現(xiàn)代大學(xué)英語精讀 基礎(chǔ)英語paraphrase

1、Unit 1 Text Thinking as a HobbyParaphrases of the Text 1. The leopard was Nature, and he was being natural.(3)The leopard symbolizes Nature,which stands for all animal needs or desires.美洲豹象征著自然，它在那里顯得很自然而已。2. Nature had endowed the rest of the human race with a sixth sense and left me out.(15)Everyb

2、ody, except me ,is born with the ability to thin大自然賦予其余的所有的人第六感覺卻獨(dú)獨(dú)漏掉了我。3. You could hear the wind trapped in the cavern of his chest and struggling with all the unnatural impediments. His body would reel with shock and his ruined face go white at the unaccustomed visitation.(19)你能聽到風(fēng)被他的胸腔堵住，遇到障礙物艱難

3、前進(jìn)發(fā)出的聲音。他的身體因?yàn)椴涣?xí)慣這樣的感覺而搖搖晃晃，臉色變得慘白。4. In this instance, he seemed to me ruled not by thought but by an invisible and irresistible spring in his neck.(20)Mr. Houghtons deeds told me that he was not ruled by thought, instead, he would feel a strong urge to turn his head and look at the girls.在這種情況下，我認(rèn)

4、為他不是受思想，而是受他后頸里某個(gè)看不到卻無法抗拒的發(fā)條的控制。5. Technically, it is about as proficient as most businessmens golf, as honest as most politicians intentions, or to come near my own preoccupation - as coherent as most books that get written.(23)This ironical sentence shows that the author not only considers those p

5、eople incompetent, dishonest and incoherent but also despises most businessmen, distrust most politicians and dislikes most publications.從技術(shù)上而言，它嫻熟如同商人玩高爾夫，誠實(shí)如同政客的意圖，或者 更接近我自己的領(lǐng)域 有條理如同大多數(shù)寫出來的書。6. We had better respect them, for we are outnumbered and surrounded.(24)The Grade 3 thinkers usually repre

6、sent the great majority, so we has to respect them because we are surrounded by them.我們最好尊重他們，因?yàn)槲覀兲幱谒麄兊陌鼑?，勢單力薄?. Man enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.(24)The author thinks that just like cows always eat the grass of the same side of a hill, it is probably

7、 human nature to enjoy agreement because it seems to bring peace, security, comfort and harmony. 人是一種愛群居的動(dòng)物，就象牛喜歡沿著山坡的同一條道路吃草一樣喜愛共識。8. I slid my arm round her waist and murmured breathlessly that if we were counting heads, the Buddhists were the boys for my money. She fled. The combination of my arm

8、 and those countless Buddhists was too much for her.(27)我伸手?jǐn)堖^她的腰屏住呼吸低聲說，如果算人數(shù)我該捐錢給佛教徒。露絲的確是為我好，因?yàn)槲胰诉@么好。但是我的手臂加上那些數(shù)不勝數(shù)的佛教徒實(shí)在讓她無法忍受了。9. It was Ruth all over again. I had some very good friends who stood by me, and still do. But my acquaintances vanished, taking the girls with them.(32)What had happene

9、d to Ruth and me now happened again. My grade-two thinking frightened away many of my acquaintances.又是露絲的問題。我曾有一些很要好的朋友站在我這邊，他們現(xiàn)在仍然站在我這邊。但是我的熟人都不見了，帶著他們的女孩子消失了。Unit 2 Text Spring SowingParaphrases of the Text 1. .sleep and yet on fire with excitement, for it was the first day of their first spring s

10、owing as man and wife.(3)Although they were still not fully awake, the young couple was already greatly excited, because that day was the first day of their first spring sowing since getting married.有些困乏，也很興奮，因?yàn)檫@是他們作為夫婦第一個(gè)春播的第一天。2. But somehow the imminence of an event that had been long expected lo

11、ved, feared and prepared for made them dejected.(3)The couple had been looking forward to and preparing for this spring planting for a long time. But now that the day had finally arrived, strangely, they felt somehow a bit dejected, unhappy, sad, or depressed.但是隨著春播的迫近，這一他們?yōu)橹诖S久，熱愛，害怕和準(zhǔn)備的大事的臨近，他們反而

12、有些沮喪。3. Mary, with her shrewd womans mind, thought of as many things as there are in life as a woman would in the first joy and anxiety of her mating.(3)Mary, like all sharp and smart women, thought of everything that was going to happen in the rest of her life. At that time, she had the complex tho

