Paraphra
Lesson1
1.Conversation is the most sociable of all human activities.
☞More than any other human activities, conversation helps to promote an agreeable, pleasant and informal relationship among people.
2. The new ruling class had built a cultural barrier against him by building their French against his own language.
☞The new ruling class had caud the cultural contradictions between the ruling class and native English by regarding French superior to English.
彭祖简介3. English had come royally into its own.
☞English had gained recognition by the King．
Lesson2
1. The burying--ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot.
☞The burying-ground is just a huge piece of wasteland full of mounds of earth, looking like a derted construction land
2. They ri 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 they work hard without enough food for a few years. Finally they die and are buried in the hills graves without any mark to identify them.
Lesson3
1. We dare not tempt them with weakness
☞We dare not be weak becau it might tempt the enemy to take rash actions.
2. We pledge… is right
☞We will help them only if they also do their bit家常炒饼. Kennedy wants people to believe that the United States renders unlfish and disinterested aid to countries that need it.
3.This much we pledge--and more.
This much we promi to do and we promi to do more.
Lesson5
1. The slighted mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to
At the very mention of this postwar period ,middle-aged people begin to think about it longingly.
Lesson6
1.Nowadays New York is out of pha with American taste
☞Nowadays New York cannot understand nor follow the taste of the American people and is often in disagreement with American politics.
2.rescued No longer so looked up to or copied, New York even prides itlf on being a holdout from prevailing American trends
云谷景区☞Since New York is no longer looked up to or copied as the undisputed fashion authority, it now boasts that it is a city that resists the prevailing trends (styles, fashion) of America, that it is a place where people can escape from uniformity and commonness.维生素b2的作用及功能
3. To win in New York is to be uneasy; to lo is to live in jostling proximity to the frustrated majority.
☞A person who wins in New York is constantly disturbed by fear and anxiety (becau he is afraid of losing what he has won in the fierce competition); a person who los has to live among the defeated, who are in the majority in New York.
4. A market for knowingness exists in New York that doesn’t exist for knowledge.
☞ In New York, a shrewd understanding or ability to apprai things is appreciated and paid for and skill and learning by themlves are not considered valuable
5. He is hopeless provincial
— He will always be a New Yorker. His attitude towards and his love for New York will never change
New York … is the spoiler of all other American cities
— New York has spoiled all the other American cities for him.
Figures of speech
Lesson1
1.As it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glow
A mixed metaphor
2.the king’s 新加坡治安English slip and slide
Metaphor &alliteration
to slide on a slippery surface, to lo footing, hence to make a mistake, fall into error. The English one us is no longer absolutely correct.
Lesson2
1.I to a fact
Understatement
It is true that Orwell has been pointing out facts. The facts and their prentation, however, help to denounce the inhuman system of colonialism.
2.as the storks ... or iron wheels
Clumping, clatter: Onomatopoeia.
Describing the sound of boots and iron wheels as they moved over the road
线上教学Lesson3
1.出入的意思end as well as beginning…renewal as well as change
Antithesis
end -- the end of Einhower's presidential term
beginning -- the beginning of Kennedy’s presidential term
renewal ---- the continuation of presidency and office of president
change -- the change from Einhower to Kennedy
2.United…Divided…
Antithesis
“ Divided” is balanced against “ United” and “ little we can do” against “ little we cannot do”.
Lesson6
1. New York was never Mecca to me
Metaphor & metonymy
The author compares New York to Mecca; and Mecca is standing for a place of holy pilgrimage, of a place one yearns to go.
