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复旦大学外国语言文学学院 2010～Paraphrase the underlined parts in the following sentences. 30% 1. …and all the long afternoon I bore her in my arms, miles upon miles, and it never occurred to either of us that there was anything remarkable in a youth like me being able to carry that sweet bundle around half a day without some sense of fatigue or need of rest. There are many dream-worlds, but none is so rightly and reasonably and pleasantly arranged as that one. (from “My Platonic Sweetheart” by Mark Twain) Everything felt so natural for both of us, and even though I walked for half a day carrying her on my back, I did not feel tired at all because of the sweetness of being with her. 2. Her skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her. (from “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner) Maybe that explained why she looked obese while in the case of another, the person would simply appear plump in the same weight. 3. As soon as you could get out of bed your mother rushed you off to Florence and married you. People were rather surprised – they wondered at its being done so quickly; but I thought I knew. I had an idea you did it out of pique – to be able to say you’d got ahead of Delphin and me. (from “Roman Fever” by Edith Wharton) I guessed that you did it because you had a spite against me and wanted to get married before Delphin and me. 4. What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after the evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. (from “Araby” by James Joyce) My days and nights were wasted because I had been thinking about hundreds of inexplicable things ever since that evening. It was my ardent dream to put an end to the monotony of life. 5. Sometimes I’m so mad about it I want to fight someone. It gives me the fantods. What did he do it for? I want to know why. (from “I Want to Know Why” by Sherwood Anderson) I get so agitated by it from time