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Unit 2--13 paraphrase

Unit 2--13 paraphrase
Unit 2--13 paraphrase

Unit 2

Don’t take my word for it. Look at the statistics.

--You don’t have to accept what I say as true.

He took a deep breath. He had won the argument but he still felt cornered.

--He breathed deaply, he felt lost and unhappy even though he won the debate.

He’d acted out of concern for her, he thought that it would be a nice gesture on her part not to start up that conversation again, as he was tired of it.

--The man had shown concern for his wife and he hoped that his wife would show her concern in return by not continuing the unpleasant conversation, since he was bored with it.

The night was clear and he could see a few stars to the west, where the lights of the town didn’t blur them out.

--The night sky was so unclouded that when he looked towards the west, he could see some stars despite the lights of the town.

Unit 4

As disasters go, this one was terrible, but no unique, certainly not among the worst US air crashes on record.

-- Air crashes usually involve heavy loss of life. Compared with other air crashes, this one was not the worst. This air crash was remembered for a different reason.

There was the unusual element of the bridge, of course, and the fact that the plane hit it at a moment of high traffic.

--One thing that was unusual about this disaster was that the plane hit the bridge, and it was also unusual that it hit the bridge at the rush hour.

Here, after all, were two forms of nature in collision: the elements and human character. --Here were two forms of natural power in clash: the bad weather and the human character.

Of the four acknowledged heroes of the event, three was able to account for their behavior.

--Only three out of these four heroes lived to tell people what they actually had done and how they had rescued the five survivors.

Skutnik added that ―somebody had to go into the water‖, delivering every hero’s line that is no less admirable for being repeated.

--Skutnik gave a remark that has been said before by many people in similar situations, but it is still admirable.

I n a mass casualty, you'll find people like him,‖ said Windsor. ―But I've never seen one with that commitment

---Windsor said, ―in a disaster killing so many people, there are people behaving like the man in water ; but I have never seen a person having such loyalty and determination.‖

Unit5

“Look at those gorgeous farms!‖ my husband exclaimed as pastoral scenery slid by us at 55 mph.

--“Look at those beautiful farms!‖ my husband couldn’t help shouting when the countryside scenery moved past us quickly at the speed of 55 miles per hour.

And we returned home refreshed, revitalized, and reeducated.

--When we got home, we not only felt fresh and energetic, but also felt that we had experienced a new way of life and have learnt a lot.

Once upon a time, Americans understood the principle of deferred gratification.

--In the past, Americans were patient to have their desires satisfied. We knew it took time for our dreams to come true.

We put a little of each paycheck away ―for a rainy day‖.

--We saved a little money each time we got paid in case we might need it in the future

If we wanted to be thinner, we simply ate less of our favorite foods and waited patiently for the scale to drop, a pound at a time.

--If we wanted to be slimmer, we just cut down on our favorite foods, and waited patiently for our weight to be reduced bit by bit.

And if our fast meal doesn't agree with us, we hurry to the medicine cabinet for- you guessed it- some fast relief.

--If our fast dinner upsets our stomachs, we get some medicine form a cupboard that can relieve our disorder instantly.

But I am saying that all of us need to think more seriously about putting the brakes on our ―we-want-it-all-and–we –want-it-now‖ lifestyle before we speed completely out of control.

--But what I do want to say is this: before it’s too late, all of us need to think seriously about changing our lifestyle of seeking a quick fix in our lives.

Unit 6

Keeping to myself was my way of not forming attachments that I would only have to abandon the next time we moved.

--I did not try to make many friends because in that way I did not have to give up my friendship the next time I had to move.

I proceeded quietly, careful not to alarm a bird that might loudly warn other creatures to hide.

--I moved quietly and carefully so that I would not alarm any bird which might loudly warn other animals in the woods to hide.

Soon I saw a small brick cottage that glowed pinkly in the westering sun.

--Soon I saw a small brick cottage shining with a pink color in the sun that was moving toward the west.

My well of knowledge about natural history began to brim over.

--I began to know much about natural history, too much for a boy of my age.

Familiarity sometimes makes people physically invisible, for you find yourself talking to the heart—to the essence, as it were, rather than to the face.

