综合教程5 Paraphrase和斜体字解释

1.

Perhaps it would go away, deprived of her attention.

Mother meant to deliberately overlook whatever she did not like and could not change.

2.

School let out in June to the end of July.

From June to the end of July school closed for the summer vacation.

3.

I

spent the afternoon

squinting

up

at monuments to freedom

and

past

presidencies

and

democracy.

Literarily, the writer was unable to open wide her eyes due to the dazzling sunlight as well as

her eyes defect. Figuratively, the freedom, equality and democracy all American citizens were

allegedly entitled to were simply distorted images in the author’s eyes.

4.

Mother was bright and father was brown, the three of us girls step-standards in between.

Mother was bright and father brown, and the three of us girls represented gradations from

bright to brown.

5.

Indoors,

the

soda

fountain

was

dim

and

fan-cooled,

deliciously

relieving

to

my

scorched

eyes.

Inside the Breyer’s, the soda fountain was so dim and the air so cool that the pain of my eyes

was wonderfully lessened.

6.

No one would answer my emphatic questions with anything other than a guilty silence.

My forcefully question got no response from my family; they remained silent as if they had

done something wrong and shameful walking into Breyer’s.

7.

My fury was not going to be acknowledged by like fury:

My anger was not going to be noticed or sympathized with by my family members who were

similarly angry, though.

1.

We were waiting outside the condemned cells.

We were waiting outside the cells, where prisoners under the death sentence were jailed.

2.

The rest of us, magistrates and the like, followed behind.

We, government officials and inspectors, walked behind the warders and the prisoner.

3.

I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting life short when it is in full tide.

I found the inexplicable injustice that was being done in putting to an end a prisoner’s life,

which is still in its prime.

4.

In two minutes, with a sudden snap, one of us would be gone.

The prisoner, who belonged to us now, would be promptly put to death.

5.

One felt an impulse to sing, to break into a run, to snigger.

People had a strong desire to sing, to run and to snigger(after the hanging was over).

6.

You will scarcely credit that it took six warders to dislodge him.

You can hardly believe that it took as many as six warders to remove him from the cage bars.

1.

Her animated expression and warm smile were an invitation for me to go on.

Her vivid expression and tender smile encouraged me to continue my lecture.

2.

We are all so much together and yet we are all dying of loneliness.

Although

we

seem

to

be

living

and

studying

so

closely,

we

are

virtually

behaving

like

strangers.

3.

If we find no models of live, then we grow up love-starved and unloving.

If we have no models of love to follow, we will be growing up lacking in love and not knowing

how to love others.

4.

If

you

are

afraid

of

being

misunderstood,

verbalize

your

feelings

to

the

person

you

are

hugging.

If you are afraid of being misunderstood, explain your feelings in words to the person you’re

embracing.

5.

His father’s eyes welled up with tears as he muttered.

Tears rolled down his father’s cheeks as he spoke in a quiet voice.

6.

While attempting to open doors to love for others, I found that the doors were opening for

me.

As I am trying to ask others to offer love and feel loved, I am actually experiencing the same.

7.

The pursuit of love has made wonder of my life.

The

continual

efforts

I

have

made

to

seek

love

have

made

my

life

richer

and

more

meaningful.

Unit 6

1.

Different men often see the same objects in different lights.

The

same

object

may

be

observed

and

judged

from

different

perspectives

by

different

people.

2.

This is no time for ceremony. The question before the house is one of awful moment to this

country.

No

time

should

be

wasted

on

ceremonial

procedures

because

the

house,

at

present,

is

encountering an extremely crucial problem for the nation.

3.

We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till

she transforms us into beasts.

We tend to close our eyes when facing a painful truth, and be intoxicated by the song of the

sea nymph that will eventually turn us into animals.

4.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I’m willing to know the whole truth; to

know the worst and to provide for it.

As

for

me,

I’m willing

to

know

the

whole

truth

and

be

prepared

for

the

worst

that

might

happen, no matter how much pain I may endure.

5.

The insidious smile will prove a snare to your feet.

The cunning smile, with which the British recently received our petition, will be a trap for you

to fall into.

6.

These

are

the

implements

of

war

and

subjugation—the

last

arguments

to

which

kings

resort.

These

are

the

tools

for

war

and

suppression,

the

last

means

kings

will

turn

to

when

all

arguments fall flat.

7.

We

have

prostrated

ourselves

before

the

throne,

and

have

implored

its

interposition

to

arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.

We

have

been

humble

and

submissive

in

front

of

the

British

Kings,

and

have

begged

his

Majesty to intervene

（

插手）

and stop the cruelty and injustice of the British colonial ministry

and Parliament(

议会、国会

).

8.

The battle is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

The victory of the battle is determined not just by strength, but by vigilance, activeness(

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