高级英语第二册 原文+paraphase

Lesson 1

1. We're elevated 23 feet.

We're 23 feet above sea level.

2. The place has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever bothered it.

The house has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever caused any damage to it.

3. We can batten down and ride it out.

We can make the necessary preparations and survive the hurricane without much damage.

4. The generator was doused, and the lights went out.

Water got into the generator and put it out. It stopped producing electricity, so the lights also went out.

5. Everybody out the back door to the cars!

Everybody go out through the back door and run to the cars.

6. The electrical systems had been killed by water.

The electrical systems in the car had been put out by water.

7. John watched the water lap at the steps, and felt a crushing guilt. As John watched the water inch its way up the steps, he felt a strong sense of guilt because he blamed himself for endangering the whole family by deciding not to flee inland.

8. Get us through this mess, will you?

Oh God, please help us to get through this storm safely.

9. She carried on alone for a few bars; then her voice trailed away. Grandmother Koshak sang a few words alone and then her voice gradually grew dimmer and stopped.

10. Janis had just one delayed reaction.

Janis displayed rather late the exhaustion brought about by the nervous tension caused by the hurricane.

Lesson 4

1. And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebears fought is still at issue around the globe.

Our ancestors fought 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 decided in many countries around the world.

2. This much we pledge---and more.

This much we promise to do and we promise to do more.

3. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. United and working together we can accomplish a lot of things in a great number of joint undertakings.

4. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers.

We will not allow any enemy country to subvert this peaceful revolution which brings hope of progress to all our countries.

5. Our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace.

The United Nations is our last and best hope of survival in an age where the instruments of war have far surpassed the instruments of peace.

6. To enlarge the area in which its writ may run.

We pledge to help the United Nations enlarge the area in which its authority and mandate would continue to be in effect or in force.

7. Before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.

Before the terrible forces of destruction, which science can now release, overwhelm mankind; before this self-destruction, which may be planned or brought about by an accident, takes place

8. Yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind’s final war.

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.

9. So let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness.

So let us start once again (to discuss and negotiate) and let us remember that being polite is not a sign of weakness.

10. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.

Let both sides try to call forth the wonderful things that science can do for mankind instead of the frightful things it can do.

11. Each generation of American has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty.

Americans of every generation have been called upon to prove their loyalty to their country (by fighting and dying for their country's cause).

12. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love.

Let history finally judge whether we have done our task welt or not, but our sure reward will be a good con-science for we will have worked sincerely and to the best of our ability.

Lesson 5

1. Logic, far from being a dry, pedantic discipline, is a living, breathing thing, full of beauty, passion and trauma:

Logic is not at all a dry, learned branch of learning. It is like a living human being, full of beauty, passion and painful emotional shocks.

2. Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox:

He is of the same age and has the same background but he is dumb as an ox.

3. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason.:

Fads (a passing fashion or craze), in my opinion, show a complete lack of reason.

4. To be swept up in every craze that comes along, to surrender yourself to idiocy just because everyone else is doing it – this, to me, is the acme of mindlessness.

It is the greatest of lack of intelligence for me to follow enthusiastically every current fashion that appears, or to indulge myself to stupid action just because everyone else is doing it.

5. ―All the Big Men on Campus are wearing there. Where’ve you been?‖

: All the important and fashionable men on campus are wearing them. How come you don’t know?

6. ―Don’t you want to be in the swim?‖:

don’t you want to follow the current fashions?

/Don’t you want to be doing what everyone else is doing?

7. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear. My brain began to work at high speed or efficiency. /

My brain, which is a precision instrument, began to work at high speed.

8. I wanted Polly for a shrewdly calculated, entirely cerebral reason.

I wanted Polly for a cleverly thought out and an entirely intellectual reason.

9. She was not yet of pin-up proportions, but I felt sure that time would supply the lack.

She was not yet as beautiful as a pin-up girl but I felt sure she would become beautiful enough after some time.

10. She had an erectness of carriage, an ease of bearing, a poise that clearly indicated the best of breading.

She walked with her head and body erect and moved in a natural and dignified manner—all this showed she was well trained in manners and social behavior.

11. In fact she veered in the opposite direction.

In fact, she went in the opposite direction.

/She was not intelligent, that she was rather stupid.

12. In other words, if you were out of the picture, the field would be open.

If you’re no longer involved with her (if you stop dating her) others would be free to compete for her friendship.

13. He was a torn man.

He was agitated and tormented, not knowing what was the right thing to do.

14. I was getting nowhere with this girl, absolutely nowhere.: I was m

aking no progress with

this girl.

15. The girl simply had a logic-proof head.

Polly had a head that was resistant to (could not be affected by) logic

16. Admittedly it was not a prospect fraught with hope…: One must admit the outcome does not look very wonderful.

17. Suddenly, a glimmer of intelligence—the first I had seen—came into her eyes.:

From her eyes that for the first time she was beginning to understand the problem.

