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1、【精品文檔】如有侵權(quán)，請(qǐng)聯(lián)系網(wǎng)站刪除，僅供學(xué)習(xí)與交流現(xiàn)代大學(xué)英語精讀paraphrase和translation.精品文檔.Lesson Two: Two Kinds Paraphrase1. I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size.I imagined myself as different types of prodigy, trying to find out which one suited me the best. 2. I had new tho

2、ughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of wonts.I had new thoughts, which were filled with a strong spirit of disobedience and rebellion. 3. The girl had the sauciness of a Shirley Temple. The girl was Shirley Templelike, slightly rude but in an amusing way. 4. It felt like wor

3、ms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my chest, but it also felt good, as if this awful side of me had surfaced, at last. When I said those words, I felt that some very nasty thoughts had got out of my chest, and so T felt scared. But at the same time I felt good, relieved, because those nas

4、ty things had been suppressed in my heart for some time and they had got out at last. 5. And I could sense her anger rising to its breaking point. I wanted to see it spill over. I could feel that her anger had reached the point where her selfcontrol would collapse, and I wanted to see what my mother

5、 would do when she lost complete control of herself. 6. The lid to the piano was closed, shutting out the dust, my misery, and her dreams.When the lid to the piano was closed, it shut out the dust and also put an end to my misery.Phrases1. With almost no money down 幾乎用不著交首付，幾乎可以全部用貸款來買房2. The raised

6、 hopes and failed expectations 那些過高的希望和達(dá)不到的期盼3. Shorting out 短路4. The showpiece of our living room 我們起居室里的一件擺設(shè)5. Stiff-lipped smile 尷尬不自然的笑容6. Frighteningly strong 驚人地強(qiáng)大7. Follow their own mind 我行我素Sentence1. Instead of getting big fat curls, I emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black fuzz.我的頭發(fā)沒

7、有做出我要的大卷花，而是給我弄成一頭亂蓬蓬的黑色小卷毛。2. She checked to see if that might be one way to pronounce “Helsinki” before showing me the answer.在她告訴我答案前，她對(duì)了對(duì)手中的雜志，看看赫爾辛基是否能這樣發(fā)音。3. She seemed entranced by the music, a frenzied little piano piece with a mesmerizing quality, sort of quick passages and then teasing lil

8、ting ones before it returned to the quick playful parts.她似乎被這音樂吸引住了。這鋼琴曲不長，但有點(diǎn)狂亂，有著迷人的特點(diǎn)，樂曲一開始時(shí)快節(jié)奏的，接著是歡快跳動(dòng)的節(jié)拍，然后又回到嬉戲的部分。 4. If she had as much talent as she had temper, she would be famous now. 如果她的才氣和她的脾氣一樣大，她早就出名了。 5. The part I liked to practice best was the fancy curtsy: right foot out, touch

9、the rose on the carpet with a pointed foot, sweep to the side, bend left leg, look up, and smile.我最喜歡練習(xí)的部分是花哨的謝幕行禮的動(dòng)作：先出右腳，腳尖點(diǎn)在地毯的玫瑰圖案上，身子側(cè)擺，左腿彎曲，抬頭，微笑。 6. A chill started at the top of my head and began to trickle down. Yet I couldnt stop playing, as though my hands were bewitched. I kept thinking

10、my fingers would adjust themselves back, like a train switching to the right track. 一股涼氣從頭頂開始， 然后一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)傳到全身。 但我卻不能停止演奏，雙手好像著了魔似的。我不停地想，我的手指會(huì)調(diào)整好，就像火車會(huì)被扳倒正確的軌道上。 7. and her face went blank, her mouth closed, her arms went slack, and she backed out of the room, stunned, as if she were blowing away like a

11、small brown leaf, thin, brittle, lifeless.她的臉部失去了表情，嘴巴緊閉，雙臂無力地垂下。她退出了房間，神色驚異，好像一小片枯黃的樹葉被風(fēng)吹走了，那樣的單薄、脆弱、毫無生氣。 8. And for the first time, or so it seemed, I noticed the piece on the right- hand side. It was called “Perfectly Contented”. I tried to play this one as well. It had a lighter melody but with

12、 the same flowing rhythm and turned out to be quite easy. “Pleading Child” was shorter but slower; “Perfectly Contented” was longer but faster. And after I had played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.我第一次， 或好像感覺是第一次，注意到右邊的樂曲。它的名稱是心滿意足。我也試著彈這首曲子。它的曲調(diào)比較輕松，但節(jié)奏同樣流暢

