现代大学英语精读3 课文 Paraphrase
现代大学英语精读3第二版Unit4_Book3
a life by choice, out of principle → natural, healthy, independent
a life as slaves of their possessions → artificial, anxious, loss of virtue
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Diogenes and Alexander
Unit 4
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Other people: half-men
Diogenes: the beggar (paras. 1-3)
Warming up
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Live without conventions, which are artificial and false; escape complexities and extravagances: only so can you live a free life. (para. 4) His life’s aim was clear to him: it was “to restamp the currency”: to take the clean metal of human life, to erase the old false conventional markings, and to imprint it with its true values. (para. 5)
2. Writing: comparison and contrast • Diogenes—Alexander • Diogenes—other beggars/hermits/philosophers • Alexander—other Macedonians (officers & officials) Here, the alternating comparison/contrast (subject by subject) is used.
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大学英语精读3的Paraphrase㈡ 1. Y et, there was always in me…… somewhere else.P However, I always felt that I should pay a visit to some other places.2. I wandered the world through books.P I learned many aspects of the world by reading books.3.One poem committed to memory……in my mind.P I still remember one poem I learned in grade school.4.Perhaps only a truly discontented child……as I was.P Perhaps only a child who is truly dissatisfied with the reality can be attracted by books as I was.5.Perhaps restlessness is a necessary corollary of devoted literacy.P Perhaps if a person really devotes himself or herself to reading and writing, he or she is bound to be restless.6.by the lure of what……normal childhood.P by the power of attracting which was an instinctive and normal thing to any child at my age 7.But the best part of me……and bring them to life.P But the best part ……at home: But my most unforgettable memory was always at home……8.In books I have traveled……but into my own.P While reading books, I have not only traveled to different places in the world, but roamed around my own inner world.9.There was waking, …… was never really a stranger.P Between the tome I woke up and the tome I went to sleep, I just read books, which is a parallel universe to me. And in this universe, I might be a newcomer, but was never a stranger. 10. My real, true world. My perfect island.P To me, these books were a real, true world, as well as a perfect island on which I preferred to stay.11.…as though she was starving and the book was bread.P Jamaica Kincaid was reading books with great eagerness, as if the books were her food. 12.Reading has always been my home,…… invincible companion.P Reading has always given me joy and comfort, food and drink, and strength and companionship.13. and come outside …… in their separateness.P and come into contact with the reality, who think themselves superior to others and feel shame To be friends with them.14. Had television and the movies supplanted books?P Had books given way to televisions and the movies ? Or\ Had books been replaced by televisions and the movies?15.We are the people who……went out of print.P We are the people who would make sure that Pride and Prejudice would always be available.16.It was still in the equivalent of ……one another.P We still found each other like we did when we were young17."Until I feared I would lose it,……To Kill a Mockingbird. P We often say that the starving know the value of food and the man dying of thirst knows the value of Water.㈣1. …done his business like a dog at the road side,……P He had emptied his bowels or passed water (urinated) like a dog at the roadside,……2. got scant thanks :P He seldom expressed his thanks to the people who had offered him some food 3. They were not quite sure…… Now he was back at his home.P Some were mad about wealth; some thirsted for power; some were crazy about sex……4. they amused himP These mad or insane people made him think that they were all ridiculous.5. He thought everybody lived……anxiously.P He thought that our life is too complicated, too costly, and gives us too much pressure. He argued that we should simplify our life.6. He was not the first to inhabit…out of principle.P He was not the first to live in a cask. But he was the first who ever did so because he wanted to, not by necessity, not being forced to . He based it on aprinciple.7. But he taught chief by example.P Diogenes also taught by talking to people, but he mainly taught by setting an example for others to learn from.8. Diogenes answered "I'm trying to find a man."P He actually meant that all people he could see were only half-men. Here the word "man" means a true man.by Diogenes' standard.9. …that will come after you lose the use of your hands.P … that so-called happiness will occur when your hands become useless.10. And so he lived……P And that was how he lived……11. Only twenty, Alexander was far older and……restrained and chivalrous.P Alexander looked far older than a man of his age normally does, and was much wiser than man of his age normally is.12. It is of course “ the people” who were amazed, not “silence”P here were the people who were amazed, but remained silent.13 .hey took it as a paradox. P They regarded it as a paradox.14. But Alexander meant it P But Alexander really meant what he had said.15. He knew that of all men then alive……the beggar were free.P Alexander knew that of all the people alive at that time, he was free because he had absolute power and Diogenes was free because he didn’t need any power.