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1、i hope you make a lot of it, i told him, because youre going to be badly stuck for something to do when youre not signing checks. be stuck for sth: not to know what to do in a particular situation 不知所措 paraphrasing：(if you dont have any other goal in life apart from making money,) you will have noth

2、ing interesting and meaningful to do when you are not paying for your shopping.,u1,text analysis,you are on your way to being that new species of mechanized savage, the push-button neanderthal nindt:l 穴居人. (para.9),new type of humans who are primitive prmtv 原始的 and uncivilized although they can work

3、 machines,paraphrasing: you will become an uneducated person who can only work machines and operate mechanical equipment, not knowing anything about literature, philosophy, history, or art.,it would certify that he had specialized in pharmacy, but it would further certify that he had been exposed to

4、 some of the ideas mankind has generated within its history. (para. 2) paraphrasing: the b. s. certificate would be official proof that the holder had special knowledge of pharmacy, and it would also be proof that he had been put in touch with some profound ideas of the past.,to be official proof,co

5、ncentrate ones effort in a special activity or field,put in touch with,i could have told him all this, but it was fairly obvious he wasnt going to be around long enough for it to matter. (para. 3) paraphrasing: i didnt actually say all this to him, because i didnt think he would stay at college/in m

6、y class very long, so it wouldnt be very important whether or not he knew what university education was for.,around where?,youre going to be badly stuck for something to do when you are not signing checks. (para. 8),pay for things,unable to find,our colleges inevitably graduate a number of such life

7、 forms, but it cannot be said that they went to college; rather the college went through themwithout making contact. (para.9) paraphrasing: our colleges always produce such people who can operate machines but who cannot think. we cannot help that. but we cant say that these people have received a pr

8、oper college education. it is more accurate to say that these college years have just passed them by without leaving anything on them.,there is not time enough in a single lifetime to invent for oneself everything one needs to know in order to be a civilized human. (para.10) paraphrasing: to become

9、a civilized person, you need to know many things, and you cannot find out everything by yourself, because your life is too short.,the faculty, by its very existence, says implicitly: “we have been aided by many people, and by many books, in our attempt to make ourselves some sort of storehouse of hu

10、man experience.” (para. 14) paraphrasing: we need the faculty because these teachers have a lot of human experience to pass on to young students, and they are able to do so because they have been helped by many people and many books in the past.,u2,“yes, different,” he snapped, angry with her resort

11、ing to this trick of repeating his words so that they sounded hypocritical. (para. 16),spoke abruptly and sharply,go to 4,to turn to the help of the trick,adjective phrase as subject complement,appositive structure linked by “of”,while he was at it, he decided, he might as well mop the floor. (para.

12、 42),go to 5,had better,he was doing the dishes,he thought the years they had spent together, and how close they were, and how well they knew each other, and his throat tightened so that he could hardly breathe. (para. 43),“as a result” introducing an adverbial clause of result,objective clauses of

13、“thought”,the end of sentence paraphrase.,u3,and the sun means business(para.2) mean business: (infml) to want very much to achieve something, even if other people disagree with you; be serious about sth. you have to do paraphrasing: the sun shines more brightly and its getting warmer.,im not sure w

14、hy i do this beyond the saving in fertilizer and my unwillingness to aid the weeds. (para.5) beyond: except (in negative sentences) paraphrase: i dont know why i only use very little fertilizer; maybe i dont want to spend too much on fertilizer, or maybe i dont want the weeds to thrive on fertilizer

15、. but certainly there are more reasons.,she is an outspoken, truthful woman, or she was until she learned better. (para.8) learn better: learn that it is not wise or moral to do sth. cf. know better (than to do sth.): to be wise or moral enough not to do sth.很懂得(而不至于)；不至于蠢到 paraphrasing: she used to

16、 be a woman who spoke her mind and who was always straightforward in her speech, but now she has learned from experiences that it is not wise to do so.,in some pocket of the mind there might even be the tendency to change this vision into a personal assurance that all this healthy growth, this order

17、liness and thrusting life must somehow reflect movements in ones own spirit. (para.9) paraphrasing: in some small corner of the mind, i am even inclined to believe that such beautiful view of the garden can be transformed into a spiritual certainty; i feel certain that just like this well-organized

18、and arranged garden and the life and vitality of everything growing in it, my spirit is equally active as well as in order.,a garden in an extension of oneself or selves and so it has to be an arena where striving does not cease, but continues by other means. (para. 10) paraphrasing: a garden is lik

19、e your second self, or a projection of yourself in nature; whatever you do in real life continues in your garden. so a garden must be a state where your effort for achievements never stops, but carries on in different ways.,only the gardener is capable of reviving so much hope that this year, regard

20、less of drought, flood, typhoon, or his own stupidity, this year he is going to do it right! (para.11) paraphrasing: only the gardener can become hopeful after repeated failures and believe that this year he is going to have a good harvest, even though there might be disasters like drought, flood, t

