现代大学英语第五册精读paraphrase

Unit 6

1. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

The fact that we do not have evidence showing that there is life beyond Earth does not mean that we can come to the conclusion that there is actually no life beyond Earth. 2. Examining them for the atmosphere signatures of a living world.

…Examining these planets to see if the surrounding atmosphere can be identified as fitting for life.

3. The optimists figure it’s only a matter of time before we tune in the right channel. Those who are optimistic think that as time goes on, they will someday get the signal sent out by an alien civilization.

4. That’s what we need to begin the long process of putting human existence……

Originally, we regard our world as the only one in the universe which is inhabited by intelligent humans, but we need to change our view and regard this world as one of many in the universe. 5. True believers and skeptics rarely go over to the other side.

Neither those who genuinely believe that space aliens are lurking in our midst nor those who firmly reject such an idea are likely to change their views and join the other side. 6. The alien is a Hollywood stock character but not a Hollywood creation.

The alien is a character used too much in Hollywood films so it has become hackneyed but the idea of extraterrestrial life was not first brought up by Hollywood.

7. The absence of detectable life on Mars put exobiology into a two-decade funk.

… The fact that no life had been detected on Mars was a terrible blow to exobiology which did not recover from the blow in the following 20 years.

8. Everyone realized the historical glory of being right about these purposed……

Everyone knew that if what appeared to be microfossils were confirmed to be such, then the discovery would be of historic significance, but if they proved to be something else, the adverse effect that followed would be equally dramatic.

9. If you rewound the tape of terrestrial evolution and played it again……

… if evolution on Earth were to take place a second time, a human being who is genetically similar to us would be the result of such evolution.

10. So before we worry about our dealings with the Galactic Empire, we have some…… Since there is so much work we need to do here in this world (since there are so many issues we need to address in this world), let us first concentrate on doing some solid research (on addressing these issues )and drop discussion about drafting messages to another civilization out there. Unit 5

1. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason.

I believe following passing crazes shows a complete lack of sound judgment.

2. One afternoon I found Petey lying on his bed with an expression of such distress…

One afternoon, when I went back to my dorm, Petey was lying on his bed. He wore such a depressed look that I came to the conclusion at once that he was suffering from appendicitis.

3. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear.

My brain, which is as precise as a chemist’s scales, began to work at high speed. 4. She was, to be sure, a girl who excited the emotions, but I was not……

She was beautiful and attractive enough to arouse the desires and passions of men, but I would not let feelings or emotions get the upper hand of reason or good sense.

5. She was not yet of pin-up proportions, but I felt sure that time would supply the lack. She was not yet fully developed like pin up girls but I felt sure that, given time, she would fill up and become jut as glamorous.

6. In fact, she veered in the opposite direction.

In fact, she went in the opposite direction. This is a sarcastic way of saying that she was rather stupid.

7. If you were out of the picture, the field would be open.

If you are no longer involved with her (if you stop dating her) other would be free to compete for her friendship.

8. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning.

His head turned back and forth (looking at the coat then looking away from the coat). Every time he looked, his desire for the coat grew stronger and his resolution not to give away Polly became weaker.

9. This loomed as a project of no small dimensions, and at first I was tempted…

To teach her to think appeared to be a very big task, and at first I even thought of giving her back to Petey.

10. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear. There is a limit to what any human being can bear.

Unit4

1. Pianos and models, Paris, Vienna……are not needed by a writer.

If you want to be musician or a painter, you must own a piano or hire models, and you have to visit or even live in cultural centers like Paris, Vienna and Berlin. And also you have to be taught by masters and mistresses. However, if you want to be a writer, you don't need all this. 2. She would have plucked the heart out of my writing.

Those conventional attitudes would have taken away the most important part of my writing, the essence of my writing

3. Thus, whenever I felt the shadow of her……the inkpot and flung it at her.

Thus, whenever I felt the influence of the Victorian attitudes on my writing, I fought back with all my power

4. For though men sensibly allow themselves……condemn such freedom in women.

It was a sensible thing for men to give themselves great freedom to talk about the body and their passions, but if women want to have the same freedom, men condemn such freedom in women. And I don't believe that they realize how severely they condemn such freedom in women, nor do I believe that they can control their extremely severe condemnation of such freedom in women

5. Indeed it will be a long time still, I think……a rock to be dashed against.

It will take a long time for women to rid themselves of false values and attitudes and to

overcome the obstacle to telling the truth about their body passions

6. Even when the path is nominally open—when there is nothing to prevent a woman…

Even when the path is open to women in name only, when outwardly there is nothing to prevent a woman from being a doctor, a lawyer, a civil servant, inwardly there are still false ideas and obstacles impeding a woman's progress.