㈤1.There was once a town……in harmony with its surroundings.×Once upon a time there was a town in the central part of America where all living things2. Then some evil spell settled on the community:……but even among children.× Then, as by some evil power, disaster struck the community: strange diseasesquickly struck down large numbers of children; the cattle and sheep became ill and died.3.… a harsh reality we all shall know.×… some serious consequence that we all have to face.4.…a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.× ...a history of how living things and their environment affect and relate to eachother.5.… the physical form and the habits of the earth’s vegetation…by the environment.×… the physical features and habits of the living things on earth have been Greatly shaped by their surroundings.6.… but it has changed in character.×… but the nature of this power to alter the environment has changed.7.This pollution is for the most irrecoverable.×In most case, the polluted air, soil, rivers and the sea cannot be restored to their original natural state.8. Or they pass mysteriously……from once pure wells.×Or they get deeper into underground streams, undergo some chemical processes somewhere, and then become new substances that contaminate wells, kill plants and make cattles as well as people that drink the water sick.9. Given time---time not in years……a balance has been reached.×When the environment changes, living things can adapt to their new surroundings, but it is a long process and it takes thousands of years for life to be in harmony with their modified world again.10. But in the modern world there is no time.×But in the modern world when man’s power to tamper with nature has become so great and he is so eager to change nature for short-term benefits, he does not think of the long-term interest of his own species.11. The rapidity of change follows…… deliberate pace of nature.×Man is changing nature rapidly while nature adjusts to the changes slowly. Therefore adjustment can never keep up with change, and a new balance between living things and their environment can hardly be reached.12. Radiation is now the unnatural creation of man’s tampering with the atom.×In the past, radiation was only sent out from radioactive substances in certain rocks; today man creates such harmful rays by causing the nucleus of the atom of such substances as radium to split.13.The chemicals are the synthetic creation of man’s tampering with the atom.× Nature dose not produce such things as chemicals. Chemicals are man-made and the results of man’s creative power.㈤14.And even this,……in an endless stream;….×It would take some magic power to make living things adjust to these chemicals in the life of generations. Even if this were possible, it would be useless, because new chemicals are continuously being created and produced.5. …find their way into actual use:×…manage to enter the market and be sold to farmers16. described as “ pests”×referred to as destructive insects17.…all this though the intended target……weeds or insects.×…all these serious consequences come about perhaps just because man wants to destroy a few weeds or insects.18. Can anyone believe it is pos sible……but “ biocides”.×Such number of poisons stored on the surface of the earth will surely make it unfit for all living things.19. destructive insects often undergo a “flare-back” or resurgence×The pests often return in even larger numbers.20.Thus the chemical war is never won,……in its violent crossfire.×Therefore, this fight between man and pests wil1 never come to an end, and all living things are affected by or fall victim to this chemical war.21.brought the threat of disease and d eath even to their own kind…× brought the threat of disease and death even to human beings themselves22.Nature has introduced……checks and balances.×Nature keeps living things in proportion, regulating their number through the check and balance mechanisms of itself23.… the devotion of immense acreage to a single crop×…planting a single crop on large aera of farmlan24. Such a system set the stage for……insect population.×Such a way of farming creates favorable conditions for the rapid increase of particular insects.25. In new territory,……in its native land,…×In new territory, since there are no natural enemies as those that did not allow it to multiply or grow too rapidly in their native land,……26. Thus it is no accident that ……are in troduced species.×That’s why the most trouble-making insects in this country are not native but introduced, which is not accidental at all.27. the explosive power of outbreaks and new invasions×the power of insects to multiply/breed in large numbers suddenly and quickly and their power to invade new territories28.We have subjected enormous numbers of people to……without their knowledge.×By spraying insecticides on food grains,vegetables and fruit, we have caused large number of people to absorb harmful chemicals without asking whether theywould like to do so and often without their knowing it.㈨1.In some respects, globalization is merely a trendy word for an old process.× To some extent, globalization is not new. The world has always been in the process of market expansion. What is new is the term "globalization", which became fashionable only recently.2.A decade later, even after Asia's 1997-98 financial crisis, private capital flows dwarf governmental flows.