高英前三课练习.doc

Lesson OneI. Paraphrasing1. It has never been an effort to say those three words, even when they occasion the well-meaning but insensitive compliment.A. It has never been difficult or painful for us to say these three words even though the three words may meet the response of peoples well intentioned but unsympathetic/unpleasant praise.B. Admitting Quintana as adopted has never seemed difficult to us, even though it may incur/trigger the listeners well-intentioned but displeasing remark. 2. You could not love her more if she were your own.A. Though she is an adoptive child, you give all your love to her as if she were your own flesh and blood.B. You have treated her as your own flesh and blood by giving her all your attention and love. For an adoptive child, thats all the best adoptive parents can do. 3. We could only assume that it was because she was little more than a child herself, alone and without the resources to bring up a child.We could only believe that she had abandoned her baby because she was too young and lonely, and she couldnt bear the great expenses on raising her child.4. But I would be remiss if I did not say that I am more than a little sensitive to the way the literature presents adoptive parents.I would feel uncomfortable if I did not express my strong displeasure with the way in which the adoptive parents are portrayed in a negative light.5. Both my wife and I admit more than a passing interest in the woman who produced this extraordinary child.Both my wife and I acknowledge that we show our admiration and respect for the woman who had given birth to such a charming, lovely and intelligent child.III. 1. 这幅画时他会想起在西班牙度假时许多愉快的往事。This picture brings back many pleasant memories of her Spanish holiday.2新闻和天气预报是广播节目中的主要内容。News and weather forecasts reports are staples of radio programs.3. 完全出于偶然，汤姆在就把遇见了他那失踪多年，已被认为在战争中阵亡的兄弟。By mere accident Tom met in a bar his long-lost brother who was thought to have been killed in action during the war.4. 比尔凭直觉感到他们的计划隐伏着罪恶。Bill intuited something criminal in their plan.5.他们认为工厂里过分整洁是个不好的征兆. They think that obsessive tidiness in the factory is a bad sign.6. 昨天他母亲把好几年积下来的报纸和杂志卖掉了.Yesterday his mother sold several years worth of papers and magazines.7.他那鼓舞人心的演说激励我们做出更大的努力。His heartening speech impelled us to (work with) greater efforts.8.喜欢一举惊人的人往往不会成功. Those who enjoy pulling off a miracle often fail.9. 作为语言专业的学生，我们应具有对普通词语微妙涵义的辨别力。 As language students we should have a sense of the nuances of plain words and expressions.10. 泰勒太太的养子的粗鲁行为逼得她几乎神经崩溃了.The rude behavior of Mrs. Taylors adopted son is driving her into a nervous breakdown.11. 一般说来我喜欢看电影，尤其是美国西部片和恐怖片。 I like to see films in general, and American Westerns and horrors in particular.12. 在某种意义上,玛丽把她姑妈看成是自己母亲的替身.In some sense Mary saw in her aunt a surrogate of her mother.13. 我父亲从不含糊其辞，他总是提出一些简练然而中肯的看法。My father never equivocated, and he always gave some brief but poignant/pertinant opinions.14. 虽然他身体伤残,却一贯助人不倦.Though he is disabled, he never tires of helping people.15. 在任何国家，玩忽职守者必须收到严厉的惩罚。 In any country, those who are remiss in their duty must be severely punished.16. 警察意识到小孩处在危险中,这迫使他采取行动.Awareness of the fact that the child was in danger impelled the policeman to action.Lesson TwoI. Paraphrasing 1. Mentally they are as soft as a fat baby is physically.Their mental abilities are as weak as a babys muscles.2. The citizens are his contemporaries, but they are picked by that eliminating and sifting process which college is.The students in his college are of his same age, but they are admitted into the school because they have succeeded in the college entrance examinations whereas many others have failed，which is characteristic of college life.3. He learns to walk upright among men and make his way.He learns to gain his fame and dignity among his peers and achieve success in school.4. we have overlooked those who earned their way and didnt amount to the proverbial row of pins.and who were not successful and did not gain any praise from others.5. They work at their jobs with such sense of satisfaction that they neglect their social development or their mental equipment.do not pay much attention to the improvement of their social ability or their mental ability.6. They make earning achievements an alibi for intellectual mediocrity.They consider that the ability to make money can make up for their poor performance in their studies (or is better than the academic achievement).7. Let no student be denied these privileges save by stern necessity.Every student should be accessible to opportunities to develop the mind and to enrich the soul if he/she is not in bad need of money.III.B.1. 甲:很可能他们在去机场的路上会遇到交通堵塞A. The chances are that they will be held up by traffic on their way to the airport.乙:飞机6:35起飞,如果他们赶不上,那太遗憾了.B. The plane takes off at 6:35. It would be a pity if they couldnt make it.2. 另外一种普遍的想法，其实也是一种错误的观念，以为奢华的衣服一定会提高人的身份。Another popular notion which is in fact a misconception is that expensive clothes invariably raise ones status.3. 你能想象一个追求完美，痛恨平庸的人过的是什么样的日子吗？ Can you imagine what kind of life a man has lived who aspires to excellence and abhors mediocrity?4. 如果你填写这张卡片背面的表格，然后邮寄之，我们将免费寄赠一份最新的产品目录。A copy of our latest product catalogue will be sent free of charge if you will fill up the form on the reverse of this card and post it.5. 要是本市一半人口都放弃他们的岗位，下海经商，这即便不是一场灾难，也是一件十分荒谬可笑的事。