现代大学英语精读4 基础英语paraphrase

Unit 1 Text ⅠThinking as a Hobby

Paraphrases of the Text

1.The leopard was Nature, and he was being natural.(3)

The leopard symbolizes Nature,which stands for all animal needs or desires.

美洲豹象征着自然，它在那里显得很自然而已。

2.Nature had endowed the rest of the human race with a sixth sense and left me

out.(15)

Everybody, except me ,is born with the ability to thin

大自然赋予其余的所有的人第六感觉却独独漏掉了我。

3.You could hear the wind trapped in the cavern of his chest and struggling with all

the unnatural impediments. His body would reel with shock and his ruined face go white at the unaccustomed visitation.(19)

你能听到风被他的胸腔堵住，遇到障碍物艰难前进发出的声音。他的身体因为不习惯这样的感觉而摇摇晃晃，脸色变得惨白。

4.In this instance, he seemed to me ruled not by thought but by an invisible and

irresistible spring in his neck.(20)

Mr. Houghton’s deeds told me that he was not ruled by thought, instead, he would feel a strong urge to turn his head and look at the girls.

在这种情况下，我认为他不是受思想，而是受他后颈里某个看不到却无法抗拒的发条的控制。

5.Technically, it is about as proficient as most businessmen’s golf, as honest as most

politician’s intentions, or to come near my own preoccupation - as coherent as most books that get written.(23)

This ironical sentence shows that the author not only considers those people incompetent,

dishonest and incoherent but also despises most businessmen, distrust most politicians and dislikes most publications.

从技术上而言，它娴熟如同商人玩高尔夫，诚实如同政客的意图，或者——更接近我自己的领域——有条理如同大多数写出来的书。

6.We had better respect them, for we are outnumbered and surrounded.(24)

The Grade 3 thinkers usually represent the great majority, so we has to respect them because we are surrounded by them.

我们最好尊重他们，因为我们处于他们的包围之中，势单力薄。

7.Man enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.(24) The author thinks that just like cows always eat the grass of the same side of a hill, it is probably human nature to enjoy agreement because it seems to bring peace, security, comfort and harmony.

人是一种爱群居的动物，就象牛喜欢沿着山坡的同一条道路吃草一样喜爱共识。

8.I slid my arm round her waist and murmured breathlessly that if we were counting

heads, the Buddhists were the boys for my money. She fled. The combination of my arm and those countless Buddhists was too much for her.(27)

我伸手揽过她的腰屏住呼吸低声说，如果算人数我该捐钱给佛教徒。露丝的确是为我好，因为我人这么好。但是我的手臂加上那些数不胜数的佛教徒实在让她无法忍受了。

9.It was Ruth all over again. I had some very good friends who stood by me, and still

do. But my acquaintances vanished, taking the girls with them.(32)

What had happened to Ruth and me now happened again. My grade-two thinking frightened away many of my acquaintances.

又是露丝的问题。我曾有一些很要好的朋友站在我这边，他们现在仍然站在我这边。但是我的熟人都不见了，带着他们的女孩子消失了。

Unit 2 Text ⅠSpring Sowing

Paraphrases of the Text

1....sleep and yet on fire with excitement, for it was the first day of their first spring

sowing as man and wife.(3)

Although they were still not fully awake, the young couple was already greatly excited, because that day was the first day of their first spring sowing since getting married.

有些困乏，也很兴奋，因为这是他们作为夫妇第一个春播的第一天。

2.But somehow the imminence of an event that had been long expected loved, feared

and prepared for made them dejected.(3)

The couple had been looking forward to and preparing for this spring planting for a long time. But now that the day had finally arrived, strangely, they felt somehow a bit dejected, unhappy, sad, or depressed.

但是随着春播的迫近，这一他们为之期待许久，热爱，害怕和准备的大事的临近，他们反而有些沮丧。

3.Mary, with her shrewd woman’s mind, thought of as many things as there are in life

as a woman would in the first joy and anxiety of her mating.(3)

Mary, like all sharp and smart women, thought of everything that was going to happen in the rest of her life. At that time, she had the complex thoughts of a woman at the first crucial moment of her marriage. She was filled with joy and anxiety and was bothered by many thoughts.

