VOA标准英语2010年-Like Words, Drawings Tell Stories
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(七)月
Manga, a longstanding Japanese version of graphic 1 novels, is such a popular literary form that ian entire category in several bookstores.t's
In a recent Washington Post story, Michael Dirda described young people sprawled 2 on the floor at bookstores, their eyes riveted 3 on the books in front of them. In fact, Dirda wrote, no other readers look quite so utterly 4 absorbed.
The books belonged to a hot but, until recently, somewhat obscure genre 5 that many Americans have never heard of.
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This is an obviously well-attended workshop, specifically on how to create graphic novels, at a library in Franklin Park, Illinois.
It's the graphic novel. And the graphic part has nothing to do with explicit 6 written descriptions of people, places, acts, or events. It refers to the illustrations, or graphics 7, that, in this form of book, carry the story as much as, or more than, the words.
Graphic novels - whose format 8 has been traced all the way back to medieval woodcuts and to adult 19th Century Japanese illustrated 9 stories called manga - look a lot like comic strips in book form. But each volume tells a full and complex story.
Graphic novels are mocked in some literary quarters as simplistic - another example of what some consider the dumbing down of the American culture.
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The first word is washed out a bit from the flash reflection, but it reflects a meeting announcement for a book club of folks who read graphic novels in Portland, Oregon.
Writer Alan Moore, for instance, scoffs 10 that graphic novel is nothing but a marketing 11 term . . . meaning 'expensive comic book.'
That's an interesting take, since Moore is himself a British comic-book writer.
- The book gave a graphic description of the war.这本书生动地描述了战争的情况。
- Distinguish important text items in lists with graphic icons.用图标来区分重要的文本项。
- He was sprawled full-length across the bed. 他手脚摊开横躺在床上。
- He was lying sprawled in an armchair, watching TV. 他四肢伸开正懒散地靠在扶手椅上看电视。
- I was absolutely riveted by her story. 我完全被她的故事吸引住了。
- My attention was riveted by a slight movement in the bushes. 我的注意力被灌木丛中的轻微晃动吸引住了。
- Utterly devoted to the people,he gave his life in saving his patients.他忠于人民，把毕生精力用于挽救患者的生命。
- I was utterly ravished by the way she smiled.她的微笑使我完全陶醉了。
- My favorite music genre is blues.我最喜欢的音乐种类是布鲁斯音乐。
- