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

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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

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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

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