玛丽用她精明的女性的思维，思考着一个女人在新婚生活中所得到的快乐和生活中的琐事。

4.Martin fell over a basket in the half-darkness of the barn, he swore and said that a

man would be better off dead than (4)

It would be better for him to die than tripped over a basket.

马丁再昏暗的谷仓中被一只篮子绊倒了。

5.And somehow, as they embraced,all their irritation and sleepiness left them. And

they stood there embracing until at last Martin pushed her from him with pretended roughness and said:“Come, come, girl, it will be sunset before we begin at this rate.”(4)

All the anger, unhappiness and drowsiness melted away with their hug. They remained in each others arms until finally Martin pushed her away, with pretended roughness.

他们就这样拥抱着，直到最后马丁推开了玛丽，并假装强硬的说道：“来吧，快点，姑娘，再这样下去当我们开始时太阳都要下山了。”

6....as they walked silently...through the little hamlet, there was not a soul about.(5) When they walked silently through the small village, they saw not a single person around.

当他们穿着生皮鞋穿过小村庄时，那还没有其他人。

7.And they both looked back at the little cluster of cabins that was the center of their

world, with throbbing hearts. For the joy of spring had now taken complete hold of them.(5)

他们带着悸动的心跳同时回头看看村庄中相似的小屋，那就是他们生活的世界的中心。春播的喜悦已经紧紧地包裹住了他们。

8.Suppose anybody saw us like this in the field of our spring sowing, what would they

take us for but a pair of useless, soft, empty-headed people that would be sure to die of hunger?(12)

If people should see us like this (with your arm around my waist), what would they think of us? They were sure to regard us as a pair of good-for-nothings, people who are unable to endure hardships and foolish and, therefore, were sure to die of hunger.

“想想如果有人看到我们在春播的土地上这样，他们只会把我们当成一对没用、软弱、没脑子的会被饿死的傻瓜，呼!”

9.She became suddenly afraid of that pitiless, cruel earth, the peasant’s slave master,

which would keep her chained to hard work and poverty all her life until she would sink again into its bosom.(13)

She became afraid of the earth because it was going to force her to work like a slave and force her to struggle against poverty all her life until she died and was buried in it.

10.It overpowered that other feeling of dread that had been with her during the

morning.(17)

But when she sat and looked around the village, the fields and the people, a strange feeling of happiness arose in her. The feeling of joy drove away the feeling of terror that she had had in the morning.

11.The strong smell of the upturned earth acted like a drug on their nerves.(20)

12.All her dissatisfaction and weariness vanish from Mary’s mind with the delicious

feeling of comfort that overcame her at having done this work with her husband.(34)

Unit 3 Text ⅠGroundless Beliefs

Paraphrases of the Text

1.They rest upon mere tradition, or on somebody’s bare assertion unsupported by

even a show of proof (1)

They are only based on tradition, or on somebody’s assertion, but are not supported even by the least amount of proof.

这些说法仅仅根据传统，或者根据某人毫无证据的断言……

2.But if the staunchest Roman Catholic and the staunchest Presbyterian had been

exchanged when infants,and if they had been brought up with home and all other influences reversed, we can had very little doubt what the result would have been.(3)

If they were exchanged when they were infants and brought up different homes and under different influences, then the staunchest Roman Catholic would be the staunchest Presbyterian, vice versa. This shows that our beliefs are largely influenced by surroundings. 不过，如果在婴儿时期把最虔诚的罗马天主教徒和长老会教义信徒予以交换，然后使他们在相反的家庭与影响下长大，所能得出的结果是毋庸置疑的。

3.It is consistent with all our knowledge of psychology to conclude that each would

have grown up holding exactly the opposite beliefs to those he holds now (3)

我们可以根据所掌握的心理学知识得出结论，两人长大后会持有与现在恰好相反的观点……

4.Of course we do not cease, when we cease to be children, to adopt new reliefs on

mere suggestion.(4)

Of course it does not mean that when we grow up we no longer have these mistaken beliefs. We are still easy and often willing victims of newspapers and advertising.