×Ten years later, even after Asia's financial crisis of 1997-98, private capital flows are still greater in number than governmental capital flows.3. The recent takeover struggle between British and German wireless giants isexceptional only for its size and bitterness.×The only difference between the recent takeover struggle between British and German radio giants and other cases is that this takeover is much bigger and a lot more bitter.4.Behind the merger boom lies the growing corporate conviction that many markets have become truly global.× The reason for the merger boom is that more and more business people now believe that many markets have truly become global. They are no longer producing just for the people in their own country. They want to combine or merge with others to become multinational companies.5. Among poorer countries, the best sign of support is the clamor to get into the World Trade Organization ... And 32 are seeking membership.×Many poorer countries want to join the World Trade Organization. This shows that they support globalization.6.Despite its financial crisis, rapid trade expansion and economic growth sharply cut the number of the desperately poor.×In spite of the financial crisis, rapid increase of trade and economic growth drastically reduced the number of the very poor people.7. two problems could neutralize its potential benefits.×… two problems could offset the possible benefits.8.The global economy may be prone to harsher boom-bust cycles than national economies individually.×Once integrated with the world market, nations will naturally be more vulnerable to the fluctuations of the world economy. The capital flows in and out a country, for example, can create a boom or bust very quickly and with much harsher effects.9.The Asian financial crisis raised questions on both counts.×The Asian financial crisis brought these two questions to people's attention: investment funds were not well used and trade flows became too lopsided.10.The ensuing spending boom in turn aided Europe, Japan, and the United States by increasing imports from them.×The growth in spending that followed helped Europe, Japan, and the United States by increasing imports from them.㈨11.What prevented the Asian crisis from becoming a full-scale economic downturn has been the astonishing U.S. economy.× It was the surprisingly vigorous growth of the U. S. economy that saved the Asian crisis from escalating into an all-round economic depression.12.The world economy.., has been flying on one engine.× The world economy has been driven by only one country's economy, namely the economy of the United States. In other words, the world has become too dependent on one country's prosperity.13... a slowdown or recession--reflecting a decline in the stock market, a loss ofconsumer confidence or higher interest rate-- might snowball into an international slump.×…a slowdown of the U.S. economy might develop into a serious international depression because the world economy is so dependent on it.14.Japan is projected to grow ...×Japan is expected to grow ... / Japan is predicted to ... / Japan is estimated to 15. If the forecasts materialize--and the OECD's growth estimates for Japan exceed most private forecasts--they will restore some balance to the world economy and relieve fears of a global recession.×If the forecasts come true--and the Os growth estimates for Japan are higher than most private forecasts---they will, to some extent, help the world economy return to its earlier balance, and reduce the fear of a worldwide recession.16. It remains possible that abrupt surges of global capital, first moving into Asia andthen out, will have caused, with some delay, a larger instability.×It is still possible that sudden increase or withdrawal of the world's capital, first moving into Asia and then out of it, will have made Asia more unstable.17. It is precisely this logic that has persuaded so many countries to acceptglobalization.×It is exactly this way of thinking that has persuaded so many countries.18 .But this does not mean that a powerful popular backlash, with unpredictableconsequences, is not possible.×But this does not mean that a powerful hostile reaction from ordinary people, which will have unpredictable consequences, is not possible.19.A plausible presumption is that practical politicians would try to protect their constituents from global gluts.× We can presume that practical politicians would no doubt try to protect their voters from the flood of products from other countries.20.If too many countries did, globalization could implode.×If too many countries tried to protect their constituents from global gluts, globalization could collapse violently from the inside.21.It's a scary prospect. Economic interdependence cuts both ways.22.It's a terrifying possibility. Economic mutual dependence can have good and bad effects.。
现代大学英语精读3-unit4
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Part I: Words & Expressions
He had opened his eyes with the sun at dawn, scratched, done his business like a dog at the roadside,.... (para. 1)
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They would throw sharp questions at him and get sharper answers.
Sometimes they threw bits of food, and got scant thanks; sometimes a mischievous pebble, and got a shower of stones and abuse.