21、yphoon, and even though he himself is foolish.,leave it to god to have picked the proper occupation for the only creature capable of such self-delusion. (para. 11) leave it to sb. to do sth.: to allow someone to make a choice or decision about something, or to make someone responsible for something

22、paraphrasing: god has done his job properly and chosen the right occupation for mankind, because only man can “deceive” themselves willingly, only man can regain hope after repeated failures, believing in new and better possibilities.,u4,and there was the aesthetic clash as wellblue-and-green air fl

23、orida, the name of a flying garden, sunk down among gray chunks of ice in a black river. (para. 1) aesthetic clash paraphrasing: when the air crash occurred, it was not just a clash of metal against the bridge, but also a clash between colors: the blue-green color of the plane and the gray and black

24、 color of the ice and river, which did not look good.,washington, the city of form and rules, turned chaotic by a blast of real winter and a single slap of metal on metal. (para.1) the city of form and rules: the city that is neat整洁的 and beautiful. (washington was the first carefully planned city in

25、 the world with parallel streets cut by diagonal danl avenues. its design was considered a masterpiece. ) turn chaotic: become chaotic; be thrown into terrible confusion. a blast of real winter: a sudden strong really cold wind.一场突如其来的寒风 slap: a quick blow with something flat. 拍击,skutnik added that

26、somebody had to go in the water, delivering every heros line that is no less admirable for being repeated. paraphrasing: . saying something every hero has said before, but although it has been said again and again, it is still admirable when we hear it.,the fact that he went unidentified gave him a

27、universal character. (para. 4) paraphrasing: people did not know who he was. this made him a kind of symbol, a symbol of human courage. go + subject complement (adj. ed-participle, ing-participle, prep. phrase): to remain in a state of all my letters went unanswered. he hoped that his nervousness wo

28、uld go unnoticed. trans: 由于社会资源有限，很多犯罪都没有得到惩罚。 due to limited social resources, many crimes have gone unpunished.,7. yet there was something else about our man that kept our thoughts on him, and which keeps our thoughts on him still. he was there, in the essential, classic circumstance. para paraphr

29、asing: what happened that day was a typical situation in which nature and man fought each other. and when nature begins to show its power, you always find man fighting back. he is always there. we can always expect to find such a hero.,. delivering every heros line that is no less admirable for bein

30、g repeated. (para. 3) paraphrasing: . saying something every hero has said before, but although it has been said again and again, it is still admirable when we hear it.,this man was described as appearing alert and in control.(para. 4) paraphrasing: this man was described as a person who appeared to

31、 be able to think quickly and clearly; calm and with perfect presence of mind.,still, he could never have imagined such a capacity in himself. (para. 5) paraphrasing: however, it was impossible for him to know that he would be capable of such heroism. what the man did was the natural response to the

32、 critical situation.,for at some moment in the water he must have realized that he would not live if he continued to hand over the rope and ring to others. he had to know it, no matter how slow the effect of the cold. (para. 6) paraphrasing: he did not pass on his rings to others with a total unawar

33、eness of the consequences. at some point he must have known that he was freezing to death and would go under any moment. but he still gave the chance of survival to the next person.,he was there, in the essential, classic circumstance. (para.7) paraphrasing: what happened that day was a typical situ

34、ation in which nature and man fought each other. and when nature begins to show its power, you always find man fighting back. he is always there. we can always expect to find such a hero.,yet whatever moved these men to challenge death on behalf of their fellows is not peculiar to them. everyone fee

35、ls the possibility in himself. (para.8) paraphrasing: yet whatever made these men or gave them the power to challenge death for others is not unique. indeed, every one of us has the potential to be a hero.,strong, sudden movement of wind,with a sharp and loud noise, washington, the neatly well-desig

36、ned city of order was thrown into a terrible confusion.,apposition phrase并列短语,go to 2,a sharp, loud and forceful strike of the plane and the bridge, stressing what met the ear,washington, the city of form and rules, turned chaotic by a blast of real winter and a single slap of metal on metal. (para.

37、 1),disordered state of unformed things,and there was the aesthetic clash as wellblue and green air florida, the name of a flying garden, sunk down among gray chunks of ice in a black river. (para. 1),apposition,go to 3,the clash was also a clash of colours, a horrible eye-catching scene.,combinatio

38、n of colours which gave an artistic effect on the horrible scene, stressing what met the eye,last wednesday the elements, indifferent as ever, brought down flight 90. and on that same afternoon human naturegroping and strugglingrose to the occasion. (para. 2),last wednesday, the bad weather, unconce

39、rned about the consequences it might bring about as always, made flight 90 fall down. on that same afternoon, human nature, groping for the flotation rings and struggling in the icy water, came to prove its greatness displayed in an unexpected tragedy.,made the plane fall down,go to 4,unconcern abou

40、t the consequences as always,was able to deal with an unexpected problem, a difficult task,of the four acknowledged heroes of the event, three are able to account for their behavior. (para. 3),go to 5,only three out of these four heroes lived to tell people what they actually had done and how they h