7. You have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto exclusively owned by men. You have gained a position or certain freedom in a society which has been up to now dominated by men

Unit3

1. Yet globalization……is a reality, not a choice.

Yet globalization is not something that you can accept or reject, it is already a matter of life which you will encounter and have to respond to every day.

2. Popular factions sprout to exploit nationalist anxieties.

Political groups with broad support have come into being to take advantage of existing worries and uneasiness among the people about foreign\" cultural assault\"

3. Where xenophobia and economic ambition have often struggled for the upper hand.

In China, the two trends of closed-door and open-door policies have long been struggling for dominance

4. Those people out there should continue to live in a museum while we will have showers that work.

The Chinese people should continue to live a backward life while we live comfortably with all modern conveniences

5. Westernization…is a phenomenon shot with inconsistence and populated by bedfellows. Westernization is a concept full of self-contradiction and held by people of very different backgrounds or views

6. You don’t have to be cool to do it; you just have to have the eye.

In trying to find out what will be the future trend, you don't need to be fashionable yourself, all you need is awareness, that is to say, you need to be on the alert, to be observant

7. He…was up in the cybersphere far above the level of time zones.

He was moving around, playing a game through the Internet, with people living in different time zones, thus their activity on the computer broke down time zone limit.

8. In the first two weeks of business the Gucci Store took in a surprising $100,000.

The Gucci store didn't expect the first two weeks of its opening in shanghai business could be so good

9. Early on I realized that I was going to need some type of compass to guide me through… From the very beginning I know I need some theory as guideline to help me in my study of global culture as globalization, to guide me through such a great variety of cultural phenomena 10. The penitence may have been Jewish, but the aspiration was universal.

The way of showing repentance might be peculiar to the Jews, but the strong desire of gaining forgiveness from God is common, shared by all

Unit2

1. I pictured this prodigy part of me as……each one on for size.

I visualized what I would look like as different types of prodigy, trying to find out which one would suit me best

2. I had new thoughts, willful thoughts……filled with lots of won’ts.

Some new thoughts occurred to me, thoughts that I intended deliberately to be a defiant girl, and I would say lots of \"I won't ~~\"to my mom.

3. The girl had the sauciness of a Shirley Temple.

The girl was Shirley Temple like, slightly rude but in an amusing way.

4. It felt like worms and toads and slimy things……awful side of me had surfaced, at last. As I blurted these words out, I felt that something nasty had got out of my chest, and so I felt disgusted. But at the same time, I felt good and relieved, because those nasty thoughts had been suppressed in my heart for a long time and now they had got out at last

5. And I could sense her anger rising to its breaking point. I wanted to see it spill out. I could feel that her anger had reached the point where she was at the very verge of losing her self-control, I wanted to see what my mother would do when she lost complete control of herself.

6. The lid to the piano was closed, shutting out the dust, my misery, and her dreams.

When the lid to the piano was closed, it shut out the dust and also put an end to my misery and her dreams.

Unit1

1. The job of arousing manhood within a people……is not easy.

It is no easy job to educate a people who have been over centuries that they were inferior and of no importance to see that they are humans, the same as any other people. 2. Psychological freedom……against long night of physical slavery.

If you break the mental shackles imposed on you by white supremacists, if you really respect yourself, thinking that you are a Man, equal to anyone else, you will be able to take part in the struggle against racial discrimination.

3. The Negro will only be free when he……assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation. The liberation of mind can only be achieved by the Negro themselves, only when a Negro is fully convinced that he/she is a man/woman and is not inferior to anyone else, can he/she throw off manacles of self-abnegation and become free.

4. Power at its best is love……correcting everything that stands against love.

Power in its best form of function is the carrying out of the demands of justice with love and justice its best form of function is the overcoming of everything standing in the way of love with power.

5. At that time economic status was considered ……ability and talents.

At that time, the way to evaluate how capable and resourceful a person was to see how wealthy he was.

6. The absence of worldly goods indicated……and moral fiber.

A person was poor because he was lazy and not hardworking and lacked a sense of right and

wrong.

7. It is not the work of slaves……or by animal necessity.

This kind of work cannot be done by slaves who work because the work has to be done, because they are forced to work by salve-drivers or they need to work in order to be fed and clothed.

8. When the unjust measurement of human……is eliminated.

When the unfair practice of judging human value by the amount of money a person has is done away with.

9. He who hates does not know God……the meaning of ultimate reality.

Those who harbor hate in their hearts cannot grasp the teaching of God, only those who have love can enjoy the ultimate happiness in Heaven.

10. Let us be dissatisfied until America……an anemia of deeds.

Let us be dissatisfied until American no longer only takes about racial equality but is unwilling to take action to end such evil practice as racial discrimination.