1、现代大学英语精读基础英语paraphraseUnit 1 Text Thinking as a HobbyParaphrases 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
2、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.(1
3、9)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. Houghtons deeds told me that he was not ruled by thought, instead, he would feel a strong urge to turn his head and look
4、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 businessmens golf, as honest as most politicians 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
5、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
6、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
7、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
8、 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 the
9、m.(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 Spring SowingParaphrases of the Text 1. .sleep and yet on fire with excitement, for it was the first day o
10、f 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
11、 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
12、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 womans 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, s
13、he 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 bette
14、r 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, gir
15、l, 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
16、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. Fo
17、r 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?(1
18、2)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
19、死的傻瓜，呼!”9. She became suddenly afraid of that pitiless, cruel earth, the peasants 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 f
20、orce 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. T
21、he 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 Marys mind with the delicious feeling of comfort that overcame her at having done
22、this work with her husband.(34)Unit 3 Text Groundless BeliefsParaphrases of the Text 1. They rest upon mere tradition, or on somebodys bare assertion unsupported by even a show of proof.(1)They are only based on tradition, or on somebodys assertion, but are not supported even by the least amount of
23、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 wh
24、en 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
25、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
26、.(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
27、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
28、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 becauseor partly becauseit “pays” us to do so. But, as a rule, the person concerned is about t
29、he 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 unconscio
30、usly compelled to cling to a belief because he is a “somebody” in some circleand 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 insigni
31、ficant 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 desireprobably not recognized by the person concernedto 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
32、事人不承认这一点。Unit 4 Text Lions and Tigers and BearsParaphrases of the Text 1. Of course, anybody who knows anything about New York knows the citys essential platitude - that you dont wander around Central Park at night - and in that, needless to say, was the appeal; it was the thing you dont 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 its dangerous. However, precisely be