18. Over and over again I cited instances…without let-up.

Over and over again I gave examples and pointed out the mistakes in her thinking. I kept emphasizing all this without stopping.

19. I reeled back, overcome with the infamy of it.

I staggered back overcome by the great wickedness of Petey’s traitorous act.

20. I shrieked, kicking up great chunks of turf.

The narrator has now thoroughly lost control of himself and his temper. He now screamed and kicked up big pieces of grassy earth in his anger. Lesson 7

1. Boy and man, I had been through it often before.

As a boy and later when I was a grown-up man, I had of- ten

travelled through the region.

2. But somehow I had never quite sensed its appalling desolation.

But somehow in the past I never really perceived how shocking and wretched this whole region was.

3. It reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke.

This dreadful scene makes all human endeavors to advance and improve their lot appear as a ghastly, saddening joke.

4. The country itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the endless mills.

The country itself is pleasant to look at, despite the sooty dirt spread by the innumerable mills in this region.

5. They have taken as their model a brick set on end.

The model they followed in building their houses was a brick standing upright. / All the houses they built looked like bricks standing upright.

6. This they have converted into a thing of dingy clapboards, with a narrow, low-pitched roof.

These brick-like houses were made of shabby, thin wooden boards and their roofs were narrow and had little slope.

7. When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring.

When the brick is covered with the black soot of the mills it takes on the color of a rotten egg.

8. Red brick, even in a steel town, ages with some dignity.

Red brick, even in a steel town, looks quite respectable with the passing of time. / Even in a steel town, old red bricks still appear pleasing to the eye.

9. I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer.

I have given Westmoreland the highest award for ugliness after having done a lot of hard work and research and after continuous praying.

10. They show grotesqueries of ugliness that, in retrospect, become almost diabolical.

They show such fantastic and bizarre ugliness that, in looking back, they become almost fiendish and wicked./ When one looks back at these houses whose ugliness is so fantastic and bizarre, one feels they must be the work of the devil himself.

11. It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror.

It is hard to believe that people built such horrible houses just because they did not know what beautiful houses were like.

12. On certain levels of the American race, indeed, there seems to be a

positive libido for the ugly.

People in certain strata of American society seem definitely to hunger after ugly things; while in other less Christian strata, people seem to long for things beautiful.

13. They meet, in some unfathomable way, its obscure and unintelligible demands.

These ugly designs, in some way that people cannot understand, satisfy the hidden and unintelligible demands of this type of mind.

14. They made it perfect in their own sight by putting a completely impossible penthouse, painted a staring yellow, on top of it.

They put a penthouse on top of it, painted in a bright, conspicuous yellow color and thought it looked perfect but they only managed to make it absolutely intolerable.

15. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.

From the intermingling of different nationalities and races in the United States emerges the American race which hates beauty as strongly as it hates truth．

lesson 10

1.The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged…

At the very mention of this post-war period, middle-aged people begin t

o think about it longingly.

2. The rejection of Victorian gentility was,in any case, inevitable. In any case, an American could not avoid casting aside its middle-class respectability and affected refinement.

3.The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian social structure….

The war only helped to speed up the breakdown of the Victorian social structure.

4. …it was tempted,in America at least,to escape its responsibilities and retreat behind an air of naughty alcoholic sophistication..

In America at least, the young people were strongly inclined to shirk their responsibilities. They pretended to be worldly-wise, drinking and behaving naughtily.

5.Prohibition afforded the young the additional opportunity of making their pleasures illicit,...

The young people found greater pleasure in their drinking because Prohibition, by making drinking unlawful added a sense of adventure. 6….our young men began to enlist under foreign flags.

Our young men joined the armies of foreign countries to fight in the war.

7.theywanted to get into the fun before the whole thing turned belly up‖

The young people wanted to take part in the glorious ad-venture before the whole war ended.

8. …they had outgrown towns and families….

These young people could no longer adapt themselves to lives in their home towns or their families.

9. …the returning veteran also had to face…the hypocritical do-goodism of Prohibition,…

The returning veteran also had to face Prohibition which the lawmakers hypocritically assumed would do good to the people.

10. Something in the tension-ridden youth of America had to ―give‖ (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,their minds and pens inflamed against war,Babbittry,and ―Puritanical‖gentility,should flock to the traditional artistic center…

It was only natural that hopeful young Writers whose minds and writings extremely opposed war, Babbittry and "Puritanical" gentility, should come in great numbers to live in Greenwich Village, the traditional artistic center.

12 Each town had its ―fast‖set which prided itself on its unconventionality,…

Each town was proud that it had a group of wild, reckless people, who li

ved unconventional lives.

Lesson 11

1. The English people may hotly argue and abuse and quarrel with each other but there still exists a lot of natural sympathetic feeling for each other. 2. What the wealthy employers would really like to do is to whip all the workers whom they consider to be lazy and troublesome people.

