Pub Talk and the King’s English
Paraphra
1.And conversation is an activity which is found only among human beings.
2.Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view. In a
conversationw e should not try to establish the force of an idea or argument.
3.Infact a person who really enjoys and is skilled at conversation will not to win or force others
to accept his point of view.
4.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 engrosd in each other’s lives.
5.The conversation could go on without anybody knowing who was right or wrong.
6.The animals are called cattle when we sit down at the table to eat, we call their meat beef.
7.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.The English language received proper recognition and was ud by the king once more.
吸附石9.The phra, the King’s English, has always been ud disparagingly and jokingly by the lower
class. The working people very often make fun of the proper and formal language of the educated people.
10.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 that we might forget that words are only symbols and take
them for things they are suppod to reprent
Marrakech
话梅的热量III Paraphra
1.The burying-ground is nothing more than a huge piece of wasteland full of mounds of earth
looking like a derted and abandoned piece of land on which a building was going to be put up.
2.All the imperialists build up their empires by treating the people int he colonies like animals
(by not treating the people in the colonies as human beings).
3.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.Sitting with his legs crosd and using a very old-fashioned lathe, a carpenter quickly gives a
round shape to the chair-legs he is making.
5.Immediately fromt heir dark hole-like cells everywhere a great number of Jews rushed out
wildly excited, all loudly demanding a cigarette.
6.Every one of the poor Jews looks on the cigarette as a piece of luxury which they could not
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possibly afford.
7.However, a white-skinned European is always quite noticeable. / However, people always
notice any one with a white skin.
8.If you take a look at the natural scenery in a tropical region, you e everything but the human
beings.
9.No one would think of organizing cheap trips for the tourists to visit the poor slum areas (for
the trips would not be interesting).
10.Life is very hard for ninety percent of the people. They can produce a little food on the poor
soil only with hard backbreaking toil.
11.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 almost inisible.
13.The Senegales soldiers were wearing cond-hand ready-made khaki uniforms which hid
their beautiful, well-built bodies.
14.How much longer before they turn their guns around and attack the colonialist rulers?
15.Every white man hhad this thought hidden somewhere in his mind.
Inaugural Address
Paraphra
1.Our ancestors foutght a revolutionary war to maintain that all men were created equal and
God had given them certain unalienable rights which no state or ruler could take away from them. But today this issue has not yet been ttled in many countries around the world.
2.We promi to do this much and we promi to do more.
3.United and working together we can accomplish a lot of things in a great number of joint bold
undertakings.
4.The United Nations is our last and best hope of survival in an age where the tools to wage war
have far surpasd and exceeded the tols to keep peace.
5.We pledge to help the United Nations enlarge the areas in which its authority and mandate
could continue to be in effect or in force.
6.Before the terrible forces of destruction, which atomic bombs can now relea, wipe out
mankind, which may be planned or brought about by an accident.
7.Yet both groups of nations are trying to change as quickly as possible this uncertain balance of
terrible military power which restrains each group from launching mankind’s final war.
8.Let us start over again. We must bear in mind that being polite does not mean one is weak.
9.Let both sides try to u science to produce good and beneficial things for man instead of
employing it to bring frightful destruction.
10.Americans of every generation have been called upon to prove their loyalty to their country
(by fighting and dying for their country’s cau).
11.We will lead the country we love, knowing our sure reward will be a good conscience, and
history will finally judge whether we have done our task well or not.
The Sad Young Men
III Paraphra
1.At the very mention of this pot-war period, middle-aged people begin to think about it
longingly and young people become curious and start asking all kinds of questions.
2.In any ca, America could not avoid casting aside its middle-class respectability and affected
refinement.
3.The war only helped to speed up the breakdown of the Victorian social structure.
4.In America the young people did not riously thake up the responsibility of changing the
traditional customs of society; instead they lived unconventional lives and, by drinking and behaving indecently in many ways, they broke the moral code of the community.
5.The young people found greater pleasure in their drinking becau Prohibition, by making
drinking unlawful, added a n of adventure.
6.As a result, the young men began to join the armies of foreign countries to fight in the war.
7.The young people wanted to take part in the glorious adventure before the war ended.
8.The young people could no longer adapt to lives in their home towns or their families.
9.The returning veteran soldiers also had to face the stuped cynicism of the victorious allies in
Versailles who acted as cynically as Napoleon did. They had to face Progibition which the lawmakers hypocritically assumed would be good for the people.
10.(Under all this force and pressure) something in the youth of America, who were already very
ten, had to break down.