13、ughts of a woman at the first crucial moment of her marriage. She was filled with joy and anxiety and was bothered by many thoughts.瑪麗用她精明的女性的思維，思考著一個(gè)女人在新婚生活中所得到的快樂和生活中的瑣事。4. Martin fell over a basket in the half-darkness of the barn, he swore and said that a man would be better off dead than.(4)It

14、would be better for him to die than tripped over a basket.馬丁再昏暗的谷倉中被一只籃子絆倒了。5. And somehow, as they embraced,all their irritation and sleepiness left them. And they stood there embracing until at last Martin pushed her from him with pretended roughness and said:“Come, come, girl, it will be sunset b

15、efore we begin at this rate.”(4)All the anger, unhappiness and drowsiness melted away with their hug. They remained in each others arms until finally Martin pushed her away, with pretended roughness.他們就這樣擁抱著，直到最后馬丁推開了瑪麗，并假裝強(qiáng)硬的說道：“來吧，快點(diǎn)，姑娘，再這樣下去當(dāng)我們開始時(shí)太陽都要下山了?！?. .as they walked silently.through the l

16、ittle hamlet, there was not a soul about.(5)When they walked silently through the small village, they saw not a single person around.當(dāng)他們穿著生皮鞋穿過小村莊時(shí)，那還沒有其他人。7. And they both looked back at the little cluster of cabins that was the center of their world, with throbbing hearts. For the joy of spring ha

17、d now taken complete hold of them.(5)他們帶著悸動(dòng)的心跳同時(shí)回頭看看村莊中相似的小屋，那就是他們生活的世界的中心。春播的喜悅已經(jīng)緊緊地包裹住了他們。8. Suppose anybody saw us like this in the field of our spring sowing, what would they take us for but a pair of useless, soft, empty-headed people that would be sure to die of hunger?(12)If people should see

18、 us like this (with your arm around my waist), what would they think of us? They were sure to regard us as a pair of good-for-nothings, people who are unable to endure hardships and foolish and, therefore, were sure to die of hunger.“想想如果有人看到我們在春播的土地上這樣，他們只會(huì)把我們當(dāng)成一對沒用、軟弱、沒腦子的會(huì)被餓死的傻瓜，呼!”9. She became

19、suddenly afraid of that pitiless, cruel earth, the peasants slave master, which would keep her chained to hard work and poverty all her life until she would sink again into its bosom.(13)She became afraid of the earth because it was going to force her to work like a slave and force her to struggle a

20、gainst poverty all her life until she died and was buried in it.10. It overpowered that other feeling of dread that had been with her during the morning.(17)But when she sat and looked around the village, the fields and the people, a strange feeling of happiness arose in her. The feeling of joy drov

21、e away the feeling of terror that she had had in the morning.11. The strong smell of the upturned earth acted like a drug on their nerves.(20)12. All her dissatisfaction and weariness vanish from Marys mind with the delicious feeling of comfort that overcame her at having done this work with her hus

22、band.(34)Unit 3 Text Groundless BeliefsParaphrases of the Text 1. They rest upon mere tradition, or on somebodys bare assertion unsupported by even a show of proof.(1)They are only based on tradition, or on somebodys assertion, but are not supported even by the least amount of proof.這些說法僅僅根據(jù)傳統(tǒng)，或者根據(jù)某

23、人毫無證據(jù)的斷言2. But if the staunchest Roman Catholic and the staunchest Presbyterian had been exchanged when infants,and if they had been brought up with home and all other influences reversed, we can had very little doubt what the result would have been.(3)If they were exchanged when they were infants a

24、nd brought up different homes and under different influences, then the staunchest Roman Catholic would be the staunchest Presbyterian, vice versa. This shows that our beliefs are largely influenced by surroundings.不過，如果在嬰兒時(shí)期把最虔誠的羅馬天主教徒和長老會(huì)教義信徒予以交換，然后使他們在相反的家庭與影響下長大，所能得出的結(jié)果是毋庸置疑的。3. It is consistent

25、with all our knowledge of psychology to conclude that each would have grown up holding exactly the opposite beliefs to those he holds now.(3)我們可以根據(jù)所掌握的心理學(xué)知識得出結(jié)論，兩人長大后會(huì)持有與現(xiàn)在恰好相反的觀點(diǎn)4. Of course we do not cease, when we cease to be children, to adopt new reliefs on mere suggestion.(4)Of course it does

26、not mean that when we grow up we no longer have these mistaken beliefs. We are still easy and often willing victims of newspapers and advertising.當(dāng)然，我們長大后也不會(huì)停止僅僅根據(jù)建議接受新觀點(diǎn)。5. We should remember that the whole history of the development of human thought has been full of cases of such “obvious truths”

