英语综合教程5 Paraphrase Translation.docx

ParaphraseUnit 1Mother meant to deliberately overlook whatever she did not like and could not change.From June to the end of July school closed for the summer vacation.Literarily, the writer was unable to open wide her eyes due to the dazzling summer sunlight as well as her eyes defect. Figuratively, the freedom, equality and democracy all American citizens were allegedly entitled to were simply distorted images in the authors eye.Mother was bright and father brown, and the three of us girls represented gradations from bright to brown.Inside the Breyers, the soda fountain was so dim and the air so cool that the pain of my eyes was wonderfully lessened.My forceful question got no response from my family; they remained silent as if they had done something wrong and shameful walking into Breyers.My anger was not going to be noticed or sympathized with by my family members who were similarly angry, though.Unit 2My brother and I were unable to walk out quietly and secretly, like other children, to the open field to play kid’s games , for we were forced to go to Chinese school.Our kicking, screaming and pleading could not in the least make our mother change her mind about sending us to Chinese school.She dragged us by force all the way from our home to school, a long hilly distance of 7 blocks, finally leaving us, hostile and tearful, in front of the severe headmaster.In Chinatown, large crowds of Chinese were coming and going with their routine responsibilities in a disorderly, overexcited way.He was fastidiously particular about my mother’s English.Ultimately I was permitted to stop learning Chinese culture.Finally I assumed that I was one of the Americans and that I was not one of the Chinese. Unfortunately, I am, as a matter of fact, still Chinese.Unit 3We were waiting outside the cells, where prisoners under the death sentence were jailed.We, government officials and inspectors, walked behind the warders and the prisoner.I found the inexplicable injustice that was be