commercialize大学英语精读4paraphrase范围

2021年1月22日发(作者：先)
1.
His spectacles caught the light so that you could see nothing human behind them. There
was no possibility of communication.

The teacher’s glasses caught the light and therefore the boy could not see the teacher’s eyes. He
could
not
have
any
eye contact.
He
could
not
have
any
communication with
him.
The
implied
meaning of this sentence is that they could not communicate, not because of this but because of
the teacher’s lack of understanding of the boy.

2.
Mr. Houghton was given to high-minded monologues about the good life, sexless and full
of duty.

Obviously
in
Mr.
Houghton’s
clean
life,
there
is
no
place
for
alcoholic
drink,
sex,
and
other
worldly pleasures. This is, of course, ironical.

claimed that the Bible was literally inspired. I countered
by saying that the Catholics
believed in the literal inspiration of Saint Jerome’s
Vulgate
and the two books were different.
Argument flagged
“Both
Methodists
and
Catholics
believed
that
their
Books
are
a
true
record
of
the
God’s
divine
plan.”
The
author
used
this
example
to
defy
Ruth’s
illogical
opinion,
therefore
the
argument
became dull because Ruth didn’t know how to respond to it.





4.
It was Ruth all over again. I had some very good friends who stood by me, and still do.
But my acquaintances vanished, taking the girls with them
What had happened to Ruth and me now happened again. My grade-two thinking frightened away
many of my acquaintances.
5.
Their
common-sense
reaction to
this
state
of
affairs
is
to
conclude that
one
historian
is
right while the other is wrong

When a person is faced with this kind of situation, the normal, practical response will be that one
historian is right whereas the other is wrong.
6.
Obviously they cannot know everything for the simple reason that not every event, every





happening, was fully and completely recorded.

Many events and happenings were not recorded or fully and completely recorded because people
at
the
time
did
not
have
the
time,
energy
,
interest
or
the
necessary
means.
Often
they were
not
recorded
because
they
were
considered
too
trivial,
too
embarrassing,
or
too
dangerous
to
be
known.
Many records
have
also
been
distorted,
lost,
or
destroyed
in
fire,
flood,
war
or
through
decay . That is why historians have such a formidable task.
7.
Therefore the historian can
only approximate history at best. No one can ever claim to



have concluded the quest

Therefore the best the historian can do is to get as near as possible to the historical truth. But no
one can ever boast that he/she has completed this search. It goes on for ever.
8.
The choice as to which fact to use is based on a theory
—
admittedly, in this case a rather
crude theory, but a theory nonetheless

The choice concerning which
fact
to
use
is
based
on
a
theory. I
am willing
to concede
that
the
theory used here is unrefined, yet it is still a theory
9.
It is the mere “parroting” of ideas picked up by chance and adopted as our own without
question. Most people, most of the time, are mere parrots

Most people, most of the time, are mere parrots. They simply echo, or re
peat others’ ideas without
question.
10.
An assumed or dogmatic proposition which had been universally accepted as “obvious”;