27、breaking down when examined in the light of increasing knowledge and reason.(8)我們應(yīng)該記住，在人類思想發(fā)展的整個(gè)歷史過程中充滿了這種“明顯的真理”現(xiàn)象，經(jīng)過人類不斷增長的知識與理性的檢驗(yàn)，這些“真理”不攻自破。6. The age-long struggle of the greatest intellects in the world to shake off that assumption is one of the marvels of history.(9)世界上最偉大的學(xué)者們經(jīng)過長期斗爭否定了這一假設(shè)，這

28、也是人類歷史上的一大奇跡。7. Many modern persons find it very difficult to credit the fact that men can even have supposed otherwise.(10)許多現(xiàn)代人發(fā)現(xiàn)很難相信人們曾有過另一種假設(shè)。8. We adopt and cling to some beliefs becauseor partly becauseit “pays” us to do so. But, as a rule, the person concerned is about the last person in the

29、world to be able to recognize this in himself.(14)Peoples who hold those beliefs through self-interest usually will not admit this. They usually try to cloak themselves with beautiful altruistic words.我們之所以接受并且堅(jiān)持某些觀點(diǎn)的原因是或者部分原因是這樣做對我們“有好處”。9. There is many a man who is unconsciously compelled to clin

30、g to a belief because he is a “somebody” in some circleand if he were to abandon that belief, he would find himself nobody at all.(15)Many people are forced to hold a belief because he has become an important person in his group. If he gave up that belief, he would turn insignificant at once.許多人無意識地

31、被迫堅(jiān)持某種觀點(diǎn)，因?yàn)樗悄硞€(gè)圈子里的“重要人物”如果他放棄這一觀點(diǎn)，就會(huì)成為無足輕重的小人物。10. Somewhat similar is the acceptance of an opinion through the desireprobably not recognized by the person concernedto justify his own nature, his own position, or his own behaviour.(17)另一種類似的情況是有些人出于證明自己的性格、立場或行為的愿望而接受某一種觀點(diǎn)，也許當(dāng)事人不承認(rèn)這一點(diǎn)。Unit 4 Text L

32、ions and Tigers and BearsParaphrases of the Text 1. Of course, anybody who knows anything about New York knows the citys essential platitude - that you dont wander around Central Park at night - and in that, needless to say, was the appeal; it was the thing you dont do.(1)Everybody who knows New Yor

33、k knows the widely discussed topic there, that is, you should not wander in Central Park at night because its dangerous. However, precisely because of the risk, there are always people attracted to do so. They just wish to do what people normally dont do.當(dāng)然，了解紐約的人都知道關(guān)于這座城市老生常談的話題夜里不能在中央公園閑逛而這，不用說，正是

34、吸引力所在：它是你平常不會(huì)做得事情。2. So far , so normal, and this could have been an outdoor summer-stock Shakespeare production anywhere in America, except in one respect.(3)And tonights performance could be any outdoor performance of Shakespeares play one regularly finds in summer in America. There was only one d

35、ifference. 到目前為止，一切還算正常，這和美國任何地方在室外上演的莎士比亞夏令劇目沒什么不同，除了一點(diǎn)：3. .the rotating red light was like a campfire in the wild, warning whats out there to stay away.(3)旋轉(zhuǎn)著的紅色警燈就像野外的篝火，警告四周存在的威脅不要靠近。4. I got my bearings.(6) I found where i was. 我終于認(rèn)清了方向。5. The park was to be strolled through, enjoyed as an aest

36、hetic experience, like a walk inside a painting.(7)人們漫步于公園，享受美的體驗(yàn)，猶如走進(jìn)一幅油畫中一樣。6. I was emboldened by the realization: I was no longer afraid; I was frightening.(9)意識到這點(diǎn)，我的膽子就大了起來：我不再害怕了，令人害怕的是我。7. The park is now framed, enveloped even, by the city, but there was no escaping the recognition that the

37、 citycontrived, man-made, glaring obtrusive, consuming wasteful and staggering quantities of electricity and water and energy- was very beautiful.(12)But there was no denying the fact (you have to admit) that the city was very beautiful, although it was not a natural kind of beauty, it was artificia

38、l and showy, and it used up a great amount of water and energy.公園現(xiàn)在被鑲嵌在城市中，甚至被城市包裹，但不可否認(rèn)的是這座城市這座經(jīng)過雕琢的、人工打造的、燈火輝煌8. And then, nature finding herself unable to resist, it started to pour.(24)Unit 9 Text The Damned Human RaceParaphrases of the Text 1. That is to say, I have subjected every postulate th

