高級(jí)英語(yǔ)2paraphrase翻譯

1、Lesson One1.And it is an activity only of humans. And conversation is an activity found only among human beings.2.Conversation is not for making a point.Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our ideas or points of views.3.In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared

2、to lose.In fact , people who are good at conversation will not argue to win or force others to accept his ideas.4.Bar friends are not deeply involved in each others lives.People who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not close friends for they are not deeply absorbed in each others

3、private lives. 5.it could still go ignorantly on .The conversation could go on without anybody knowing who was right or wrong.6.They are cattle in the fields ,but we sit down to beef.They animals are called cattle when they are alive and feed in the fields , but when we sit down at the table to eat,

4、 we call their meet beef.7.The new ruling class had built a cultural barrier against him by building their French against his own language.The new ruling class by using French instead of English made it hard for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the rulers.8.English had come royally int

5、o its own.English received proper recognition and was used by the King once more.9.The phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower classes.The phrase , the Kings English ,has always been used disrespectfully and jokingly by the lower classes.(The working peopl

6、e often mock the proper and formal language of the educated people.)10.The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there.As the early Saxon peasants , the working people still have a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class. 11.There is always a great danger that “

7、words will harden into things for us. “There is always a great danger , as Carlyle put it , that we might forget that words are only symbols and take them for things they are supposed to represent.1.However intricate the ways in which animals communicate with each other, they do not indulge in anyth

8、ing that deserves the name of conversation. 不管動(dòng)物之間的交流方式多么復(fù)雜，它們不能參與到稱得上是交談的任何活動(dòng)中。2.Argument may often be a part of it, but the purpose of the argument is not to convince. There is no winning in conversation.爭(zhēng)論會(huì)經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)于交談中，但爭(zhēng)論的目的不是為了說(shuō)服。交談中沒(méi)有勝負(fù)之說(shuō)。3.Perhaps it is because of my upbringing in English pubs th

9、at I think bar conversation has a charm of its own.或許我從小就混跡于英國(guó)酒吧緣故，我認(rèn)為酒吧里的閑聊別有韻味。4.I do not remember what made one of our companions say it -she clearly had not come into the bar to say it , it was not something that was pressing on her mind-but her remark fell quite naturally into the talk.我不記得是什么使

10、得我的一個(gè)同伴說(shuō)起它來(lái)的-她顯然不是來(lái)酒吧說(shuō)這個(gè)的，這不是她事先想好的話題-但她的話相當(dāng)自然地插入到了交談中。5.There is always resistance in the lower classes to any attempt by an upper class to lay down rules for “English as it should be spoken .”下層社會(huì)總會(huì)抵制上層社會(huì)企圖給“標(biāo)準(zhǔn)英語(yǔ)”制定得規(guī)則。6.Words are not themselves a reality ,but only representations of it ,and the K

11、ings English ,like the Anglo-French of the Normans , is a class representation of reality.詞語(yǔ)本身并不是現(xiàn)實(shí)。正如諾曼底人講的英格魯-法語(yǔ)一樣，標(biāo)準(zhǔn)英語(yǔ)是一個(gè)階層用來(lái)表達(dá)現(xiàn)實(shí)的形式。7.Perhaps it is worth trying to speak it, but it should not be laid down as an edict , and made immune to change from below.或許試著去說(shuō)它還是值得的，但是它不能被制定成法令，從而拒絕來(lái)自下層的變化。8.T

12、here is no worse conversationalist than the one who punctuates his words as he speaks as if he were writing , or even who tries to use words as if he were composing a piece of prose for print.如果一個(gè)人說(shuō)出的話就像寫出來(lái)的文字，或者試圖使用那些創(chuàng)作書面散文的文字，那么沒(méi)有比這樣的交談?wù)吒愀獾牧恕?.When E.M. Forster writes of “ the sinister corridor o

13、f our age,” we sit up at the vividness of the phrase , the force and even terror in the image.當(dāng)E.M.福斯特寫到“我們這個(gè)時(shí)代的險(xiǎn)惡長(zhǎng)廊”時(shí)，其用語(yǔ)之生動(dòng)及由其所產(chǎn)生的生動(dòng)有力，甚至可怖的形象苦令我們拍案叫絕。10.There would have been no conversation the other evening if we had been able to settle at once the meeting of “ the Kings English.”那天晚上如果我們立刻解決了“

14、標(biāo)準(zhǔn)英語(yǔ)”的含義，就不會(huì)有第二天晚上的談話了。 Lesson Three1.And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebears fought is still at issue around the globe.Our ancestors fought a revolutionary war to claim all men were created equal and God had endowed them with certain unalienable rights which no state or ruler

15、could take away from them. However ,today this issue has not yet been settled in many countries around the world .2.This much we pledge- and more.This much we promise to do and we promise to do more.3.United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures.United and working together