现代大学英语精读paraphrase-原文译文版汇编
学习-----好资料Lesson one1.Virtue is, indeed must be, self-centered.(para4)正确的行动是，确实也必须是以自我为中心的。
By right action, we mean it must help promote personal interest.2.The essentials are familiar: the poverty of the poor was the fault of the poor. And it wasbecause it was product of their excessive fecundity…..(para5)他的基本观点为人熟知：穷人的贫穷是他们咎由自取，贫穷是热门过度生育的结果The poverty of the poor was caused by their having too many children.3.Poverty being caused in the bed meant that the rich were not responsible for either itscreation or its amelioration. (para6)贫穷源于过度生育意味着富人不应该为产生贫穷和解决贫穷承担责任The rich were not to blame for the existence of poverty so they should not be asked toundertake the task of solving the problem.4.It is merely the working out of a law of nature and a law of God(para8)这是自然规律和上帝的意志在起作用。
It is only the result or effect of the law of the survival of the fittest applied to nature or tohuman society.5.It declined in popularity, and reference to it acquired a condemnatory tone.(para9)然而在20世纪，人们认为社会学中的达尔文进化论有点过于残酷，遭到了普遍的质疑，人们提及它都带有谴责的口吻。
现代大学英语精读3第三课课后答案(完整)
现代大学英语精读3第三课课后答案(完整)Pre-class Work II1. Paraphrase.1) And when he was 29 now, he has found the power of another idea that has enabled him to grow from a teenager and become a rich and powerful person in computer industry.2) ... he thought it might be a good idea to finish his high school education as quickly as possible.3) He believed that the newly married people are the most likely customers.4) He also knew that it was expensive to keep more products than necessary. So he bought these products of the dealer's at the price they had bought them.5) Dell put advertisements in the local media and was ready to sell specially designed and made computers at a price which was 15 percent lower than the market price.6) It was time for him to seriously deal with the size of the computer business he had created.7) Dell still sold IBM personal computers to which he had added special properties required by people.2. Learn to use reference books.1) Find the proper definition of the following in the text.(1) stock: a supply of a particular type of thing that a shop has available to sell(2) firm: a business or company(3) break: a short holiday(4) feature: something important, interesting or typical of a place or thing(5) order: a request for a product to be made for you or delivered to you(6) overhead: money spent regularly on rent, insurance, electricity, and other things that are needed tokeep a business operating(7) accounting: the work of accountants or the methods they use(8) edge: sth. that gives you an advantage over others2) Find the synonyms of the following in a thesaurus.(1) cast: throw, toss, fling, hurl, pitch, chuck, thrust, heave(2) flabbergasted: surprised, shocked, amazed3. Word-building.1) Give the corresponding nouns of the following.(1) plunge (2) contact (3) advertisement/advertising(4) enrollment (5) requirement (6) inquiry(7) replacement (8) marketing/market (9) failure(10) incorporation (11) guarantee (12) specialization2) Give the corresponding verbs of the following.(1) to subscribe (2) to perform (3) to deliver(4) to donate (5) to consume (6) to entitle(7) to manufacture (8) to compute3) Translate the following based on what you know about rules of word-building.(1)现在的问题不是生产过剩，而是消费不足。
现代大学英语精读3第二版Unit1_Book3
V (12-18 or so) adolescence
VI (the 20’s) young adult VII (late 20’s to 50’s) middle adult
ego-identity vs. role-confusion
intimacy vs. isolation generativity vs. self-absorption
ޜErik Erickson: (1902-1994)
Freudian ego-psychologist, “father of psychosocial development” and “the architect of identity.” According to Erickson, the identity crisis is the most important conflict human beings encounter when they go through eight developmental stages in life.
Psychosocial virtues
Maladaptations & Malignancies sensory distortion → withdrawal impulsivity → compulsion ruthlessness → inhibition narrow virtuosity → nertia
Text Analysis
1. Genre:
Style
expository essay, e.g. formal, serious, academic, educational 2. Diction: big, complicated, formal words, technical jargon, e.g.
