张汉熙高级英语第三版paraphrase

Unit1

1、We’re elevated 23.

Our house is 23 feet above sea level.

2、The place has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever bothered it. The house has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever caused any damage to it.

we can batten down and ride it out.

We can make the necessary preparations and survive the hurricane without much damage.

4、The generator was doused, and the lights went out.

Water got into the generator and put it out. It stopped producing electricity so the lights also went out.

5、Everybody out the back door to the cars!

Everybody go out through the back door and run to the cars

6、The electricity systems had been killed by water.

The electricity systems in the car had been put out by water .

7、John watched the water lap at the steps, and felt a crushing guilt.

As John watched the water inch its way up the steps, he felt a strong sense of guilt because he blamed himself for endangering the whole family by deciding not to flee inland.

8、Get us through this mess, will you?

Oh God, please help us to get through this storm safely.

Unit2

Serious-looking men spoke to one another as if they were oblivious of the crowds about them...

They were so absorbed in their conversation that they seemed not to pay any attention to the people around them.

At last this intermezzo came to an end, and I found myself in front of the gigantic City Hall.

At last the taxi trip come to an end, and I suddenly discovered that I was in front of the gigantic City Hall.

The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt.

The traditional floating houses among high modern buildings represent the constant struggle between old tradition and new development

...experiencing a twinge of embarrassment at the prospect of meeting the mayor of Hiroshima in m y socks. 一想到这样穿着袜子去见广岛市长我就感到十分困窘不安。

I suffered from a strong feeling of shame when I thought of the scene of meeting the mayor of Hiroshima wearing my socks only.

The few Americans and Germans seemed just as inhibited as I was

The few Americans and Germans seemed just as restraint as I was

After three days in Japan, the spinal column becomes extraordinarily flexible. After three days in Japan one gets quite used to bowing to people as a ritual to

show gratitude

I was just about to make my little bow of assent,when the meaning of the last words sank in, jolting me out of my sad reverie.

I was on the point of showing my agreement by nodding when I suddenly realized what he meant. His words shocked me out my sad dreamy thinking .

...and the nurses walked by carrying nickel-plated instruments, the very sight of which would send shivers down the spine of any healthy visitor.

...and the nurses walked by carrying surgical instruments which were nickel plated and even healthy visitors when they see those instruments could not help shivering. Because, thanks to it, I have the opportunity to improve my character.

I have the chance to raise my moral standard because of the illness.

Unit7

1、She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that “no”is a word the world never learned to say to her.

She thinks that her sister has a firm control of her life and that she can always have anything she wants.

My fat keeps me hot in zero weather.

Because I am fat, I feel hot even in freezing weather.

3、Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue. Johnny Carson has a witty and glib tongue. But I outdo him and so he has to try hard if he wants to catch up with me.

It seems to me I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight, with my head turned in whichever way is farthest from them.和他们讲话时我总是紧张不安，随时准备溜走。我的头总是转向离他们最远的方向。

I`m ready to leave as quickly as possible because of discomfort, nervousness, timidity etc., and turn my head away from them in order to avoid them as much as possible for the same reason.

She would always look anyone in the eye.

She would always look at somebody directly and steadily, not feeling embarrassed or ashamed.

She washed us in a river of make-belive, burned us a lot of knowledge we did not necessarily need to know.她给我们灌输一大堆编造的事物以及我们不需要掌握的知识。She imposed on us lots of falsity and so-called knowledge that was totally useless and irrelevant to us.

Like good looks and money, quickness passed her by 正如姣好的相貌和金钱一样，机敏也与她无缘。

She is not bright just as she is nether good-looking nor rich

Meanwhile Asalamalakim is going through motion with Maggie`s hand.与此同时Asalamalakim想可以玩点花样和Maggie握手。

Meanwhile Dee`s boyfriend is trying to shake hands with Maggie in a fancy and elaborate way.

Though, in fact, I probably could have carried it back beyond the Civil War through the branches.

In fact, I could have traced it back before the Civil War through the family branches.

He just stood there grinning, looking down on me like somebody inspecting Model A car.他只是站在那里咧着嘴笑，向人们检验破旧轿车那样居高临下的看着我。

He just stood there with a grin on his face and looked at me as if inspecting something old and out-of-date.

Every once in a while he and Wangero sent signals over my head.他还是不是的与Wangero 在我的头顶上空交换眼色。

Now and then he and Dee communicated through eye contact in a secretive way.

I can`member Grandma Dee without the quilts.

I don`t need the quilts to remind me of Grandma Dee. She lives in my memory. Unit8

1、“what is one winter more?”再等一个冬天又何妨？

What dose it matter if we have to go without a school for another winter?

2、sher Takhi,who called Korphe’s widely dispersed faithful to prayer five times

a day without the benefit of amplification, filled the small room with his booming voice.sher Takhi不用扩音设备召唤Korphe居住十分分散的教徒每天祷告五次，他那浑厚的嗓音充盈着这个小房间。

Sher Takhi had a booming voice, and without the advantage of amplification it filled the small room. He called Korphe’s believers, who were widely scattered working on their respective jobs , to pray five times a day.

