高英第二册paraphrases答案.doc

Pub Talk and the King’s English
Paraphrase
1. And conversation is an activity which is found only among human beings.
2. Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view. In a conversationw e should not try to establish the force of an idea or argument.
3. Infact a person who really enjoys and is skilled at conversation will not to win or force others to accept his point of view.
4. People who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not intimate friends for they are not deeply absorbed or engrossed in each other’s lives.
5. The conversation could go on without anybody knowing who was right or wrong.
6. These animals are called cattle when we sit down at the table to eat, we call their meat beef.
7. The new ruling class by using French instead of English made it difficult for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the rulers.
8. The English language received proper recognition and was used by the king once more.
9. The phrase, the King’s English, has always been used disparagingly and jokingly by the lower classes. The working people very often make fun of the proper and formal language of the educated people.
10. There still exists in the working people, as in the early Saxon peasants, a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class.
11. There is always a great danger that we might forget that words are only symbols and take them for things they are supposed to represent
Marrakech
III Paraphrase
1. 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 the imperialists build up their empires by treating the people int he colonies like animals (by not treating the people in the colonies as human beings).
3. 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.
4. 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. Immediately fromt heir dark hole-like cells everywhere a great number of Jews rushed out wildly excited, all loudly demanding a cigarette.
6. Every one of these poor Jews looks on the cigarette as a piece of luxury which they could not possibly afford.
7. However, a white-skinned European is always quite noticeable. / However, people always notice any one with a white skin.
8. If you take a look at the natural scenery in a tropical region, you see everything but the human beings.
9. 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. 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 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 almost inisible.
13. The Senegaleses soldiers were wearing second-hand ready-made khaki uniforms which hid their beautiful, well-built bodies.
14. How much longer before they turn their guns around and attack the colonialist rulers?
15. Every white man hhad this thought hidden somewhere in his mind.
Inaugural Address
Paraphrase
1. Our ancestors foutght 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. We promise to do this much and we promise to do more.
3. United and working together we can accomplish a lot of things in a great number of joint bold undertakings.
4. 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 tols to keep peace.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Let us start over again. We must bear in mind that being polite does not mean one is weak.
9. Let both sides try to use science to produce good and beneficial things for man instead of employing it to bring frightful destruction.
10. Americans of every generation have been called upon to prove their loyalty to their country (by fighting and dying for their country’s cause).
11. We will lead the country we love, knowing our sure reward will be a good conscience, and history will finally judge whether we have done our task well or not.
The Sad Young Men
III Paraphrase
1. At the very mention of this poset-war period, middle-aged people begin to think about it longingly and young people become curious and start asking all kinds of questions.
2. In any case, America could not avoid casting aside its middle-class respectability and affected refinement.
3. The war only helped to speed up the breakdown of the Victorian social structure.
4. In America the young people did not seriously thake up the responsibility of changing the traditional customs of society; instead they lived unconventional lives and, by drinking and behaving indecently in many ways, they broke the moral code of the community.
5. The young people found greater pleasure in their drinking because Prohibition, by making drinking unlawful, added a sense of adventure.
6. As a result, the young men began to join the armies of foreign countries to fight in the war.
7. The young people wanted to take part in the glorious adventure before the war ended.
8. These young people could no longer adapt to lives in their home towns or their families.
9. The returning veteran soldiers also had to face the stuped cynicism of the victorious allies in Versailles who acted as cynically as Napoleon did. They had to face Progibition which the lawmakers hypocritically assumed would be good for the people.
10. (Under all this force and pressure) something in the youth of America, who were already very tense, had to break down.
11. It was only natural that hopeful young writers, whose minds and writings were filled with violent anger against war, Babbitry, and Puritanical gentility, should come in great numbers to live in Greenwich Village, the traditional artistic centre.
12. Each town was proud that it had a group of wild, reckless people, who lived unconventional lives.
The One Who Walk Away from Omelas
Paraphrase
1. The loud ringing of the bells, which sent the frightened swallows flying high, marks the beginning of the Festival of Summer in Omelas.