13、，不是很難。祈求的孩子較短、較慢， 而心滿意足更長、更快一些。 在我彈了幾遍后，我意識(shí)到，原來這兩個(gè)曲子是同一首歌的兩個(gè)組成部分。Lesson Three: Goods Move. People Move. Ideas Move. And Cultures Change. Paraphrase1. Yet globalization “is a reality, not a choice”.Yet globalization is not something that you can accept or reject, it is already a matter of life which

14、you will encounter and have to respond to every day. 2. Popular factions sprout to exploit nationalist anxieties. Political groups with broad support have come into being to take advantage of existing worries and uneasiness among the people about foreign “cultural assault”. 3. where xenophobia and e

15、conomic ambition have often struggled for the upper hand in China, the two trends of closeddoor and opendoor policies have long been struggling for dominance. 4. Those people out there should continue to live in a museum while we will have showers that work. The Chinese people should continue to liv

16、e a backward life while we live comfortably with all modern conveniences. 5. Westernization is a phenomenon shot with inconsistencies and populated by very strange bedfellows.westernization is a concept full of selfcontradiction and held by people of very different backgrounds or views.6. You dont h

17、ave to be cool to do it; you just have to have the eye.In trying to find out what will be the future trend, you do not need to be fashionable yourself. All you need is awareness, that is to say, you need to be on the alert, to be observant. 7. He was up in the cybersphere far above the level of time

18、 zones.He was moving around, playing a game through the Internet with people living in different time zones, thus their activity on the computer broke down time zone limit. 8. In the first two weeks of business the Gucci Store took in a surprising 100,000. The Gucci store did not expect that in the

19、first two weeks of its opening in Shanghai business could be so good. 9. Early on I realized that I was going to need some type of compass to guide me through the wilds of global culture. From the very beginning I know I need some theory as guideline to help me in my study of global cultures as glob

20、alization, to guide me through such a variety of cultural phenomena. 10. The penitence may have been Jewish, but the aspiration was universal. The way of showing repentance might be peculiar to the Jews, but the strong desire of gaining forgiveness from God is common, shared by all.Sentence1. Today

21、we are in the throes of a worldwide reformation of cultures, a tectonic shift of habits and dreams called, in the curious vocabulary of social scientists, “globalization”. 今天我們正經(jīng)歷著一種世界范圍文化劇變的陣痛，一種習(xí)俗與追求的結(jié)構(gòu)性變化，用社會(huì)科學(xué)家奇特的詞匯來稱呼這種變化，就叫“全球化”。 2. Whatever their backgrounds or agendas, these critics are conv

22、inced that Western often equated with American influences will flatten every cultural crease, producing, as one observer terms it, one big “McWorld”.不管他們的背景和綱領(lǐng)如何，這些對(duì)全球化持反對(duì)態(tài)度的人深信西方的影響往往等同于美國的影響會(huì)把所有文化上的差異一一壓平，就像一位觀察家所說的，最終產(chǎn)生一個(gè)麥當(dāng)勞世界，一個(gè)充斥美國貨和美國價(jià)值觀的世界。 3. But I also discovered that cultures are as resour

23、ceful, resilient, and unpredictable as the people who compose them. 不過我也發(fā)現(xiàn)文化就如同構(gòu)成文化的民族一樣，善于隨機(jī)應(yīng)變，富有彈性而且不可預(yù)測。 4. Its really hard to be original these days, so the easiest way to come up with new stuff is to mix things that already exist.現(xiàn)今原創(chuàng)極為困難。因此，最容易的辦法就是把現(xiàn)存的東西組合在一起，拿出一個(gè)新玩意兒來。 5. The Cosmopolitan, p

24、lunging necklines and all, is read by 260,000 Chinese women every month. 26萬中國婦女每個(gè)月都在閱讀時(shí)尚雜志，那些開領(lǐng)低胸的畫頁及其他內(nèi)容。 6. The lights went out, and for a moment the only sound in the darkness was the whirring of an expensive camera on auto-rewind. 燈光熄滅，有一陣子，黑暗中唯一的聲音就是一部價(jià)格按貴的照相機(jī)自動(dòng)倒卷時(shí)發(fā)出的聲音。 7. They received a lot

25、 from local cultures, but they also kept their own identity. 他們從當(dāng)?shù)匚幕樟瞬簧贃|西，但仍然保持了自己的本色。 8. Linking humanitys natural impulse, its common destiny. 相互聯(lián)系是人類自有的欲望，是其共同的命運(yùn)。9. They are the powerful cords of the heart. 這種連接靠的是強(qiáng)有力的心靈的紐帶。Unit2 The Woods Were Tossing With JewelsParaphrase1. But these marks o

