老师让我们用自己的话复述这篇文章的主要内容。

The teacher asked us to ___paraphrase the main points of the article in our own words.

老师要求我们用自己理解的方式重新表述这段文字，而不是直接引用。

The teacher asked us to ___paraphrase the passage in our own words instead of quoting it directly.