高英第一册Paraphrasing

Lesson One: A Trip for Mrs. Taylor

I.Paraphrasing (p.21)

1. Mrs. Taylor felt that the expectation and the preparation for a journey

bring about joy and excitement; they are only second to the actual beginning of the journey in importance.

(She felt that the anticipation and preparation for a journey was only exceeded by its actual beginning)

2. All the travellers were busy making preparations and getting to their

destinations, they were all eager and a bit impatient, this general feeling makes them sympathetic and friendly to one another.

(The knowledge that they all shared the same sense of immediacy seemed to bring them close together)

3. The trainman said: “Granny, you have too many things to carry.” He

picked up the boy and put him in the passage between the two cars/carriages.

(“You?ve got your hands full there, Granny,” he said, picking up the little boy and depositing him in the vestibule of the car)

4. Mrs. Taylor was glad that she had been able to be in a front position of

the queue at the gates. (So she found herself a seat in the carriage.)

(Mrs. Taylor was glad she had been able to get well up in the queue at the gates)

5. … Her curiosity was so great that she couldn?t help asking the question

though she knew it was not polite to do so.

(“Well-well, where are you going then?” the young women asked, her curiosity getting the best of her)

Lesson Three: What Is Style

I. Paraphrasing (p.99)

1. … She is very good at noticing the vanity, selfishness and vulgarity in human beings.

(…She had a quick eye for vanity, selfishness and vulgarity)

2. People in interesting situations such as marriage and death always attract the attention of others, and these accords with human nature.

(Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations)

3. The next paragraph reveals how people talk in a free, pleasurable way about the matters concerning Miss Hawkins before she arrived.

(The next paragraph reveals how the gossip about Miss Hawkins anticipates her

arrival)

4. Somehow, she was discovered to be an ideal woman who has every merit of both appearance and thinking. She is not only handsome, elegant, good at music and painting and many other things, she is also very friendly.

(…She was, by some means or other, discovered to have every recommendation of person and mind—to be handsome, elegant, highly accomplished, and perfectly amiable)

5. He was very proud of his own achievements and often used his own life as a model for others to follow.

(He was very proud of his own achievement and frequently held up his own example to others)

6. Although ready-made phrases come in great numbers in writing, these words only make one?s points and arguments unclear instead of conveying one?s meaning...

(Ready-made phrases roll on to the page, but they only obscure issues and darken counsel)

Lesson Four: A Mild Attack of Locusts

I. Paraphrasing (p.131)

1. ….between the telephone calls she stood there watching the locusts. (Margaret answered the telephone calls, and between stood watching the locusts)

2. Clusters of locusts covered the trees the branches and twigs of the trees

became jagged with clusters of locusts, their brown shiny crusts glistened. (The trees were ragged mounds of glistening brown)

3. … The swarms of locusts crawled and clustered on everything, one could not see trees, buildings, and bushes in sight, and everywhere one saw locusts.

(For although the evening air was no longer black and thick, but a clear blue, with a pattern of insects whizzing this way and that across it, everything else—trees, buildings, bushes, earth, was gone under the moving brown masses)

4. You should attack the locusts when they are still young and are confined to small areas. /where they originate. In short, you should try to wipe out locusts when they are still hoppers.

(You should attack the locusts at the source. Hoppers in short)

Lesson Five Profession for Women

I Paraphrasing. P.164

1.The family could still enjoy the harmonious atmosphere when the hostess

spent her time on writing.

(The family peace was not broken by the scratching of a pen)

2.When I was writing my reviews, the Angel would come at my desk and

murmured her ideas about the duty, the virtues of a woman, etc., and thus hamper my writing.

(It was she who used to come between me and my paper when I was writing reviews)

3.… So that I would be able to have an independent life, I did not need to rely

entirely on my feminine charm to please my husband, to cater for his need in order to make a living.

(…So that it was not necessary for me to depend solely on charm for my living)

4.When women writers proceed with their writing they are always conscious of

what men would think of their writing ---- the women writers are prevented from writing freely and imaginatively because men?s extreme backward, conservative, prejudiced ideas about women are always having strong influence on them.

(This I believe to be a very common experience with women writes—they are impeded by the extreme conventionality of the other sex)

5.Women?s aims for free pursuit in professions and the comprehensive equality

in society cannot be taken as a simple matter, it needs careful thinking and good retrospection to define them; and this process is a perpetual one.

(Those aims cannot be taken for granted; they must be perpetually questioned and examined)

Lesson 6: On the Way to Cerveteri

I Paraphrasing. P.193

1.As a result of Roman?s expansion, it is inevitable that the Etruscans had sunk

into oblivion or extinction.

(However, this seems to be the inevitable result of expansion with a big E, which is the sole raison deter of people like the Romans)

2.There was a tipsy/slanted wagon pointed at four corners drawn by oxen

crawling along at the snail speed.

(A road not far from the sea, a bare, flattish, hot white road with nothing but

a titled oxen-wagon in the distance like a huge snail with four horns)

3.We walked past the gateway and looked for a place we can eat through the

low an small grey streets twisted streets.

(We pass through the gateway and in the bits of crooked grey streets look for a place where we can eat)

4.The Spinach has thoroughly been cooked in the fat collected and removed

from the surface water in which the beef or meat has been boiled.

(The spinach, alas! Has been cooked over in the fat skimmed from the boiled beef)

5.The asserted palace rise directly from the top of rough cliff, the windows open

onto the view of the world outside.

(We turned away to the left, under the rock cliff from whose summit the so-called palace goes up flush, the windows looking out on to the world)

6.Steep slope or a valley outside with the citadel facing a similar hill running

parallels each other.

(Then outside they liked to have a sharp dip or ravine, with a parallel hill opposite)

7.They gave the same stupid answer: “It is a kind of flower!”

(They gave the usual dumbbell answer: “It is a flower!”)

8.It is self-evident with no conflict between them.

(It is a flower. It stinks!—both facts being self-evident, there was no contradicting it)

9.The lily comes into blossom in the Christian religion season.

(But the daffodil, the Lent lily)

10.I believe we don?t like the asphodel because we like nothing

self-assuming/self-asserting/self-imposing./I believe we don?t like the asphodel because we don?t like anything bold and glistening.

(I believe we don?t like the asphodel because we don’t like anything proud and

sparky)

Lesson 7: A Visit to Walt Whitman

I paraphrasing (p.219)

1. …… the visit I would describe later was not carried out in the spirit of a disciple who went to worship him.

(Several accounts of his appearance and mode of address on these occasions have been published, and if I add one more it must be my excuse that the visit to be described was not undertaken in the customary spirit)

2. But, on second thoughts I thought I?d better go to visit Walt Whitman

(But better counsels prevailed; curiosity and civility combined to draw me and I wrote to him that I would come)

3. All my reserve of a literary man disappeared completely.

(Suddenly, by I know not what magnetic charm, all wire-drawn literary reservations faded out of being, and one?s only sensation was of gratified satisfaction at being the “friend” of this very nice old gentleman)

4. in a dreamy state of thrilling /appealing abstract meditation

(And he winked away in silence, while I thought of the Indian poet Valmiki, when in a trance of voluptuous abstraction; he sat under the fig-tree and was slowly eaten of ants)

5. His eyes twinkled, a smile on his face, “You see, my loud voice was heard in India.” Here, here, Whitman was making disparaging remarks about his poems. This shows his sense of humor.

(For example, he told me of some tribute from India, and added, with a twinkling smile, “You see, I …sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world?)