--When people get to know each other really well, sometimes they don't notice physical changes. The boy did not see that his friend, the old lady, was getting weaker and weaker because all the time he was talking to her heart, rather than to her face.

Unit 9

Not that my education was e complete failure.

--I did not mean that my education was completely useless.

My education protected me against surprise.

--My education prepared me well to avoid cultural shock.

The differences were all but wiped out by the similarities.

--The differences became so insignificant compared with the similarities; they were almost completely pushed aside and forgotten.

Beyond the differences are realities scarcely comprehended because of their very simplicity.

--If you go beyond the differences you find realities or true facts that people hardly understand precisely because they are so simple and obvious.

It was the mark of a rounded man to be well traveled...

--It was the indication of a well developed man if he had been to many countries...

Far-flung areas which had been secure in their remoteness suddenly became crowded together in a single arena.

--Modern transportation has shortened distances. Therefore no country is free from outside influence.

And all at once a new type of education became necessary, an education in liberation from tribalism.

--And suddenly it was necessary for the appearance of a new type of education, an education in the global perspective, in the importance of freeing ourselves from tribalism.

Among those faculties or gifts is a creative intelligence that enables man to reflect and foresee, to take in past experience , and also to visualize future needs.(8)

--Of all the faculties they have , the most important is their creative intelligence . Human beings have a brain.

Remove any one of these and the unity of human needs is attacked and the human race with it.

--If we take away one of these things the unity of human needs will be destroyed and the human race would also perish.

Unit 10

Beneath the protecting shroud of ash, the city lay intact.

--The city remained as it had been before the eruption. It had been protected by the thick layer of ash that buried the city deep.

To go to Pompeii today is to take a trip backward in time. The old city comes to life all around you.

--When you go to Pompeii today, it is like going back 1,700 years in history because you would find the city as it actually was the day of the eruption.

A good imagination is all you need to restore it to activity.

--If you have a good imagination you will be able to imagine what was going on -the sights, sounds, smells and activities of a busy, prosperous Roman town.

Like the trunk of a tree, it rose in the air, branching out as it climbed.

--Like a tree trunk dividing into many branches while the tree is growing, the black cloud of volcanic ash from the crater expanded in different direction as it rose.

The sound of the explosion died away, but it still reverberated in everyone’s ears.

--Even when the loud sound stopped, people did not recover from the shock.

An hour went by and darkness still shrouded everything.

-- An hour passed, things did not improve and darkness covered everything.

The people of Pompeii now knew that doom was at hand.

--The people of Pompeii now knew that they would not survive the eruption.

Unit 13

He was years ahead of H.G. Wells, Conan Doyle, and the other great visualizers of things to come.

--He foresaw many future inventions years before other science fiction writers did.

Knowing Dumas confirmed young Verne’s desire to be an author.

--Knowing Dumas, he became firm in his desire to be a writer.

The old story teller is dead. It is like the passing of Santa Claus.

--Jules Verne has entertained the world with his wonderful storied in the same way as Santa Claus entertains children with gifts, and his death is a loss, which is as great as the passing of Santa Claus would be.

