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Paraphrases of the Text
1.
The leopard
was Nature, and he was being natural.(3)
The leopard symbolizes Nature,which
stands for all animal needs or desires.
美洲豹象征着自然，它在那里显得很自然而已。
2.
Nature had
endowed the rest of the human race with a sixth
sense and
left me out.(15)
Everybody, except me ,is born with the
ability to thin
大自然赋予其余的所有的人第六感觉却独独漏掉了我。
3.
You could hear
the wind trapped in the cavern of his chest and
struggling
with all the unnatural
impediments. His body would reel with shock and
his ruined face go white at the
unaccustomed visitation.(19)
你能听到风被他的胸腔堵住，遇到障碍物艰难前进发出的声音。他的身体因
为不习惯这
样的感觉而摇摇晃晃，脸色变得惨白。
4.
In this
instance, he seemed to me ruled not by thought but
by an invisible
and irresistible spring
in his neck.(20)
Mr.
Houghton
’
s deeds told me
that he was not ruled by thought, instead, he
would
feel a strong urge to turn his
head and look at the girls.
在这种情况下，我认为他
不是受思想，而是受他后颈里某个看不到却无法抗
拒的发条的控制。
5.
Technically, it is about as proficient
as most businessmen
’
s golf,
as honest
as most
politician
’
s intentions, or
to come near my own preoccupation -
as
coherent as most books that get written.(23)
This ironical sentence shows that the
author not only considers those people
incompetent, dishonest and incoherent
but also despises most businessmen,
distrust most politicians and dislikes
most publications.
从技术上而言，
它娴
熟如同商人玩高尔夫，
诚实如同政客的意图，
或者
——
更接近我自己的领域——
有条理如同大多数写出来的书。
6.
We had better
respect them, for we are outnumbered and
surrounded.(24)
The Grade 3
thinkers usually represent the great majority, so
we has to respect
them because we are
surrounded by them.
我们最好尊重他们，因为我们处于他们的包围之中，势单力薄。
7.
Man enjoys
agreement as cows will graze all the same way on
the side of a
hill.(24)
The
author thinks that just like cows always eat the
grass of the same side of a hill,
it is
probably human nature to enjoy agreement because
it seems to bring peace,
security,
comfort and harmony.
人是一种爱群
居的动物，就象牛喜欢沿着山坡的同一条道路吃草一样喜爱共
识。
8.
I slid my
arm round her waist and murmured breathlessly that
if we were
counting heads, the
Buddhists were the boys for my money. She fled.
The
combination of my arm and those
countless Buddhists was too much for
her.(27)
我伸手揽过她的腰屏住呼吸低声说，如果算
人数我该捐钱给佛教徒。露丝的
确是为我好，因为我人这么好。但是我的手臂加上那些数
不胜数的佛教徒实
在让她无法忍受了。
9.
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.(32)
What had happened
to Ruth and me now happened again. My grade-two
thinking
frightened away many of my
acquaintances.
又是露丝的问题。我曾有一些很要好的朋友站在我这边
，他们现在仍然站在
我这边。但是我的熟人都不见了，带着他们的女孩子消失了。
Unit 2 Text
Ⅰ
Spring Sowing
Paraphrases of the Text
1.
...sleep and
yet on fire with excitement, for it was the first
day of their
first spring sowing as man
and wife.(3)
Although they were still
not fully awake, the young couple was already
greatly
excited, because that day was
the first day of their first spring sowing since
getting married.
有些困乏，也很兴奋，因
为这是他们作为夫妇第一个春播的第一天。
2.
But somehow
the imminence of an event that had been long
expected
loved, feared and prepared for
made them dejected.(3)
The couple had
been looking forward to and preparing for this
spring planting for
a long time. But
now that the day had finally arrived, strangely,
they felt
somehow a bit dejected,
unhappy, sad, or depressed.
但是随着春播的迫近，这
一他们为之期待许久，热爱，害怕和准备的大事的
临近，他们反而有些沮丧。
3.
Mary,
with her shrewd woman
’
s
mind, thought of as many things as
there are in life as a woman would in
the first joy and anxiety of her
mating.(3)
Mary, like all
sharp and smart women, thought of everything that
was going to
happen in the rest of her
life. At that time, she had the complex thoughts
of a
woman at the first crucial moment
of her marriage. She was filled with joy and
anxiety and was bothered by many
thoughts.
玛丽用她精明的女性的思维，思考着一个女人在新婚生活中所得到
的快乐和
生活中的琐事。
4.
