Lesson 9 Paraphrase
1. …with a face that seem totally unfamiliar with laughter…
...with a face that was dead serious, never laughed.
2. Sometimes old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get mixed up in a Saturday-night brawl…
Sometimes old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get involved in a rough, noisy quarrel or fight on a Saturday night after much drinks of liquor.
3. … her attendance had always been sporadic and her interest in schoolwork negligible. She often missed her classes and had little interest in schoolwork.
4. …she existed for me only as a vaguely embarrassing presence…
I only knew her as someone who would make other people feel ill at ease because of the way she looked, spoke and behaved.
5. She dwelt and moved somewhere within my scope of vision.
She lived and moved somewhere within my range of sight. But I paid little attention to her: she was almost invisible for me.
6. Grandmother Macleod and Piquette, Piquette would win hands down, nits or not.
If my mother had to make a choice between Grandmother Macleod Piquette, she would certainly choose the latter without hesitation, no matter whether the latter had the nits or not.
7. My acquaintance with Indians was not extensive. I didn’t know many Indians.
8. …she remained both a reproach and a mystery to me.
I blame myself ( for being unable to make Piquette’s response warmer) and the same time found her mysterious
9. Her defiant face, momentarily, became unguarded and unmasked, and in her eyes there was a terrifying hope.
Normally, she was defensive and sensitive as if her face were guarded and marked. But in a brief moment when she was saying this, there was an expression of defiance on her face, which was her true emotion. In her eyes there was a kind of hope which was so intense and violent that it stuck people as terrifying.
10. …she looked a mess, to tell you the truth, a real slattern, dress any old how… She looked very messy, dirty and untidy, dressed in a very careless way.
11. She was up in court a couple of times --- drunk and disorderly, of course.
She was taken to court a couple of times because she was drunk and disorderly as one could expect.
12. The one store had become several dozen, and the settlement had all the attributes of a flourishing resort --- hotels, a dance-hall, cafés with noen signs, the penetrating odours of potato chips and hot dogs.
There had been only one store in the past, but now there were several dozen stores. The settlement had all the characteristics of a flourishing resort such as hotels, a dance-hall, cafes lighted by neon signs, the strong smells of potato chips and hot dogs.
13. Perhaps they had been unable to find such a place, and had simply died out, having ceased to care any longer whether they lived or not.
Perhaps they had failed to find a suitable habitat where they could belong and had simply died out, having lost any interest in life and ceased to care any longer whether they lived or not.
Lesson 9 Translation
1. Just below Manawaka, where the Wachakwa River ran brown and noisy over the pebbles, the scrub oak and gray-green willow and chokecherry bushes grew in a dense thicket.
马纳瓦卡山下有一条名叫瓦恰科瓦的小河，浑浊的河水咆哮着，冲打着河边的鹅卵石。矮小的橡树、灰绿的柳树、北美稠李从，密集的生长在山脚下，形成一片林地。
2. “She’s not contagious,” my father said. “And it would be company for Vanessa.”
“她的病不传染，”父亲说，“再说她还可以跟婉妮纱做个伴儿呢。”
3. I had trouble in stifling my urge to laugh, for my mother brightened visibly and quickly tried to hide it.
我几乎忍不住要笑起来，母亲面露喜色，但马上又极力掩饰自己的喜悦之情。
4. You could look out the windows and see, through the filigree of the spruce trees, the water glistening greenly as the sun caught it.
从窗口向外望去，透过装饰的别致的云杉树，可以看到在阳光照耀下的碧波粼粼的湖水。
5. It seemed to me that Piquette must be in some way a daughter of the forest, a kind of junior prophetess of the wilds, who might impact to me, if I took the right approach, some of the secrets which she undoubtedly knew.
在我看来，皮盖特一定有些像是森林之女，像是荒野中某种小预言家。只要我用恰当的方法向她请教，她就会向我透露一些秘密。
6. For the merest instant, then I saw her. I really did see her, for the first and only time in all the years we had both lived in the same town.
在那一瞬间，我看清了她。我们虽然在一个镇子上同住了多年，我这是头一次，也是唯一的一次真正看清了她。
7. The small pier which my father had built was gone, and in its place there was a large and solid pier built by the government, for Galloping Mountain was now a national park, and Diamond Lake had been renamed Lake Wapakata, for it was felt that an Indian name would have a greater appeal to tourists.
父亲修造的小防波堤已经荡然无存了。取而代之的是一个由政府建造的宽阔而坚固的船埠。盖拉坪山现在已经成了国家公园，钻石湖也改名为挖怕卡塔湖，人们认为取个印第安式的名字会对游客更具魅力。
8. I listened for some time, to make sure, but never once did I hear that long-drawn call, half mocking and half plaintive, spearing through the stillness across the lake.
我聆听了好一会儿，想确认一下，但到底还是没能再听到那划过寂静的湖面传来的、拖长尾音的、半是凄厉半是冷嘲的鸟叫声。
9. It seemed to me now that in some unconscious and totally unrecognized way, Piquette might have been the only one, after all, who had heard the crying of the loons.
现在我倒觉得，皮盖特可能以一种无意识的、别人无法了解的方式成为唯一听懂了潜水鸟哀叫声的人。
Lesson 6 Paraphrase
1. Nowadays New is out of phase with American taste...
Nowadays New York cannot understand nor follow the state of the American people and is often in disagreement with American people.
2. New York even prides itself on being a holdout from prevailing American trends...
New York now boasts that it is a city that resists the prevailing trends (styles, fashion) of American and that it is a place where people can escape from uniformity and commonness.
3. ...sitcoms cloned and canned in Hollywood, and the Johnny Carson show live, preempt the airways from California... Situation comedies made in Hollywood and the live talk show by Johnny Carson are on all channels, filling the airwaves.
4. ...it is making something of a comeback as tourist attraction...
New York is regaining somewhat its status as a city that attracts tourist.
5. To win in New York is to be uneasy...
A person who wins in New York is constantly disturbed by fear and anxiety (because he is afraid of losing what he has won in the fierce competition).
6. Nature’ pleasure are much qualified in New York.
Being a large and crowded city with many tall buildings, etc., the chance to enjoy the pleasure of nature is very limited in New York.
7. ...the city’s bright glow arrogantly obscures the heavens.
At night the city of New York is aglow with lights and seems haughtily to dim the light of the stars.
8. But the purity of a bohemian dedication can be exaggerated.
But a pure and wholehearted devotion to a Bohemian life style can be exaggerated.
9. In both these roles it ratifies more than it creates.
In both these roles of banking and communications headquarters, New York starts or originated very few things but gives its stamp of approval to many things created by people in other parts of the country.
10. The television generation grew up in the insistent presence of hype...
The television generation was constantly and strongly influenced by extravagant promotional advertising.
11. ...those who are writing ambitious novels sustain themselves on the magazines.
Author writing long serious novels earn their living in the meantime by also writing articles for popular magazines.
12. Broadway, which seemed to be succumbing to the tawdriness of its environment, is astir again.
Broadway, which seemed unable to resist the cheap, gaudy shows put on in the surrounding areas, is once again busy and active.
13. The defeated are not hidden away somewhere else on the wrong side of town.
Those who failed in the struggle of life, the down-and-outs, are not hidden away in slums or ghettoes where other people can't see them.