现代大学英语精读5,第3.5课后paraphrase和翻译答案

现代大学英语精读5,第3.5课后paraphrase和翻译答案

Lesson 3

1. Yet globalization… “is a reality, not a choice”.

Yet globalization is not something that you can accept or reject, it is already

a matter of life which you will encounter and have to respond to every day.

2. Popular factions sprout to exploit nationalist anxieties.

Political groups with broad support have come into being to take advantage of existing worries and uneasiness among the people about foreign “cultural assault”.

3. …where xenophobia and economic ambition have often struggled for the upper hand…

…in China, the two trends of closed—door and open—door policies have long been struggling for dominance.

4. Those people out there should continue to live in a museum while we will have showers that work.

The Chinese people should continue to live a backward life while we live comfortably with all modern conveniences.

5. Westernization… is a phenomenon shot with inconsistencies and populated by very strange bedfellows.

…westernization is a concept full of self—contradiction and held by people of very different backgrounds or views.

6. You don’t have to be cool to do it; you just have to have the eye.

In trying to find out what will be the future trend, you do not need to be fashionable yourself. All you need is awareness, that is to say, you need to be on the alert, to be observant.

7. He… was up in the cybersphere far above the level of time zones.

He was moving around, playing a game through the Internet with people living in different time zones, thus their activity on the computer broke down time zone limit.

8. In the first two weeks of business the Gucci Store took in a surprising ＄100,000. The Gucci store did not expect that in the first two weeks of its opening in Shanghai business could be so good.

9. Early on I realized that I was going to need some type of compass to guide me through the wilds of global culture.

From the very beginning I know I need some theory as guideline to help me in my study of global cultures as globalization, to guide me through such a variety of cultural phenomena.

10. The penitence may have been Jewish, but the aspiration was universal.

The way of showing repentance might be peculiar to the Jews, but the strong desire of gaining forgiveness from God is common, shared by all.

Lesson 3

1. Today we are in the throes of a worldwide reformation of cultures, a tectonic shift of habits and dreams called, in the curious vocabulary of social scientists, “globalization”.

今天我们正经历着一种世界范围文化剧变的阵痛，一种习俗与追求的结构性