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 a

Marrakech

Paraphrase:

1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. (para 2)

2. All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that fact. (para 3)

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 (para 3)

4. A carpenter sits crosslegged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed. (para 9)

5. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of

关于PARAPHRASE

paraphrase是最重要的一种英文技能：所谓的用英文思考最终就体现在能用不同的句子表达相同的东西。Paraphrase也就是换种方式去表达相同内容。 以下是一些常见的paraprhase的方法：使用同义词，转换词性，转换语态，句子关系替换等。具体例子如下，划线部分皆有替换关系，同学们仔细体会：

1.使用同义词：

It is worth looking at one or two aspects of the way a mother behaves towards her baby.

paraphrase:

It is useful to observe several features of how a mother acts when she is with her small child.

2. 句子关系替换：

Similarly, the muscles will not grow in length unless they are attached to tendons and bones so that as the bones lengthen, they are st

Paraphrase综合

Unit 1

Text B Family-unfriendly Policies

1. …, even after a significant reform of the welfare system, the single welfare

mother has become the public symbol of much of what is wrong with America’s social service programs. (para 8)

即使福利制度发生重大变革后，领取福利金的单身母亲成了美国福利政策的主要问题。 Paraphrase:

a. Though a major reform of the welfare system has been carried out, the policies of aiding the single mother is still good example) to show that the American social service programs have fundamental problems.

b. Even after a major reform i

1. There has been this long lull with nothing particular turning up!

? Britain has been in too long a period of stillness without taking any particular action against the enemy!

2. Britain, other nations thought, had drawn a sponge across her slate. ? Other nations thought that Britain was completely conquered.. 3. The logistics of it vary according to geography.

? People in different regions have different sizes of personal space.

4. Individuals routinely commandeer booths and sets of facing seats meant for foursomes.

? It

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Perhaps it was away back in our early childhood …

Paraphrase: Maybe it could be traced continuously back into our early childhood.

But if the staunchest Roman Catholic and ……we can have very little doubt what the result would have been.

Paraphrase : But if they were exchanged when they were infants and brought up in different homes and under different influences, then the staunchest Roman Catholic would be the staunchest Presbyterian, and vice versa. This shows that our beliefs are largely influenced by our su

1. There has been this long lull with nothing particular turning up!

? Britain has been in too long a period of stillness without taking any particular action against the enemy!

2. Britain, other nations thought, had drawn a sponge across her slate. ? Other nations thought that Britain was completely conquered.. 3. The logistics of it vary according to geography.

? People in different regions have different sizes of personal space.

4. Individuals routinely commandeer booths and sets of facing seats meant for foursomes.

? It

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1，When the word water appears in print nowadays, crisis is rarely far behind.

Paraphrase: Today, whenever people mention the word “ water” in books or newspaper, you know they are going to talk about water crisis.

2，Water, it is said, is the new oil:…… to be overwhelmed by insatiable demand.

Paraphrase: Like oil, water, a natural resource, which has for a long time been stupidly wasted, is becoming an expensive commodity, and will soon be exhausted by the excessive consumption of humanity.

3，Everyone must u

paraphrase

Perhaps it was away back in our early childhood …

Paraphrase: Maybe it could be traced continuously back into our early childhood.

But if the staunchest Roman Catholic and ……we can have very little doubt what the result would have been.

Paraphrase : But if they were exchanged when they were infants and brought up in different homes and under different influences, then the staunchest Roman Catholic would be the staunchest Presbyterian, and vice versa. This shows that our beliefs are largely influenced by our su

paraphrase

1，I have been studying the traits and??the result humiliating to me.

Paraphrase : I have been studying the characteristics of the so-called “ lower-animals “ in comparison with those of man. The result of this study makes me, as a man, feel terribly ashamed.

2，For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance??from the Higher Animals.

Paraphrase : Because the result of my study forces me to give up / to abandon my loyalty to / firm belief in Darwin’s theory of evolution and to change the theory of the Ascent of Man