精读2期末考试paraphrase范围

1.I was fresh out of graduate school starting my first semester at the University of Kansas City. (Para. 1) I had just completed my graduate studies and began teaching at the University of Kansas City. 2.I could have pointed out that he had enrolled, not in a drugstore-mechanics school, but in a college and that at the end of his course meant to reach for a scroll that read Bachelor of Science. (Para. 2) I could have told him that he was now not getting training for a job in a technical school but doing a B.Sc. at a university. 3.You will see to it that the cyanide stays out of the aspirin, that the bull doesn’t jump the fence, or that your client doesn’t go to the electric chair as a result of your incompetence. (Para. 5) You have to take responsibility for the w ork you do. If you’re a pharmacist, you should make sure that aspirin is not mixed with poisonous chemicals. As an engineer, you shouldn’t get things out of control. If you become a lawyer, you should make sure an innocent person is not sentenced to death because you lack adequate legal knowledge and skill to defend your client. 4.Along with everything else, they will probably be what puts food on your table, supports your wife, and rears your children. (Para. 5) In addition to all other things these professions offer, they provide you with a living so that you can support a family—wife and children. 5.If you are too much in a hurry, or too arrogantly proud of your own limitations, to accept as a gift to your humanity some pieces of the minds of Aristotle, or Chaucer, or Einstein, you are neither a developed human nor a useful citizen of a democracy. (Para. 12) If you are too anxious to make money, too ignorant to see your limitations, then you couldn’t regard those great people’s minds as a gift to your humanity, and thus you can’t be a developed human. 6.“Yes, different,” he snapped, angry with her resorting to this trick of repeating his words so that they sounded hypocritical. (Para. 16) “Yes, different,” he responded angrily and quickly and he hates it when she adopts this trick of repeating his words to make him sound false and mean. 7.While he was at it, he decided, he might as well mop the floor. (Para. 42) When he was doing the housework at that time of the night, he had better clean the floor as well. 8.He’d acted out of concern for her; he thought that it would be a nice gesture on her part not to start up the conversation again. (Para. 21) The husband had shown concern and care for his wife, and he hoped that she would show her concern in return by not continuing the unpleasant conversation. 9.Washington, the city of form and rules, turned chaotic by a blast of real winter and a single slap of metal on metal. (Para. 1) With a sharp and loud noise, Washington, the neatly well-designed city of order was thrown into a terrible confusion. https://www.wendangku.net/doc/fb14683628.html,st Wednesday the elements, indifferent as ever, brought down Flight 90. And on

现代大学英语精读paraphrase和translation

Lesson Two: Two Kinds Paraphrase 1.I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size. I imagined myself as different types of prodigy, trying to find out which one suited me the best. 2.I had new thoughts, willful thou ghts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts. I had new thoughts, which were filled with a strong spirit of disobedience and rebellion. 3.The girl had the sauciness of a Shirley Temple. The girl was Shirley Temple—like, slightly rude but in an amusing way. 4.It felt like worms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my chest, but it also felt good, as if this awful side of me had surfaced, at last. When I said those words, I felt that some very nasty thoughts had got out of my chest, and so T felt scared. But at the same time I felt good, relieved, because those nasty things had been suppressed in my heart for some time and they had got out at last. 5.And I could sense her anger rising to its breaking point. I wanted to see it spill over. I could feel that her anger had reached the point where her self—control would collapse, and I wanted to see what my mother would do when she lost complete control of herself. 6.The lid to the piano was closed, shutting out the dust, my misery, and her dreams. When the lid to the piano was closed, it shut out the dust and also put an end to my misery. Phrases 1.With almost no money down 几乎用不着交首付,几乎可以全部用贷款来买房 2.The raised hopes and failed expectations 那些过高的希望和达不到的期盼 3.Shorting out 短路 4.The showpiece of our living room 我们起居室里的一件摆设 5.Stiff-lipped smile 尴尬不自然的笑容 6.Frighteningly strong 惊人地强大 7.Follow their own mind 我行我素Sentence 1.Instead of getting big fat curls, I emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black fuzz. 我的头发没有做出我要的大卷花,而是给我弄成一头乱蓬蓬的黑色小卷毛。 2.She checked to see if that might be one way to pro nounce “Helsinki” before showing me the answer. 在她告诉我答案前,她对了对手中的杂志,看看赫尔辛基是否能这样发音。 3.She seemed entranced by the music, a frenzied little piano piece with a mesmerizing quality, sort of quick passages and then teasing lilting ones before it returned to the quick playful parts. 她似乎被这音乐吸引住了。这钢琴曲不长,但有点狂乱,有着迷人的特点,乐曲一开始时快节奏的,接着是欢快跳动的节拍,然后又回到嬉戏的部分。 4.If she had as much talent as she had temper, she would be famous now. 如果她的才气和她的脾气一样大,她早就出名了。 5.The part I liked to practice best was the fancy curtsy: right foot out, touch the rose on the carpet with a pointed foot, sweep to the side, bend left leg, look up, and smile. 我最喜欢练习的部分是花哨的谢幕行礼的动作:先出右脚,脚尖点在地毯的玫瑰图案上,身子侧摆,左腿弯曲,抬头,微笑。

