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1、整理现代大学英语精读 paraphrasing教学文稿此文档收集于网络，如有侵权，请 联系网站删除 Unit 1 1. They did not make me happy, however, as this was the day I was to be thrown into school for the first time. (1) Paraphrase: But my new clothes did not bring any happiness to me, because it was the day I was forced to go to school for the fi

2、rst time. 2.“Why school?” I asked my father. “What have I done?”(3) Paraphrase: Why do I have to go to school? I dont think Ive done anything wrong to be punished like this. 3. I did not believe there was really any good to be had in tearing me away from my home and throwing me into the huge, high-w

3、alled building. (5) Paraphrase: I didnt think it was useful to take me away from home and put me into that building with high walls. 4. It was not all a matter of playing and fooling around. (15) Paraphrase: What we did at school wasnt just playing and wasting time doing nothing useful. 5. In additi

4、on, the time for changing ones mind was over and gone and there was no question of ever returning to the paradise of home. (16) Paraphrase: Besides, it was impossible for us to quit school and return to the good old days when we stayed home playing and fooling around all day. Our childhood was gone,

5、 never to come back. Unit 2 1. If banks were required to sell wallets and money belts, they might act less like churches. (para. 1) Paraphrase: Banks act like churches which usually control peoples life and can interfere in peoples life. So, the author thinks it is ridiculous for banks to act like c

6、hurches. 2. It was lunchtime and the only officer on duty was a fortyish black man with short, pressed hair, a pencil mustache, and a neatly pressed brown suit. (para. 3) Paraphrase: uncurled hair, a thin mustache looking like a line drawn by a pencil, and a neat and tidy brown suit 3. Everything ab

7、out him suggested a carefully dressed authority. (para. 3) Paraphrase: Everything about himhis clothes, manner, etc. indicated that he was a carefully dressed man who had an important position and power. 精品文档此文档收集于网络，如有侵权，请 联系网站删除 4. I moved in for the kill. (para. 19) Paraphrase: I began to prepare

8、 to kill, destroy or defeat my enemy. 5. I zeroed in on the officer. (para. 20) Paraphrase: Im going to have a strong argument to silence the bank officer. 6. Look, were just wasting each others time. (para. 29) Paraphrase: Look, lets stop talking about this because it is a waste of time./You are ju

9、st talking nonsense. I dont want to listen to you any more. 7. has been shaking this boy down (para. 30) Paraphrase: has been getting money from the boy by using threats 8. Anyway, the police are on the case (para. 30) Paraphrase: Anyway, the police are working on the case 9. Not that I ever heard o

10、f. (para. 32) Paraphrase: I have never heard of such rules. Unit 3 1. My husband moved into our house as is the way with us in Esarn. (para. 1) Paraphrase: When we got married, we followed the tradition in Esarn and my husband came to live with my family. 2. He has ears which dont hear, a mouth whic

11、h doesnt speak, and eyes that dont see. ( para. 2) Paraphrase: He does not notice what is happening around us and to our children, nor does he express his thoughts and feelings. (The woman is complaining that her husband does not bother about their childrens troubles.) 3. and it is no longer fertile

12、, bleeding year after year and, like us, getting old and exhausted. (para. 3) Paraphrase: Our land is getting poorer with each passing year, like us who are getting old, weak and tired. 4. but in a bad year, its not only the ploughs that break but our hearts, too. (para. 3) Paraphrase: 精品文档此文档收集于网络，

13、如有侵权，请 联系网站删除 When there is a draught, the soil is so hard that it breaks the ploughs and we feel so sad that our hearts break too. 5. Only ten years ago, you could barter for things, but now its all cash. (para. 4) Paraphrase: Just ten years ago, we could exchange one thing for another, but now we

14、have to buy everything from the market. 6. Shops have sprung up, filled with colorful plastic things and goods we have no use for. (para. 4) Paraphrase: Shops have suddenly appeared in the village selling attractive plastic things and things we dont need. 7. As for me, I wouldnt change, couldnt chan

15、ge even if I wanted to. (para. 7) Paraphrase: I didnt want to change myself and my life, and actually I did not have the ability to change even if I wanted to. 8. Yes, this bag of bones dressed in rags can still plant and reap rice from morning till dusk. (para. 7) Paraphrase: Though Im poor, old and weak, I can still work in the rice field all day. 9. I am at peace with the land and the condition of my life. (para. 9) Paraphrase: I am content with my land and accept my situatio