3. There are not many snarling shop stewards in the work-shop, nor are there many cruel wealthy employers on the board of managers (or governing board of a factory). 4. The contemporary world demands that everything be 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, English ness seems to put up a rather poor weak performance.

6. Englishness is not against change, but it believes that changing just for changing and for no other useful purpose to be 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 'Good Life' promised by Admass is false and dishonest in all respects.

11. They can be found too though there are not many of them now because these kind of people are dying out -- among the curt, bad-tempered, extremely conservative politicians who refuse to accept high posts in big commercial enterprises.

12. They are incompetent, lazy and inefficient, careless and untidy.

13. He will not even find much satisfaction in his untidy and disordered life where he manages to live as a parasite by sponging on people. This kind of life does not help a person to build up any self-respect.

14. These people think of the House of Commons as a place rather far away where some people are always quarreling and arguing over some small matter.

15. 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. Lesson 13

1. The writers of these letters said they were sad at the stand I had taken and they were full of blame and censure. They said I should either admit being ignorant or accept the fact that I was a stubborn and feelingless person.

2. I am indeed aware that the movement for abolition is widespread and t

hose Who are for abolition express their views very strongly and clearly.

3. I begin my argument by first conceding that my conclusion is not final and there is still room for discussion. 4. He would feel glad because it gives pleasure to see a case that gives no opening for attack.

5. At the very beginning of our discussion we find here the abolitionists jumping to an improper conclusion as they generally do. 6. The sentencing of uncontrollable brutes to death need not be influenced by anger, vindictiveness or moral conceit.

7. A presumptive reason, might be extended to cover other acts that destroy the moral basis of civilization.

8. The abolitionists in their propaganda speak of human life as something sacred and inviolable in low solemn tones.

9. They will bless our military forces and pray for our victory when called upon to do so, despite the fact that the sixth commandment of the church forbids killing. 10. If the sanctity of life is something absolute then we must let the murderer do whatever he wants to you.

11. The absolute sanctity of human life is a slogan and not a well thought out proposal of the abolitionists.

12. In examining the problems of poverty, mental disorder, dilinquency or crime, an increasing number of generous and learned people are now solely interested in the diseased, the perverted, the mentally abnormal persons.

13. ()f course we are sorry for the victims, but science, which is developing and progressing, is not interested in the dull ordinary people who are the victims.

14. We cannot know what the long term consequences of some crimes are likely to be.

15. There is no doubt a killer who weighs 150 pounds and who cannot control his brutal strength has an undeveloped mind like that of a nine-year-old child.

Lesson 14

1. Nowadays New York is out of phase with American taste…

1.Nowadays New York cannot understand nor follow the taste of the American people.

2.New York even prides itself on being a holdout from prevailing American trends…

2. New York boasts that it is a city that resists the prevailing trends (styles, fashion)of America.

3….sitcoms cloned and canned in Hollywood, and the Johnny Carson show live,preempt the airwaves from California.

3. Situation comedies made in Hollywood and the actual performance of Johnny Carson now replace the scheduled radio and TV programs for California.

4… it is making something of a comeback as a tourist attractions.

4. New York is regaining somewhat its status as a city that attracts tourists

5.To win in New York is to be uneasy…

5. A person who wins in New York is constantly disturbed by fear and anxiety (because he is afraid of losing what he has won in the fierce competition).

6.Nature’s pleasures are much qualified in New York.

6. The chance to enjoy the pleasures of nature is very limited. 7….the city’s pleasures are much qualified in New York.

7.At night the city of New York is aglow with lights and seems proudly and haughtily to darken the night sky.

8.But the purity of a bohemian dedication can be exaggerated.

8. But a pure and wholehearted devotion to a Bohemian life style can be exaggerated.

9.In both these roles it ratifies more than it creates.

9. In both these roles of banking and communications head- quarters, New York starts or originates very few things but gives its stamp of approval to many things created by people in other parts of the country.

10.the television generation grew up in the insistent presence of hype

10. The television generation was constantly and strongly influenced by extravagant promotional advertising.

11…those who are writing ambitious novels sustain themselves on the magazine.

11. Authors writing long serious novels earn their living in the meantime by also writing articles for popular magazines.

12.broadway,which seemed to be succumbing to tawdriness of its environment, is astir again.

12. Broadway, which seemed unable to resist the cheap, gaudy shows put on in the surrounding areas, is once again busy and active.

13… he prefers the unhealthy hassle and the vitality of urban life.

13.(If you tell a New Yorker about the vigor of outdoor pleasures, he will reply that) he prefers the unhealthy turmoil and animated life of a city.

14.the defeated are not hidden away somewhere esls on the wrong side of town.

14. Those who failed in the struggle of life, the down-and-outs, are not hidden away in slums or ghettoes where other people can't see them.

15.the place constantly exasperates, at times exhilarates.

15. New York constantly irritates and annoys very much but at times it also invigorates and stimulates.