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Paraphrase
1 All it takes to
turn this into holiday merriment is a bit of
greenery looped around the
office
—
the
staff
will soon be looped, too.
P: Just making some decoration for the
office will create the same merry atmosphere as
that of a
holiday, and the staff will
soon be absorbed in such atmosphere.
2
Furthermore, partygoers figure, it offers relief
from such pesky obligations as thanking anyone
or being kind to wallflowers because
there really aren’t any hosts
P: Since it seems that the office party
is free, the participants feel greatly
relaxed. They no longer
care about the
annoying etiquette rules for common gatherings
such as expressing gratefulness to
the
host or showing consideration towards others at
the parties.
(Moreover,
at
office
party
,
pe
ople
don’t
feel
as
if
they
have
to
be
nice
to
less
popular
people
because no one person
is host,)
3
This
is
all
pure
hospitality
—
there
for
the
taking,
like
the
office-
supplied
felt
tipped
pens
everyone has been
pocketing all year.
P:
This
is
offered free
and without
the
need
to
make
any
return,
as
free
as the
company
pens
everyone has been
taking all year.
4 For those
still dimly aware of the once-standard give-and-
take of real social
life, this no-fault
approach to business entertaining seems
a godsend.
P:
“the
once
-standard give-and-
take”
refers to the conventional
idea that
if one wants to take or
gain
something he or she has to give or pay at the same
time. The word “no
-
fault”
means being
free from duty or
obligation, and the word “godsend” means a gift
from God.
5 Flinty Miss
Manners does not recognize any holidays from
etiquette.
P: The rules for
etiquette still need to be observed in every kind
of parties.
6 It might discourage
hospitable bosses to see guests staring at them in
horror and then slithering
in by a side
door.
P:
The
generous
hosts
may feel
disheartened
to
see
their
guests
looking
at
them
in
alarm
and
trying to avoid them.
7
Discreet questioning
establishes that this is an employee’ s
guest
.
P: By the way of
asking several questions in a careful and clever
way the boss finds out that the
guest
is not one of the employees in the company.
8
Now,
the
reason
the
invitation
said
“and
guest” was
to
avoid
the
ticklish
issue
of
who
is still
married to whom
and what the spouse calls itself.
P:
in
writing
an
invitation,
the
host
tended
to
use
“
and
guest
”
rather
than
“
and
spouse
”
or
“
and
Mrs./Mr/Ms
so and so
”
because it is
hard to keep track of who is still married to whom
and what
the name of the current spouse
is.
9 They will, however, be memorable,
darkly charging the company with promoting
immorality.
P: Those spouses
who did not go to the party will remember this
event by heart and accuse the
company
of encouraging their employees to engage in
extramarital affairs.
10
True
office
romances
are
the
least
of
them,
with
their
charges
of
favoritism
and
melding
professional and
personal time.
P: It is
unlikely to develop an office romance because it
will be regarded as favoring one particular
employee over others or mixing business
with private life.
11 In
one evening, they manage to cut through the entire
hierarchy and procedures the boss has
painstakingly established for the
purpose of being spared this kind of importuning.
P
：
The employees
intended to cross the ranks between them and the
boss in one evening. But these
ranks
and procedures are actually what the bosses have
tried to establish through years-long effort
to avoid such a request.
12
What constitutes a couple is a murkier question
than Miss Manners and any sensible employer
ought to investigate,
P:
Such
present
day
practices
as
people
living
together
outside
marriage
or
in
homosexual
relationships
make it a delicate matter to decide who should be
treated as a couple.
13Refusing
or
limiting
drinks
is
not
the
handicap
at
business
parties
that
it
may
be
under
the
overly hospitable eye of a private
host.
P: This
sentence implies that at office parties the guests
can refuse to drink or drink less without
being criticized. But at a private
party
, due to the hospitality of the
host and out of politeness, the
guests
have to drink more than they want to.
14At the end, there is another
receiving line. That is, the bosses plant
themselves conspicuously by
the exit,
grabbing the hand of anyone trying to get away and
thanking him for coming
P: At the end
of the party, the bosses will stand by the door
and try to greet every guest to express
thanks for his or her presence at the
party
.
Paraphrase
1
In
the
place
of
withered
spinsters
and
bachelors
are
people
like
Elizabeth
de
Kergorlay,
a
29-year-old Parisian banker who views
her independence and her own apartment as the
spoils of
professional success.
P:
The image of today’s
singles is no longer languished pitiful unmarried
eccentrics, but it’s now
successful
professionals
like
the
Parisian
woman
banker
who
cherishes
her
success
and
independence.
2 single-
person households will outnumber families and
couples within a decade
P: There will
be more families with only a person than those
with two or more persons within ten
years.
3 long personal
histories with the requisite complications
P: the complicated personal requisite
formed for a long time
4 an increase
largely accounted for by single people.
P: the reason for the
increase in the number of houses is mostly to
satisfy (or meet) the demand of
single
people.
5
It’s
a
marketing
man’s
dream:
a
demographic
with
the
anxieties
of
teenagers
and
the
bank
accounts of the middle-
aged.
P: A
man
in charge of marketing will think it a dream to
have a group of people who both have the
desires of teenagers and have a
substantial income to spend on these desires.
6 Life can get even tougher as home-
aloners age.
P: As the
people living alone become old, they may lead a
more difficult life.
7
work’s not there to provide a steady
income or social life.
P:
They will not have s
teady income or
social life because they don’t work any
more.
8 The fusion of
independence and community for older people has
proved popular
P: It has proved popular
to join independence into the community for older
people.
Paraphrase
1.
Spatial
consciousness in many Western cultures is based on
a perception of objects in space,
rather than of space itself.