现代大学英语精读3 paraphrase整理

1…identity is determined by genetic endowment…by chance events :

Who we are is determined by three things: First, our genes,; second, environment, and third, opportunities.

2.First, there is functional independence, which involves the...and determining their daily agenda : First, there is the ability to solve practical problems, for example, how to spend money wisely, how to choose their own clothes, and also involved how to make a list of what they are going to do everyday.

3.Fourth is freedom from” excessive guilt, anxiety, mistrust, ...the mother and father” :

Fourthly, the overdue feelings of guilt, worry, disbelief, obligation, restriction, complaint and rage reflect their emotional dependence on their parents, which should be got rid of to get the freedom.

1.It was a wonder to me they’d want to be seen with such a windbag :

It is a strange thing to me, why these noble men would stay with such a talkative person like him. 2. An orderly riding by had told him, because the orderly knew how thick he was with Grant. : An officer’s message who passed by on horse told him that they had defeated enemy because he knew how close my father was with Grant.

3. ”Oh,” she said, “it’s all right. Life is never dull when my man is about.”: “oh,” she said it’s not bad, life is never boring when my husband is around.

4. For the first time I knew that I was the son of my father. He was a story teller as I was to be. : But the first time in my life I knew that I was like my father, he was a story teller that was what I was be become later.

1.I am still just as ignorant for all your telling me :

Though you have told me a lot, I still don’t know the names of the flowers. 2.But now, as he spoke, that memory faded. His was the truer :

But now, as he spoke, the memory of the ridiculous scene gradually disappeared. His memory seemed to be truer; they did have a good time that afternoon. 3.And in the warmth, as it were, another memory unfolded :

Another memory seemed to be stirred with the word of ”warmth” 4.He had lost all that dreamy vagueness and indecision :

He had become more mature than the younger days, when he used to be full of unpractical dreams and was unclear about his future career.

5.Now he had the air of a man who has found his place in life : Now he looked like a man who has made a successful career.

6.As he spoke,…she felt the strange beast that had slumbered so long…stare upon those places : When he spoke, she felt the long cherished wish in her heart began to revive, and she waited for this longingly and anxiously.

7.Only I did desire, eventually, to turn into a magic…those lands you longed to see :

Finally, the only thing I really wanted was to turn into a magic carpet and carry you wherever you urged to see.

1.He had opened his eyes with the sun at dawn, scratched…like a dog at the roadside,… :

In the morning he woke up with the sun rising, scratched, emptied his bowels or passed water like a dog at the roadside…

2.Live without conventions, which are artificial and false; escape complexities and extravagances.: One should live without the conventions of society, since these are not genuine and fake, and one should also avoid the complexities and luxurious…

3.They possess him. He is their slave…lasting good, his own independence :

They control him. He is subject to them. In order to pursue a certain mount of material properties or worldly possessions which actually have no value and will not last, he has allowed himself to be controlled by these things and has given away his own independence which is the only thing that is true and can last.

4.His life’s aim was clear to him: it was” to restamp the currency”…it with its true values : He has a definite living goal: it was” to restamp the currency”: human life is like a clean metal marked with false values, so his responsibility is to wipe out the old false marks and print true values on it.

5.He was the man of the hour, of the century,… :

He was the most important, powerful, or talked about the person of the time.

1.onsidering the whole span of earthly time…has been relatively slight :

Thinking of the long history of life on earth, the contrary effect of living thing: actually affect their environment has been insignificant as the compared with that of the environment on plant and animals.

2.In this now universal contamination of the environment…the very nature of the world : In this now popular pollution of the environment, chemicals, along with radiation, are the most severely factors in changing the nature of the world.

3.Radiation is now the unnatural creation of man’s tampering with…no counterparts in nature : Today man creates radiation by causing the nucleus of the atom of such substance as radium to split. The chemicals are manmade and the result of man’s creative power, it’s not produced by nature itself.

4.And even this, were it by some miracle possible, would be futile :

It would take some magic power to make living things adjust to these chemicals in the life of generations. Even if this were possible, it would be useless, because new chemicals are continuously being created and produced.

5.These chemicals are now applied almost universally…leaves with a deadly film :

Now these chemicals are almost popularly used in farms, gardens, forests, and homes, to kill the birds and fish, to cover the leaves with a thin layer of death-causing chemicals. 6.They should not be called” insecticides,” but “biocides.” :

As the chemicals destroy ”pests” as well as other living things, they should not be called ”insecticides”, but “biocides”.

7.We have subjected enormous numbers of people…without their knowledge :

By spraying insecticides on food grains, vegetables and fruit, we have caused large numbers of people to absorb take in harmful chemicals without asking whether they would like it or nor and often without their knowing it.

1.All re important and must be reasonably satisfied…fulfill our biological destiny :

All these basic needs are important and should be fulfilled reasonably if we are to achieve fate. 2.I italicize the need for power because…our lives seems uniquely human :

The reason for me to italicize the need for power is that…the need for us to pursue power in our everyday life seems exclusively human.

3.In fact, if it were not for the need for power,…is for the sake of power :

In fact, without the need for power, our economy cannot sustain itself, as everything that we bought and sold, except for the basic necessities, is used to pursue for power. 4.That their teachings have been largely accepted…in getting their message across :

The fact that what they propagate is obviously served for their own interests, while this propaganda has been widely accepted, is evidence on how effective their propaganda machine is. 5.Lower animals, whose behavior is essentially…are not involved with fun :

As lower animals’ behaviors are mainly inborn and without ability of learning, they cannot feel the fun.

6.My guess is that we will survive in direct proportion to how much we can learn : I suppose that the extent that we learn relates directly to our survivals.

7.Amonmtomous task is always boring unless…when he was painting the fence :

The tedious work will bore us if we cannot learn something in repeating our tasks, or make the thing we are doing competitive and social, which is just the case in Tom Sawyer’s painting the fence

1.I’ve never heard the old battlefields like…and re-enact what happened there :

I’ve never heard the old battlefields like Gettysburg and Chickamauga which asking me to walk over them and act what happened there again.

2.Outnumbered and almost encircled, Lee considered his dwindling options :

Enemies are outnumbered and we are almost encircled, lee considered his lessening choices. 3,Grant, who had outraced his baggage wagon…tucked in muddy boots :

Grant walked in front of his baggage wagon wearing his customary field uniform, his trousers were full of mud and were put into his muddy boots.

4.Lee said after reading the terms, which,…simply let them all go home :

After reading the terms, lee said these terms are not for hounding the enemy with reprisals but to let them all go home.

5.When word of the surrender reached the nearby…cannon firing. Grant put an end to it : When news of e reached the union headquarters nearby it initiated a spree of cannon firing to celebrate Grant had put an end to the war.

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