IV. Explain in your own words the following ntences taken from the text.
Unit 1
1. …there has been this long lull with nothing particular up!
…Britain has been in too long a period of stillness without taking any particular action against the enemy!
2. …we must “… meet with Triumph and Disaster. And treat tho two impostors just the same.”
…we are sure to experience both Triumph and Disaster, and we must treat them as the same thing different appearances becau they are esntially interchangeable.
3. …never give in except to convictions of honour and good n.
…never give in unless we are convinced that it is honourable and nsible for us to do so.
4. Britain, other nations thought, had drawn a sponge across her slate.
Other nations thought that Britain was completely conquered.
5. …we have only to pervere to conquer.
…we will win as long as we hold on to the end.
Unit 2
1. The phra “personal space” has a quaint, venties ring to it.
The phra “personal space” has an odd touch that was characteristic of the 1970s.
2. T-shirt weather can make proximity more alluring (or much, or less).
In hot summer days, people can be drawn to each other, especially to the opposite x (or feel disgusted with the cloness of others.)
3. The logistics of it vary according to geography.
People in different regions are given different sizes of personal space.
4. …individuals routinely commandeer booths and ts of facing ats meant for foursomes.
…it is quite common that one person occupies a booth and a t of facing ats designed for four people.
5. Even the focus of science the days is micro, not macro.
Even science focus on the intra-personal, inner world rather than the interpersonal, outer society the days.
6. In the same way that the breeze from a butterfly’s wings in Japan may eventually produce a tidal in California, I have decided to expand the contracting boundaries of personal space.
Becau the initial invasion of personal space can cau a chain of reactions, which may bring about a catastrophic conquence, as the breeze from a butterfly’s wings in Japan, if it initiates a chain of waves, may eventually produce a tidal wave in California, I have de
cided to enlarge the shrinking personal space.
Unit 3
1. Given the relatively few restrictions governing access and usage, it is the communications modal equivalent of international waters.
As there are relatively few restrictions for reaching and using the Internet, communications via the Internet are comparable to traveling through the international waterways.
2. But much less widely reported has been the notion that the Internet may be responsible for furthering the fragmentation of society by alienating its individual urs.
A lot of people talk about the “new information age”, but not so many people are acquainted with the idea that the Internet parates people from each other and fragments society further as a result.
3. It ems to me that we are a society that values immediate gratification above all el, and what better place to achieve it than in cyberspace, where the cyber-world is your cyber-oyster.
I think that in our society the top priority is given to the satisfaction of one’s immediate needs. The Internet is the best tool for this purpo, for on the Internet one can do whatever he likes to.
Unit 4
1. It was therefore left to Yamahata to record, methodically – and, as it happens, with a great and simple artistry – the effects ...
The responsibility was therefore placed on Yamahata’s shoulders to record the effects systematically and incidentally with a great and simple artistry.
2. That abnce, even more than wreckage, contains the heart of the matter.
That vanished city rather than its remains reprents the true measure of the event.
3. In the photographs, Nagasaki comes into its own.
In the photographs, Nagasaki regains its own status.
4. … the human imagination had stumbled to exhaustion in the wreckage of the first ruined city without reaching even the outskirts of the cond.
… the human imagination had been exhausted and stopped at the wreckage of the first ruined city and failed to reach even the outskirts of Nagasaki.
5. … we em to need, in addition, some other picture to counterpoi against ruined Nagasaki ...
… apart from the pictures of Nagasaki we en to need some other picture to inspire in us a hope of life to counterbalance the n of doom suggested by the ruined Nagasaki…