现代大学英语精读paraphrase-原文译文版汇编

学习-----好资料 Lesson one 1.Virtue is, indeed must be, self-centered.(para4) 正确的行动是,确实也必须是以自我为中心的。 By right action, we mean it must help promote personal interest. 2.The essentials are familiar: the poverty of the poor was the fault of the poor. And it was because it was product of their excessive fecundity…..(para5) 他的基本观点为人熟知:穷人的贫穷是他们咎由自取,贫穷是热门过度生育的结果 The poverty of the poor was caused by their having too many children. 3.Poverty being caused in the bed meant that the rich were not responsible for either its creation or its amelioration. (para6) 贫穷源于过度生育意味着富人不应该为产生贫穷和解决贫穷承担责任 The rich were not to blame for the existence of poverty so they should not be asked to undertake the task of solving the problem. 4.It is merely the working out of a law of nature and a law of God(para8) 这是自然规律和上帝的意志在起作用。 It is only the result or effect of the law of the survival of the fittest applied to nature or to human society. 5.It declined in popularity, and reference to it acquired a condemnatory tone.(para9) 然而在20世纪,人们认为社会学中的达尔文进化论有点过于残酷,遭到了普遍的质疑,人们提及它都带有谴责的口吻。 People began to reject Social Darwinism because it seemed to glorify brutal force and oppose treasured values of sympathy, love and friendship. Therefore, when it was mentioned, it was usually the target of criticism. 6.In recent years, however, it has become clear that the search for a way of getting the poor off our conscience was not at an end; it was only suspended.(para11) 然而,最近几年,很显然我们又在试图寻求不为穷人的存在而内疚的办法.这种尝试并没有结束,而只是曾经中断过一段时间。 The desire to find a way to justify the unconcern for the poor had not been abandoned; it had 更多精品文档. 学习-----好资料 only been put off. 7.In fact, we have in the United States an extraordinarily good public service one made up of talented and dedicated people who are overwhelmingly honest and only rarely given to overpaying for monkey wrenches, flashlights, coffee makers, and toilet seats(para13) 实际上,美国有非常优秀的公共服务队伍一支由富有才于和敬业精神的人组成的队伍,他们非常诚实,以致像出高价购实活动扳手、手电筒、咖啡壶以及马桶坐圈以获取回扣的情况及为罕见Government officials, on the whole, are good; it is very rare that some would pay high prices for office equipment to get kickbacks. 8.This is perhaps our most highly influential piece of fiction. (para15) 这种说法也许是我们最有影响的一个虚构故事。 It is a very popular story and has been accepted by many but it is not true. 9.Belief can be the servant of truth--- but even more of convenience.(para16)

现代大学英语精读基础英语paraphrase

U n i t1T e x tⅠT h i n k i n g a s a H o b b y 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。

五大解题思路及技巧

态度题解析 一.提问标志词:feel about;argue;feel;Holds a (n) ______attitude 二.情感态度词分类及词义 1 褒义词 Positive;optimistic;admiring;instructive;approval;approving;Reverent 2 贬义词 Negative;Pessimistic; Subjective; disappointed; desperate; frustrated; biased; cynical; disgust; contemptuous; hostile; opinionated;impassive;Apathetic 3 中立词 Objective;impartial;indifferent;detached;neutral;disinterested;sensitive;Analytical 三.态度题正确选项常见出现位置 a. 含有直接表达作者或者其他人态度的句子,找选项的近义词 On Dec.11, 2001, as part of the effort to increase homeland security, Federal and local authorities in 14 states staged "Operation Safe Travel" -raids on airports to arrest employees with false identification (身份证明). In Salt Lake City there were 69 arrests. But those captured were anything but terrorists, most of them illegal immigrants from Central or South America. Authorities said the undocumented workers' illegal status made them open to blackmail (讹诈) by terrorists. Many immigrants in Salt Lake City were angered by the arrests and said they felt as if they were being treated like disposable goods. 63. How did the immigrants in Salt Lake City feel about "Operation Safe Travel"? A) Guilty.

