高級(jí)英語(yǔ)第二冊(cè)PARAPHRASE_百度文庫(kù)

1、Lesson 11.The house we live in now is 23feet above sea level2. The house has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever caused any damage to it.3. We can take decisive actions make preparations to meet difficulties and survive the hurricane without much damage.4. Water got into the generator an

2、d put it out. It stopped producing electricity, so the lights also went out.5. Everybody go out through the back door and run to the cars.6.Water got into the car and put out the electrical systems which stopped working7. As John watching the water inch its way up the steps, he felt a strong sense o

3、f guilt because he blamed himself for endangering the whole family by deciding not to flee inland.8. Oh God, please help us get through this storm safely.9. Grandmother Koshak sang a few words alone and then her voice gradually became dimmer and stopped.10. Janis displayed rather late the exhaustion

4、 brought about by the nervous tension caused by the hurricane.Lesson41. the revolutionary beliefs ,that all men were created equal and God had given them certain unalienable rights which no state or ruler could take away from them which our ancestors fought for have not yet been recognized in many c

5、ountries around the world.2. This much we promise to do and we promise to do more.3. United and working together we can accomplish a lot of things in a great number of joint undertakings.4. We will not allow any enemy country to subvert this peaceful revolution which brings hope and progress to all

6、our countries.5. The United Nations is our last and best hope of survival in an age where the instruments of war have far surpassed the instruments of peace.6. We pledge to help the United Nations enlarge the area in which its authority and mandate would continue to be in effect or in force.7. Befor

7、e the terrible forces of destruction, which science can now release, putting the entire human race to the planned or accidental self-destruction.8. Yet both groups of nations are trying to change as quickly as possible this uncertain balance of terrible military power which restrains each group from

8、 launching mankind's final war.9. So let us start once again (to discuss and negotiateand let us remember that being polite is not a sign of weakness.10. Let both sides try to reveal and pursue the wonderful things that science can do for mankind instead of the frightful things11. Americans of e

9、very generation have been called upon to prove their loyalty to their country (by fighting and dying for their country's cause.12.Let history finally judge whether we have done our task well or not, and our onlysure reward will be a good con-science for we will have worked sincerely and to the b

10、est of our ability .let us step forward together and lead the country we love.Lesson 71. As a boy and later when I was a grown-up man, I had often travelled through the region.2. But somehow in the past I never really perceived how shocking and bleak this whole region was.3. This dreadful scene make

11、s all human endeavors and ambitions as a ghastly, sad joke.4. The country itself is pleasant to look at, despite the sooty dirt spread by the innumerable mills in this region.5. All the houses they built looked like bricks standing upright.6. These brick-like houses were made of shabby, thin wooden

12、boards and their roofs were narrow and had little slope.7. When the brick is covered with the black soot of the mills it takes on the color of a unwanted rotten egg.8. Red brick, even in a steel town, looks quite respectable with the passing of time. 9.I have given Westmoreland the highest award for

13、 ugliness after having done a lot of hard work and research and after continuous praying.10. When one looks back at these houses whose ugliness is so fantastic and bizarre, one feels they must be the work of the devil himself.11. It is hard to believe that people built such horrible houses just beca

14、use they did not know what beautiful houses were like.12. Indeed,People in certain strata of American society seem to hunger after ugly things; while in other less Chris-tian strata, people seem to long for things beautiful.13. These ugly designs, in some way that people cannot understand, satisfy t

15、he hidden and unintelligible demands of this type of mind.14. They put a penthouse on top of it, painted in a bright, conspicuous yellow color and thought it looked perfect but they only managed to make it absolutely intolerable.15. A new race who hate beauty as strongly as it hates truthappeared in

16、 the United States from the intermingling of different nationalitiesLesson 101.At the very mention of this post-war period, middle-aged people begin to think about it longingly.2.In any case, an American could not avoid casting aside its middle-class respectability and affected refinement.3.The war

17、only helped to speed up the breakdown of the Victorian social structure.4.In America at least, the young people were strongly inclined to shirk their responsibilities. They pretended to be worldly-wise, drinking and behaving naughtily.5.The young people found greater pleasure in their drinking becau

18、se Prohibition, by making drinking unlawful added a sense of adventure.6.Our young men joined the armies of foreign countries to fight in the war.7.The young people wanted to take part in the glorious adventure before the whole war ended.8.These young people could no longer adapt themselves to livin

19、g in their home towns or their families.9. The returning veteran also had to face Prohibition which the lawmakers hypocritically assumed would do good to the people.10. (Under all this force and pressure something in the youth of America, who were already very tense, had to break down.11. It was onl

20、y natural that hopeful young Writers whose minds and writings were filled with violent anger against war, Babbittry, and "Puritanical" gentility, should come in great numbers to live in Greenwich Village, the traditional artistic centre. 12. Each town was proud that it had a group of wild,

21、 reckless profligate, who lived unconventional lives.Lesson 141.Nowadays New York cannot understand nor follow the taste of the American people2. New York boasts that it is a city that resists the prevailing trends (styles, fashionof America.3. Situation comedies made in Hollywood and the actual per

22、formance of Johnny Car son now replace the scheduled radio and TV programs for California.4. New York is regaining somewhat its status as a city that attracts tourists.5. A person who wins in New York is constantly disturbed by fear and anxiety (because he is afraid of losing what he has won in the

23、fierce competition.6. The chance to enjoy the pleasures of nature is very limited in New York.7. At night the city of New York is aglow with lights and seems proudly and haughtily to darken the night sky.8. But a pure and wholehearted devotion to a Bohemian life style can be exaggerated.9. In both these roles of banking and communications head- quarters, New York starts or originates very few things but gives its stamp of approval to many things created b y people in oth