3、As the moon rose over korphe K2 , they danced around the fire and taught Mortenson verses from the great Himalayan epic of Gesar, beloved across much of the roof of the world, and introduced him to their inexhaustible supply of Balti folk songs.当月亮升起映照着korphe K2时，他们围绕篝火跳舞，教摩顿森世界屋脊上大部分地区喜爱的《格萨尔传》中一些诗歌并向他介绍巴尔蒂人十分丰富的民间歌曲。

At this time, the moon went up high in the sky above Korphe K2. The villagers danced around the fire and taught Mortenson lines from the Himalayan Epic of Gesar, beloved across most parts of the Himalayas which is the highest part of the world ,and introduced him to a tradition of Balti folk songs so rich that it could never be finished or used up.

4、The fact that it wasn`t written down didn’t make it any less real.虽然他没有用文字记录下来，这并不意味着他不那么真实。

The Balti didn’t have a written history, but that fact didn’t mean that its rich history didn’t exist.

5、He`d had too much trouble getting one school off the ground to think on Hoerni’s scale.

he had had so much trouble getting the plan of building one school started successfully. And he had to concentrate on completing this one and had no time or energy to think on the large scale of building more schools envisioned by Hoerni.

6、The old man led the former climber uphill for an hour, on legs still strong enough to humble the much younger man.

Although Haji Ali was old , his legs were still strong enough to leave the younger man far behind and thus feel ashamed.

7、The air had the fresh-scrubbed clarity that only comes with altitude.

The air was so clear as if it had been just scrubbed. You can have such clear air

only when you get to a certain high atltitude.

8、“You have to understand, in these villages, a ram is like a firstborn child,prize cow, and family per all rolled into one,”Mortenson explains.

In these village, a ram was very much valued ,meaning something extremely precious like a firstborn child, a prize cow and a family pet combined.

Unit12

1、..but as I looked over the bow, the prospects of a good catch looked bleak ..but as I looked over the bow, it was not at all possible to catch a large amount of fish.

....about the tunnel he was digging through time.

...about the ice core sample marked by annual layers, which can show the different degrees of pollution from year to year.

Industry meant coal, and later oil, and we began to burn lots of it -bringing rising levels of carbon dioxide(CO2),with its ability to trap more heat in the atmosphere and slowly warm the earth.

The development of industry meant the use of large amount of coal and later petroleum as fuels to generate power. When coal and oil are burned they emit carbon dioxide into the air which keeps more heat near the earth. When the level of carbon dioxide emissions in the air becomes high, heat will find it difficult to get through it to go into higher altitudes. Thus the temperature of the earth gets warmer.

4、Considering such scenarios is not a purely speculative exercise

Thinking about how a series of events might happen as a consequence of the thinning of the Polar cap is not just a kind of practice in speculation, it has got practical value.

5、Acre by acre, the rainforest is being burned to create fast pasture for fast-food beef

Bit by bit trees in the rain forest are felled and the land is cleared and turned into pasture where cattle can be raised quickly and slaughtered and the beef can be used in hamburgers.

...which means we are silencing thousands of songs we have never even heard. Since miles of forest are being destroyed and the habitat for these rare birds no longer exists, thousands of birds which we have not even had a chance to see will become extinct.

And why do other images,though sometimes equally dramatic,to respond but rather on some convenient, less painful distraction?

And why do other signs, though sometimes no less striking, only cause a kind of loss and inactivity and we concentrate our attention not on the ways to deal with them but instead, on some other substitutes which are easy to get and less painful? This increase in heat seriously threatens the global climate equilibrium that determines the pattern of winds, rainfall, surface temperatures, ocean currents, and sea level.

The global climate balance determines the pattern of winds, rainfall, surface temperature, ocean currents and sea level. Once this state of balance is upset, winds , rainfall and ocean currents will become abnormal, surface temperature and sea level will rise.

So far, however, we seem oblivious of the fragility of the earth`s natural systems. Up till now, we seem to be unaware of the fact that the earth’s natural systems are very delicate and can easily be disrupted

They are symptoms of an underlying problem broader in scope and more serious than any we have ever faced.

They are signs and indications showing that there exists a much greater and more serious problem than we have ever encountered.

Unit14

1、I suppose they will be rounded up in the hordes.

I think the Red Army men will be surrounded and captured in very large numbers. Hitler was counting on enlisting capitalist and Right Wing sympathies in this country and the U.S.A.

Hitler was hoping that if he attacked Russia, he would win in Britain and the U.S.A the support of those who were enemies of communism.

3、Winant said the same would be true of the U.S.A.

Winant said the United States would adopt the same attitude.

4、If Hitler invaded Hell I would mae at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.

I would say a word in favor of anyone who is attacked by Hitler, no matter how bad, how wicked or evil he had been in the past.

The Nazi regime is devoid of all theme and principle except appetite and racial domination.

The Nazi state does not have any ideal or guiding principle at all. All it has is a strong desire for conquest and rule by the Aryan race , the allegedly most superior race in the world .

I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky, still smarting from many a Britain whipping, delighted to find what they believe is a easier and a safer prey.

I can see the German bombers and fighters in the sky, who after suffering severe losses in the aerial battle of England, now feel happy because they think they can easily beat the Russian air force without heavy loss.

we shall be strengthened and not weakened in determination and in resources.

We shall be more determined and shall make better and fuller use of our resources. Let us redouble our exertions, and strike with united strength while life and power remain.

Let us strengthen our unity and our efforts in the flight against Nazi Germany when we have not yet been overwhelmed and when we are still powerful.

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