高级英语第一册课后paraphrase汇总

Paraphrase:L1:1.Little donkeys thread their way among the throngs of people.Then as you penetrate deeper into the bazaar, the noise of the entrance fades away, and you come to the muted cloth-market.They narrow down their choice and begin the really serious business of beating the price down.He will price the item high, and yield little in the bargaining.As you approach it, a tinkling and banging and clashing begins to impinge on your ear.L2:Serious looking men spoke to one another as if they were oblivious of the crowds about them.The cab driver’s door popped open at the very sight of a traveler.The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimino and the miniskirt.I experienced a twinge of embarrassment at the prospect of meeting the mayor of Hiroshima in my socks.The few Americans and Germans seemed just as inhibited as I was/After three days in Japan, the spinal column becomes extraordinarily flexible.I was about to make my little bow of assent, when the meaning of these last words sank in, jolting me out of sad reverie.I thought somehow I had been spared.L3:The prospect of a good catch looked bleak.He moved his finger back in time to the ice of two decades ago.Keeps its engines running to prevent the metal parts from freeze-locking together.Acre by acre, the rain forest is being burned to create fast pasture for fast-food beefWhich means we are silencing thousands of songs we have never even heard.Considering such scenarios is not a purely speculative exercise.We are ripping matter from its place in the earth in such volume as to upset the balance between daylight and darkness.Or have our eyes adjusted so completely to the bright lights of civilization that we can’t see these clouds for what they areTo come to the question another wayAnd have a great effect on the location and pattern of human societiesWe seem oblivious of the fragility of the earth’s natural systemsAnd this ongoing revolution has also suddenly accelerated exponentially.L4:She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand“no” is a word cthe world never learned to say to herJohnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue.It seems to me I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight.She washed us in a river of make-believeBurned us with a lot of knowledge we didn’t necessarily need to knowLike good looks and money, quickness passed her by.A dress to the ground, in this hot weather.You can see me trying to move a second or two before I make itAnyhow, he soon gives up on Maggie.Though, in fact, I probably could have carried it back beyond the Civil War through the branches.Every once in a while he and Wangero sent eye signals over my headLess than thatThis was the way she knew God to work.L5:Hitler was counting on enlisting capitalist and Right Wing sympathies in this country and the USA.Winant said the same would be true of USA.My life is much simplified thereby.I will unsay no word that I have spoken about it.I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky, still smarting from many a British whipping, delighted to find what they believe is an easier and a safer prey.We shall be strengthened not weakened in determination and in resources.Let us redouble our exertions, and strike with united strength while life and power remain.L6:The house detective;s piggy eyes surveyed her sardonically from his gross jowled-face.Pretty neat set-up you folks got.The obese body shook in an appreciative chuckle.He lowered the level of his incongruous falsetto voice.The words spat forth with sudden savagery, all pretense of blandness gone.The Duchess of Croydon - three centuries and a half of inbred arrogance behind her - did not yield easily.“It is no go, old girl. I’m afraid. It was a good try.”“That’s more like it,” Ogilvie said. He lit the fresh cigar, “Now we’re getting somewhere.”His eyes sardonically on the Duchess as if challenging her objection.The house detective clucked his tongue reprovingly.L7:The microelectronic revolution promises to ease, enhance and simplify life in ways undreamed ofeven by the utopians.The custom-made object, now restricted to the rich, will be within everyone’s reach.The computer might appear to be a dehumanizing factor, but the opposite is in fact true.In no area of American life is personal service so precious as in medical care.The widest benefits of the electronic revolution will accrue to the young.For the mighty army of consumers, the ultimate applications of the computer revolution are still around the bend of a silicon circuit.L8:Where he saw internal memos, someone else saw Beethoven.With so much big money and so many big dreams pinned to an idea that is still largely on the drawing boards, there’s no limit to the hype.Say you shoot a video that you think is particularly artsy.Even the truest believers have a hard time when it comes to nailing down specifics.Another electronic library filled with realistic video versions of arcade shoot-em-ups.Just one step past passive viewing, pure couch-potato modeOrdering pay-for-view movies and running up their credit card bills on the Home Shopping Network. The shows of the future may be the technological great-grandchildren of current CD-ROM titles.“Interactivity” may be the biggest buzzword of the moment, but “convergence” is a close second.Now, politicians, from President Clinton on down, are falling over themselves to proclaim support for the new medium.The solution:fiber optics.Bits are bits.Imagine the conversation:” Have I got a compatible user for you!”Interactivity may widen the gap between the haves and the have-nots, the rich and wired vs. The poorand unplugged.L9:A man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human raceMark Twain digested the new American experience before sharing it with the world as writer and lecturer.The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied - a cosmos.Broke and discouraged, he accepted a job as reporter with the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise.Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist.“and when she projects a new surprise, the grave world smiles as usual, and says ‘well, that is California all over.’”Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh.L10:We’ll show them a few tricks.The case had erupted round my head.The fundamentalists adhered to a literal interpretation of the Old Testament.That all animal life ... had evolved from a common ancestor.“Let’s take this thing to court and test the legality of it.”People from the surrounding hills, mostly fundamentalists, arrived to cheer Bryan against the “infidel outsiders.”As my father growled, “That’s one hell of a jury!”He is here because ignorance and bigotry are rampant.Spectators paid to gaze at it and ponder whether they might be related.And the crowd punctuated his defiant replies with fervent “Amens”.A flagrant example of lexicographic irresponsibilityWhat underlies all this sound and furyIt cannot be described in terms of any other language, or even in terms of its own past.All languages are dynamic rather than static.Even in so settled a matter as spelling, a dictionary cannot always be absolute.But neither his vanity nor his purse is any concern of the dictionary’s.Has the dictionary abdicated its responsibilityLexicography, like God, is no respecter of persons.And this, too, is complex, subtle, and forever changing.The editorial charges the Third International with “pretentious and obscure verbosity.”L12:With a face that seemed totally unfamiliar with laughter.Sometimes old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get mixed up in a Saturday-night brawl.Her attendance had always been sporadic and her interest in schoolwork negligible.She existed for me only as a vaguely embarrassing presence.She dwelt and moved somewhere within my scope of vision.If it came to a choice between Grandmother MacLeod and Piquette, Piquette would win hands down, nits or not.Her defiant face, momentarily, became unguarded and unmasked, and in her eyes there was a terrifying hope.She looked a mess, to tell you the truth, a real slattern, dressed any old howShe was up in court a couple of times - drunk and disorderly, of course.Carving their way into the international shipping trade by severely undercutting Western shipping companiesWho are bent on taking over the lion;s share of the trade.Routes in which Britain has a big stakeThey make it harder to make a big killing in good timesBut they make it easier to weather the bad timesThe estuaries of the world became jammed with the steadily increasing numbers of moth-ball tankersMuch of Britain;s liner fleet rarely sees a British portBritish companies are big on the Japan-to-Australia run.Developing countries regard a merchant navy as something of a status symbol - the next thing to go for after a national airline.Russia has expanded its cargo-liner fleet far faster than the growth in either its own trade or world trade would justify.Has developed the kinds of ships which would certainly expand the Soviet reach well beyond its perimetersAnd when they go, so does a huge slice of the few traditional industries worth keeping.L14:King’s spick-and-span flagship belonged to a different world than the storm-whipped British vessel.Droves of bluejackets were doing an animated scrub-down.Hopkins had traveled to London and Moscow in a blaze of worldwide attentionHe’s having the time of his life, sir.The Russians will hold. But it’ll be a near thing.Hopkins held out one wasted hand and ticked off the points on skeletal fingers.But it softens the ground for the second demandTheir empire is mighty rickety at this point.They’ll also try, subtly but hard, for an understanding that in getting American aid they come ahead of Russia.They prolonged the clasp for the photographers, exchanging smiling wordsBy a shade of a shade, Roosevelt looked like Number One.The erect front-page President became the cripple more familiar to PugThrough all the task of grand hypothetical plans...one pathetic item kept recurringIf Russia collapsed, Hitler might try to wrap up the war with a Crete-like invasion of England from the air.Rather sporting of the British Prime Minister, don’t you think, to give the Hun a fair shot at him on the open seaBut it might be prudent not to overwork those good angels, whatWe’re stretched thin for escorts.Admiral Pound would be happier with sixVictor Henry could sense the subtle gloom hanging over the shipThe predicament of England seemed soaked in their bones.But vague hope, rather than real confidence, was the note in their conversation.There is an awful unfolding picture.We may have some sport for you yet.A gay but inconsequent entertainmentFor the American guest, it was a bad half hour.The high-flown language bespoke not a shred of increased American commitment.Abuse of Nazi tyranny, yes; more combat help for the British, flat zero.I’d venture there was more to it than that.Pug saw no virtue in equivocating.Lend-Lease is no sweat, it just means more jobs and money for everybody.L15:The Colonel, who is not too offensively and Empirebuilder, sometimes tries to talk to me about public affairs.Or maybe Laura’s unwitting influence has called it out,Dismissive as a Pharisee, I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived on a less practical plane.And now see how I stand, as sentimental and sensitive as any old maid doing water-colors of sunsets!I want my fill of beauty before I go.Thus, I imagine, must the pious feel cleansed on leaving the confessional after the solemnity of absolution.There is a touch of rough poetry about himI like also the out-of-the-way information which he imparts from time to time without insistence.I suspect also that there is quite a lot lore stored away in the Colonel’s otherwise not very interesting mindThis is the new Edmund Carr with a vengeance.。