高级英语第一册第三版张汉熙课后Paraphrasetranslation答案

Lesson 7 Everyday use

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1.She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her.

She thinks that her sister has a firm control of her life and that she can always have anything she wants, and life is extremely generous to her.

2.My fat keeps me hot in zero weather.

Because I am very fat, I feel hot even in freezing weather.

3. Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue. The popular TV talk show star, Johnny Carson, who is famous for his witty and glib tongue, has to try hard if he wants to catch up with me.

4. It seems to me I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight, with my head turned in whichever way is farthest from them. When I talked to them, I'm always ready to leave as quickly as possible, and turn my head away from them in order to avoid them as much as possible because of nervousness.

5.She would always look anyone in the eye.

She would always look at somebody directly and steadily, not feeling embarrassed or ashamed.

6.She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn't necessarily need to know.

She imposed on us lots of falsities and a lot of knowledge that was totally useless to us.

7. Like good looks and money, quickness passed her by.

She is not bright just as she is neither good-looking nor rich.

8. Meanwhile Asalamalakim is going through motions with Maggie's hand. Meanwhile Asalamalakim is trying to shake hands with Maggie in a fancy and elaborate way.

9. Though, in fact, I probably could have carried it back beyond the Civil War through the branches.

In fact, I could have traced it back before the Civil War through the family , branches.

10. He just stood there grinning, looking down on me like somebody inspecting a Model A car.

He just stood there with a grin on his face and looked at me as if inspecting 1 something old and out-of-date.

11. Every once in a while he and Wangero sent eye signals over my head. Now and then he and Dee communicated through eye contact in a secretive way.

12. "1 can 'member Grandma Dee without the quilts."

I don't need the quilts to remind me of Grandma Dee. She lives in my memory

all the time

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1)一场大火把贫民区三百多座房子夷为平地。

A big fire burned to the ground more than 300 homes in the slum neighborhood.

2)只要你为人正直，不怕失去什么，那你对任何人都不会畏惧。

If you are upright and not afraid of losing anything, you will be able to look anyone in the eye.

3)这件衬衫与裙子的颜色和式样都不相配。

This blouse doesn't match the color or the style of the skirt.

4)咱们一边喝咖啡一边谈这件事吧。

Let's talk about the matter over a cup of coffee.

5)他无法想象为什么人们反对他的看法。

He couldn't imagine why people were opposed to his suggestions.

6)这位官员在下汽车时碰到两个恐怖分子。

Stepping off from the car, the official was confronted by two terrorists.

7)只要我们坚持这些原则，我们就会成功。

As long as we stick to these principles, we will surely be successful.

8)这个消息使她大为震惊，但她很快就镇定了下来。

She was shocked at the news, but before long she recomposed herself. 9）这段典故的来源很难查找到。

It is very difficult to trace this quotation to its source.

Lesson8 Three cups of tea

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1、“what is one winter more?”再等一个冬天又何妨？

What dose it matter if we have to go without a school for another winter?

2、sher Takhi,who called Korphe’s widely dispersed faithful to prayer five times a day without the benefit of amplification, filled the small room with his booming voice.sher Takhi不用扩音设备召唤Korphe居住十分分散的教徒每天祷告五次，他那浑厚的嗓音充盈着这个小房间。

Sher Takhi had a booming voice, and without the advantage of amplification it filled the small room. He called Korphe’s believers, who were widely scattered working on their respective jobs , to pray five times a day.

3、As the moon rose over korphe K2 , they danced around the fire and taught Mortenson verses from the great Himalayan epic of Gesar, beloved across

much of the roof of the world, and introduced him to their inexhaustible supply of Balti folk songs.当月亮升起映照着korphe K2时，他们围绕篝火跳舞，教摩顿森世界屋脊上大部分地区喜爱的《格萨尔传》中一些诗歌并向他介绍巴尔蒂人十分丰富的民间歌曲。

At this time, the moon went up high in the sky above Korphe K2. The villagers danced around the fire and taught Mortenson lines from the Himalayan Epic of Gesar, beloved across most parts of the Himalayas which is the highest part of the world ,and introduced him to a tradition of Balti folk songs so rich that it could never be finished or used up.

