Lesson 2
Paraphrase
1、The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot.
1、The buryingground is just a huge piece of wasteland full of mounds of earth, looking like a deserted construction site.
2、All colonial empires are in reality founded upon this fact.
2、All the imperialists build up their empires by treating the people in the colonies as animals, instead of treating them as human beings.
3、They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard.
3、They are born then they work for a few years, work hard and starve finally they die and are buried in graves without a name.
4、A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed.
4、Sitting with his legs crossed and using a very old-fashioned lathe, a carpenter quickly gives a round shape to the chair-legs he is making.
5、Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews… 5、Immediately a great number of Jews rushed out wildly with excitement from their dark hole-like cells everywhere
6、…every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury. 6、every one of these poor Jews considers as a piece of luxury which they cannot possibly afford.
7、Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.
7、However a white-skinned European is always easy to be noticed.
8、In a tropical landscape one’s eye takes in everything except the human beings
8、If you take a look at the natural scenery in a tropical region, you see everything except the human beings.
9、No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distressed Areas.
9、No one would think of organizing cheap trips for the tourists to visit the poor slum areas(for these trips wouldn't by interesting).
10、…for nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless, backbreaking
struggle to wring a little food out of an eroded soil.
10、For ninety percent of the people, life is very hard. by working extremely hard,
they can on1y produce a little food from the poor soil.
11、She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say, as a beast of burden.
11、She took it for granted that as an old woman she belonged to the lowest in the
community, that she was only fit for doing heavy work and carrying heavy burdens like an animal.
12、People with brown skins are next door to invisible. 12、People with brown skins are almost invisible.
13、Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki uniform…
13、They were wearing second-hand or ready-made khaki uniforms which hid their
beautiful and well-built bodies.
14、How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?
14、How much longer before they turn their guns around and attack the colonialist
rulers?
15、Every white man there had this thought stowed somewhere or other in his mind. 15、Every white man there had this thought hidden somewhere or other in his mind.
Translation
1、When you walk through a town like this—two hundred thousand inhabitants of whom at least twenty thousand own literally nothing except the rags they stand up in—when you see how the people live, and still more how easily they die, it is always difficult to believe that you are walking among human being.
1、当你穿行在这样的城镇---其二十万居民中至少有两万是除了勉强蔽体的破衣烂衫之外完全一无所有---当你看到那些人的生活是如此艰难，而其死亡又是多么容易时，你很难相信自己身处在人类之中。
2、When you go through the Jewish quarters you gather some idea of what the medieval ghettoes were probably like. 2、当你走过这儿的犹太人聚居区时，你就会知道中世纪贫民区大概是什么样子。
3、Many of the streets are a good deal less than six feet wide, the houses are completely windowless, and sore-eved children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies.
3、这儿很多街道十分狭窄，宽不到六英尺，房屋根本没有窗户，眼睛红肿的孩子随处可见，多得像一群群苍蝇，数也数不清。
4、Even a blind man somewhere at the back of one of the booths heard a rumour of cigarettes and came crawling out, groping in the air with his hand. 4、甚至一个住在后排窝棚里的盲人也听到有人在发烟的消息，于是急忙爬出来，伸手在空中乱摸。
5、Ah, that’s only for show! They’re all money lenders really. 5、“啊！那不过是做出样子来给人看的。事实上他们都是些放贷者。”
6、In just the same way, a couple of hundred years ago, poor old women used to be burned for witchcraft when they could not even work enough magic to get themselves a square meal.
6、恰恰相似的是，一二百年前，常常也有些贫穷的老太婆被当成巫婆给活活烧死，然而事实上她们就连为自己变出一顿像样饭菜的魔法都没有。 7、It takes in the dried-up soil, the prickly pear, the palm tree and the distant mountain, but it always misses the peasant hoeing at his patch.
7、那干巴巴的土壤、仙人掌、棕榈树和远方的山岭都可以尽收眼底，但那些在土地上耕作的农夫却往往没人看得见。
8、Most of Morocco is so desolate that no wild animal bigger than hare can live on it. 8、摩洛哥的土地多半一片荒凉，那里最大的野生动物就是野兔了。
9、Except for a day or two after the rare rainstorms there is never enough water. 9、除了较为罕见的暴雨之后紧接着的那一两天外，这地方总是缺水。
10、It seems to be generally the case in primitive communities that the women, when they get beyond a certain ages, shrink to the size of children.
10、在原始社会里，妇女超过了一定的年纪后，身体便萎缩得如孩童般大小，这似乎是一种普遍的现象。
Lesson3
Paraphrase
1、And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebears fought is still at issue around the globe…
1、And yet the same revolutionary belief which is the aim of our ancestors is still in dispute around the world.
2、This much we pledge--and more.
2、This much we promise to do and we promise to do more.
3、United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. 3、If we are united, there is almost nothing we can not do through a lot of cooperation.
4、... Our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of pace...
4、The United Nations is our last and best hope in the era where means of launching war have far surpassed means of keeping peace.
5、...to enlarge the area in which its writ may run...
5、to increase the area where the UN’s written documents may be effective. 6、...before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction...
6、before the evil atom weapon made possible by science destroy all human beings in a planned way or by accident.
7、...yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind’s final war...
7、However both trying to change that unstable balance of weapons and this balance of weapons could prevent human beings from launching their final war.
8、So let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness...
8、So let us begin once again to realize that politeness does not mean weakness.
9、Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.
9、I suggest both sides try to use science to make wonders for human beings rather than terrors.
10、...each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty.
10、There are Americans from every generation who answer the call of the country to