现代大学英语精读1paraphrasing

1、v1.0可编辑可修改Unit 11. They did not make me happy, however, as this was the day I was to be throwninto school for the first time. (1)Paraphrase:But my new clothes did not bring any happiness to me, because it was the dayI was forced to go to school for the first time.2. “Why school ” I asked my father.W

2、hat have I done (3)Paraphrase:Why do I have to go to school I don t think I ve done anything wrong to be punished like this.3. I did not believe there was really any good to be had in tearing meaway from my home and throwing me into the huge, high-walled building. (5) Paraphrase:I didn t think it wa

3、s useful to take me away from home and put me into that building with high walls.4. It was not all a matter of playing and fooling around. (15) Paraphrase:What we did at school wasn t just playing and wasting time doing nothing useful.5. In addition, the time for changing one s mind was over and gon

4、e and there was no question of ever returning to the paradise of home. (16) Paraphrase:Besides, it was impossible for us to quit school and return to the good old days when we stayed homeplaying and fooling around all day. Our childhood was gone, never to come back.Unit 211v1.0可编辑可修改1. If banks were

5、 required to sell wallets and money belts, they might act lesslike churches. (para. 1)Paraphrase:Banks act like churches which usually control people s life and can interferein people s life. So, the author thinks it is ridiculous for banks to act like churches.2. It was lunchtime and the only offic

6、er on duty was a fortyish black man with short, pressed hair, a pencil mustache, and a neatly pressed brown suit. (para.3)Paraphrase:uncurled hair, a thin mustache looking like a line drawn by a pencil, and a neat and tidy brown suit3. Everything about him suggested a carefully dressed authority. (p

7、ara. 3) Paraphrase:Everything about himhis clothes, manner, etc. indicated that he was a carefully dressed man who had an important position and power.4. I moved in for the kill. (para. 19)Paraphrase:I began to prepare to kill, destroy or defeat my enemy.5. I zeroed in on the officer. (para. 20)Para

8、phrase:I m going to have a strong argument to silence the bank officer.6. Look, we re just wasting each other s time. (para. 29)Paraphrase:22v1.0可编辑可修改Look, let s stop talking about this because it is a waste of time./You are just talking nonsense. I don t want to listen to you any more.7. has been

9、shaking this boy down (para. 30)Paraphrase:has been getting money from the boy by using threats8. Anyway, the police are on the case (para. 30)Paraphrase:Anyway, the police are working on the case 9. Not that I ever heard of. (para. 32)Paraphrase:I have never heard of such rules.Unit 31. My husband

10、moved into our house as is the way with us in Esarn. (para. 1)Paraphrase:When we got married, we followed the tradition in Esarn and my husband came to live with my family.2. He has ears which don t hear, a mouth which doesn t speak, and eyes that don t see. ( para. 2)Paraphrase:He does not notice w

11、hat is happening around us and to our children, nor doess troubles.)he express his thoughts and feelings. (The womaris complaining that her husband does not bother about their children3. and it is no longer fertile, bleeding year after year and, like us, getting old and exhausted. (para. 3)33v1.0可编辑

12、可修改Paraphrase:Our land is getting poorer with each passing year, like us who are getting old, weak and tired.4. but in a bad year, it s not only the ploughs that break but our hearts, too. (para. 3) Paraphrase:When there is a draught, the soil is so hard that it breaks the ploughs and we feel so sad

13、 that our hearts break too.5. Only ten years ago, you could barter for things, but nowit s all cash. (para.4)Paraphrase:Just ten years ago, we could exchange one thing for another, but now we have to buy everything from the market.6. Shops have sprung up, filled with colorful plastic things and good

14、s we haveno use for. (para. 4)Paraphrase:Shops have suddenly appeared in the village selling attractive plastic things and things we don t need.7. As for me, I wouldn t change, couldn t change even if I wanted to. (para.7)Paraphrase:I didn t want to change myself and my life, and actually I did not

15、have the ability to change even if I wanted to.8. Yes, this bag of bones dressed in rags can still plant and reap rice from44v1.0可编辑可修改morning till dusk. (para. 7)Paraphrase:Though I m poor, old and weak, I can still work in the rice field all day.9. I am at peace with the land and the condition of

16、my life. (para. 9)Paraphrase:I am content with my land and accept my situation in life without complaint.10. I have been forcing silence upon her all these years, yet she had not once complained of anything. (para. 9)Paraphrase:All these years, I hardly talk with her or listen to her, so she has to

17、keep silent about her thoughts and feelings, but she has never told anyone else about her unhappy feelings about my silence.11. Still the land could not tie them down or call them back. (para. 10)Paraphrase:My children grew up and had happy days on this land, but this could not prevent them from lea

18、ving for cities or attract them back from cities.12. Sickness comes and goes, and we get back on our feet again. (para. 11)Paraphrase:Inevitably we sometimes fall ill, but when we get well again we can always get back to our normal life and work on our land.Unit 41. Ausable was, for one thing, fat T

