张汉熙高级英语paraphrase.doc

Lesson1 Pub talk and the King’s English1. And it is an activity only of humans.And conversation is an activity which is found only among human beings．2. Conversation is not for making a point.Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view．3. In fact, the best conversationalists are those who are prepared to lose.In fact a person who really enjoys and is skilled at conversation will not argue to win or force others to accept his point of view． 4. Bar friends are not deeply involved in each other's lives.People who meet each other for a drink in the bar of a pub are not intimate friends for they are not deeply absorbed or engrossed in each other’s 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 (boeuf).These animals are called cattle when they are alive and feeding in the fields；but when we sit down at the table to eat．we call their meat 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 difficult for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the rulers．8. English had come royally into its own.The English language 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 King’s English，has always been used disrespectfully and jokingly by the lower classes． The working people very often make fun of the proper and formal language of the educated people．10. The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there.There still exists in the working people，as in the early Saxon peasants，a spirit of opposition to the cultural authority of the ruling class．11. There is always a great danger, as Carlyle put it, that "words will harden into things for us."There is always a great danger that we might forget that words are only symbols and take them for things they are supposed to represent．Lesson 2 Marrakech1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot.The burying-ground is nothing more than a huge piece of wasteland full of mounds of earth looking like a deserted and abandoned piece of land on which a building was going to be put up.2. All colonial empires are in reality founded upon this fact.All the imperialists build up their empires by treating the people in the colonies like animals.3. They rise out of the earth，they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard.They are born. Then for a few years they work, toil and starve. Finally they die and are buried in graves without a name, and nobody notices that they are dead.4. A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed.Sitting with his legs crossed and using a very old-fashioned lathe, a carpenter quickly gives a round shape to the chair-legs he is making.5. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews.Immediately from their dark hole-like cells everywhere a great number of Jews rushed out wildly excited.6. Every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury.Every one of these poor Jews looked on the cigarette as a piece of luxury which they could not possibly afford.7. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.However, a white-skinned European is always quite noticeable.8. In a tropical landscape one's eye takes in everything except the human beings.If you take a look at the natural scenery in a tropical region, you see everything but the human beings.9. No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distressed Areas.No one would think of organizing cheap trips for the tourists to visit the poor slum areas (for these trips would not be interesting)．10. For nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless back-breaking struggle to wring a little food out of an eroded soil. life is very hard for ninety percent of the people．With hard backbreaking toil they can produce a little food on the poor soil only with hard backbreaking toil.11. She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say as a beast of burden.She took it for granted that as an old woman she was the lowest in the community，that。

she was only fit for doing heavy work like an animal．12. People with brown skins are next door to invisible.People with brown skins are almost invisible．13. Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki uniforms.The Senegalese soldiers were wearing ready-made khaki uniforms which hid their beautiful well-built bodies．14. How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?How much longer before they turn their guns around and attack us?15. Every white man there had this thought stowed somewhere or other in his mind.Every 。