trends…

New York now boasts that it is a city that resists the prevailing trends (styles, fashion) of America and that it is a place where people can escape from uniformity and commonness.

3. …sitcoms cloned and canned in Hollywood, and the Johnny Carson show live, preempt the airwaves from California.

Situation comedies made in Hollywood and the live talk show by Johnny Carson are on all channels, filling the airwaves.

4. …it is making something of a comeback as a tourist attraction. New 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

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