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Unit 11. They did not make me happy, however, as this was the day I was to be thrown into school for the first time. (1)Paraphrase:But my new clothes did not bring any happiness to me, because it was the day I was forced to go to school for the first time.2.“Why school?” I asked my father. “What 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 me away from my home and throwing me into the huge, high-walled building. (5)Paraphrase:I didn’t think it was 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 gone 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 home playing and fooling around all day. Our childhood was gone, never to come back.Unit 21. If banks were required to sell wallets and money belts, they might act less like churches. (para. 1)Paraphrase:Banks act like churches which usually control people’s life and can interfere in people’s life. So, the author thinks it is ridiculous for banks to act like churches.2. It was lunchtime and the only officer 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. (para. 3)Paraphrase:Everything about him—his clothes, manner, etc. indicated that he was a carefully dressed man4. 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)Paraphrase: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:Look, let’s stop talkin g 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 shaking this boy down… (para. 30)Paraphrase:… has been getting money from the boy by using threats…8. Anyway, the poli ce 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 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 what is happening around us and to our children, nor does he express his thoughts and feelings. (The woman is complaining that her husband does not bother about their children’s troubles.)3. … and it is no longer fertile, bleeding year after year and, like u s, getting old and exhausted. (para. 3)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)When there is a draught, the soil is so hard that it breaks the ploughs and we feel so sad that our hearts break too.5. Only ten years ago, you could barter for things, but now it’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 goods we have no 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 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 from 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 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 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 leaving 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.1. Ausable was, for one thing, fat… Though he spoke French and German passably, he had never altogether lost the New England accent he had brought to Paris from Boston twenty years ago. (para. 2)Paraphrase:Ausable was, for one reason, fat… His French and German were not very good, but acceptable. Although he had been in Paris 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 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 man chuckled to himself as he unlocked the door of his room and stood as aside to let his frustrated guest enter. (para. 4)Paraphrase: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 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 of the proper authorities.By then I will have fulfilled 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 management this time. (para. 11)Paraphrase:(He was making up a story, which turned out to be a trap for Max.To make Max swallow this bait, Ausable pretended to be angry with the management and explained to Fowler (not to Max) why he was going to complain to the management about the balcony.)8. It might have saved me some trouble had I known about it. (para. 12)Paraphrase: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 bo dy twisted so that his gun still covered the fat man and his guest, … (para.22)Paraphrase:He twisted his body in order to point his gun right at the fat man and his guest.Unit 61. My ancient jeep was straining up through beautiful countryside when the radiator began to leak. (para. 1)Paraphrase: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 me to 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 high 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 me with great caution 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 someone educated in the United States, 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:It was me who had come to know the green bananas, 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 wondering for some time about what educators like to call “learning moments”, and I now knew I had just experienced two of them at once. (para. 5)The two things that suddenly dawned on him are: the fact that every civilization has wonderful treasure to share with others and the idea that every 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 understanding 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 to the nearest gas station. Generally speaking, at the same time 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.2. Leaving him stranded 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 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 displaying 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 they told me to watch out for the cowboys in Wyoming. In Nebraska they said people would not be as nice in Iowa. (para.7)Paraphrase:They suggest that the people there (probably people everywhere), were more or less provincial (another sub-concept of ethnocentric?). They tended to make false assumptions about people in other places, i.e. the people in their place were nicer/better than those in other places.6. I didn’t know whether to kiss them or scold them for stopping. (para. 8)(Because the situation when the two little ladies stopped for the author was, in his eyes, potentially dangerous for them. He says so to emphasize both the kindness and courage the ladies showed in that particular situation.)7. Once when 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 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 difficult for him to make such a decision at the moment than others. However, he chose to stop finally and his kindness was thereby highlighted.)8. Those who had the least to give often gave the most. (para.10)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. (para.12)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.11. In spite of everything, you can still depend on the kindness of strangers. (para.15) Paraphrase:(It means the fact that there are people who are i ndifferent 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 society. 