现代大学英语精读5Paraphrase

1、Lesson 1Paraphrase1. The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so many centuries that they are nobody is not easy.It is no easy job to educate a people who have been told over centuries that they were inferior and of no importance to see that they are humans, the same as

2、any other people.2. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.If you break the mental shackles imposed on you by white supremacists, if you really respect yourself, thinking that you are a Man, equal to anyone else, you

3、 will be able to take part in the struggle against racial discrimination.3. The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation.The liberation of mind can only be achieved by the N

4、egro himself/herself. Only when a negro is fully convinced that he/she is a Man/Woman and is not inferior to anyone else, can he/she throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and become free.4. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting

5、 everything that stands against love.Power in its best form of function is the carrying out of the demands of justice with love and justice in the best form of function is the overcoming of everything standing in the way of love with power.5. At that time economic status was considered the measure o

6、f the individuals ability and talents.At that time, the way to evaluate how capable and resourceful a person was to see how much money he had made (or how wealthy he was).6. the absence of worldly goods indicated a want of industrious habits and moral fiber.A person was poor because he was lazy and

7、not hard-working and lacked a sense of right and wrong.7. It is not the work of slaves driven to their tasks either by the task, by the taskmaster, or by animal necessity.This kind of work cannot be done by slaves who work because the work has to be done, because they are forced to work by slave-dri

8、vers or because they need to work in order to be fed and clothed.8. when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated. when the unfair practice of judging human value by the amount of money a person has is done away with. 9. He who hates does not know God, but he who h

9、as love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.Those who harbor hate in their hearts cannot grasp the teachings of God. Only those who have love can enjoy the ultimate happiness in Heaven.10. Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure

10、 of creeds and an anemia of deeds.Let us be dissatisfied until America no longer only talk about racial equality but is unwilling or reluctant to take action to end such evil practice as racial discrimination.Lesson twoParaphrase1. I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying

11、each one on for size.2. I imagined myself as different types of prodigy, trying to find out which one suited me the best. 3. I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of wonts. I had new thoughts, which were filled with a strong spirit of disobedience and rebellion. 3

12、. The girl had a sauciness of a Shirley Temple.The girl was somewhat like Shirley Temple, a bit rude, but in an amusing way. 4. It felt like worms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my chest, but it also felt good, as if this awful side of me had surfaced, at last. When I said those words, I

13、 felt that some very nasty thoughts had got out of my chest and so I felt scared. But at the same time I felt good, relieved, because those nasty things had been suppressed in my heart for some time and they had got out at last.5. And I could sense her anger rising to its breaking point, I wanted to

14、 see it spill over. I could feel that her anger had reached the point where hex self-control would collapse, and wanted to see what my mother would do when the lost complete control of herself.6. The lid to the piano was closed, shutting out the dust, my misery, and her dreams.When the lid to the pi

15、ano was closed, it shut out the dust and also put an end to my misery and her dreams.Lesson threeParaphrase1. Yet globalization“is a reality, not a choice”. (Para. 2) Yet globalization is not something that you can accept or reject, it is already a matter of life which you will encounter and have to

16、 respond to every day.2. Popular factions sprout to exploit nationalist anxieties. (Para. 5) Political groups with broad support have come into being to take advantage of existing worries and uneasiness among the people about foreign "cultural assault".3. where xenophobia and economic ambi

17、tion have often struggled for the upper hand. (Para. 5). in China, the two trends of closed-door and open-door policies have long been struggling for dominance. 4. Those people out there should continue to live in a museum while we will have showers hat work. (Para. 6)The Chinese people should conti

18、nue to live a backward life while we live comfortably with all modern conveniences. 5. Westernization is a phenomenon shot through with inconsistencies and populated by very strange bedfellows. (Para. 7). westernization is a concept full of self-contradiction and held by people of very different bac

19、kgrounds or views.6. You dont have to be cool to do it; you just have to have the eye. (Para. 10)In trying to find out what will be the future trend, you do not need to be fashionable yourself. All you need is awareness, that is to say, you need to be on the alert, to be observant. 7. Hewas up in th

20、e cybersphere far above the level of time zones. (Para. 19) He was moving around, playing a game through the Internet with people living in different time zones, thus their activity on the computer broke down time zone limit.8. In the first two weeks of business the Gucci Store took in a surprising

21、$100,000. (Para. 22)The Gucci store did not expert that in the first two weeks of its opening in Shanghai business could be so good.9. Early on I realized that I was going to need some type of compass to guide me through the wilds of global culture. (Para. 29) From the very beginning I know I need s

22、ome theory as guideline to help me in my study of global cultures as globalization, to guide me through such a variety of cultural phenomena. 10. The penitence may have been Jewish, but the aspiration was universal. (Para. 39)The way of showing repentance might be peculiar to the Jews, but the stron

23、g desire of gaining forgiveness from God is common, shared by all.Lesson fourParaphrase1. Pianos and models, Paris, Vienna and Berlin, masters and mistresses, are not needed by a writer. (Para. 1)If you want to be a musician or a painter, you must own a piano or hire models, and you have to visit or

24、 even live in cultural centers like Paris, Vienna and Berlin. And also you have to be taught by masters and mistresses. However, if you want to be a writer, you don't need all this. 2. She would have plucked the heart out of my writing. (Para. 3)Those conventional attitudes would have taken away

25、 the most important part of my writing, the essence of my writing.3. Thus, whenever I felt the shadow of her wing or the radiance of her halo upon my page, I took up the inkpot and flung it at her. (Para. 3)Thus, whenever I felt the influence of the Victorian attitudes on my writing, I fought back w