19、hough he spoke French and Germanpassably, he had never altogether lost the NewEngland accent he had brought to Paris from Boston twenty years ago. (para. 2)55v1.0可编辑可修改Paraphrase:Ausable was, for one reason, fat His French and German were not very good, but acceptable. Although he had been in Paris

20、for twenty years, he never lost the American accent.2. a sloppy fat man who, instead of having messages slipped into his hand by dark-eyed beauties, gets only an ordinary telephone call making an appointment in his room. (para. 4) Paraphrase:an untidy fat man just has an ordinary phone call agreeing

21、 to meet somebody later in his room. There are no other imagined things as a beautiful lady with dark eyes putting a slip of message secretly into his hand.3. The fat manchuckled to himself as he unlocked the door of his room and stood as aside to let his frustrated guest enter. (para. 4) Paraphrase

22、:The fat man laughed to himself when he opened the door of his room and gave way to his dissatisfied guest.4. You are disillusioned. (para. 5) Paraphrase:You are disappointed because what you believe in has turned out to be wrong.5. Before long you will see a paper, a quite important paper for which

23、 several men and women have risked their lives, come to me in the next-to-last step of its journey into official hands. (para. 5) Paraphrase:Soon you will see a document/a report come to me. Several people took chances in order to get it. When I receive the paper, I will place it in the hands of66v1

24、.0可编辑可修改the proper authorities.By then I will have fuelled my mission.6. For halfway across the room, a small automatic pistol in his hand, stood a man. (para. 6) Paraphrase:In the middle of the room, there was a man with a small automatic pistol in his hand.7. I m going to raise the devil with the

25、management this time. (para. 11)Paraphrase:(He was making up a story, which turned out to be a trap for Max.To makeMaxswallow this bait, Ausable pretended to be angry with the management and explained to Fowler (not to Max) whyhe wasgoing to complain to the management about the balcony.)8. It might

26、have saved me some trouble had I known about it. (para. 12) Paraphrase:If I had known about it, I would not have spent so much effort.9. I wish I knew how you learned about the report,(para. 15)Paraphrase:I want to know how you succeeded in finding out the report, but I have no idea.10. Keeping his

27、body twisted so that his gun still covered the fat man and hisguest,(para. 22)Paraphrase:He twisted his body in order to point his gun right at the fat manand his guest.Unit 677v1.0可编辑可修改1. My ancient jeep was straining up through beautiful countryside when theradiator began to leak. (para. 1)Paraph

28、rase:When the radiator started to drip, my old jeep was trying hard to climb up the mountain in the scenery rural area.2. The over-heated engine forced meto stop at the next village, which consisted of a small store and a few houses that were scattered here and there. (para.1)Paraphrase:Due to the h

29、igh temperature of the engine, I had to stop at the next village, which contained a small shop and several houses that were loosely distributed.3. He, in turn, inspected me carefully, as if to make sure I grasped the significance of his statement. (para. 3) Paraphrase:Then he examined mewith great c

30、aution in the way of ensuring whether I understood the importance of his words.4. As a product of American education, I had never paid the slightest attention to the green banana, except to regard it as a fruit whose time had not yet come. (para. 5) Paraphrase:As someoneeducated in the United States

31、, I naturally had never paid any attention to the green banana, except to take it as a fruit which was not yet ripe or which was not yet ready to be picked and eaten.5. It was my own time that had come, all in relation to it. (para. 5)Paraphrase:88v1.0可编辑可修改It was me who had come to know the green b

32、ananas, and everything connected with it. According to the author, every civilization has special geniuses (symbolized by the green banana), which have existed for many years. But they will not come to your notice and benefit you until and unless you are ready to go out and meet them.6. I had been w

33、ondering for sometime about what educators like to call “learning moments , and I now knew I had just experienced two of them at once. (para.5)Paraphrase:The two things that suddenly dawnedon him are: the fact that every civilization has wonderful treasure to share with others and the idea that ever

34、y village, town, region or country has a right to regard itself as the center of the world.7. The cultures of the world are full of unexpected green bananas with special value and meaning. (8) Paraphrase:The green bananas have become a symbol of hidden treasures from every culture.For proper underst

35、anding of a piece of writing, it is often important to notice such symbolic language and to know what the symbols stand for.Unit 81. He had his thumb out and held a gas can in his other hand. (para. 1) Paraphrase:He held his thumb out and the gas can to show that he was out of gas and needed a lift

36、to the nearest gas station. Generally speaking, at the sametime of holding his thumb out, a hitchhiker also has a board in his hand, on which the name of the place he wants to go is written. Here, the gas can shows that the young man has run out of gasoline for his car.99v1.0可编辑可修改2. Leaving him str

37、anded in the desert did not bother me so much. (para. 2)Paraphrase:Because the author thought it was sensible for him to do so and did so indeed as a matter of course as other people would do the same in the situation.It shows that it was really something common. The real issue then was not that he

38、didn t help the young man but that he never thought about offering help to strangers.3. It would be cashless journey through the land of the almighty dollar. (para.5)Paraphrase:I would travel without a penny through the country where money was extremely important.4. I rose early and a sign displayin