4、The fact that it wasn`t written down didn’t make it any less real.虽然他没有用文字记录下来，这并不意味着他不那么真实。

The Balti didn’t have a written history, but that fact didn’t mean that its rich history didn’t exist.

5、He`d had too much trouble getting one school off the ground to think on Hoerni’s scale.

he had had so much trouble getting the plan of building one school started successfully. And he had to concentrate on completing this one and had no time or energy to think on the large scale of building more schools envisioned by Hoerni.

6、The old man led the former climber uphill for an hour, on legs still strong enough to humble the much younger man.

Although Haji Ali was old , his legs were still strong enough to leave the younger man far behind and thus feel ashamed.

7、The air had the fresh-scrubbed clarity that only comes with altitude. The air was so clear as if it had been just scrubbed. You can have such clear air only when you get to a certain high atltitude.

8、“You have to understand, in these villages, a ram is like a firstborn child,prize cow, and family per all rolled into one,”Mortenson explains. In these village, a ram was very much valued ,meaning something extremely precious like a firstborn child, a prize cow and a family pet combined.

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1)当他被人从河里救出来时，几乎半死不活了。

when he was saved from the river, he was more dead than alive.

2)在我上一次访问这个村子时，那里还没有学校。现在一所小学已经屹立在山顶上。

In my previous visit, there was no school, but now one stands on the top of a mountain.

3)他恢复了知觉，睁开眼睛，想努力搞清楚发生了什么事，为什么他躺在那里。As he came to himself, he opened his eyes, trying to figure out what had happened and why he was lying there.

4)展览会上最吸引观众的是新奇的电子产品。

At the exhibition there were many novel electronic products that attracted

the attention of visitors.

5)温室里的许多奇花异草引起了大家争先拍照。

People were keen on taking pictures of the many exotic flowers and plants in the green house.

6)这位作家出生于一个大家庭，他的家谱可以追溯到十五年前。

This writer came from a large, prominent family whose genealogy(家谱; 系谱学) stretches back fifteen generations.

7)当地少数民族在杀牲口前，先要举行一番宗教仪式，请求上苍允许他们杀生。Before killing an animal, the indigenous(土生土长的)ethnic(种族的)people usually hold rituals to request permission from their God.

8)村民们贫穷的事实并非说明他们就愚昧无知。

The fact that the villagers are poor doesn‘t mean they are ignorant or stupid.

9)志愿者们的共同努力使得项目开展起来了。

10)The volunteers made concerted(合拍调的; 协力一致的)efforts and got the project off the ground.

10)登山者感到头晕，几乎站立不住，一是由于过度疲劳，也是因为太饥饿了。、The climber felt so dizzy that he could hardly stand up, as much from over exhaustion (疲惫，衰竭)as from starvation

Lesson 9 “A More Perfect Union” (Part I)

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1.他把网上的流传当成一个笑话，不予理睬。

He dismissed the story circulating on the Internet as a joke.

2.马克?吐温的《竞选州长》是一片著名的短篇故事。

Mark Twain’s “Running for Governor” is a famous short story.

3.对于遭受灾难的人们，我们应该毫无保留地帮助他们。

We should reach out without reservation to those who suffer from disasters.

4.考虑到他们没有经验，他们的工作成绩还是相当不错的。

Given their lack of experience, their work should be considered as quite good.

5.她是在华裔人占主导地位的社区里长大的。

She grew up in a community where the inhabitants were predominantly of Chinese origin.

6.心情不好不能成为你对同事粗暴的理由。

Being in a bad mod cannot justify your rude behavoir toward your colleagues.

7.警方把这件事视作“误解”而草草了事。

The police dismissed the incident as a case of misunderstanding. Paraphrase

1. The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished.

the Constitution was finally adopted by the Constitutional Co nvention and signed the document. But the the slave issue w as not solved, the process of forming a more perfect unio n did not end

2. But it also comes from my own story.

My personal background and my success story, rising from rag s to riches, also teaches me the importance of unity.

3. But it is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its part that out of many, we are truly one.

Through my experience in the United States, I am deeply roo ted with the idea that America is not a total of addling everything together but is the product of fusion, of sharing the same creed.

4. Throughout the first year of this campaign, against all predictions to the contrary, we saw how hungry the American people were for this message of unity.