26、f wild country called to my father like the legendary siren song. Though the place was not pleasant or disagreeable, my father was deeply attracted to it precisely because of its unexplored, uncultivated natural state, and the challenge. 2. "I'm afraid the day's going to catch us,"

27、 I explained, wondering what great disaster might befall us if it did. As a little girl, I believed my father's words, and was genuinely afraid of the possible disaster-if we didn't hurry up, the day would catch us and terrible things might happen. 3. .from time to time he was halfheartedly

28、sought for trial, though few crimes seemed to lead directly to his door. In this place, though the police wound make some effort without real earnest to investigate Watson and bring him to court, there seemed to be little concrete evidence to prove that he was responsible for certain illegal activit

29、ies. 4. The stranglehold Watson had over this section of Florida was not dissimilar to the unscrupulous activities of certain lawmen, other legal crooks, and even governors that our state was to suffer through its history.The control Watson had over this part of Florida was much similar to the disho

30、nest or illegal activities of the law-enforcing officials and governors which Florida witnessed in the 20th century.5. There was the little shack, not the most gracious of living quarters, and there was a murderer for our nearest and only neighbor, about thirty miles away. Before the family built th

31、eir own house, they lived in a shabby cabin at Gopher Key, close to the merciless Watson. 6. King Richard in his gluttony never sat at a table more sumptuous than ours was three times a day. We had abundant food on the island, and even the meals enjoyed by King Richard, who was famous for his love o

32、f food, couldnt possibly compare with ours. 7. Despite the unrelenting heat, we were happy to be let off from our hours of school indoors, sessions which our mother kept every day, rain or shine. Although it was very hot outside in the sun, we were happy to be dismissed from my mother's sessions

33、 indoors. We would have to read and write with her every day no matter what the weather was like. Phrases1. in the line of Shermans march 在謝爾曼將軍的行軍路線上2. a folding cot apiece 每人一張輕便的帆布折疊床3. to replenish our food stock 補(bǔ)充我們的食品4. as an added treat 作為特別的款待5. free-roaming cattle 自由放牧的牛群6. an infamous out

34、law 一個(gè)臭名昭著的亡命之徒7. business as usual 一切照常8. to make regular runs to and fro 定期往來運(yùn)輸9. a weather-boarded shack 由隔板搭成的簡陋的小屋10. under the care and interest of our entire family 在我們?nèi)胰说南ば恼樟舷耂entence1. It was an idyllic life ,and we lived close to our family and to the comforts and safety a small town coul

35、d afford.這是一種田園式的生活，我們和親戚住的很近，享受著小鎮(zhèn)生活所能給予我們的舒服和安全。2. But papa was a man of enterprise; he realized that the untouched Ten Thousand Islands off the southwest coast of the sate were rich in soil for crops and in game for food.但父親是一個(gè)很有上進(jìn)心的人，他知道佛羅里達(dá)州西南海岸的萬島群島還沒有被開發(fā)，那兒土壤肥沃，適于耕種，而且獵物充足，不必?fù)?dān)心食物來源。3. This th

36、ird day out, and the days to come, found us in the unsettled wilds of Florida.出發(fā)后的第三天以及以后的日子里，我們都在佛羅里達(dá)無人居住的荒野中穿行。4. Its underwater grasses looked like green ribbons, constantly unrolling, and the trees held thick sprays of wild orchids.水里的水草就像綠色的絲帶不斷地伸展開來，野蘭花一簇一簇地掛滿了枝頭。5. The burly arms of oaks were

37、 huge with ferns and blooming bromeliads. Redbirds, tanagers and painted buntings flew back and forth across the trail, leaving a child with the impression that the woods were tossing with jewels以前這里經(jīng)常發(fā)水的河灘岸邊一叢叢地長滿了喬葉櫟，那些地面上鋪著一層綠色的蕨類植物，喬葉櫟粗壯的枝干上也覆蓋著蕨類植物，俯生的鳳梨科植物正在盛開。紅雀，唐那雀和色彩斑斕的鳩鳥沿著小路飛來飛去，在孩子們看來就像是寶

38、石在樹林里跳動(dòng)。6. The native whites feared him as you would a rattlesnake, but the Indians and black people were susceptible to his manipulations.本地的白人像懼怕響尾蛇一樣怕他，而印第安人和黑人則不得不受他的控制和剝削。7. Our new home was more than safe, it was a joy.我們的新家不僅安全穩(wěn)定，它還給我們帶了了無盡的樂趣。8. Today I can see in my grandsons and great-gran

39、dsons some of those qualities of courage and caring that my father had in such abundance.今天在我的子孫身上，我仍然能看到我父親所擁有的無盡的勇氣和愛心。Unit7 Inaugural AddressParaphrase1. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human life. As a result of technological development, human belongs now hav