41、ad rescued the five survivors.,on television, side by side, they described their courage as all in the line of duty. (para. 3),as part of ones duty,its their duty to be courageous enough to rescue people in the water.,go to 6,skutnik added that “somebody had to go into the water”, delivering every h

42、eros line that is no less admirable for being repeated. (para. 3),skutnik gave a remark that has been said before by many people in similar situations, but it is still admirable.,go to 7,making every heros remark,equally,as a result of,but the person most responsible for the emotional impact of the

43、disaster is the one known first as “the man in the water”. (para. 4),being the cause for,go to 8,his selfishness was one reason the story held national attention; his anonymity another. (para. 4),go to 9,parallel structure,for a while he was everyman, and thus proof (as if one needed it) that no one

44、 is ordinary. (para. 4),everyman, the name of a 15th-century english moral play about death and fate of mans soul, generally regarded as the best moral play,the anonymous man really represents the best of human nature. what he did was not the act of a supernatural being, but the act of an ordinary p

45、erson.,go to 10,he was there, in the essential, classic circumstance. (para. 7),go to 11,most important,traditional or long established,what happened that day was a typical situation in which natural forces and man fought against each other. and when elements begin to show their power, you always fi

46、nd man who will fight back. he is always there. we can always expect to find such a hero.,so the age-old battle began again in the potomac. for as long as man could last, they went at each other, nature and man. (para. 7),go to 12,fought,the traditional idea that human civilization is a record of ma

47、ns gradual conquest of nature, the one making no distinctions of good and evil, acting on no principles, offering no lifelines; the other acting wholly on distinctions, principles and, perhaps, on faith. (para. 7),man, on the other hand, has his moral standards of what is right and wrong. he must be

48、have according to the moral principles and beliefs.,go to 13,nature has no moral standards. it works on no human principles. it cares nothing about the individual life of man.,in reality, we believe the opposite, and it takes the act of the man in the water to remind us of our true feelings in this

49、matter. (para. 8),go to 14,actually, the death of the man did not mean that human beings had lost the battle. in a moral sense, man had won because mans courage to defy death was also a tremendous power. therefore, what happened to this man in the water should fill us with pride rather than sadness.

50、,the man in the water set himself against an immovable, impersonal enemy; he fought it with kindness; and he held it to a standoff. he was the best we can do. (para. 9),nature, which is indifferent and cannot be persuaded to change its attitude towards man,a situation in which neither side in a batt

51、le can gain an advantage,to make sb. start to fight with,the end of sentence paraphrase.,u6,in the deep woods that verged against our back fence, a network of paths led almost everywhere, and pheasants rocketed off into the dense laurels ahead as you walked. (para.2) verge against: to be close to; t

52、o be at the edge or border of (this is a rare expression) a network of: a system of lines, wires, roads, etc that cross each other and are connected to each other and pheasants rocketed off: and pheasants took off like rockets.,loving nature, however, i was most delighted by the endless patchwork of

53、 farms and woodland that surrounded our house. (para.2) loving nature, however : as (because) i loved nature a patchwork of farms (fields): farms that look like small pieces of cloth of different colors when seen from far above being a few minutes late, he was dismissed. having been criticized, he m

54、ade up his mind to improve his work thoroughly.,keeping to myself was my way of not forming attachments that i would only have to abandon the next time we moved. (para.3) paraphrasing: i did not try to make many friends because in that way i did not have to give up my friendship the next time i had

55、to move.,i started hiking there , up a long, sloping hill to an almost impenetrable stand of trees called bear wood. (para.4) an impenetrable stand of trees: trees growing so thick that they are impossible to go through or enter into. stand: a group of trees growing in a given area impenetrable: der

56、ived from “penetrate”,my own breathing rang in my ears, and the slightest stirring of any woodland creature echoed through this private paradise. (para.4) paraphrasing: i could even hear my own breathing, and even the lightest movement of any bird or animal in the wood could be heard throughout this

57、 paradise.,soon i saw a small brick cottage that glowed pinkly in the westering sun. (para.18) paraphrasing: soon i saw a small brick cottage shining with a pink color in the sun that was moving toward the west.,then, recovering quickly, she gave a welcoming smile that instantly put me at ease. (par

58、a.6) put sb at ease: to make sb. feel relaxed,“yes, theyre wary,” she said. “but then, gamekeepers have been shooting them ever since they got here. theyre introduced, you know, not native.” (para.11) wary: careful, cautious, watchful, suspicious, alert gamekeeper: someone whose job is to look after

59、 birds and animals that are kept to be hunted on private land. notice the use of the word “game” to refer to theanimals, birds, and fish that are hunted for food or as asport. be introduced: to be brought into this place from somewhere else for the first time,text analysis, and my well of knowledge about natural history began to brim over. at school, i earned the nickname “prof” (para.24) notice the figurative use of the word “well” and the exaggeration of having knowledge “bri