2. The shouting of the children could be heard clearly above the music and singing like the calls of the swallows flying by overheard.
3. The riders were putting the horses through some exercises because the horses were eager to start and stubbornly resisting the control of the riders.
4. After reading the above description the reader is likely to assume certain things.
5. An artist betrays his trust and faith when he does not admit that evil is nothing fresh not novel and pain is very dull and uninteresting.
6. They were fully developed and intelligent grown-up people full of intense feelings but they were not miserable people.
7. Perhaps it would be best if you readers picture Omelas to yourselves as your imagination tells you what to do, as I believe your imagination will be able to deal with the task well.
8. The faint but compelling sweet scent of the drug drooz may fill the streets of the city.
9. perhaps the child was born mentally retarded or perhaps it has become feeble-minded due to fear, poor nourishment and neglect.
10. the habits of the child are so crude and uncultured that it won’t be able to appreciate kind and tender treatment.
11. they shed tears when they first saw how terribly unjust the child was treated but these tears dry up when they realize how just and fair reality is though it is terrible, and they accept it.
12. the existence of the child and their knowledge of its existence is the reason that makes their buildings grand and impressive, their music moving and their science intellectually deep.
The Future of the English
Paraphrase
1. The English people may hotly argue and abuse and quarrel with each other on the surface, but there still exists a lot of natural sympathetic feeling for each other in their hearts.
2. What the wealthy employers would really like to do is to whip all the workers, whom they consider to be lazy and troublesome.
3. there are not many snarling shop stewards in the workshop, nor are there many cruel wealthy employers on the board of directors.
4. The contemporary world demands that everything be big or done on a big scale and the English do not like or trust bigness.
5. At least on the surface, when Englishness is put against the power and success of Admass, Englishness seems to put up a rather poor weak performance.
6. Englishness is not against change, but it believes that changing just for the sake of changing and for no other useful purpose is very wrong and harmful.
7. To regard cars and motorways as more important than houses seems to Englishness a public stupidity.
8. I must further say that while Englishness can go on fighting, there is a great possibility of Admass winning.
9. Englishness draws its strength from a reservoir of strong moral and ethical principles, and soon it may be asking for strength which this reservoir of principles cannot supply.
10. These people probably believe, as I do, that the so-called “Good Life” promised by Admass is false and dishonest in all respects.
11. He will not even find satisfaction in this untidy and disordered life where he manages to live as a parasite by sponging on people.
12. These people regard the House of Common as a place far away from their daily life where some people are always quarreling and arguing over some small matter.
13. If a dictator comes to power, these people then will soon learn in the worst way that they were very wrong to ignore politics for they can now suddenly and for no reason be arrested and thrown into prison.
Disappearing Through the Skylight
Paraphrase
1. Science is engaged in the task of making its basic concepts understood and accepted by scientists all over the world. Science exhibits the universalizing tendency.
2. The car model, called Fiesta, seems to have disappeared completely.
3. The idea of a world car is similar to the International Style in architecture.
4. Things that are happening in automaking are similar to those happening in architecture.
5. The modern man no longer has very distinct individual traits shaped by a special environment and culture.
6. The disadvantage of being a cosmopolitan is that he loses a home in the old sense of the word.
7. The advantage of being a cosmopolitan is that he begins to think that the old kind of home probably restricts his development and activities
8. The compelling force of technology to universalize cannot be resisted.
9. When every artist thought it was their duty to show contempt for and objection to the Eiffel Tower which they considered an architectural structure that dishonored Paris, the center and arbiter of art and culture.
10. In the past people firmly believed that the things they saw around them were real solid substances, but this has now been thrown into doubt by science.
11. This disappearance of history frees the mind from traditional concepts. It is like what Madame Buffet-Picabia says: a flexible and pliable quality that was beyond human powers and absolutely new.
12. That, perhaps, shows how far logically modern aesthetic can go.
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