In spite of all predictions that I would fail in the campaign, we gained momentum in the first year of the campaign, which showed that the American people were eager to unity and change.

5. Despite the temptation to view my candidacy through a purely racial lens, we won commanding victories in states with some of the whitest populations in the country.

People were encouraged to judge me in terms of race and color, raising the question of whether the United State would fare better with a black president. However, we won great victories even in some states which are more conservative and more racially biased.

6. We saw racial tensions bubble to the surface during the week before the South Carolina primary.

The week before the Democrats were to select delegates to t he national convention in South Carolina, racial tension which seemed insubstantial in the past became more frequent and more intense.

7. On one end of the spectrum, we've heard the implication that my

candidacy is somehow an exercise in affirmative action; that it's based solely on the desire of wide-eyed liberals to purchase racial reconciliation on the cheap.

At one end of the wide range of opinion, there are people who say that I decided to run for presidency only because of the desires of native liberals in achieving racial harmony without making a great effort and I wanted to prove that black and white should have equal opportunity.

8. I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.

It is impossible for me to cast him off just as it is im possible for me to repudiate the black community.

Lesson 10 “A More Perfect Union” (Part II)

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1. Understanding this reality requires a reminder of how we arrive at this point.

In order to understand these complexities, we need to know the history and development of racial relations, the sufferings and injustices the blacks were subjected to

2. "The past isn't dead and buried. I fact, it isn't even past "(Para.

27)

The influence of what happened in previous times has not disappeared. Such influences can still be seen.

3.But for all those who scratched and clawed their to get a piece of the American dream , there were many who didn’t make it -----those who were ultimately defeated in one way or another, by discrimination. (Para.32) Out of those who worked or struggled very hard to climb the social ladder, many did not succeed. They were defeated in life's struggle, as a result of racial discrimination.

4.But it does find voice in the barbershop or the beauty shop or around the kitchen table.

Views colored by race may come up at informal conversations at the barbershop (or barbershops) where men meet, or over dinner among family members.

5.And occasionally it finds voice in the church on Sunday morning in the pulpit and in the pews.

And once in a while such sentiments are expressed in sermons and among church congregations,at Sunday morning black church services.

6. They are anxious about their futures, and feel their dreams slipping away; and in an era of stagnant wages and global competition, opportunity comes to be seen as a zero sum game, in which your dreams come at my expense.

As a result white Americans are very much worried about their future, feeling that their American dream is coming to an end, feeling hopeless

and helpless. So they have a hostile attitude toward those whom they consider their competitors.

7. Talk show hosts and conservative commentators built entire careers unmasking bogus claims of racism while dismissing legitimate discussions of racial injustice and inequality as mere political correctness or reverse racism.

Talk show hosts and conservative commentators became famous through exposing so-called incidents of racism and labeled reasonable discussion of unfair treatment of minorities as catering to excessive sensibility to minority causes or as racism against the whites.

8. It’s a racial stalemate we’ve been stuck in for years.

The anger of the blacks and the resentment of the whites are not groundless. Both groups have legitimate concerns. Yet their anger is directed toward the wrong targets, thus hampering the solution of the issues which cause the anger, neither side has come to see the problem. So a racial deadlock exists.

9. For the African–American community, that path means embracing the burdens of our past without becoming victims of our past.

The black community should face and handle bravely the legacy of racial injustice of the past while at the same time should not feel they are being wronged all the time.

10. In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community, that path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past, and these things are real and must be addressed.

For the whites, they should see clearly that the wrong done to the blacks in the past is a fact and subtle discrimination still exists today and should be solved properly.

11. We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporters as evidence that she’s playing the race card, or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies.

We can jump on some remarks made by some Hillary supporters against me and use this to show that Hillary also appeals to whites to defeat me in the Democratic campaign or predict that white people would support John McCain, not because of his policy but because of his skin color. 12. Or, at this moment, in this election, we can come together and say, “Not this time.”

Or, now and here, the American people, black and white, Asian and Hispanic and Native American, can unite and reject the politics that

produce division and conflict.

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1.这些在贫困中成年的孩子很珍惜他们得到的每一个机会。

These kids who have come of age i n poverty treasure every opportunity they got.