当然，我们长大后也不会停止仅仅根据建议接受新观点。

5.We should remember that the whole history of the development of human thought

has been full of cases of such “obvious truths” breaking down when examined in the light of increasing knowledge and reason.(8)

我们应该记住，在人类思想发展的整个历史过程中充满了这种“明显的真理”现象，经过人类不断增长的知识与理性的检验，这些“真理”不攻自破。

6.The age-long struggle of the greatest intellects in the world to shake off that

assumption is one of the marvels of history.(9)

世界上最伟大的学者们经过长期斗争否定了这一假设，这也是人类历史上的一大奇迹。

7.Many modern persons find it very difficult to credit the fact that men can even have

supposed otherwise.(10)

许多现代人发现很难相信人们曾有过另一种假设。

8.We adopt and cling to some beliefs because—or partly because—it “pays” us to do

so. But, as a rule, the person concerned is about the last person in the world to be able to recognize this in himself.(14)

Peoples who hold those beliefs through self-interest usually will not admit this. They usually try to cloak themselves with beautiful altruistic words.

我们之所以接受并且坚持某些观点的原因是——或者部分原因是——这样做对我们“有好处”。

9.There is many a man who is unconsciously compelled to cling to a belief because he

is a “somebody”in some circle—and if he were to abandon that belief, he would find himself nobody at all.(15)

Many people are forced to hold a belief because he has become an important person in his group. If he gave up that belief, he would turn insignificant at once.

许多人无意识地被迫坚持某种观点，因为他是某个圈子里的“重要人物”——如果他放弃这一观点，就会成为无足轻重的小人物。

10.Somewhat similar is the acceptance of an opinion through the desire—probably not

recognized by the person concerned—to justify his own nature, his own position, or his own behaviour.(17)

另一种类似的情况是有些人出于证明自己的性格、立场或行为的愿望而接受某一种观点，也许当事人不承认这一点。

Unit 4 Text ⅠLions and Tigers and Bears

Paraphrases of the Text

1.Of course, anybody who knows anything about New Y ork knows the city’s essential

platitude --- that you don’t wander around Central Park at night --- and in that, needless to say, was the appeal; it was the thing you don’t do.(1)

Everybody who knows New York knows the widely discussed topic there, that is, you should not wander in Central Park at night because it’s dangerous. However, precisely because of the risk, there are always people attracted to do so. They just wish to do what people normally don’t do.

当然，了解纽约的人都知道关于这座城市老生常谈的话题——夜里不能在中央公园闲逛——而这，不用说，正是吸引力所在：它是你平常不会做得事情。

2.So far , so normal, and this could have been an outdoor summer-stock Shakespeare

production anywhere in America, except in one respect (3)

And tonight’s performance could be any outdoor performance of Shakespeare’s play one regularly finds in summer in America. There was only one difference.

到目前为止，一切还算正常，这和美国任何地方在室外上演的莎士比亚夏令剧目没什么不同，除了一点：

3....the rotating red light was like a campfire in the wild, warning what’s out there to

stay away.(3)

旋转着的红色警灯就像野外的篝火，警告四周存在的威胁不要靠近。

4.I got my bearings.(6) I found where i was. 我终于认清了方向。

5.The park was to be strolled through, enjoyed as an aesthetic experience, like a walk

inside a painting.(7)

人们漫步于公园，享受美的体验，犹如走进一幅油画中一样。

6.I was emboldened by the realization: I was no longer afraid; I was frightening.(9)

意识到这点，我的胆子就大了起来：我不再害怕了，令人害怕的是我。

7.The park is now framed, enveloped even, by the city, but there was no escaping the

recognition that the city—contrived, man-made, glaring obtrusive, consuming wasteful and staggering quantities of electricity and water and energy--- was very beautiful.(12)

But there was no denying the fact (you have to admit) that the city was very beautiful, although it was not a natural kind of beauty, it was artificial and showy, and it used up a great amount of water and energy.

公园现在被镶嵌在城市中，甚至被城市包裹，但不可否认的是这座城市——这座经过雕琢的、人工打造的、灯火辉煌

8.And then, nature finding herself unable to resist, it started to pour.(24)

Unit 9 Text ⅠThe Damned Human Race

Paraphrases of the Text

1.That is to say, I have subjected every postulate that presented itself to the crucial

test of actual experiment, and have adopted it or rejected it according to the result.

(para.2)

In other words, I have put every theory or hypothesis there is to the decisive test of actual experiment.

也就是说，通过实验，我对每一种假设都进行了检测，并根据实验结果采纳或者否定了这一假设。

2.I was aware that … have not scrupled to cheat the ignorant and the helpless out of

their poor servings in order to partially appease that appetite. (para.4)

I knew that many man who have more money than they can ever use have shown a mad desire to get more, and they have not ed to cheat poor people and their few saving in order to y that desire.

