现代大学英语精读4Paraphrase

1、现代大学英语精读4ParaphraseUnit 21. sleepy and yet on fire with excitement, for it was the first day of their first spring sowing as man and wife. (Para. 3)Paraphrase:Although still not fully awake, the young couple was already greatly excited, because that day was the first day of their first spring planti

2、ng after they got married.2. But somehow the imminence of an event that had been long expected, loved, feared and prepared for made them dejected. (Para. 3) Paraphrase: The couple had been looking forward to and preparing for this spring planting for a long time, but now that the day had finally arr

3、ived, strangely, they felt somehow a bit sad.3. Martin fell over a basket in the half-darkness of the barn, he swore and said that a man would be better off dead thanParaphrase: In the barn, it was still very dark as it was very early in the morning. So Martin tripped over a basket. He cursed and sa

4、id that it would be better off to die than to have to get up at such an early hourand begin the days toil probably for the rest of his life.4. as they walked silentlythrough the little hamlet, there was not asoul about. (Para. 5)Paraphrase: When they walked silently through the small village, they s

5、aw not a single person around them because they were earlier than everybody else.5. And they both looked back at the little cluster of cabins that was the center of their world, with throbbing hearts. For the joy of spring had now taken complete hold of them. (Para. 5)Paraphrase:Both of them looked

6、back towards their small village, which was the most important place for them because they and their forefathers before them were born and raised here. Their hearts were quivering with excitement at that moment, for the coming of spring had already filled their hearts with pleasure.6. And there was

7、a big red heap of fresh seaweed lying in a corner by the fence to be spread under the seeds as they were laid.Paraphrase:In a corner beside the fence, there was a big pile of fresh seaweed. Before the seeds were dropped on the ridge, the seaweed should be spread first.7. When she was a little distan

8、ce down the ridge, Martin advanced with his spade to the head, eager to commence. (Para. 9)Paraphrase: When she was a little away from him, Martin started to move ahead, putting his spade to the front. Now he was eager to start working.8. Suppose anybody saw us like this in the field of our spring s

9、owing, what would they take us for but a pair of useless, soft, empty-headed people that would be sure to die of hunger. (Para. 12)Paraphrase: If people should see us like this (with your arm round my waist), what would they think of us? They were sure to take us for a pair of good-for-nothings, peo

10、ple who are unable to endure hardships and foolish and, therefore, were sure to die of hunger.9. His eyes had a wild, eager light in them as if some primeval impulse were burning within his brain and driving out every other desire but that of asserting his manhood and of subjugating the earth. (Para

11、. 12) Paraphrase:His eyes shone and his only desire now was to prove what a strong man he was and how he could conquer the land.10. but she drew back at the same time and gazed distantly at the ground. (Para. 13)Paraphrase: She stayed from Martin and deeply absorbed in herthought.11. Martin ate hear

12、tily, reveling in his great thirst and his great hunger, with every pore of his body open to the pure air. (Para. 18) Paraphrase: The heavy work made Martin thirsty and hungry and made him enjoy his lunch and tea more.12. That was the signal for a general rising all along the little valley. (Para. 1

13、9)Paraphrase: The noise was the signal for all peasants to stand up and start working again.13. Then she thought of the journey home and the trouble of feeding the pigs, putting the fowls into their coops and getting the supper ready, and a momentary flash of rebellion against the slavery of being a

14、 peasant wife crossed her mind. It passed in a moment. (Para. 32) Paraphrase: When she thought of all the drudgery waiting for her at home, suddenly she wanted to break the chains on her as a peasant s wife, but it only lasted a very short time. She immediately dismissed the idea.s mind14. All her d

15、issatisfaction and weariness vanish from Mary the delicious feeling of comfort that overcame her at having done thiswork with her husband. (Para. 34)Paraphrase: At the moment when she had done this work with her husband, the feeling of comfort fought against all her previous feelings of dissatisfact

16、ion and weariness and took control.15. Mary, with her shrewd woman's mind, thought of as many things as there are in life as a woman would in the first joy and anxiety of her mating. (Para. 3)Paraphrase: Mary, like all sharp and smart women, thought of many things in life when she got married. I

17、n her marriage life, sometimes they might have encountered happiness and sometimes have suffered sadness.Unit 41. Anybody who knows anything about New York knows the city s essential platitude that you don ' t wander around Central Park at night-and in that, needless to say, was the appeal: it w

18、as the thing you don do.(para.1)Paraphrase: Everybody who knows New York knows that you should not wander in Central Park at night because it is too dangerous. However, precisely because of the risk there are always people lured to visit Central Park at night. They just wish to do what people normal

19、ly don do.2. andthis could have been an outdoor summer-stock Shakespeare production anywhere in America, except in one respect. (para.3) Paraphrase: And tonight pserformance could be any outdoor performance of Shakespeare plasy one regularly finds in summer in America (It s a cultural tradition in A

20、merica to put on free Shakespeare productions in summer). There was only one difference.3. And I bolted, not running, exactly, but no longer strolling and certainly not looking back turning left, turning right, all sense of direction obliterated Paraphrase: And I started to run away quickly. To be e

21、xact, I was not running, but it was also not strolling any more. Without looking back, I turned left and right and finally I lost my sense of direction.4. One of the first events in the Park took place 140 years ago almost to the day: a band concert. The concert, pointedly, was held on a Saturday, s

22、till a working day, because the concert, like much of the Park then, was designed to keep the city s rougher elements out. (Para. 7) Paraphrase: One of the first events in the Park took place almost exactly on this day 140 years ago: a band concert. The concert was deliberately held on a Saturday wh

23、en ordinary people were all working so as to keep them out.5. I spotted a couple approaching. Your first thought is : nutcase? Paraphrase: I suddenly saw a couple coming my way. Your first thought is: are they mad (dating in the Central Park at night)?6. The irony was that by the end of the Moses er

24、a the Park was dangerous. (Para. 10)Paraphrase: Moses did a lot to turn Central Park into an efficient people pasrk. But the outcome was quite unexpected and sad: by the end of his era the Park was dangerous.7. But there was no escaping the recognition that this city- contrived, man-made, glaringly

25、obtrusive, consuming wasteful and staggering quantities of electricity and water and energy-was very beautiful. (para.12)Paraphrase: But there was no denying the fact (you have to admit) that the city was very beautiful, although it was not a natural kind of beauty, it was artificial and showy, and

26、it used up a great amount of water and energy.8. But there it was: the city at night, viewed from what meant to be an escape from it, shimmering. (para.12)Paraphrase: People come to the Park to escape from the hustle and bustle of the city. But it was precisely in the Park that day that I found the city at night was extremely beautiful.Unit 61. And that s the way it was in our little village for as far back as anybody could remember. ( Para.8)Paraphrase: And that s how we kept track of the importa