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1.Before the Industrial Revolution scattered populations and steam and later petrol engines ensured easy mobility, there could have been few family reunions as we know this ceremony at the present time, wi

1. Haze is a type of aerosol, a concentration of microscopic particles suspended in air, which diminishes the clearness of the atmosphere.

2. Haze particles may be either natural substances or polutants emitted by human activities.

3. The winter haze blankets an area roughly the size of North America.

4. Its density varies considerably by location and time, but it is often comparable to pollution levels occurring over medium-sized North American cities.

5. An

Individuals and Masses by Aldous Huxley

    A man or woman makes direct contact with society in two ways: as a member of some familial, professional or religious group, or as a member of a crowd.Groups are capable of being as moral and intelligent as the individuals who form them; a crowd is chaotic, has no purpose of its own and is capable of anything except intelligent action and realistic thinking. Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers

1. Why do privates eat in the general mess and generals eat in the private mess?

2. Language is like the air we breathe.

3. Wometimes you have to believe that all English speakers should be committed to an asulum for the verbally insane.

4. And why, pray tell, does lisp have an s in it?

5. Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

6. The insurance is invalid for the invalid.

7. The buck does funny th

高级英语第三课paraphrase练习

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1. Aman may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be

Figures of speech: simile, metaphor, personification, synecdoche, anticlimax, metonymy, repetition, exaggeration, euphemism, antonomasia, parody.
1)      Little monkeys with harmoniously tinkling bells thread their way among the throngs of people entering and leaving the bazaar.(metaphor)-----Page1,Lesson1.
2)      It grows louder and more distinct ,until you round a corner and see a fairyla

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1. He told me that he had been intrigued with the "spiritual journey" of the essay, especially in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />

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            Beauty on the Wing