我意识到，许多人虽然聚敛了不计其数的财富，然而他们仍然渴望更多，并且从无知又无助的人身上肆无忌惮地夺取微薄的财富，以便来平息心中的愿望。

3.Men keep harems but it is by brute force, privileged by atrocious laws which the

other sex were allowed no hand in making. (para.6)

人妻妾成群，只是依靠暴力，由暴力的法律来授予特权。然而女性是无权参与制定这些法律的。

4.He will not even enter a drawing room with his breast and back naked, so alive are

he and his mates to indecent suggestion. (para.8)

他甚至不会裸露着乳房和屁股走进卧室，但他和同伴对下流的暗示又十分敏感。

5.No--- Man is the Animal that Blushes. He is the only one that does it --- or has

occasion to. (para.8)

No, man is not the only animal that laughs, but it is true that man is the animal that blushes. He is the only animal that does it or has the need to.

不——人是会脸红的动物。是唯一会脸红的动物——或者说有必要脸红。

6.Man---when he is King John, with a nephew to render untroublesome, he uses a

red-hot iron; (para.9)

In the case of King John who wanted to get rid of his nephew he used a red-hot iron to torture him.

当他作为约翰国王的时候，为了除掉侄子，他会用烧红的烙铁来折磨他；

7.The cat is moderate---unhumanly moderate, she only scares the mouse, she does not

hurt it; she doesn’t dig out its eyes, or tear off its skin, or drive splinters under its nails---man-fashion; when she is done playing with it she makes a sudden meal of it and puts it out of its trouble. (para.9)

猫是适度的——与人不同的是它在吓唬老鼠，并不去伤害它。它不去挖老鼠的眼睛，剥它的皮，或者把木条钉进它的指甲里——像人一样。在它戏弄玩老鼠之后，他、便突然把它当饭吃了，使它脱离痛苦。

8.He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other

nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people’s countries…(para.13)

It is claimed that man is the only Patriot. Only man is capable of such noble sentiment. But what does it mean? It simply means that he keeps himself away from others, occupies a piece of land, calls it his own country, and thinks that he is better than others, then he puts up a flag and gathers together a group of killers and steals land from others.

他打着国旗，在自己的国度里自诩与众不同，并嘲笑其他国家。他不惜花费重金，屯兵无数，就是为了吞噬大片他人的国土

9.He is the only animal that has the True Religion, several of them. He is the only

animal that loves his neighbor as himself, and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother’s path to happiness and hea ven. (para.14)

In trying to make it easy for his brother to find happiness and go to heaven, he has turned the world into a graveyard (he has caused the death of millions around the world in converting them to his religion)

人是唯一信仰宗教的的动物。他是唯一信奉正统宗教——几种宗教的动物，也是唯一

爱邻居就像爱自己一样的动物，如果邻居的神学理论不纯正，人就割断她的喉咙。他把全球变成了一个大墓地，千方百计为他的兄弟谋求幸福，为其上天堂铺平道路。10.The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left

out, in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste. (para.14)

And we are told that they will not be allowed to go to the next world (heaven). I wonder why? It seems to show poor taste to leave out the higher animal and allow only human beings to go to heaven.

高级动物没有宗教信仰。我们被告知，它们死后将被排除在天堂之外。我不明白这是为什么？看来这是值得怀疑的选择标准。

Unit 11 Text ⅠSoldier’s Heart

Paraphrases of the Text

1.There is a brief purring sound, then a rhythmic drumming. (para.2)

There is the sound of the plane dropping bombs or guns firing shells rhythmically.

2.…it was the course for upper division students known as the colloquium. (para.4)

3.I don’t suppose many of our soldiers in the Gulf War have suffered from it --- they

were spared a long engagement. (para.7)

4.Two of the guards were the kind Chekhov describes in “Ward No.6” (para.9)

5.Once he waggled the stump under my face with a sly smile. This, he gave me to

understand, was why he had been excused from military service. (para.9)

Once he waved what remained of his trigger finger in front of me with a tricky smile. By doing this, he made me believe that this (the cutting of his finger) was the reason why he was

able to escape being drafted into the army.

