时间:2018-12-19 作者:英语课 分类:Entertainment


英语课
Hello, I’m Amber 1 and this is bbclearningenglish.com.
  In Entertainment today, we listen to a review of the seventh, and last, HarryPotter book - Harry 2 Potter and the Deathly Hallows – which millions ofchildren (and adults) rushed out to buy at midnight on the day it was publishedsimultaneously in 93 countries! It had a print run of 12 million in the US alone!
  After 10 years of twists and turns in the life of the young wizard, Harry Potter,there’s a final confrontation 3 between Harry and a highly evil character. It’s adark rollercoaster ride, with Harry on the run most of the time. And if the salesfigures are true – this is officially the fastest selling book in history!
  We’ll hear from the author and book critic Amanda Craig. As soon as she gothold of her copy, she sat on the sofa reading it for ‘6 hours solid’ - she didn’tput it down until she’d finished!
  So what’s so magical about the Harry Potter books? Well, Amanda Craig hasan interesting answer to that question. She quotes JK Rowling who has said shedoesn’t really like ‘fantasy’ – that’s a type of fiction featuring imaginaryworlds and magical events! (We have the related adjectives ‘fantastic’ and‘fantastical’ – meaning - not real, strange and imaginary.)Amanda Craig says the world of Harry Potter is so ‘irresistible 4’ – it’s sooverpowering – because of two things. She says it’s a result of – ‘it’s down to’
  – two things. Try to catch what they are.
  Amanda Craig‘One of the most interesting things about her is that she’s said that she doesn’t really likefantasy. And in fact, if you look at the way that she’s written it, I think the explanation forwhy she’d so popular is down to two things – one is that in every book she’s sort of writing adetective story or a thriller 5, and there’s where adults have got on to the whole series, but theother more interesting thing is she’s actually made the magical world seem real, seemsomething you could just walk into off Tottenham Court Road, and by doing that she’s alsocorrespondingly made reality more magical, and I think that’s what’s so irresistible about hervision, her … you know, Harry’s whole world that it’s a world in which wizards do have tolearn magic, they have to do homework, and that’s really delightful 6.’
  Amber:       So Amanda Craig explains that she thinks the magical power of the HarryPotter books is down to the exciting stories or plots – every book is like adetective story or thriller. And this is why adults like the books; this is whyadults have ‘got on to’ them, why they have become interested in them. Andthe books make the magical seem real – as real as Tottenham Court Road - abusy road of shops and cafes in central London! And they make the real worldseem magical – that is clever isn’t it?
  Listen again.
  Amanda Craig‘One of the most interesting things about her is that she’s said that she doesn’t really likefantasy. And in fact, if you look at the way that she’s written it, I think the explanation forwhy she’d so popular is down to two things – one is that in every book she’s sort of writing adetective story or a thriller, and there’s where adults have got on to the whole series, but theother more interesting thing is she’s actually made the magical world seem real, seemsomething you could just walk into off Tottenham Court Road, and by doing that she’s alsocorrespondingly made reality more magical, and I think that’s what’s so irresistible about hervision, her … you know, Harry’s whole world that it’s a world in which wizards do have tolearn magic, they have to do homework, and that’s really delightful.’
  Amber:  JK Rowling is also often praised for being a very cinematic writer which iswhy her books make wonderful films. But she’s probably most respected forencouraging so many millions of young people to read fiction. She’s madethem interested in it; she’s ‘turned them on to’ reading. And so now, reading is‘cooler’ – it’s much more fashionable than it was. She’s stopped reading frombeing ‘killed off’ by computer games and she’s ‘paved 7 the way’, she’sprepared the way, for another great children’s writer! Try to catch his name.
  Amanda Craig‘I think a lot more children have been turned on to reading and reading has become a lotcooler than it was. It was real danger of just being killed off by game boxes and computersand I think – yes! – and she’s paved the way for another really great children’s writer which isPhillip Pullman, who has it all, I think!’