现代大学英语精读6 paraphrase 原文+译文版

Lesson one 1.Virtue is, indeed must be, self-centered.(para4) 正确的行动是,确实也必须是以自我为中心的。 By right action, we mean it must help promote personal interest. 2.The essentials are familiar: the poverty of the poor was the fault of the poor. And it was because it was product of their excessive fecundity…..(para5) 他的基本观点为人熟知:穷人的贫穷是他们咎由自取,贫穷是热门过度生育的结果 The poverty of the poor was caused by their having too many children. 3.Poverty being caused in the bed meant that the rich were not responsible for either its creation or its amelioration. (para6) 贫穷源于过度生育意味着富人不应该为产生贫穷和解决贫穷承担责任 The rich were not to blame for the existence of poverty so they should not be asked to undertake the task of solving the problem. 4.It is merely the working out of a law of nature and a law of God(para8) 这是自然规律和上帝的意志在起作用。 It is only the result or effect of the law of the survival of the fittest applied to nature or to human society. 5.It declined in popularity, and reference to it acquired a condemnatory tone.(para9) 然而在20世纪,人们认为社会学中的达尔文进化论有点过于残酷,遭到了普遍的质疑,人们提及它都带有谴责的口吻。 People began to reject Social Darwinism because it seemed to glorify brutal force and oppose treasured values of sympathy, love and friendship. Therefore, when it was mentioned, it was usually the target of criticism. 6.In recent years, however, it has become clear that the search for a way of getting the poor off our conscience was not at an end; it was only suspended.(para11) 然而,最近几年,很显然我们又在试图寻求不为穷人的存在而内疚的办法.这种尝试并没有结束,而只是曾经中断过一段时间。 The desire to find a way to justify the unconcern for the poor had not been abandoned; it had only been put off. 7.In fact, we have in the United States an extraordinarily good public service one made up of talented and dedicated people who are overwhelmingly honest and only rarely given to overpaying for monkey wrenches, flashlights, coffee makers, and toilet seats(para13) 实际上,美国有非常优秀的公共服务队伍一支由富有才于和敬业精神的人组成的队伍,他们非常诚实,以致像出高价购实活动扳手、手电筒、咖啡壶以及马桶坐圈以获取回扣的情况及为罕见 Government officials, on the whole, are good; it is very rare that some would pay high prices for office equipment to get kickbacks. 8.This is perhaps our most highly influential piece of fiction. (para15) 这种说法也许是我们最有影响的一个虚构故事。 It is a very popular story and has been accepted by many but it is not true. 9.Belief can be the servant of truth--- but even more of convenience.(para16) 信念可以是真理的仆人,但更多的情况下只是一时之需。 Belief can be useful in the search for truth. But more often than not it is accepted because it is convenient and self-serving.

现代大学英语精读5_第1.2.3.5课后paraphrase和翻译答案

Lesson1 1.The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so many centuries that they are nobody is not easy. It is no easy job to educate a people who have been told over centuries that they were inferior and of no importance to see that they are humans, the same as any other people. 2.Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. If you break the mental shackles imposed on you by white supremacists, if you really respect yourself, thinking that you are a Man, equal to anyone else, you will be able to take part in the struggle against racial discrimination. 3.The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation. The liberation of mind can only be achieved by the Negro himself/herself. Only when he/she is fully convinced that he/she is a Man/Woman and is not inferior to anyone else, can he/she throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and become free. 4.Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. Power in the best form of function is the carrying out of the demands of justice with love and justice in the best form of function is the overcoming of everything standing in the way of love with power. 5.At that time economic status was considered the measure of the individual’s ability and talents. At that time, the way to evaluate how capable and resourceful a person was to see how much money he had made (or how wealthy he was). 6.…the absence of worldly goods indicated a want of industrious habits and moral fiber. A person was poor because he was lazy and not hard-working and lacked a sense of right and wrong. 7.It is not the work of slaves driven to their tasks either by the task, by the taskmaster, or by animal necessity. This kind of work cannot be done by slaves who work because the work has to be done, because they are forced to work by slave-drivers or because they need to work in order to be fed and clothed. 8.…when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated. …when the unfair practice of judging human value by the amount of money a person has is done away with. 9.He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality. Those who harbor hate in their hearts cannot grasp the teachings of God. Only those who have love can enjoy the ultimate happiness in Heaven. 10.Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds. Let us be dissatisfied until America no longer only talk about racial equality but is unwilling or reluctant to take action to end such evil practice as racial discrimination.

