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Unit 2 Marrakech
1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot.
The burying-ground is just a huge piece of wasteland full of mounds of earth looking like a deserted and abandoned construction site.
2. All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that fact. All the imperialists build up their empires by treating the people in the colonies like animals.
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.
They are born. Then for a few years they work, toil and starve. Finally they die and are buried in graves without a name, and nobody notices that they are dead.
4. A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed.
Sitting with his legs crossed and using a very old-fashioned lathe, a carpenter quickly gives a round shape to the chair-legs he is making.
5. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews.
Immediately from their dark hole-like cells everywhere a great number of Jews rushed out wildly excited.
6. …every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury.
Every one of these poor Jews looked on the cigarette as a piece of luxury which they could not possibly afford.
7. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.
However, a white -skinned European is always quite noticeable.
8. In a tropical landscape one’s eye takes in everything except the human beings.
If you take a look at the natural scenery in a tropical region, you see everything but the human beings.
9. No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distressed Areas. No one would think of organizing cheap trips for the tourists to visit the poor slum areas. 10. …for nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless, back-breaking struggle to wring a little food out of an eroded soil. Life is very hard for ninety percent of the people. With hard backbreaking toil they can produce a little food on the poor soil．
11．She accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say as a beast of burden.
She took it for granted that as an old woman she was the lowest in the community, that she was only fit for doing heavy work like an animal． 12. People with brown skins are next door to invisible. People with brown skins are almost invisible．
13．Their splendid bodies were hidden in reach-me-down khaki uniforms… The Senegalese soldiers were wearing ready-made khaki uniforms which hid their beautiful well-built bodies．
14. How long before they turn their guns in the other direction? How much longer before they turn their guns around and attack the colonialist rulers? 15．Every white man there had this thought stowed somewhere or other in his mind.
Every white man, had this thought hidden somewhere or other in his mind Unit3
1. And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebears fought is still at issue around the globe...
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 pledge—and more.
2. This much we promise to do and we promise to do more.
3. 3. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. United and working together we can accomplish a lot of things in a great number of joint undertakings.
4. …our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace…
The UN is our last and best hope of survival in an age where the instruments of war have far surpassed the instruments of peace. 5. …to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.
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.
6. …before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.
Before the terrible forces of destruction, which atomic bombs can now release, wipe out mankind, which may be planned or brought about by an accident. 7. …yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind’s final war.
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.
8. So let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness,… So let us start once again and let us remember that being polite is not a sign of weakness.
9. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Let both sides try to call forth the wonderful things that science can do for mankind instead of the frightful things it can do.