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 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 many clever movements, turning now and then to cast his watchful eye down the peaceful street, the officer, with his strongly built form and slight air of superiority, made a fine picture of a guardian of the peace. (para. 2) Paraphrase:competent at, confident of, proud of, and dutiful to his job. All these factors gave people the impression that he was a trustworthy protector 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.4. The next morning I was to start 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 out and our fortunes made, whatever they were going to be. (para. 7)Paraphrase:We thought by that time we would have found out our fate and known how much we have achieved materially—whether 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, and then we stopped writing and haven’t hea rd from or heard of each other. Now neither 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 it pretty lively. (para.9)Paraphrase:I kept moving around in the West, ne ver staying in the same place 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 slow man, though, good fellow as he was. (para. 13)Paraphrase:However, he wasn’t very smart, even thought he was a good person.10. I’ve had to compete with some of the sharpest brains going to get my money. (para. 13 ) Paraphrase:In order to make money, I had to compete with the most shrewd and crafty people.11. A man gets stuck in New York. It takes the West to make a man really keen. (para.Paraphrase:A man is unable to go very far or to be very successful in New York where life is boring and opportunities for change are few. He has to go to the West to become an eager and exciting person.The man from the west means that New York City was “civilized”; it had too many laws, 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 city. They had turned their coat collars high an d kept their hands in their pockets for warmth. They didn’t look happy and were walking fast without saying anything.14. “Bless my heart!” exclaimed the new arrival. (para. 21)Paraphrase:“Bless my heart!” the man who had just arrived said aloud in surp rise.15. It’s Bob, sure a fate. (para. 22)Paraphrase:Definitely it’s you, Bob.16. How has the West treated you, old man? (para. 22)Paraphrase:How well did you do in the West, old friend?17. …we’ll go around to a place I know of, and have a good long talk about old times. （para. 26）Paraphrase:I’ve heard of a place, so let’s go there and we will have a long talk about those happy days we spent together in the past. Note that probably the plainclothes policeman was thinking: I’ll take you to the police station and you will tell me about the crimes you committed in the past.18. At the corner stood a drugstore brilliant with electric lights. (para. 28)Paraphrase:There was a drugstore at the corner. Its electric lights were on and it was very bright inside. 19. Chicago thinks you may come over our way and telegraphs us she wants to have a chat with you. (para. 31)Paraphrase:asked us to help them track you down and arrest.20. Going quietly, are you? That’s sensible. (para. 31)Paraphrase:You won’t put up a fight and resist arrest, will you. That (cooperating will us without causing any disturbance) is the right thing to do.21. Somehow I couldn’t do it myself, so I went around and got a plain clothes man to do the job. (para. 33)Paraphrase:For some reason I couldn’t arrest you myself, so I had a policeman not wearing a uniform do it.Jimmy had mixed feelings. He knew what his duty was. But the memories of their friendship, the expressions of Bob’s undying respect and admiration for him and the fact that Bob had come all the way from a thousand miles away just to keep the appointment made 20 years before must have deeply touched him. Therefore, he could not bring himself to arrest Bob.Unit 101. The end of manual labor was liberating. (1)Paraphrase:Mandela is talking about forced labor. He felt liberated after the manual labor had been ended.2. To survive in prison, one must develop ways to take satisfact ion in one’s daily life. (2) Paraphrase:In order not to die and go on living in prison, prisoners must cultivate ways to learn to enjoy themselves in their daily life.3. But eventually they gave in, and we were able to cut out a small garden on a narrow patch of earth against the far wall. (3)Paraphrase:But finally they agreed unwillingly, and we were able to mark out a small garden on a strip of earth against the wall in the distance.4. At the time, some of my comrades joked that I was a miner at heart, for I spent my days ina wasteland and my free time digging in the courtyard. (4)Paraphrase:At that time, some of my comrades said jokingly that I was really a miner since I spent my days in a land which had been deserted for a long time and my spare time digging in the courtyard.5. The authorities did not regret giving permission, for once the garden began to flourish, I often provided the warders with some of my best tomatoes and onions. (5)Paraphrase:The person in charge didn’t feel regretful that they had allowed me to have a garden because as soon as the garden began to grow well, I often gave the warders some of my best tomatoes此文档收集于网络，如有侵权，请联系网站删除6. I told her this small story at great length. I do not know what she read into that letter, …(11)Paraphrase:I told her this small story in detail. I do not know whether she understood the meaning of the letter more than it did.精品文档。
