高英第二册paraphrases答案

2021年1月25日发(作者：laver)
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.

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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.

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