39、at presented itself to the crucial test of actual experiment, and have adopted it or rejected it according to the result. (para.2)In other words, I have put every theory or hypothesis there is to the decisive test of actual experiment.也就是說，通過實(shí)驗(yàn)，我對每一種假設(shè)都進(jìn)行了檢測，并根據(jù)實(shí)驗(yàn)結(jié)果采納或者否定了這一假設(shè)。2. I was aware that ha

40、ve not scrupled to cheat the ignorant and the helpless out of their poor servings in order to partially appease that appetite. (para.4)I knew that many man who have more money than they can ever use have shown a mad desire to get more, and they have not ed to cheat poor people and their few saving i

41、n order to y that desire. 我意識到，許多人雖然聚斂了不計(jì)其數(shù)的財(cái)富，然而他們?nèi)匀豢释?，并且從無知又無助的人身上肆無忌憚地奪取微薄的財(cái)富，以便來平息心中的愿望。3. Men keep harems but it is by brute force, privileged by atrocious laws which the other sex were allowed no hand in making. (para.6)人妻妾成群，只是依靠暴力，由暴力的法律來授予特權(quán)。然而女性是無權(quán)參與制定這些法律的。4. He will not even enter a dr

42、awing room with his breast and back naked, so alive are he and his mates to indecent suggestion. (para.8)他甚至不會(huì)裸露著乳房和屁股走進(jìn)臥室，但他和同伴對下流的暗示又十分敏感。5. No- Man is the Animal that Blushes. He is the only one that does it - or has occasion to. (para.8)No, man is not the only animal that laughs, but it is true

43、that man is the animal that blushes. He is the only animal that does it or has the need to. 不人是會(huì)臉紅的動(dòng)物。是唯一會(huì)臉紅的動(dòng)物或者說有必要臉紅。6. Man-when he is King John, with a nephew to render untroublesome, he uses a red-hot iron; (para.9)In the case of King John who wanted to get rid of his nephew he used a red-hot i

44、ron to torture him.當(dāng)他作為約翰國王的時(shí)候，為了除掉侄子，他會(huì)用燒紅的烙鐵來折磨他；7. The cat is moderate-unhumanly moderate, she only scares the mouse, she does not hurt it; she doesnt dig out its eyes, or tear off its skin, or drive splinters under its nails-man-fashion; when she is done playing with it she makes a sudden meal o

45、f it and puts it out of its trouble. (para.9)貓是適度的與人不同的是它在嚇唬老鼠，并不去傷害它。它不去挖老鼠的眼睛，剝它的皮，或者把木條釘進(jìn)它的指甲里像人一樣。在它戲弄玩老鼠之后，他、便突然把它當(dāng)飯吃了，使它脫離痛苦。8. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to

46、 grab slices of other peoples countries(para.13)It is claimed that man is the only Patriot. Only man is capable of such noble sentiment. But what does it mean? It simply means that he keeps himself away from others, occupies a piece of land, calls it his own country, and thinks that he is better tha

47、n others, then he puts up a flag and gathers together a group of killers and steals land from others.他打著國旗，在自己的國度里自詡與眾不同，并嘲笑其他國家。他不惜花費(fèi)重金，屯兵無數(shù)，就是為了吞噬大片他人的國土9. He is the only animal that has the True Religion, several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself, and cuts his thro

48、at if his theology isnt straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brothers path to happiness and heaven. (para.14)In trying to make it easy for his brother to find happiness and go to heaven, he has turned the world into a graveyard (he has caused the dea

49、th of millions around the world in converting them to his religion)人是唯一信仰宗教的的動(dòng)物。他是唯一信奉正統(tǒng)宗教幾種宗教的動(dòng)物，也是唯一愛鄰居就像愛自己一樣的動(dòng)物，如果鄰居的神學(xué)理論不純正，人就割斷她的喉嚨。他把全球變成了一個(gè)大墓地，千方百計(jì)為他的兄弟謀求幸福，為其上天堂鋪平道路。10. The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out, in the Hereafter. I wonder why?

50、It seems questionable taste. (para.14)And we are told that they will not be allowed to go to the next world (heaven). I wonder why? It seems to show poor taste to leave out the higher animal and allow only human beings to go to heaven.高級動(dòng)物沒有宗教信仰。我們被告知，它們死后將被排除在天堂之外。我不明白這是為什么？看來這是值得懷疑的選擇標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。Unit 11 Te

51、xt Soldiers HeartParaphrases of the Text 1. There is a brief purring sound, then a rhythmic drumming. (para.2)There is the sound of the plane dropping bombs or guns firing shells rhythmically.2. it was the course for upper division students known as the colloquium. (para.4)3. I dont suppose many of our soldiers in the Gulf War have suffered from it - they were