39、g my destination to passing vehicles “America” . (para. 6)Paraphrase:Because what he wanted to do was to discover America and American people. The destination of the journey was Cape Fear, just literally, but the real destination was to seek understanding of the country and its people.5. In Montana

40、they told me to watch out for the cowboys in Wyoming. In Nebraska they said people would not be as nice in Iowa.Paraphrase:They suggest that the people there (probably people everywhere), were more or less provincial (another sub-concept of ethnocentric). They tended to makefalse assumptions about p

41、eople in other places, . the people in their place were nicer/better than those in other places.1010v1.0可编辑可修改6. I didn t know whether t o kiss them or scold them for stopping. (para. 8)Paraphrase:(Because the situation when the two little ladies stopped for the author was, in his eyes, potentially

42、dangerous for them. He says so to emphasize both the kindness and courage the ladies showed in that particular situation.)7. Oncewhen I was hitchhiking unsuccessfully in the rain, a trucker pulled over, locking his brakes so hard he skidded on the grass shoulder. (Para. 9) Paraphrase:(Because he had

43、 to. Otherwise he would not be able to stop right before the author.It shows the mental struggle that was probably going on in the driver s mind.He was once robbed at knifepoint by a hitchhiker, which made it more difficultfor him to make such a decision at the moment than others. However, he chose

44、to stop finally and his kindness was thereby highlighted.)8. Those who had the least to give often gave the most.Paraphrase:Poor people are often more generous. They are often ready/willing to give comparatively more of what they have to those in need than rich people.9. Now we re talking, I thought

45、.Paraphrase:Now he knew what I wanted and the talk was going in the right direction.10. “When we do, he said, it s usually kin. (Para. 13)Paraphrase:(The local people do not usually entertain/receive guests at home.) They only do this for their kin relatives.1111v1.0可编辑可修改11. In spite of everything,

46、 you can still depend on the kindness of strangers. Paraphrase: (It meansthe fact that there are people who are indifferent to other people s needs/ who refuse to help others/who may hesitate to help and people may say about lack of compassion in our society and a generally moral decay in our societ

47、y. I find, however, on the whole you can still depend on the kindness of strangers.)Unit 91. The impressiveness was normal and not for show, for spectators were few.(para. 1)Paraphrase:The police officer walked that way habitually, not to attract attention or admiration because there were few people

48、 in the streets to be impressed. The description shows that the policeman quite enjoyed his work.2. Trying doors as he went, swinging his club with manyclever movements, turning now and then to cast his watchful eye down the peaceful street, the officer, with his strongly built form and slight air o

49、f superiority, madea fine picture of a guardian of the peace. (para. 2) Paraphrase:From how he looked and what he did on the beat, we can see that the policeman was competent at, confident of, proud of, and dutiful to his job. All these factors gave people the impression that he was a trustworthy pr

50、otector of the peace. ( Notice how a string of present participles are used as adverbials to vividly describe the policeman s actions.)3. The area was one that kept early hours. (para. 2) Paraphrase:People in that area closed their stores pretty early.1212v1.0可编辑可修改4. The next morning I was to start

51、 for the West to make my fortune. (para. 7)Paraphrase:The next morning I was going to leave (New York) for the West as planned to make a lot of money and get rich.5. We figured that in twenty years each of us ought to have our fate worked outand our fortunes made, whatever they were going to be. (pa

52、ra. 7)Paraphrase:We thought by that time we would have found out our fate and known how much we have achieved materiallywhether our fortune huge or small.6. But after a year or two we lost track of each other. (para. 9)Paraphrase:We wrote letters and kept in touch with each other for a year or two,

53、and thenwe stopped writing and haven t heard from or heard of each other. Now neithe r of us knows what has happened or is happening to the other.7. You see, the West is a pretty big place, and I kept running around over itpretty lively. (para. 9)Paraphrase:I kept moving around in the West, never st

54、aying in the sameplace for long. (And that s why it was hard for us to keep track of each other.)8. and it s worth it if my old partner turns up. (para. 9)Paraphrase:If my old friend comes to meet me as he promised, I would think my trouble of travelling so far is fairly rewarded.9. He was a kind of

55、 slow man, though, good fellow as he was. (para. 13)1313v1.0可编辑可修改 Paraphrase:However, he wasn t very smart, even thought he was a good person.10. I ve had to compete with someof the sharpest brains going to get my money. (para. 13 ) Paraphrase:In order to make money, I had to compete with the most

56、shrewd and crafty people.11. A man gets stuck in New York. It takes the West to make a man really keen. (para. 13) Paraphrase:A man is unable to go very far or to be very successful in New York where lifeis boring and opportunities for change are few. He has to go to the West to become an eager and

57、exciting person.The man from the west means that New York City was “civilized ” ; it had too manylaws, and that getting rich quickly was less likely. In the West, however, one could by-pass the rules, and though being tougher and smarter one could become rich very fast.12. I should say not! (para. 16)Paraphrase:Of course I am not going to leave immediately.13. The few foot passengers in that quarter hurried dismally and silently along with coat collars turned high and pocketed hands. (para. 18 ) Paraphrase:There were few people in the street of this part of the