时间:2019-01-16 作者:英语课 分类:2017年NPR美国国家公共电台2月


英语课

 


AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:


Who says nobody dreams big anymore?


MATT NEGRIN: I want to write about what it's like to never leave the Mall of America.


ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:


That's Matt Negrin. He's a comedy writer in New York. This week, he learned that there is a job just right for him at this country's largest mall, the Mall of America.


CORNISH: Dan Jasper is vice 1 president there.


DAN JASPER: We're having a writer-in-residence contest.


CORNISH: The mall turns 25 this summer, and they're hiring a writer-in-residence as part of the celebration. They already have 500 entries.


SHAPIRO: As Thoreau once took inspiration from Walden Pond, one lucky writer will have the chance to go to the mall and live deliberately 2.


JASPER: Have five days on the mall. They can interact with shoppers or ride a roller coaster or swim with sharks, be immersed into the life and the excitement of the mall and get to write whatever they really feel like that pertains 3 somehow to Mall of America.


CORNISH: Writer Matt Negrin put one additional condition on his application.


NEGRIN: I want to make sure, should you select me as your writer-in-residence, that a security guard is assigned to my person 24 hours a day. Not to protect me, but to stop me from trying to escape the Mall of America.


SHAPIRO: One note. The terms and conditions say that the writer's work must not be inaccurate 4, derogatory, incompatible 5 with, inconsistent with or otherwise contradictory 6 to the Mall of America's desired presentation. Art isn't easy.


CORNISH: The application closes March 10. Good luck.


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n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
adv.审慎地;蓄意地;故意地
  • The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
  • They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。
关于( pertain的第三人称单数 ); 有关; 存在; 适用
  • When one manages upward, none of these clear and unambiguous symbols pertains. 当一个人由下而上地管理时,这些明确无误的信号就全都不复存在了。
  • Her conduct hardly pertains to a lady. 她的行为与女士身份不太相符。
adj.错误的,不正确的,不准确的
  • The book is both inaccurate and exaggerated.这本书不但不准确,而且夸大其词。
  • She never knows the right time because her watch is inaccurate.她从来不知道准确的时间因为她的表不准。
adj.不相容的,不协调的,不相配的
  • His plan is incompatible with my intent.他的计划与我的意图不相符。
  • Speed and safety are not necessarily incompatible.速度和安全未必不相容。
adj.反驳的,反对的,抗辩的;n.正反对,矛盾对立
  • The argument is internally contradictory.论据本身自相矛盾。
  • What he said was self-contradictory.他讲话前后不符。
学英语单词
acute nondifferentiated leukemia
admittor
Alstonia macrophylla
ammonium dimethyl-dithiocarbamate
anonymous letter of accusation
anti-wind beam
anusha
automobile company
be forced to
biliary apparatus
bitumen felt packing
bulk freighter
cadavid
charsley
chicken-dancing
citrus thrips
clinopedion
close-tolerance
commerical agriculture
continuous-feed plating press
corrosion of metals
crippling strain
crp-camp
CSMS
current-source converter
cut someone out of all feather
de gustibus non est disputandum
diagonal line of a matrix
dispatch material inquiry
dulvich
dyspragia intermittens
edaphic community
electrocutaneous feedback
Enlon-Plus
epizoons
erbani
floating respiration
fuddy-dudduddies
genus Euglena
good conduct
gramophone amplifier
grantmakers
gravis
hsien hsien t'ao
hub cannon
hybrid electric vehicle
inflictor
inner aperture
integral differential
interconnection funtion
isotopic separation
Kuroso-yama
Langhans' giant cells
lapse-rates
leisurist
leukocytoblast
loosen
membrana flaccida
membranule
mere shipment rule
microsthenic
monotonically increasing
mullineux
multifrequency laser
multiple-bead deposit
myristicae semen
nip in blossom
niru
non-central multivariate f-distribution
nontoppling block
orbital manoeuvre
Oxychlorochin
printed output
protecting leaf
pythonist
Quercus virginiana
ramidex
rock sunfish
Seine-Maritime, Dép.de la
shelter-decker
slack-water
steam cracker
steam nebulization
stepwise solvent extraction
sugarcane gummosis
summer flood
Tilia dictyoneura
topolatry
torchworked
track shoe
transistor motor
Trilochan
turbine supervisory instrument
two-flank gear rolling tester
verdage
vesical diverticulum
Vice-President-elect
visual range meter
William Lawrence Shirer
wolffe
work for a living
Yougou