新世纪高等院校英语专业《综合教程2》各单元Paraphrase.doc

Paraphrase for each unit

Unit 2
1. And women, I’m embarrassed to admit, even more than men, have always seemed to be at the mercy of fashion.
= I am embarrassed to admit that women are less capable than men of resisting the temptation of fashion.
2. It means trying on new selves by taking up with different crowd.
= It means that you make friends with different people in order to find a new identity for yourself.

Unit 3
1. But that took some doing on my part too.
= But I also made some effort to adjust myself.
2. … which hasn’t always been easy, given that I’m sometimes an actor wrapped up in his ego.
= … which hasn’t always been easy, because I am sometimes too proud of myself as an actor.

Unit 4
1． We live in an age of easy access to the rest of the world.
= The age we are living in provides us with convenient ways to reach any part of the world.
2． Everyone, it seems, provided, of course, they can afford to do so, need never be out of touch.
= It seems that everyone is able to get in touch with anyone else if he or she can afford to.
3． … lies at the heart of society …
= … forms the core of society
4． This is an essential skill in today’s hybrid world
= This is a fundamental skill in today’s world, where different cultures interact.
5． Millions of people are discovering how to bridge cultures.
= Lots of people are finding ways to interrelate different cultures.
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Unit 6
1. While that might not provide much to help them cope with their loss, it will make the children feel like their fathers make a difference.
= Although that (my stories about their fathers’ death) could not relieve their sadness, they will enable the children to see the extraordinary significance of their fathers’ contribution.
2. A saying I once heard strikes a painful note in my head, “Even one war is too many.”
= I suddenly recalled a saying I once heard that made me very painful, “We can’t afford to fight even one war.”
3.
Unit 7
1. To lose, to fail, to go under, to go broke – these are deadly sins in a world where prosperity in the present is seen as a sure sign of salvation in the future.
= Being unsuccessful in one’s life and career and financially disadvantaged is regarded as shameful or even sinful because in this world people tend to think only those who are successful now can be saved from evil in the future.
2. It is important to recognize that human beings, despite differences in class and educational labeling, are fundamentally hewn from the same material and knit together by common bonds of fear and joy, suffering and achievement.
= It is important to realize that although they differ in their class and educational background, human beings are essentially the same. First of all they are, biologically speaking, constructed in the same way, and then they all share the feelings of fear and joy, and also the common experience of suffering and achieving. This commonality has bound them together.
3. Warfare, sickness, disasters public and private – these are the larger coordinates of life.
= All people should regard wars, diseases, and disasters both private and public as bigger events in their life time.

Unit 9
1. Jonathan Swift seemed to think so when he attacked the idea of happiness as “the possession of being well-deceived”.
= Jonathan Swift seemed to share this view when he criticized this idea of happiness as the state of being completely controlled by deception.
2. The active discipline of heightening one’s perception of what is enduring in nature would have been his idea of the high.
= The active exercise or training to improve one’s understanding of what is of lasting value would have been Thoreau’s idea of the high levels – spiritual happiness.

Unit 13
1. that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc., that therefore the production of the immediate material means of subsistence and consequently the degree of economic development attained by a given people or during a given epoch form the foundation upon which the state institutions, the legal conceptions, art, and even the ideas on religion, of the people concerned have been evolved, …
= before a man can engage himself in politics, science, art, religion, etc., he has, first of all, to satisfy his primary needs for food, clothing and housing; and the production of these immediate needs, together with the economic progress made by a certain people or within a certain time, provides the basis on which the people concerned develop their state institutes, their legal conceptions, art, and even the ideas on religion …
2. All this he brushed aside as though it were cobweb, ignoring it, answering only when extreme necessity compelled him.
= He treated all this with contempt, ignoring it, as if brushing away annoying but insignificant thing. He react to it only when he found it absolutely necessary and had no other choices.