【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER TWO(14)
时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:有声英语文学名著
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He wasn‘t much of a writer, knew little about politics, spoke 1 bad restaurant-French, lacked all training and qualifications, possessed 2 only a passport and a vivid image of himself smoking beneath a ceiling fan in tropical countries, a battered 3 Nikon and a bottle of whisky by his bedside.
Of course what he really wanted was to be a photographer. At sixteen he had completed a photo-project called "Texture‘, full of black and white close-ups of tree bark and sea-shells which had apparently "blown‘ his art teacher‘s mind. Nothing that he had done since had given him as much satisfaction as "Texture‘ and those high-contrast prints of frost on windows and the gravel in the driveway. Journalism would mean grappling with difficult stuff like words and ideas, but he thought he might have the makings of a decent photographer, if only because he felt he had a strong sense of when things looked right. At this stage in his life, his main criterion for choosing a career was that it should sound good in a bar, shouted into a girl‘s ear, and there was no denying that "I‘m a professional photographer‘ was a fine sentence, almost up there with "I report from war zones‘ or "actually, I make documentaries.‘
Of course what he really wanted was to be a photographer. At sixteen he had completed a photo-project called "Texture‘, full of black and white close-ups of tree bark and sea-shells which had apparently "blown‘ his art teacher‘s mind. Nothing that he had done since had given him as much satisfaction as "Texture‘ and those high-contrast prints of frost on windows and the gravel in the driveway. Journalism would mean grappling with difficult stuff like words and ideas, but he thought he might have the makings of a decent photographer, if only because he felt he had a strong sense of when things looked right. At this stage in his life, his main criterion for choosing a career was that it should sound good in a bar, shouted into a girl‘s ear, and there was no denying that "I‘m a professional photographer‘ was a fine sentence, almost up there with "I report from war zones‘ or "actually, I make documentaries.‘
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
adj.疯狂的;拥有的,占有的
- He flew out of the room like a man possessed.他像着了魔似地猛然冲出房门。
- He behaved like someone possessed.他行为举止像是魔怔了。