paraphrase的技巧

?一:具体化: ?我是一个老师——我是一个英语老师——我是上海环球雅思主教雅思写作的老师?关键:一双慧眼:能够敏锐地找出一个句子中比较笼统的,适合用具体化的思路进行改写的对象。 ?In the last century, the first man walking on the moon said:“ It is a big step for mankind.” ?In the last century: In the 1960’s(20世纪60年代); ?Man: American astronaut Armstrong; ?Said: announced In the 1960’s,when American Armstrong landed on the moon for the first time, he proudly announced that it was a great step for the mankind ?二:单词转换: ?优先转换:动词;形容词 ?Food can be produced much more cheaply today because of improved fertilizers and better machinery. ?Produce; cheaply; improved; better; ?Produce-----manufacture ?Cheaply-----economically ?(improved; better)------advanced ?Nowadays, people can manufacture food much more economically thanks to more advanced fertilizers and machinery. ?谓语动词转换: ?英语句子不外乎是两种结构: ?实义动词和be动词结构 ?因此可以在什么怎么样和什么是什么之间进行切换来实现改写。 ?Many people say teachers should only teach students academic subjects; Others say teachers should also take the responsibility of teaching students to judge what is right and wrong. Discuss the both viewpoints and give your own opinion. ?第一句:teach sb sth :(什么怎么样---什么是什么) ?老师只应该教学生功课(什么怎么样)------教好学生功课是老师唯一的职责(什么是什么) ?Some people believe that it is the sole task for a teacher to introduce academic knowledge to the students. ?下面一句试试看:Others say teachers should also take the responsibility of teaching students to judge what is right and wrong. ?(1)Some others hold that a truly outstanding teacher should be the mentor of both knowledge and life to their disciples. (2)Some others say the responsibility of a teacher are not just passing on professional skills, but also the improvements of sound judgment ?Although the practice has its benefits, the potential problems should never be ignored. ?Despite the benefits, on no account should the potential problems be ignored. ?(五)加上常用句型: ?Air travel has benefited a lot of people, but it is claimed that non-essential travel should be reduced. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

现代大学英语精读2第1单元Paraphrase

Another School Year—What For? It would certify that he had specialized in pharmacy, but it would further certify that he had been exposed to some of the ideas mankind has generated within its history. The B.S. certificate would indicate/prove that the holder had special training in pharmacy, but it would also show that he/she had been introduced to some great ideas in the history of human civilization. You will see to it that the cyanide stays out of the aspirin, that the bull doesn’t jump the fence, or that your client doesn’t go to the electric chair as a result of yourincompetence. As a pharmacist, you should at least make sure that your medicine is not mixed up with poison. If you are an engineer, you should at least be able to make a fence to keep out wild animals. If you become a lawyer, you should at least make sure an innocent person is not sentenced to death because you do not know how to defend your client. If you have no time for Shakespeare, for a basic look at philosophy, for the continuity of the fine arts, for that lesson of man’s development we call history—then you have no business staying in college. If you don’t want to improve your mind and broaden your horizon by studying a little literature, philosophy, the fine arts and history, you shouldn’t be here at college. Our colleges inevitably graduate a number of such life forms, but it cannot be said that they went to college; rather the college went through them—without making contact. Our colleges always produce such people. We cannot help that. But we can’t say that these people have received a proper college education. It is more accurate to say that these college years have just passed them by without leaving anything on them. There is not time enough in a single lifetime to invent for oneself everything one needs to know in order to be a civilized human. To become a civilized person, you need to know many things, and you cannot find out everything by yourself, because your life is too short. If you are too much in a hurry, or too arrogantly proud of your own limitation, to accept as a gift to your humanity some pieces of the minds of Aristotle, or Chaucer, or Einstein, you are neither a developed human nor a useful citizen of a democracy. You will not be considered as a civilized human being or a responsible citizen of a democratic society if you only care about making money, not realizing the importance of the thinking of Aristotle, Chaucer, Einstein as something that will help cultivate in you the quality of being a human.

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