16、we can accomplish a lot of things in a large number of joint undertakings.4.our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace.The United Nations is our last and best hope of survival in an age where the instruments of war have far surpassed the inst

17、ruments of peace.5.to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.We pledge to help the United Nations enlarge the area in which its authority and mandate would continue to be in force.6.before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destr

18、uction.Before the terrible forces of destruction, which atomic bombs can now release,overwhelm mankind, which may be planned or brought about by an accident7.yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the band of mankinds final war.Yet both groups of nations are attempting

19、to change as quickly as possible this uncertain balance of terrible military power that restrains each group from launching mankind;s final war.8.So let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness.So let us start once again , bearing in mind that being polite is

20、not a sign of weakness.9.Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.Let both sides try to call forth the wonderful things that science can do for mankind instead of the frightful things it can do.10.each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to

21、its national loyalty.Americans of every generation have been called upon to prove their loyalty to their country by frighting and dying for their countrys cause.11.With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love.Let us

22、lead the country we love , knowing our sure reward will be a good conscience and history will finally judge whether we have done our task well or not. 1.We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end as well as a beginning , signifying renewal as well as cha

23、nge.我們今天慶祝的不是一個(gè)政黨的勝利，而是一個(gè)自由的盛會(huì)，它代表這一個(gè)時(shí)代的結(jié)束和另一個(gè)時(shí)代的開(kāi)端，它代表著重生和改變。2.Let the word go forth from this time and place , to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century,tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancien

24、t heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of these human rights to which this nation has always been committed , and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.此時(shí)此地我向朋友和敵人宣布：火炬已經(jīng)傳遞給了新一代的美國(guó)人，他們出生于本世紀(jì)，經(jīng)受過(guò)戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)的洗禮，受過(guò)冷峻而苦澀的和平的考驗(yàn)，以我們的古代遺產(chǎn)為傲，不愿意見(jiàn)到或者允許這些人權(quán)被逐漸取消。這個(gè)國(guó)家一直致力

25、于維護(hù)這些人權(quán)，如今我們?cè)趪?guó)內(nèi)和全世界也在維護(hù)這些人權(quán)。3.Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price , bear any burden, meet any hardship , support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.讓世界上每一個(gè)希望我們成功或窘迫的國(guó)家知道：我們將不惜任何代價(jià)，承擔(dān)任何責(zé)任，應(yīng)對(duì)任何艱難，支持一切朋友，反對(duì)一切敵人，以

26、確保自由的幸存和成功。4.United , there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. 只要我們團(tuán)結(jié)起來(lái)，我們將在大量的合作型事業(yè)中戰(zhàn)無(wú)不勝。5.Divided, there is little we can do ,for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.如果分裂開(kāi)來(lái)，我們將一事無(wú)成，因?yàn)槲覀儾荒茉跔?zhēng)執(zhí)中去應(yīng)對(duì)巨大的挑戰(zhàn)，我們的關(guān)系會(huì)崩裂。6.If a free society cannot help the ma

27、ny who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.如果自由的社會(huì)不能幫助多數(shù)窮人，它就不能拯救少數(shù)的富人。7.We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.我們不敢以軟弱來(lái)誘惑它們。因?yàn)橹挥挟?dāng)我們的軍備力量無(wú)疑是非常充足的時(shí)候，我們才能確保不會(huì)使用武力。8.In your hands

28、, my fellow citizens, more than mine,will rest the final success or failure of our course.我們的同胞們，我們事業(yè)成敗的關(guān)鍵與其說(shuō)掌握在我的手中，不如說(shuō)掌握在你們的手中。9,Now the trumpet summons us again-not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle , though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a l

29、ong twilight struggle , year in and year out , “rejoicing in hope , patient in tribulation,” a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny , poverty disease and war itself.現(xiàn)在號(hào)角再次向我們吹響-不是號(hào)召我們扛起武器，雖然我們需要武器；不是號(hào)召我們?nèi)⒓討?zhàn)斗，雖然我們嚴(yán)陣以待；而是號(hào)召我們?yōu)橛永杳鞫缲?fù)起漫長(zhǎng)斗爭(zhēng)的責(zé)任，年復(fù)一年，”從希望中得到歡樂(lè)，在苦難中保持堅(jiān)韌“， 去反對(duì)人類共同的敵人：專制、貧困、疾

30、病和戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)本身10.With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds,let us go forth to lead the land we love , asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth Gods work must truly be our own.良心是我們唯一可靠的報(bào)酬，歷史是我們行為的最終裁判，讓我們出發(fā)去領(lǐng)導(dǎo)我們所熱愛(ài)的國(guó)家，祈求上帝的祝福和幫助，但是要明白上帝在人間

