Paraphrase （英意译） Lesson 3
1. It is often said that provided we are not of the unfortunate minority of people who have pathological language defects, our language mechanism automatically equips us to say anything we need to say. __________________________________ People often say that if we are not among the few unlucky people whose speech ability has been damaged (or: influenced) by a physical disease, our inborn language capacity will enable us to say anything we need to say without difficulty.
2. What it does mean is that if my job or
my hobby entailed a knowledge of these activities, my language would world rise to the occasion.
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It does mean that if my job or hobby
has something to do with these activities, my language ability would enable me to say anything that I need to say on any occasion, or would let me successfully cope with any language situation. 3.
But the very fact that this word is mainly confined to technical health-authority usage (despite our recognition of its usefulness and of our need for such a word ) is an interesting indication of the way we are very largely the helpless prisoners of the language in general use around us.
_________________________________ But just because of the fact that this word is mainly used by officials in the public health department of the government ( even if we all agree that this word is very useful and we need this word in our daily
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expression ) , it interestingly indicates how we become helpless to such an extent when we deal with general use of language in our daily lives. 4.
Even where there would be widespread agreement that there is a linguistic deficiency, very few communities in the world seem to have settled the means whereby remedies can be agreed upon and adopted.
__________________________________ Even in the place in which all the people agree that there exists a linguistic deficiency in the language, very few communities seem to have found the way to effectively solve the problem by adopting some well-accepted solutions 5.
Can we not begin to imagine how near to
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despair these people must come who can almost never find the right word they are hunting for?
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We certainly can begin to suppose that how near these people must get to despair when they almost fail to find the right word they are looking for.
Lesson 4
1. She parked her red Fiat in a lot adjacent to the Kew Gardens Long Island Rail Road Station, facing Mowbray Place.
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She parked her red car in a piece of land that is next to the Kew Gardens Long Island Rail Road Station. The station faces Mowbray Place.
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2. At night the quiet neighborhood is
shrouded in the slumbering darkness that marks most residential areas. ____________________
At night the neighborhood is quiet and it is enveloped in the darkness, which is the feature of most dwelling areas.
Lesson 6
1. I have often wondered at the savagery and thoughtlessness with which our early settlers approached this rich continent.
________________________________ I often find it impossible to believe that our early settlers could have been so savage and thoughtless when they arrived in America.
2. They came at it as though it were an enemy, which of course it was.
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__________________________________ They ill-treated the land in the same way as they could do to enemy. But considering the hardship caused by the harsh natural surroundings and the possible dangers from the native inhabitants—the Indians, the land was really an enemy to the early settlers.
3. This tendency toward irresponsibility persists in very many of us today.
__________________________________ Today the tendency of robbing our country doesn’t stop, instead, many of us continue doing harmful things in an irresponsible way to seriously damage the surroundings we are living in.
4. but many of us still conduct ourselves as our ancestors did, stealing from the future for our clear and present profit. _________________________________
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…but we still ill-treat our natural environment like our ancestors in order for our own benefits, using or robbing as much as possible the natural resources without leaving anything to future generations or caring about the suffering this may cause to the generations to come.
5. They abandoned their knowledge of kindness to the land in order to maintain its usefulness.
__________________________________ In order to make a continuous profit out of the land, the early settlers worked the land in a savage way rather than look after it carefully---To be good to the land is a common knowledge. 6.
The topsoil, held by roots and freshened by leaf-fall, was left helpless to the spring freshets, stripped and eroded with the naked bones of clay and rock exposed.
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_________________________________ The topsoil, originally kept firm by roots and nourished by fallen leaves, now was directly washed away by floods in spring, only with clay and rock left.
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