26、ith ail my power. 4. For though men sensibly allow themselves great freedom in these respects, I doubt that they realize or can control the extreme severity with which they condemn such freedom in women. (Para. 5) It was a sensible thing for men to give themselves great freedom to talk about the bod

27、y and their passions. But if women want to have the same freedom, men condemn such freedom in women. And I do not believe that they realize how severely they condemn such freedom in women, nor do I believe that they can control their extremely severe condemnation of such freedom in women, 5. Indeed

28、it will be a long time still, I think, before a woman can sit down to write a book without finding a phantom to be slain, a rock to be dashed against. (Para. 6)It will take a long time for women to rid themselves of false values and attitudes and to overcome the obstacle to telling the truth about t

29、heir body and passions. 6. Even when the path is nominally open when there is nothing to prevent a woman from being a doctor, a lawyer, a civil servant there are many phantoms and obstacles, as I believe, looming in her way. (Para. 7)Even when the path is open to women in name only, when outwardly t

30、here is nothing to prevent a woman from being a doctor, a lawyer, a civil servant, inwardly there are still false ideas and obstacles impeding a woman's progress. 7. You have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto exclusively owned by men. (Para. 7)(Through fighting against the Angel in the

31、 House, through great labor and effort,) you have gained a position or certain freedom in a society that has been up to now dominated by men.Lesson71. It took me a long time to get rid of illusions and realize the simple and apparent truth that I am nobody but myself. It was a painful process. I sta

32、rted with high expectations only to be deeply disappointed and thoroughly disillusioned.2. I am perfectly normal physically and I am a natural product of history; my growth reflects history. When things seemed likely to happen to me, other things had been equal (or unequal) eighty-five years ago. 3.

33、 About 85 years ago, they were told that they were freed from slavery and became united with the white people in all the essential things having to do with the common interests of our country, but in social life the blacks and whites still remain separated.4. In these days before I realized I was an

34、 invisible man, I imagined that I would become a successful man like Booker T. Washington.5. On the one hand, I felt embarrassed that i wanted to run away from the ballroom. On the other hand, I took pity on the girl and so wanted to protect the naked girl from the eyes of the other men, I wanted to

35、 love her tenderly because she was an attractive girl, but at the same time I wanted to destroy her because after all she was the immediate cause of our embarrassment6. If I should try my best and win the fight, then 1 would be winning against the bet of that white man, who shouted "I got my mo

36、ney on the big boy." In that case I would not behave with humility, and yet my speech talked about humility as the essence of success. So maybe I should let that big boy win without putting up resistance, for this was time for me to show humility.7. Make full use of what you have and do the bes

37、t you can. Take this attitude in making friends in every honorable way, making friends with people of different races among whom we live.8. You were not trying to seem clever in a disrespectful way, were you, boy? We intend to do the right thing by setting you up as role model, but you must never fo

38、rget who you are.Lesson 81. I knew that Oppenheimer was a man of great talent but his way of showing his talent at my seminars caused uneasiness and resentment among people, especially among his fellow students. 2. Since those attending the conference were people devoted to poetry, such an anecdote,

39、 though interesting, might not be appreciated by the audience.3. There were two reasons for my going to the conference set against the reasons for my not going and they became decisive in my final decision.4. According to my view, Spender belongs to the group whose writings about their lives, experi

40、ences, that is whose autobiographies, are more interesting than their literary works.5. Like Dirac, Auden was outstanding in clarity. He was also outstanding in the powerful use of the language and the sense of fun about serious issues. All these greatly fascinated me.6. Spenders record of his visit

41、 is interesting not only because of the things he mentions but also because of the things he does not say.7. In his book, Spender fails to give a connected, complete picture of Oppenheimer and does not mention that Oppenheimers background and situation has quite a lot to do with Spender.8. The real

42、person looked much better than the pictures.9. Maybe one should not attach too much importance to appearance.10. He had live longer than any of his more famous friends but traces or influences of these friends, especially those of Auden, could still be found on him.Lesson 91. Your imagination comes

43、to life, and this, you think,is where Creation was begun.The landscape makes your imagination vivid and lifelike, and you believe that the creation of the whole universe was begun right here.2. But warfare for the Kiowas was preeminently a matter of disposition rather than of survival, and they neve

44、r understood the grim,unrelenting advance of the U.S. Cavalry.The Kiowas often fought, just because they were good warriors, because they fought out of habit, character, nature, not because they needed extra land or material gains for the sake of surviving and thriving. And they could not understand

45、 why the U. S. Cavalry never gave up pushing forward even when they had won a battle.3. My grandmother was spared the humiliation of those high gray walls by eight or ten years.Luckily, my grandmother did not suffer the humiliation of being put into a closure for holding animals, for She was born ei

46、ght or ten years after the event.4. It was a long journey toward dawn, and it led to a golden age.They moved toward the east, where the sun rises, and also toward the beginning of a new culture, which led to the greatest moment of their history.5. They acquired horses, and their ancient nomadic spir

47、it was suddenly free of the ground.Now they got horses. Riding on horseback, instead of walking on football, gave them this new freedom of movement, thus completely liberating their ancient nomadic spirit.6. From one point of view, their migration was the fruits of an old prophecy, for indeed they e

48、merged from a sunless world.In a sense, their migration confirmed the ancient myth that they entered the world from a hollow log,for they did emerge from the sunless world of the mountains.7. The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see, and they were bent and blind in the wilderness.Their stature was measured by the distance they could see. Yet, because of the dense forests, they could not see very far, and they could hardly stand straight.8. Clusters of trees and an