高级英语2 课后习题paraphrase和translation部分答案.docx

Paraphrase TranslationLesson 1Conversation is not for making a point.Conversation is not for persuading others to accept our idea or point of view. In a conversation we should not try to establish the force of an idea or argument.The new ruling class had built a cultural barrier against him by building their French against his own language.The new ruling class by using French instead of English made it difficult for the English to accept or absorb the culture of the rules.The phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower classes.The phrase, the King’s English, has always been used disparagingly and joking by the lower classes. The working people very often make fun of the proper and formal language of the educated people....that suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place, and all at once there was a focus.Then?suddenly?a?magical?transformation?took?place?and?there?was?a?focal?subject?to?talk?about.There is always resistance in the lower classes to any attempt by an upper class to lay down rules for “English as it should be spoken.”每当上流社会想给“规范英语”指定一些条条框框时，总会遭到来自下层人名的抵制。Words are not themselves a reality, but only representations of it, and the King’s English, like the Anglo-French of the Normans, is a class representation of reality. 词语本身并不是现实，它不过是用以表达现实的一种形式而已。标准英语就像诺曼人的盎格鲁式法语一样，也是一种对现实的阶级表达。Perhaps it is worth trying to speak it, but it should not be laid down as an edict, and made immune to change from below.让人们学着去讲规范英语也许不错，但不应当把它作为一条必须执行的法令，也不应当使它完全拒绝来自下层的改变。There is no worse conversationalist than the one who punctuates his words as he speaks as if he were writing, or even who tries to use words as if he were composing a piece of prose for print.要是有谁闲聊时像写文章那样标点分明，或者像写一篇要发表的散文一样咬文嚼字的话，那他一定是个最糟糕的聊天者。Lesson 3United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures.United and working together we can accomplish a lot of things in a great number of joint bold under takings....our last best hope in an age where