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Paraphrase:
一单元
1. …there has been this long lull with nothing particular tuning up!
… Brittan has been in too long a period of stillness without taking any particular action against the enemy.
2. …we must “…meet with triumph and disaster. And treat those two impostors just the same.”
We are sure to experience both triumph and disaster, and we must treat them as the same thing different appearance because they are essentially interchangeable.
3. …never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Never give in unless we convinced that it’s honorable and sensible for us to do so.
4. …Britain, other nations thought, had drawn a sponge across her slate.
Other nations thought that Britain was completely conquered.
5. …we have only to persevere to conquer.
We’ll as long as we hold on to the end.
二单元
1. The phrase “personal space” has a quaint, seventies ring to it.
The phrase “personal space” has an odd touch that was characteristic of the 1970s.
2. T-shirt weather can make proximity more alluring (or much, much less).
In hot summer days people can be drawn to each other, especially to the opposite sex. (or feel disgusted with the closeness of others)
3. The logistics of it wary according to geography.
People in different regions are given different sizes of personal space.
4. …individuals routinely commandeer booths and sets of facing seats meant for foursomes.
… It is quite common that one person occupies a booths and a set of facing seats designed for four people.
5. Even the focus of science these days in micro, not macro.
Even science forces on the intra-personal, inner world rather than the interpersonal outer society these days.
五单元
1. Slowly, it panned across the tapestry of friendship…
Slowly, the movie gives a panoramic picture of friendship.
2. This wasn’t just another binge of trendiness, but a kind of cinema vérité.
This was not simply a shift from one fashion to another, but a truthful description of friendship.
3. Buddies hang tough together; friends hang onto each other.
Buddies hold on together on face of diversity; friends cling tightly to each other for emotional support.
七单元
1. Television commercials seem to work best in close elections or those where is a large undecided vote.
TV intervention seems to have the greatest effect in election where the rivals are well-matched or in those where a large number of voters have not decided which side to take.
2. It dictates priorities that are different from those of an earlier day.
The intervention of TV in the present-day campaign determines what factors the candidate should consider before others, and these priorities of today are different from those of the past.
3. It can be argues that since the 1960 presidential debates we have elected people, not platforms. This is a major departure from earlier years.
It can be argued that since the 1960 presidential debates we have paid more attention to the candidates themselves than to their polices, this is an orientation very much different from that in earlier years.
4. Once he was President it was the intimate nature of the medium that helped bring him down.
When Nixon was president, television led to his resignation just because the medium disclosed his guilty in the Watergate scandal.
八单元
1. He was almost innocent of any sense of responsibility.
He almost had no sense of responsibility.
2. He wrote begging letters by the score, sometimes groveling without shame, at others loftily offering his intended benefactor the privilege of contributing to his support, and being mortally offended if the recipient declined the honor.
He wrote large numbers of letters begging for many. In some letters, he was servile without shame and in other letters he loftily offered his targeted refused to accept his off, i.e. refused to lend his money, he would fly into a rage.
3. He would pull endless wires in order to meet some man who admire his work and was able and anxious to be use to him …
He would use influence from as many people as possible in order to meet some admire of his who was readily useful to him.
4. Is it any wonder he had no time to be a man?
Sine Wagner was such a miraculous monster, is it any wonder that he didn’t behave like a normal human being in this world?