  Amber:  So if you’ve enjoyed the Harry Potter books, try reading Philip Pullman’sstories. Loads of adults think they’re brilliant too! Start with ‘His DarkMaterials’…Now let’s recap the language we focussed on.
  fantasy – a type of fiction featuring imaginary worlds and magical eventsto be down to something – to be the result of somethingirresistible – overpoweringcooler – more fashionableto be killed off – to be endedpaved the way – prepared the way

1 amber
n.琥珀;琥珀色;adj.琥珀制的
  • Would you like an amber necklace for your birthday?你过生日想要一条琥珀项链吗?
  • This is a piece of little amber stones.这是一块小小的琥珀化石。
2 harry
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
3 confrontation
n.对抗,对峙,冲突
  • We can't risk another confrontation with the union.我们不能冒再次同工会对抗的危险。
  • After years of confrontation,they finally have achieved a modus vivendi.在对抗很长时间后,他们最后达成安宁生存的非正式协议。
4 irresistible
adj.非常诱人的,无法拒绝的,无法抗拒的
  • The wheel of history rolls forward with an irresistible force.历史车轮滚滚向前,势不可挡。
  • She saw an irresistible skirt in the store window.她看见商店的橱窗里有一条叫人着迷的裙子。
5 thriller
n.惊险片,恐怖片
  • He began by writing a thriller.That book sold a million copies.他是写惊险小说起家的。那本书卖了一百万册。
  • I always take a thriller to read on the train.我乘火车时,总带一本惊险小说看。
6 delightful
adj.令人高兴的,使人快乐的
  • We had a delightful time by the seashore last Sunday.上星期天我们在海滨玩得真痛快。
  • Peter played a delightful melody on his flute.彼得用笛子吹奏了一支欢快的曲子。
7 paved
v.铺( pave的过去式和过去分词 );为…铺平道路
  • a paved area near the back door 后门旁一块石板地
  • The wide paved road degenerated into a narrow bumpy track. 铺好的宽阔道路渐渐变窄,成了一条崎岖不平的小径。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
acer laevigatum wall.
Ahwai
Amakusa-nada
assage
Balashi
be blind with
black box theory
boric acid transfer line
bottoms of the inning
breached crater
can be used
chained allocation
chinook salmon embryo cell line ( chse)
circumlental space
cointegrates
color coordination
common-law
compound postion ring
corpse roads
course gimbal
dam wall
depictings
dharmen
dilution law
downfaulted trough
Emb.
environment entropy
facultativepond
fixed condenser
fresh water algae
full deck vessel
glass fiber waveguide
good visibility
grab attachment
have a sharp tongue
heterophyllisine
high-resolution detector
hundred new-tip weight
immersion refractometer
indeterminate plants
individual colour circuit
indorsement confirmed
information processing theory
interrupt request signal
Kuorpukas, Gora
Kuprin, Alexander Ivannovich
lead tetracetate
library accounting
manual of classification
manual removal of placenta
mens conscia recti
meso-regional distribution of soils
Miller-grinder
moddy type low-potential diffusion tube
moneyspinnings
Mornington Abyssal Plain
multiple-unit tube
Neuglobsow
neutral complex extraction
nga-pee
note payable account
official business
optimal process control
oxylium
Paraphlomis setulosa
pastes
percussive plough
piezoelectric effects
protogeny
proximal intertarsal sac
q.e.f.
quackhood
quality of beam
ringhalses
rotation for non-inbreeding
RPTK
saddle bronc-riding
secondary ion back-ground
seed press wheel
sell someone a bill of goods
sess.
SPONDYLIDAE
strap ferns
strombus lentiginosus
sulcus for tendon of flexor hallucis longus
synbiotic
thermal volatilization analysis
Timoptal
to change for the better
torchet
torsional piezoelectric oscillation
two-tier exchange rate system
typical performance
udifluvents
unit tube of flux
varifocal Moire zone plate
vigo r.
weld period
woodworms
writs of right
zinc-plated