Marrakech
Paraphrase:
1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. (para 2)
2. All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that fact. (para 3)
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 (para 3)
4. A carpenter sits crosslegged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed. (para 9)
5. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews (para 10)
6. every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury (para 10)
7. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous. (para 16)
8. In a tropical landscape one's eye takes in everything except the human beings. (para 16)
9. No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distressed Areas. (para 17)
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 (para 17)
11. She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say as a beast of burden. (para 19)
12. People with brown skins are next door to invisible. (para 21)
13. Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki uniforms (para 23)
14. How long before they turn their guns in the other direction? (para 25)
15. Every white man there had this thought stowed somewhere or other in his mind.
Inaugural address
paraphrase
1. Our ancestors fought a revolutionary war to maintain that all men were created equal and God had given them certain unalienable rights which no state or ruler could take away from them. But today this issue has not yet been
decided in many countries around the world.
2. This much we promise to do and we promise to do more.
3. United and working together we can accomplish a lot of things in a great number of joint undertakings.
4. We will not allow any enemy country to subvert this peaceful revolution which brings hope of progress to all our countries.
5. The United Nations is our last and best hope of survival in an age where the instruments of war have far surpassed the instruments of peace.
6. We pledge to help the United Nations enlarge the area in which its authority and mandate would continue to be in effect or in force.
7. before the terrible forces of destruction, which science can now release, overwhelm mankind; before this self-destruction, which may be planned or brought about by an accident, takes place
8. Yet both groups of nations are trying to change as quickly as possible this uncertain balance of terrible military power which restrains each group from launching mankind's final war.
9. So let us start once again (to discuss and negotiate)and let us remember that being polite is not a sign of weakness. 10. Let both sides try to call forth
the wonderful things that science can do for mankind instead of the frightful things it can do.
11. Americans of every generation have been called upon to prove their loyalty to their country (by fighting and dying for their country's cause).
12.Let history finally judge whether we have done our task welt or not, but our sure reward will be a good con-science for we will have worked sincerely and to the best of our ability.
Love is a fallacy
Paraphrase
1. He is a nice enough young fellow, you know, but he is empty-headed.
2. A passing fashion or craze, in my opinion, shoes a complete lack of reason.
3. I ought to have known that raccoon coat would come back to fashion when the Charleston dance, which was popular in the 1920s, came back
4. All the important and fashionable men on campus are wearing them. How come you don’t know?
5. My brain, which is a precision instrument, began to work at a high
speed.
6. Except for one thing (intelligence) polly had all other requirements.
7. She was not as beautiful as those girls in posters but i felt sure she would become beautiful enough after some time.
8. In fact, she was in the opposite direction, that is, she is not intelligent but rather stupid.
9. If you are no longer involved with her (if you stop dating her) others would be free to compete to get her as a girlfriend.
10. His head turned back and forth (looking at the coat then looking away from the coat). Every time he looked his desire for the coat grew stronger and his resolution not to give away polly become weaker.
11. To teach her to think appeared to be rather big task.
12. One must admit the outcome does not look very hopeful, but i decided to try one more time.
13. There is a limit to what any human being can bear.
14. I planned to be Pygmalion, to fashion an ideal wife for myself, but i turned out to be Frankenstein because polly(the result/product of my hard
work) ultimately rejected me and ruined my plan.
15.Desperately i tried to stop the feeling of panic that was overwhelming me.
The Sad Young Men Paraphrase
1.At the very mention of this post-war period, middle-aged people begin to think about it longingly.
2.In any case, an American could not avoid casting aside its middle-class respectability and affected refinement.
3.The war only helped to speed up the breakdown of the Victorian social structure.
4.In America at least, the young people were strongly inclined to shirk their responsibilities. They pretended to be worldly-wise, drinking and behaving naughtily.
5.The young people found greater pleasure in their drinking because Prohibition, by making drinking unlawful added a sense of adventure.
6.Our young men joined the armies of foreign countries to fight in the war.
7.The young people wanted to take part in the glorious ad-venture before the whole war ended.
8.These young people could no longer adapt themselves to lives in their home towns or their families.
9. The returning veteran also had to face Prohibition which the lawmakers hypocritically assumed would do good to the people. 10. (Under all this force and pressure) something in the youth of America, who were already very tense, had to break down.
11. It was only natural that hopeful young Writers whose minds and writings were filled with violent anger against war, Babbitry, and \"Puritanical\" gentility, should come in great numbers to live in Greenwich Village, the traditional artistic centre.
12. Each town was proud that it had a group of wild, reckless people, who lived unconventional lives. The ones who come from omelas
Paraphrase
1.The 1oud ringing of the bells, which sent the frightened swallows flying high, marked the beginning of the Festival of Summer in Omelas.
2.The shouting of the children could be heard clearly above the music and singing like the calls of the swallows flying by overhead.
3. The riders were putting the horses through some exercises because the horses were eager to start and stubbornly resisting the control of the riders.
4. After reading the above description the reader is likely to assume certain things.
5. The citizens of Omelas were not simple people, not kind and gentle shepherds, not savages of high birth, nor mild idealists dreaming of a perfect society.
6. An artist betrays his trust when he does not admit that evil is nothing fresh nor novel and pain is very dull and uninteresting. 7. They were fully developed and intelligent grown-up people full of
intense feelings and they were not miserable people.
8. Perhaps it would be best if the reader pictures Omelas to himself as his imagination tells him, assuming his imagination will be equal to the task.
9. The faint but compelling sweet scent of the drug drooz may fill the streets of the city.
10. Perhaps the child was mentally retarded because it was born so or perhaps it has become very foolish and stupid because of fear, poor nourishment and neglect.
11. The habits of the child are so crude and uncultured that it will show no sign of improvement even if it is treated kindly and tenderly.
12. They shed tears when they see how terribly unjust they have been to the child, but these tears dry up when they realize how just and fair though terrible reality was.