11.It was only natural that hopeful young writers, who minds and writings were filled with
violent anger against war, Babbitry, and Puritanical gentility, should come in great numbers to live in Greenwich Village, the traditional artistic centre.
12.Each town was proud that it had a group of wild, reckless people, who lived unconventional
lives.
The One Who Walk Away from Omelas
香瓜
小学趣味英语狗狗犬瘟症状Paraphra
1.The loud ringing of the bells, which nt the frightened swallows flying high, marks the
beginning of the Festival of Summer in Omelas.
本溪红尖2.The shouting of the children could be heard clearly above the music and singing like the calls
of the swallows flying by overheard.
3.The riders were putting the hors through some exercis becau the hors were eager to
start and stubbornly resisting the control of the riders.
4.After reading the above description the reader is likely to assume certain things.
5.An artist betrays his trust and faith when he does not admit that evil is nothing fresh not novel
and pain is very dull and uninteresting.
6.They were fully developed and intelligent grown-up people full of inten feelings but they
were not mirable people.
7.Perhaps it would be best if you readers picture Omelas to yourlves as your imagination tells
you what to do, as I believe your imagination will be able to deal with the task well.
8.The faint but compelling sweet scent of the drug drooz may fill the streets of the city.
9.perhaps the child was born mentally retarded or perhaps it has become feeble-minded due to
fear, poor nourishment and neglect.
10.the habits of the child are so crude and uncultured that it won’t be able to appreciate kind and
tender treatment.
11.they shed tears when they first saw how terribly unjust the child was treated but the tears
dry up when they realize how just and fair reality is though it is terrible, and they accept it. 12.the existence of the child and their knowledge of its existence is the reason that makes their
buildings grand and impressive, their music moving and their science intellectually deep.
The Future of the English
Paraphra
1.The English people may hotly argue and abu and quarrel with each other on the surface, but
there still exists a lot of natural sympathetic feeling for each other in their hearts.
2.What the wealthy employers would really like to do is to whip all the workers, whom they
consider to be lazy and troublesome.
3.there are not many snarling shop stewards in the workshop, nor are there many cruel wealthy
employers on the board of directors.
4.The contemporary world demands that everything be big or done on a big scale and the
English do not like or trust bigness.
5.At least on the surface, when Englishness is put against the power and success of Admass,
Englishness ems to put up a rather poor weak performance.
6.Englishness is not against change, but it believes that changing just for the sake of changing
and for no other uful purpo is very wrong and harmful.
7.To regard cars and motorways as more important than hous ems to Englishness a public
stupidity.
8.I must further say that while Englishness can go on fighting, there is a great possibility of
Admass winning.
9.Englishness draws its strength from a rervoir of strong moral and ethical principles, and
soon it may be asking for strength which this rervoir of principles cannot supply.
10.The people probably believe, as I do, that the so-called “Good Life” promid by Admass is
fal and dishonest in all respects.
11.He will not even find satisfaction in this untidy and disordered life where he manages to live
as a parasite by sponging on people.
12.The people regard the Hou of Common as a place far away from their daily life where
some people are always quarreling and arguing over some small matter.
13.If a dictator comes to power, the people then will soon learn in the worst way that they were
very wrong to ignore politics for they can now suddenly and for no reason be arrested and thrown into prison.
Disappearing Through the Skylight
Paraphra
1.Science is engaged in the task of making its basic concepts understood and accepted by
scientists all over the world. Science exhibits the universalizing tendency.
大秧歌主题曲2.The car model, called Fiesta, ems to have disappeared completely.
3.The idea of a world car is similar to the International Style in architecture.
4.Things that are happening in automaking are similar to tho happening in architecture.
5.The modern man no longer has very distinct individual traits shaped by a special environment
and culture.
6.The disadvantage of being a cosmopolitan is that he los a home in the old n of the word.
7.The advantage of being a cosmopolitan is that he begins to think that the old kind of home
probably restricts his development and activities
8.The compelling force of technology to universalize cannot be resisted.
9.When every artist thought it was their duty to show contempt for and objection to the Eiffel
Tower which they considered an architectural structure that dishonored Paris, the center and arbiter of art and culture.
10.In the past people firmly believed that the things they saw around them were real solid
substances, but this has now been thrown into doubt by science.
11.This disappearance of history frees the mind from traditional concepts. It is like what Madame
Buffet-Picabia says: a flexible and pliable quality that was beyond human powers and absolutely new.
12.That, perhaps, shows how far logically modern aesthetic can go.