6.Speaking only for myself, I think they brought me out of the fog in which I had been

walking. (para.10)

As far as I’m concerned, I think the shock treatment was effective and it helped me to regain my senses and become normal.

7.I believe with Shakespeare that there are more thinkgs in heaven and earth than are

dreamed of in the philosophy of those who serve the world, and who administer its institutions, and grow rich. (para.11)

I agree with what Shakespeare says, that is there are more important things in heaven and in the world, things that are missing in the philosophy of the rich and powerful, things that these people have never dreamed of.

8.The men and women I worked with in universities were pale and unreal in

comparison. They were hollow and filled with words. (para.22)

Compare to the people with whom I fought side by side during the war, the people I worked with in universities were pale and unreal. They talked a lot but their words were empty and meaningless because they had not experienced real life.

9.They were deaf to the music. (para.27)

My war experience gave me poetry and music. I would never get tired of writing about it. But they just didn’t care to know what happened in the war.

现代大学英语精读1课本内容及翻译

Lesson Eight The Kindness of Strangers Mike Mclntyre 1. One summer I was driving from my home town of Tahoe City, Calif, to New Orleans. In the middle of the desert, I came upon a young man standing by the roadside. He had his thumb out and held a gas can in his other hand. I drove right by him. There was a time in the country when you' d be considered a jerk if you passed by somebody in need. Now you are a fool for helping. With gangs, drug addicts, murderers, rapists, thieves lurking everywhere, "I don't want to get involved" has become a national motto. 2. Several states later I was still thinking about the hitchhiker. Leaving him stranded in the desert did not bother me so much. What bothered me was how easily I had reached the decision. I never even lifted my foot off the accelerator. 3. Does anyone stop any more? I wondered. I recalled Blanche DuBois's famous line: "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." Could anyone rely on the kindness of strangers these days? One way to test this would be for a person to journey from coast to coast without any money, relying solely on the good will of his fellow Americans. What kind of Americans would he find? Who would feed him, shelter him, carry him down the road? 4. The idea intrigued me. 5. The week I turned 37, I realized that I had never taken a gamble in my life. So I decided to travel from the Pacific to the Atlantic without a penny. It would be a cashless journey through the land of the almighty dollar. I would only accept offers of rides, food and a place to rest my head. My final destination would be Cape Fear in North Carolina, a symbol of all the fears I'd have to conquer during the trip. 6. I rose early on September 6, 1994, and headed for the Golden Gate Bridge with a 50-pound pack on my back and a sign displaying my destination to passing vehicles: "America." 7. For six weeks I hitched 82 rides and covered 4223 miles across 14 states. As I traveled, folks were always warning me about someplace else. In Montana they told me to watch out for the cowboys in Wyoming, In Nebraska they said people would not be as nice in Iowa. Yet I was treated with kindness everywhere I went. I was amazed by people's readiness to help a stranger, even when it seemed to run contrary to their own best interests. 8. One day in Nebraska a car pulled to the road shoulder. When I reached the window, I saw two little old ladies dressed in their Sunday finest." I know you're not supposed to pick up hitchhikers, but it's so far between towns out here, you feel bad passing a person," said the driver, who introduced herself as Vi. I didn't know whether to kiss them or scold them for stopping. This woman was telling me she'd rather risk her life than feel bad about passing a stranger on the side of the road. 9. Once when I was hitchhiking unsuccessfully in the rain, a trucker pulled over, locking his brakes so hard he skidded on the grass shoulder. The driver told me he was once robbed at knifepoint by a hitchhiker. "But I hate to see a man stand out in the rain," he added. "People don't have no heart anymore." 10. I found, however, that people were generally compassionate. Hearing I had no money and would take none, people bought me food or shared whatever they happened to have with them. Those who had the least to give often gave the most. In Oregon a house painter named Mike noted the chilly weather and asked if I had a coat. When he learned that I had "a light one," he drove me to his house, and handed me a big green army-style jacket. A lumber-mill worker named Tim invited me to a simple dinner with his family in their shabby house. Then he offered me his tent. I refused, knowing it was probably one of the family's most valuable possessions. But Tim was determined that I have it, and finally I agreed to take it. 11. I was grateful to all the people I met for their rides, their food, their shelter, and their gifts. But what I found most touching was the fact that they all did it as a matter of course.

大学英语精读第四册课后答案

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