一、Paraphrase the following sentences and write your restatements in English next to the number of the problem on your answer sheet.
1、 God had not struck Westley dead for taking his name in vain or for lying in the temple.
2. But forms of address reveal many assumptions we make about members of our speech community.
3. It is often said that, provided we are not of the unfortunate minority of people who have pathological language defects, our language mechanism automatically equips us to say anything we need to say.
4. There are many such arbitrary little limitations on our language.
5. He can give a matter-of-fact recitation on many murders.
11. Even though he is but a passing acquaintance, the American greeting ritual demands that I utter a few words to reassure him of my goodwill.
12. Such a suspension is his privilege to bestow.
13. What it does mean is that if my job or my hobby entailed a knowledge of these activities, my language would rise to the occasion.
14. We like to think that we make our language as we need it, but in fact the scope for an individual to change things is very limited.
15. At night the quiet neighborhood is shrouded in the slumbering darkness that marks most residential areas.
英译汉:
6. As native speakers in the American speech community, we have grown up learning the rules of address at the same time that we were acquiring the grammatical rules American-English.
7. At first thought, it might seem a trivial pursuit to examine the ways in which we address one another.
8. But forms of address reveal many assumptions we make about members of our speech community.
9. By contrast, people in submissive roles will tend to crouch slightly and display self-protective stances.
10. For a goodly time the Americans were travelers, moving about the country collecting its valuables, but with little idea of permanence; their roots and their hearts were in the towns and the growing cities along the eastern edge.
26. It is often said that, provided we are not of the unfortunate minority of people who have pathological language defects, our language mechanism automatically equips us to say anything we need to say.
27. This does not mean that I can talk about all the technicalities of company law or of central heating with the glibness of a solicitor or a plumber.
28. What it does mean is that if my job or my hobby entailed a knowledge of these activities, my language would rise to the occasion.
29. Nonverbal communication is also what we call culture-free; it applies worldwide. People can go anywhere and understand these signals, even if they don’t know the spoken language.
30. What an amazing country that can make it so hard for a man to choose among things designed for the purpose of being thrown away!
请注意第一大题是将句子理解后用英语说出来。后面的英译汉部分才是翻译。另外,请不要用机器翻译,谢谢。就连推荐答案也回答得不认真。难道就没人愿意认真回答一下吗