现代大学英语精读3unit4课后答案
现代大学英语精读3unit4课后答案Unit 4 Wisdom of Bear WoodI Pre-class work1. Paraphrase.1) I spent most of my time wandering in the forests and the fields alone, acting Robin Hood, daydreaming collecting bugs and bird-watching. (Para. 3)2) To live a quiet life and not to get involved with other people was my way of avoiding any friendship that I would only have to abandon the next time we moved. (Para. 3)3) But one day I began a friendship just by chance. (Para. 3)4) I started to take a long walk.., to a dense growth of trees called Bear Wood. (Para. 4)5) Yes, they are watchful; But the bad thing is that some gamekeepers have been killing them since they got here and they were brought into this place form somewhere else, not born and raised here. (Para.11)6) I looked at the cabinets with glass windows that contained statues and models carved out of ivory and stone trays of butterflies fastened with pins and.., about twelve birds that were made into specimens. (Para. 18)7) I learn a lot of knowledge, taught by nature itself, about the things I can see--the birds, insects, trees, and flowers, and the things I cannot see--ideas, scientific laws and principles. I also learn a lot about the things that change, including life itself, as well as the things that are changeless like friendship, love, and many basic values. (Para. 37)2. Learn to use the dictionary and other reference books.1) Give the definition of the following.(1) odds and ends: small things of various kinds without much value(2) rather than: instead of2) Find the synonyms and the antonyms of the following ina Thesaurus.(1) immense antonyms: little, small, tiny, minute(2) to glow synonyms: to radiate, to blare, to blaze, to brighten, to gleam, to shine3. W0rd-building.l) Give corresponding nouns of the following verbs.(1) possession (2) endurance (3) penetration(4) encounter (5) retirement (6) suspicion/suspect(7) abandonment (8) inclination (9) exploration(10) recovery (11) warning (12 ) proceeding(13) fascination (14) form/formation (15) glimpse2) Give corresponding nouns of the following adjectives.(1) anxiety (2) misery (3) density(4) instinct (5) familiarity (6) essence(7) immensity (8) stupidity (9) suddenness(10) invisibility (11) generosity (12) productivity(13) fondness (14) equivalency3) Guess the meaning of the following, based on the rules of word-building you have learned.(1)一个吸引人的故事(2)一番引言，开场白(3)令人惊异的快速康复(4)一份费力的工作(5)集体的努力(6)一个可爱的人(7)一番深刻的分析(8)渴望权力的人们(9)使铁路行业私有化(10)一位非常娇惯子女的母亲(II)一次毫无意义的行动(12)秘密的行为(13)被认为是不可触知的(14)他那好笑的笨拙的样子(15)外汇收入(16)看上去可疑的(17)能见度低(18)听起来迂腐的(19)有很多崇拜者(20)积累的资金(21)易变的天气(22)无色的液体(23)冗长的讲话4) Study carefully and discover new rules of word-building.(1) the adjectives used as verbs(2) the suffix "-ify" added to the end of a word to change it to a verb, meaning to make something be in the stated state or condition(3) the compound nouns consisting of two words with the first one as the object of the action denoted by the second one More Work on the TextII Vocabulary1. Translate1) into English.(1) to explore the secrets of nature (2) to endure pain and suffering(3) to earn everyone's admiration (4) to suspect a dirty plot(5) to introduce this sheep (6) to surround the enemy(7) to demand an open apology (8) to extend her hand(9) to roam the fields (10) to dangle his feet(11) to catch one's breath (12) to give permission(13) to abandon hope (14) to accumulate experience(15) to form a strong team (16) to possess property(17) to design a new model (18) to collect facts2) into Chinese.(1)一次有收获的经历(2)看起来似乎不同(3)零星的东西(4)古老的城堡(5)铁丝网篱笆(6)石雕的人或动物像(7)人间天堂(8)制成标本的鸟(9)密集的月桂树丛(10)铺着柔软地毯的地板(11)一种珍稀动物(12)潜在的购买者(13)晒干了的树叶(14)样子很熟悉的房子(15)笨拙的动作(16)退休工人(17)面上有玻璃的书架(18)高倍望远镜2. Give synonyms and antonyms of the following.1) Give synonyms.(1) to wander (2) to give up(3) great, large, massive, huge (4) heavenly, sacred(5) heaven (6) to look at(7) to continue (8) dear(9) lasting (10) attractive, admirable(11) silently (12) to watch(13) weak (14) to alarm, to give a start(15) to gather (16) to teach(17) to own (18) to surprise, to astonish(19) sadly thoughtful (20) alert, watchful, cautious2) Give antonyms.(1) minor (2) unhappy, displeased (3) thin(4) hell (5) public (6) introduced(7) invisible (8) unseen (9) harmful(10) colorless (11) center (12) great3. Translate.1) There are still hundreds of millions of people in the world today who earn less than a dollar a day.2) So many people get stomach cancer. I suspect that the water we drink may be seriously polluted.3) We have earned strong support of the government to make smoking illegal in public places.4) He has earned the great admiration of the people as an honest government official.5) Old people in China today are not inclined to live with their children.6) I am inclined to look at things from the bright side.7) The smugglers seem to know all our actions. I suspect that someone among us is passing secret information to them.8) She says that she just doesn't feel inclined to work today.9) We could not identify the body because it was too badly burnt.10) These people roam from place to place without regular jobs and without social identity. More and more people now regard it as unfair.11) I still regard it as important for our young people to care about their national identity.12) With regard to flood control, I am still inclined to think that to plant more trees is more important than anything else.4. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words.1) B 2) D 3) A 4) A 5) D 6) D 7) B/C 8) C5. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate expression below.1) wrench myself away from it 2) care to 3) keeping to herself4) Thanks to, as it were 5) odds and ends 6) went by, at ease7) with a will 8) filled up 9) at ease10) brim over 11) bursting with 12) verges on13) slipped through 14) verges against 15) warned against, as it were6. Choose the right word in the given context.1) (1) crawl (2) climbed (3) crept (4) creep/crawl2) (1) tone (2) tune (3) tune (4) tone。