31、的工作畢竟就是我們自己的工作。Lesson Four1.A nice enough young fellow, you understand ,but nothing upstairs.He is a nice enough young fellow,you know , but he is empty-headed.2.Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason.A passing fashion or craze ,in my opinion, shows a complete lack of reason.3.I should have

32、 known theyd come back when the Charleston came back.I should have known that raccoon coats would come back to fashion when the Charleston dance, which was popular in the 1920s,came back.4.“All the Big Men on Campus are wearing them. Where ve you been?”All the important and fashionable men on campus

33、 are wearing them. How come you dont know?5.My brain , that precision instrument, slipped into high gear.My brain, which is precision instrument, began to work at high speed.6.With one omission, Polly fitted these specifications perfectly.Except for one thing(intelligence)Polly had all the other req

34、uirements.7.She was not yet of pin-up proportions, but I felt sure that time would supply the lack.She was not as beautiful as those girls in posters but I felt sure she would become beautiful enough after some time.8.In fact, she veered in the opposite direction.In fact, she went in the opposite di

35、rection,that is , she was not intelligent but rather stupid.9.“ In other words ,if you were out of the picture,the field would be open. Is that right?”If you were no longer involved with her, others would be free to compete to get her as a girlfriend.10.Back and forth his head swiveled , desire waxi

36、ng, resolution waning. His head turned back and forth (looking at the coat and then looking away from the coat). Every time he looked his desire for the coat grew stronger and his resolution not to abandon Polly became weaker.11.This loomed as a project of no small dimensions. To teach her to think

37、seemed to be a rather big task.12.Admittedly it was not a prospect fraught with hope ,but I decided to give it one more try.One must admit the outcome did not look very hopeful, but I decided to try one more time.13.There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.There is a limit to what any human

38、 being can bear .14.I was not Pygmalion; I was Frankenstein , and my monster had me by the throat.I planned to be Pygmalion, to fashion an ideal wife for myself, but I turned out to be Frankenstein because Polly ultimately rejected me and ruined my plan.15.Frantically I fought back the tide of panic

39、 surging through me .Desperately I tried to stop the feeling of panic which was overwhelming me.1.My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as chemists scales. As penetrating as a scalpel.我的大腦如發(fā)電機(jī)一樣強(qiáng)大，像化學(xué)家的平一樣精確，像手術(shù)刀一樣鋒利。2.To be swept up in every new craze that comes along, to surrender yours

40、elf to idiocy just because everybody else is doing it-this , to me , is the acme od mindlessness.被卷入每一股新來(lái)的時(shí)尚之中，因?yàn)槠渌硕际沁@樣做，自己也進(jìn)去傻干-這對(duì)于我而言，簡(jiǎn)直就是愚蠢至極。3.Let me emphasize that my desire for this young woman was not emotional in nature.我強(qiáng)調(diào)一下我渴望得到這個(gè)妙齡少女不是情感的驅(qū)動(dòng)使然。4.It is , after all, easier to make a beautif

41、ul dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful.畢竟，與使這個(gè)丑陋而聰明的女孩變漂亮相比，使一個(gè)美麗的愚笨的女孩變得聰明要容易得多。5.He was a torn man, First he looked at the coat with the expression of a waif at a bakery window. Then he turned away and set his jaw resolutely.他神情不安。先是帶著面包店櫥窗旁邊的流浪兒的那種神情盯著大衣。然后轉(zhuǎn)過(guò)頭，堅(jiān)定地咬緊牙關(guān)。6.Mayb

42、e somewhere is the extinct crater of her mind , a few embers still smoldered.說(shuō)不定她頭腦中死火山口某處還有悶燃的余燼。7.After all, surgeons have X-rays to guide them during an operation, lawyers have briefs, to guide them during a trial, carpenters have blueprints to guide them when they are building a house.畢竟，外科醫(yī)生在做手

43、術(shù)時(shí)有X 光線作為指導(dǎo)，律師在審判時(shí)有辯護(hù)狀作為指導(dǎo)，木匠在建造房子的時(shí)候有藍(lán)圖作為指導(dǎo)。8.If Madame Curie had not happened to leave a photographic plate in a drawer with a chunk of pitch blend,the world today would not know about radium.如果居里夫人沒(méi)有把一張相片底片放在裝有瀝青鈾礦的抽屜了，今天的世人就不會(huì)知道鐳了。9.Suddenly, a glimmer of intelligence -the first I had seen- came

44、 into her eyes.突然，一道智慧的靈光-第一次看見(jiàn)-在她的眼中閃現(xiàn)。10.Heartened by the knowledge that Polly was not altogether a cretin,I begin a long, patient review of all I had told her. 知道波利并不完全是個(gè)白癡，我感到很振奮，于是我開(kāi)始把給她講過(guò)的一切時(shí)間、耐心地復(fù)習(xí)了一遍。Lesson Five1.The slighted mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle

