Paraphrase: L1:
1. Little donkeys thread their way among the throngs of people.
2. Then as you penetrate deeper into the bazaar, the noise of the entrance fades away, and you come to the muted cloth-market.
3. They narrow down their choice and begin the really serious business of beating the price down.
4. He will price the item high, and yield little in the bargaining.
5. As you approach it, a tinkling and banging and clashing begins to impinge on your ear. L2:
1. Serious looking men spoke to one another as if they were oblivious of the crowds about them.
2. The cab driver’s door popped open at the very sight of a traveler.
3. The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimino and the miniskirt.
4. I experienced a twinge of embarrassment at the prospect of meeting the mayor of Hiroshima in my socks.
5. The few Americans and Germans seemed just as inhibited as I was/
6. After three days in Japan, the spinal column becomes extraordinarily flexible.
7. I was about to make my little bow of assent, when the meaning of these last words sank in, jolting me out of sad reverie.
8. I thought somehow I had been spared. L3:
1. The prospect of a good catch looked bleak.
2. He moved his finger back in time to the ice of two decades ago.
3. Keeps its engines running to prevent the metal parts from freeze-locking together.
4. Acre by acre, the rain forest is being burned to create fast pasture for fast-food beef
5. Which means we are silencing thousands of songs we have never even heard.
6. Considering such scenarios is not a purely speculative exercise.
7. We are ripping matter from its place in the earth in such volume as to upset the balance between daylight and darkness.
8. Or have our eyes adjusted so completely to the bright lights of civilization that we can’t see these clouds for what they are
9. To come to the question another way
10. And have a great effect on the location and pattern of human societies
11. We seem oblivious of the fragility of the earth’s natural systems
12. And this ongoing revolution has also suddenly accelerated exponentially. L4:
1. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand
2. “no” is a word cthe world never learned to say to her
3. Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue.
4. It seems to me I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight.
5. She washed us in a river of make-believe
6. Burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn’t necessarily need to know
7. Like good looks and money, quickness passed her by.
8. A dress to the ground, in this hot weather.
9. You can see me trying to move a second or two before I make it
10. Anyhow, he soon gives up on Maggie.
11. Though, in fact, I probably could have carried it back beyond the Civil War through the branches.
12. Every once in a while he and Wangero sent eye signals over my head
13. Less than that
14. This was the way she knew God to work. L5:
1. Hitler was counting on enlisting capitalist and Right Wing sympathies in this country and the USA.
2. Winant said the same would be true of USA.
3. My life is much simplified thereby.
4. I will unsay no word that I have spoken about it.
5. I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky, still smarting from many a British whipping, delighted to find what they believe is an easier and a safer prey.
6. We shall be strengthened not weakened in determination and in resources.
7. Let us redouble our exertions, and strike with united strength while life and power remain. L6:
1. The house detective;s piggy eyes surveyed her sardonically from his gross jowled-face.
2. Pretty neat set-up you folks got.
3. The obese body shook in an appreciative chuckle.
4. He lowered the level of his incongruous falsetto voice.
5. The words spat forth with sudden savagery, all pretense of blandness gone.
6. The Duchess of Croydon - three centuries and a half of inbred arrogance behind her - did not yield easily.
7. “It is no go, old girl. I’m afraid. It was a good try.”
8. “That’s more like it,” Ogilvie said. He lit the fresh cigar, “Now we’re getting somewhere.”
9. His eyes sardonically on the Duchess as if challenging her objection.
10. The house detective clucked his tongue reprovingly. L7:
1. The microelectronic revolution promises to ease, enhance and simplify life in ways undreamed of even by the utopians.
2. The custom-made object, now restricted to the rich, will be within everyone’s reach.
3. The computer might appear to be a dehumanizing factor, but the opposite is in fact true.
4. In no area of American life is personal service so precious as in medical care.
5. The widest benefits of the electronic revolution will accrue to the young.
6. For the mighty army of consumers, the ultimate applications of the computer revolution are still around the bend of a silicon circuit. L8:
1. Where he saw internal memos, someone else saw Beethoven.
2. With so much big money and so many big dreams pinned to an idea that is still largely on the drawing boards, there’s no limit to the hype.
3. Say you shoot a video that you think is particularly artsy.
4. Even the truest believers have a hard time when it comes to nailing down specifics.
5. Another electronic library filled with realistic video versions of arcade shoot-em-ups.
6. Just one step past passive viewing, pure couch-potato mode
7. Ordering pay-for-view movies and running up their credit card bills on the Home Shopping Network.
8. The shows of the future may be the technological great-grandchildren of current CD-ROM titles.
9. “Interactivity” may be the biggest buzzword of the moment, but “convergence” is a close second.
10. Now, politicians, from President Clinton on down, are falling over themselves to proclaim support for the new medium.
11. The solution:fiber optics.
12. Bits are bits.
13. Imagine the conversation:” Have I got a compatible user for you!”
14. Interactivity may widen the gap between the haves and the have-nots, the rich and wired vs. The poor and unplugged. L9:
1. A man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race
2. Mark Twain digested the new American experience before sharing it with the world as writer and lecturer.
3. The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied - a cosmos.
4. Broke and discouraged, he accepted a job as reporter with the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise.
5. Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist.
6. “and when she projects a new surprise, the grave world smiles as usual, and says ‘well, that is California all over.’”
7. Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh. L10:
1. We’ll show them a few tricks.
2. The case had erupted round my head.
高级英语第一册课后paraphrase汇总