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UNIT 1…identity is determined by genetic endowment, shaped by environment, and influenced by chance events.…our identity is decided by our genes (inherited from parents), greatly influenced by environment we live in and affected by some unexpected events.First, there is functional independence, which involves the capability of individuals to take care of practical and personal affairs, such as handling finances, choosing their own wardrobes, and determining their daily agenda.First, there is the independence in handling everyday life situations, which involves the ability to solve practical problems, such as how to spend money wisely, choosing their own clothes, and determining what they are going to do everyday.Fourth is freedom from “excessive guilt, anxiety, mistrust, responsibility, inhibition, resentment, and anger in relation to the mother and father.’’Children often feel very guilty in relation to their parents because they think they have done something wrong; they are also anxious because they are always eager to please their parents; they sometimes feel unhappy because they think that their parents have not fair to them; they feel that they are responsible to their parents for everything they do; they are always afraid of not saying the right thing or not behaving properly; all these may make them angry with their parents or make them resentful. These feelings reflect their emotional dependence on their parents. When they grow up, they usually strive for the freedom from such dependence.Perh aps one of the most stressful matters…as men or women.Perhaps young college students feel most distressed in finding out their sexual identity, including associating with the opposite sex and designing their future roles as men or women.Probably nothing can make students feel lower or higher emotionally than the way they are relating to whomever they are having a romantic relationship with.When students are in a romantic relationship with the opposite sex, they are most likely to feel unhappy or happy emotionally.dragging his feet with a dismayed, dejected look on his face.walking slowly and listlessly, looking very unhappy and disappointed“to drag one’s feet” is often used figuratively to mean”to delay deliberately”The local authorities are dragging their feet closing small coal mines.During the course I had come to realize that while my world was expanding and new options were opening for me, my father, who was in his sixties, was seeing his world shrink and his options narrow. (6)From the course I learnt, I had discovered that different from my expanding world and more opportunities; my father was beginning to realize that his world was getting smaller and his choices fewer.These religious, morals, and ethical values that are set during the college years often last a lifetime.(7)These values that are established during the college years often last a lifetime. It is believed that our character or basic moral principles are formulated during this period of time.I can no longer read the newspaper or watch a television newscast without seeing the people from other countries in a different light. in a different wayWhenever I read the newspaper or watch a television newscast, I will see the people from other countries in a different way from what I used to see.☻What he did made us to see him in a new light.☻In the light of the new evidence, we decide to take him to court. 出于，考虑到Not only are they being introduced to new people and new knowledge, but they are also acquiring new ways of assembling and processing information. (10)They are getting to know a lot of new people and learning new knowledge. They are also finding or learning new ways of arranging, organizing, analyzing or understanding information.UNIT 2It was a wonder to me they'd want to be seen with such a windbag.我不理解为什么他们愿意让人看见自己和这样一个话匣子在一起。
It was surprising to me that they would spend time together with a person who talked too much like my father, yet they seemed to like it.An orderly riding by had told him, because the orderly knew how thick he was with Grant.An orderly who arrived riding on a horse had told him about the news, because the orderly knew that he was a close friend of Grant’t.Maybe the woman had dared to sympathize with her. "Oh," she said, "it's all right. Life is never dull when my man is about."Maybe the woman had been rude enough or foolish enough to express sympathy for my mother. She said: “Life is never boring when my husband is around.”For the first time I knew that I was the son of my father. He was a story teller as I was to be.He was a story teller. That was what I was to become later.I remember once when he had done something ridiculous, and right out on Main Street, too, I was with some other boys and they were laughing and shouting at him and he was shouting back and having as good a time as they were.记得有一次父亲做了一件荒谬可笑的事情，当时又是在大街上，而我正和其他男孩在一起。