It will be an absurdity, if not a catastrophe, if half of the population of this city abandons their posts and goes in for business.6. 一些用心良苦的父母,为了望子成龙、望女成凤,对他们子女施加巨大的压力。但是结果往往适得其反。Because they want their kids to be somebody, some well-intentioned parents exercise enormous pressure on their children and the results all too often prove the reverse.7. 这位受尊敬的教授预言这些才能出众的青年人，几年以后一定会在科技领域内大显身手。The revered professor predicted that these brilliant young people would surely make their way in the scientific-technical realm in a few years.8. 许多作家不写短篇小说了，因为正如他们所说“短篇小说没有市场。”然而莱莘坚持写，即使短篇小说除了个人的抽屉外真找不到安身之处，她也要继续写下去。Many writers have quit writing short stories because, as they say there is no market for them. Yet Lessing sticks and she would go on even if there really wasnt any home for them but a private drawer.9. 他笔下的讽刺文章只是达到目的的一种手段，是揭露社会罪恶的一种形式。 Satire under his pen is only a means to an end, a form to expose social evils.10. 看来聚会中没有人注意、甚至记者也没有特别注意将军的缺席，而将军的缺席原本很可能会引起他的对手的怀疑。 It seemed nobody at the party, not even the reporters, made special note of the generals absence which might have aroused the suspicion of his rivals.11. 新近到达这篇陌生土地的人在头几个月里不得不干当地人所不愿干的低微的工作，为了维持生活而做苦工。后来他们中间大多数人积蓄了足够的钱，开起了小店。During their first months in the strange land, the new arrivals had to take menial jobs refused by the natives and work like slaves to make a living. Later, having saved enough money, most of them set up small businesses.12. 智力懒汉可能会发财，不过他们绝对不可能在学术方面有所建树。 Intellectual sluggards may get rich but they can never make good in the academic field.13. 学校应该做出巨大努力教诲学生，使他们具有正义感和热爱真理。Schools should make prodigious effort to inculcate the students with a sense of justice and the love of truth.14. 昨天她接到她在西安的表弟的一封电报，大意是他将乘夜车而不是他在信上所说的乘早车于今日到达。Yesterday she received a telegram from her cousin in Sian/Xian to the effect that the latter would arrive today by the night train instead of the morning train he had mentioned in his letter.15. 她的所有亲戚对她丈夫可能是新近飞机失事中三个幸运的幸存者之一不抱幻想。All her relatives were under no illusion that her husband could be one of the three lucky survivors in the recent plane crash.16. 在西方许多人不结婚,因为他们不愿意受责任的束缚In the west many people remain single because they dont want to tie themselves down (to be tied down) to responsibility.17. 如果没有其他事干扰, 校运动会将如期进行.If nothing interferes the school sports meet will be held as scheduled.18. 对文森来说，打棒球只是达到目的的一种手段，是与明星结交的最好途径。With Vincent playing baseball is a means to an end, the best way to get acquainted with those stars.Lesson ThreeI. Paraphrasing 1. that the mere fact of her sons existence doesnt make him the equal of anybody in competition.mean/show/prove that he has the same ability as other students have (her son is performing as well as others in the exams.2. is not very important3. is surely to encourage a cult of mediocrity.is bound to prevent people from doing their best. As a result, they would stay lazy, and become passive mentally.4. these old professors who can live comfortably by enjoying a lot of privileges but need not work hard if they do not give up their positions/cancel their contract with the school.5. The inclination to “take a chance” or indulge in a “calculated risk” is said to be not so prevalent as in our pioneer days.The desire/hope to have arty or take a risk in the early period of our history when people were trying their best to do everything hard and adventurous.6. We have, he said, dozens of fine-looking, well-groomed fellows for routine assignments.neatly-dressed persons who prefer to do some easy, unchallenging jobs.7. offering the native people better chances to get well paid jobs8. the same but unimportant and valueless virtues which will impede the social development.9. but today even hard-boiled, thrifty taxpayers are advocating the early identification of talented boys and girlssome stubborn, reserved and economical taxpayers are stressing the importance of cultivating and training some talented children at an early age10. should face the challenge by taking necessary steps and by changing the unpleasant situation in which mediocrity is so prevalent that it may eclipse and degrade our fine tradition and glorious culture.F. 1. 这些礼物全被搅乱了，需要把它们分为三大类。These gifts had got thoroughly mixed up and needed to be sorted into three different sets.2. 安理会将对交战国的建议提出异议.The Security Council would take issue with the proposals put forward by the warring states.3. 由于连续吃败仗,敌军士气低落,纪律松懈.Because of repeated defeats the enemy troops morale sank low and their discipline broke loose.4. 争办奥运会,真正重要的不是取胜而是那种竞争的精神,那种参与精神.In a bid to host the Olympic Games, what really counts is not the winning but the spirit to compete and to take part.5. 在设计这栋大楼时，应充分注意到将要在里边工作的人们。In designing the office building, due attention should be paid to people who will work inside it.6. 那位穿着将就的年青人正急切的等待着新娘的到来和婚礼的开始The well-groomed young man is impatient to wait for the bride to arrive and the wedding ceremony to start.7. For several weeks, the city was in (a) turmoil. The rebels had surrounded the City Hall, hailing stones, wielding sticks, and shouting slogans.8. 试验成功之后,他连续几天舒舒服服的晚睡晚起.After the success of the experiment, for several days, he indulged himself in the luxury of sleeping late and getting up late.9. 我不是那种能在城里活得很潇洒的人,我更习惯于过乡村宁静的生活. Im not the type of person who thrives on city life. I am more accustomed to (the) life in the peaceful countryside.10. 经过数百年的风吹雨打,这些欧式建筑已经面目全非了.Having weathered wind and rain for hundreds of years, these buildings of European style are barely recognizable as they were.11. 在求职面