高级英语第一册第三版张汉熙7-12课后Paraphrase & translation答案.doc

Lesson 7 Everyday use Paraphrase 1.She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her. She thinks that her sister has a firm control of her life and that she can always have anything she wants, and life is extremely generous to her. 2.My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. Because I am very fat, I feel hot even in freezing weather. 3. Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue. The popular TV talk show star, Johnny Carson, who is famous for his witty and glib tongue, has to try hard if he wants to catch up with me. 4. It seems to me I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight, with my head turned in whichever way is farthest from them. When I talked to them, I'm always ready to leave as quickly as possible, and turn my head away from them in order to avoid them as much as possible because of nervousness. 5.She would always look anyone in the eye. She would always look at somebody directly and steadily, not feeling embarrassed or ashamed. 6.She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn't necessarily need to know. She imposed on us lots of falsities and a lot of knowledge that was totally useless to us. 7. Like good looks and money, quickness passed her by. She is not bright just as she is neither good-looking nor rich. 8. Meanwhile Asalamalakim is going through motions with Maggie's hand. Meanwhile Asalamalakim is trying to shake hands with Maggie in a fancy and elaborate way. 9. Though, in fact, I probably could have carried it back beyond the Civil War through the branches. In fact, I could have traced it back before the Civil War through the family , branches. 10. He just stood there grinning, looking down on me like somebody inspecting a Model A car. He just stood there with a grin on his face and looked at me as if inspecting 1 something old and out-of-date. 11. Every once in a while he and Wangero sent