45、-aged.At the very mention of this postwar period ,middle-aged people begin to think about it longingly.2.The rejection of Victorian gentility was , in any case ,inevitable .In any case,an American could not avoid casting aside middle-class respectability and affected refinement.3.The war acted merel

46、y as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian social structure.The war only helped to speed up the breakdown of the Victorian social structure.4.it was tempted ,in America at least, to escape its responsibilities and retreat behind an air of naughty alcoholic sophistication.In America at

47、 least,the young people were strongly inclined to shirk their responsibilities. They pretended to be worldly-wise, drinking and behaving naughtily.5.Prohibition afforded the young the additional opportunity of making their pleasures illicit.The young found greater pleasure in drinking because Prohib

48、ition, by making drinking unlawful,added a sense of adventure.6.our young men began to enlist under foreign flags.Our young men joined the armies of foreign countries to fight in the war.7.they “wanted to get into the fun before the whole thing turned belly up.”The young wanted to take part in the g

49、lorious adventure before the whole ended.8.they had outgrown towns and families.These young people could no longer adapt themselves to lives in their hometowns or their families.9.the returning veteran also had to face the sodden,Napoleonic cynicism of Versailles,the hypocritical do-goodism of Prohi

50、bition.The returning veteran also had to face the stupid cynicism of the victorious allies in Versailles who acted as cynically as Napoleon did,and to face Prohibition which the lawmakers hypocritically assumed would do good to the people.10.Something in the tension-ridden youth of America had to “g

51、ive”.(Under all this force and pressure)something in the youth of America,who were already very tense ,had to break down.11.it was only natural that hopeful young writers , their minds and pens inflamed against war, Babbittry, and “Puritanical” gentility, should flock to the traditional artistic cen

52、ter.It was only natural that hopeful young writers ,whose minds and writings were full of violent anger against war, Babbittry,and “Puritanical” gentility,should come in largen numbers to live in Greenwich Village, the traditional artistic center.12.Each town had its “fast”set which prided itself on

53、 itself on its unconventionality.Each town was proud that it had a group of wild ,reckless people,who lived unconventional lives.1.No aspect of life in the Twenties has been more commented upon and sensationally romanticized than the so-called Revolt of the Younger Generation.在20世紀(jì)生活的方方面面中，所謂的青年一代的反

54、抗是人們?cè)u(píng)論最多和渲染最嚴(yán)重的。2.The answers to such inquiries must of necessity be “yes”and “no”-”yes”because the business of growing up is always accompanied by irresponsible ,and immoral in social behavior at the time can now be seen in perspective as being something considerably less sensational than the degen

55、eration of our jazz mad youth對(duì)這些問(wèn)題必然有兩種答復(fù)，“是”或者“不是”-回答“是”，是因?yàn)樵诔砷L(zhǎng)的過(guò)程中，總會(huì)存在青年一代的問(wèn)題；回答“不是”，是因?yàn)楫?dāng)時(shí)看上去那么狂野、不負(fù)責(zé)和不道德的行為，以今天的角度來(lái)看的話，遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)比不上迷戀爵士樂(lè)的青年的墮落行為那樣聳人聽(tīng)聞。3.War or no war ,as the generations passed , it became increasingly difficult for our young people to accept standards of behavior that bore no relation

56、ship to the bustling business medium in which they were expected to battle for success.無(wú)論是否會(huì)發(fā)生戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)，隨著時(shí)代的變遷，讓我們的年輕人接受與喧囂的商業(yè)社會(huì)格格不入的行為準(zhǔn)則越來(lái)越難，在當(dāng)時(shí)商業(yè)化社會(huì)中，他們被期望為了成功而戰(zhàn)。4.The faddishness , the wild spending of money on transitory pleasures and momentary novelties,the hectic air of gaiety, the experimentation i

57、s sensation-sex, drug, alcohol,perversions-were all part of the pattern of escape , an escape made possible by a general prosperity and a post-war fatigue with politics,economic restrictions,and international responsibilities.追求時(shí)髦，為了獲得短暫的快樂(lè)和瞬間的新奇而揮霍錢財(cái)，縱情狂歡，尋求感官刺激-性、毒品、酒精、性變態(tài)-這些都是逃避的表現(xiàn)，普遍的繁榮、戰(zhàn)后對(duì)政治、經(jīng)濟(jì)限制和國(guó)際責(zé)任的厭倦使得這種逃避成為可能。5.Meanwhile ,the true intellectuals were far from flattered.同事，真正的知識(shí)分子完全沒(méi)有感到受寵若驚。6.Flaming diatribes poured from their pens denouncing the materialism and what they considered to be the cultural boobery of our society.激昂的不滿從他們的作品中噴涌而出，他們的作品譴責(zé)物質(zhì)主義以及他們認(rèn)為的我們社會(huì)中的文化愚人。7.It was in t