2 .他们虽然克服了种种困难，终于在一个偏远的山村里建立了一所小学校。After overcoming the odds. They succeeded in building a primary school in a remote village in the hills.

3.虽然地震的惊恐已经过去，但她还是惊魂不定，心有余悸。

Although the earthquake shock was over, she was still haunted by fear.

4 ..越来越多的人懂得，经济的发展不能以牺牲生态环境为代价

More and more people have realized that economy should not be developed at the expense of the environment .

5 .这几个年轻人凭着热情和努力白手起家干起了一番事业

With enthusiasm and effort ,these young people have built a business from scratch.

6 .只有少数人实现了他们的梦想，大多数人没有成功

Only a few have realized their dreams and the majority failed to make it 7 .肉类生产也是促成碳排放的原因

The production of meat contributes to carbon emissions too.

8 .人类与自然的关系在许多早期的文学作品里就经常得以体现。

The relations between man and nature have found expression in many early literary works.

Unit 12 ships in the deserts

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1....but as I looked out over the bow,the prospects of a good catch looked bleak.

…but as I looked out over the bow, I could see there was not possible to catch a large amount of fish.

2....about the tunnel he was digging through time.

...about the ice core sample marked by annual layers, which can show the different degrees of population from year to year.

3.Industry meant coal,and later oil,and we began to burn lots of

it-bringing rising levels of carbon dioxide(CO2),with its ability to trap more than in the atmosphere and slowly warm the earth.

The development of industry means the use of large amount of coal and later petroleum as fuels to generate power. When coal and oil are burned they emit carbon dioxide into the air which keeps more heat near the earth. When the level of carbon dioxide emission in the air becomes high, heat will find it difficult to get through it to go into higher altitudes. Thus the temperature of the earth gets warmer.

4.Considering such scenarios is not a purely speculative exercise. Thinking about how a series of events might happen as a consequence of the thinning of the polar cap is not just a kind of practice in conjecture :It has got practical value.

5.Acre by acre,the rainforest is being burned to create fast pasture for fast-food beef..

Gradually trees in the rainforest are burned and the land is cleared and turned into pasture where cattle can be raised quickly and slaughtered so that the beef can be used in hamburgers.

6....which means are silencing thousands of songs we have never even heard.

Since miles of forest are being destroyed and the habitat of these rare birds no long exists,thousands of birds which we have not even had a chance to see will become extinct.

7.And why do other images,though sometimes equally dramatic,produce instead a kind of paralysis,focusing our attention not on ways to respond but rather on some convenient,less painful distraction?

And why do other symbols, though sometimes no less surprising, only cause a kind of loss and inactivity and we concentrate our attention not on ways to deal with them but, instead on some other distractions which are easy and less painful to handle?

8.This increase in heat seriously threatens the global climate equilibrium that determines the pattern of winds,rainfall,surface temperatures,ocean currents and sea level.

The global climate balance determines the the pattern of winds,rainfall,surface temperatures,ocean currents and sea level.Once this state of balance is broken,winds,rainfall,and ocean currents will become abnormal; surface temperatures and sea level will rise.

9.So far,however,we seem oblivious of the earth’s natural systems. So far, we seem unaware that the earth’s natural systems are delicate.

10.They are symptoms of an underlying problem broader in scope and more serious than any we have ever faced.

They are signs and indications showing that there exists a much greater and more serious problem than we have ever encountered.

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1.敌人向四面八方窜逃。

The enemy troops ran away in all directions

2.在城市里骑自行车的倡议得到了热烈的响应。

The appeal for biking in cities got a warm response.

3.这本书体现了他十年的研究成果。

This academic book reflects his research results in the past ten years.

4.在你采取行动之前必须好好考虑后果。

You must carefully consider the consequences before acting.

5.我们要消灭战争，必须先消灭引起战争的原因。

If we want to wipe out wars, we must first eliminate the causes of wars.

6.他没有足够的理由拒绝我们的建议。

He didn’t have a reason good enough to decline our offer.

7.这个程序很简单，也易于操作。

This program is very simple and easy to operate.

8.他的答案过于简单化，不能有效地解决这个复杂的问题。

He gave a simplistic answer which was unable to solve this complicated problem effectively.