40、e the power to put an end to poverty and human, misery, but at the same time they also possess the power to destroy the whole world, rendering it uninhabitable and lifeless. 2. .unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights. We do not want to see or to allow the slow destruct

41、ion of those human rights. 3. To the people of the underdeveloped countries living in poverty in rural areas, we are committed to helping them to rid themselves of mass poverty by their own efforts. To the people of the underdeveloped countries living in poverty in rural areas, we are committed to h

42、elping them to rid themselves of mass poverty by their own efforts. 4. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers.But we should not let any communist power take advantage of this alliance for progress to expand its influence. 5. And let every other power know that

43、this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house. We want to make clear to the communist powers that Americas are the Americas of the Americans. Do not attempt to penetrate into this area. 6. .before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or a

44、ccidental self-destruction. Before the world is destroyed by a nuclear war launched in a preemptive attack or caused by accident. 7. .yet both racing to alter the uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war. Yet both sides attempt to get an edge in the nuclear arms rac

45、e so as to break the mutual deterrence which has so far prevented the outbreak of a nuclear war. 8. .civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. To be ready to negotiate and establish friendly relations does not mean that we are weak or afraid. Declarations of since

46、re intention have to be tested by actions. 9. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Let the two sides use the fruits of science for the benefit of humanity rather than using high-tech weapons to kill and destroy. 10. .each generation of Americans has been summo

47、ned to give testimony to its national loyalty. There have been occasions for each generation of Americans to be called upon to fight and die for their country. Sentence1. We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedomsymbolizing an end as well as beginningsignifying renewal as

48、well as change.我們今天慶祝的不是黨派的勝利而是自由的選擇象征著一個(gè)時(shí)代的結(jié)束和另一個(gè)時(shí)代的開始意味著延續(xù)與變化。2. United, there is little we cant do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can dofor we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder. 如果我們團(tuán)結(jié)一致，我們在一系列共同從事的失業(yè)中就可以無往不勝，如果我們四分五裂，我們就會(huì)一事無成因?yàn)樵谝庖姺制纾姆治辶?/p>

49、的情況下，我們不敢迎接強(qiáng)有力的挑戰(zhàn)。3. one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny.一種殖民統(tǒng)治形式的消失，不應(yīng)為另一種更為殘酷的暴政所取代。4. and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger and ended up inside .要記住，在過去，那些愚蠢地想靠與虎謀皮而得

50、勢的人最終都為虎所食。5. we renew our pledge of supportto prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invectiveto strength its shield of the new and the weakand to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.我們重申我們的支持不讓其變成一個(gè)相互指責(zé)的論壇加強(qiáng)其對(duì)新生國家和弱小國家的保護(hù)擴(kuò)大其起主導(dǎo)作用的領(lǐng)域。6. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt

51、 can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.只有當(dāng)我們的軍隊(duì)強(qiáng)大無比時(shí)，我們才有把握永不使用武力。7. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.我們永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)由于恐懼而去談判，但我們永不畏懼談判。8. And if a beached of cooperation may push back the jungles of suspicion.如果小小的一點(diǎn)合作能驅(qū)散深深的猜疑 9. In your hands,

52、 my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course.同胞們，我們事業(yè)最終的成敗不是掌握在我手中，而是掌握在你們手中。 10. Ask not what your country can do for youask what you can do for your country.不要問你的國家能為你做什么，要自問你能為你的國家做和貢獻(xiàn)。Unit 8 A Rose For EmilyParaphrase1. But garages and cotton gins had

53、 encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood.The street used to house only the best families.But then great changes took place:garages and cotton gins were established on the street and their existence wiped out the aristocratic traces in that neighborhood. 2. Not that Miss

54、 Emily would have accepted charity.It would not be true to say that miss Emily would have accepted charity. 3. "Just as if a man-any man-could keep a kitchen properly," the ladies said. What the ladies said meant that they did not in the least believe a man, any man, could keep a kitchen p

55、roperly. 4. It was another link between the gross, teeming world and the high and mighty Griersons. The Griersons regarded themselves as very important and the outside world as vulgar and full of people inferior to them. They belonged to two entirely different worlds. However, the complaints about t

56、he smell served as a link between the two different worlds and compelled Miss Emily to deal with the outside world. 5. The next day he received two more complaints, one from a man who came in diffident deprecation. The next day the mayor received two more complaints.one of them was from a man who came and pleaded to the mayor in a shy and timid way. 6. People in our town, remembering how old lady Wyatt, her grand-aunt, had gone completely crazy at last, believed that the Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they really were. People in the