Martin fell
over a basket in the half-darkness of the barn, he
swore and
said that a man would be
better off dead than...(4)
It would be
better for him to die than tripped over a basket.
马丁再昏暗的谷仓中被一只篮子绊倒了。
5.
And somehow,
as they embraced,all their irritation and
sleepiness left
them. And they stood
there embracing until at last Martin pushed her
from him with pretended roughness and
said:
“
Come, come, girl, it
will be
sunset before we begin at this
rate.
”
(4)
All the
anger, unhappiness and drowsiness melted away with
their hug. They
remained in each others
arms until finally Martin pushed her away, with
pretended roughness.
他们就这样拥抱
着，直到最后马丁推开了玛丽，并假装强硬的说道：
“来吧，
快
点，姑娘，再这样下去当我们开始时太阳都要下山了。”
6.
...as they
walked silently...through the little hamlet, there
was not a soul
about.(5)
When they walked silently through the
small village, they saw not a single person
around.
当他们穿着生皮鞋穿过小村庄时，那还没有其他人。
7.
And they both
looked back at the little cluster of cabins that
was the
center of their world, with
throbbing hearts. For the joy of spring had
now taken complete hold of them.(5)
他们带着悸动的心跳同时回头看看村庄中相似的小屋，那就是他们生活的世
界的中心。春播的喜悦已经紧紧地包裹住了他们。
8.
Suppose
anybody saw us like this in the field of our
spring sowing, what
would they take us
for but a pair of useless, soft, empty-headed
people
that would be sure to die of
hunger(12)
If people should see us like
this (with your arm around my waist), what would
they think of us They were sure to
regard us as a pair of good-for-nothings, people
who are unable to endure hardships and
foolish and, therefore, were sure to die of
hunger.
“想想如果有人看到我们在春播的土地上这样
，他们只会把我们当成一对没
用、软弱、没脑子的会被饿死的傻瓜，呼
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9.
She became
suddenly afraid of that pitiless, cruel earth, the
peasant
’
s
slave
master, which would keep her chained to hard work
and poverty all
her life until she
would sink again into its bosom.(13)
She became afraid of the earth because
it was going to force her to work like a
slave and force her to struggle against
poverty all her life until she died and was
buried in it.
10.
It overpowered that other feeling of
dread that had been with her during
the
morning.(17)
But when she sat and
looked around the village, the fields and the
people, a
strange feeling of happiness
arose in her. The feeling of joy drove away the
feeling of terror that she had had in
the morning.
11.
The strong smell of the upturned earth
acted like a drug on their
nerves.(20)
12.
All her
dissatisfaction and weariness vanish from
Mary
’
s mind with the
delicious feeling of comfort that
overcame her at having done this work
with her husband.(34)
Unit 3
Text
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Groundless
Beliefs
Paraphrases of the Text
1.
They
rest
upon
mere
tradition,
or
on
somebody
’
s
bare
assertion
unsupported by even a show of
proof......(1)
They
are
only
based
on
tradition,
or
on
somebody
’
s
assertion,
but
are
not
supported
even by the least amount of proof.
这些说法仅仅根据传统，或者根据某人毫无证据的断言……
2.
But
if
the
staunchest
Roman
Catholic
and
the
staunchest
Presbyterian
had been exchanged when infants,and if
they had been brought up with
home and
all other influences reversed, we can had very
little doubt what
the result would have
been.(3)
If they were exchanged when
they were infants and brought up different homes
and under different influences, then
the staunchest Roman Catholic would be the
staunchest
Presbyterian,
vice
versa.
This
shows
that
our
beliefs
are
largely
influenced by
surroundings.
不过，
如果在婴儿时期把最虔诚
的罗马天主教徒和长老会教义信徒予以交换，
然后使他们在相反的家庭与影响下长大，所
能得出的结果是毋庸置疑的。
3.
It is consistent with all our knowledge
of psychology to conclude that each
would
have
grown
up
holding
exactly
the
opposite
beliefs
to
those
he
holds now...(3)
我们可以根据所掌握的心理
学知识得出结论，两人长大后会持有与现在恰好
相反的观点……
4.
Of course we
do
not cease, when we cease to be
children, to adopt new
reliefs on mere
suggestion.(4)
Of
course
it
does
not
mean
that
when
we
grow
up
we
no
longer
have
these
mistaken beliefs. We are still easy and
often willing victims of newspapers and
advertising.
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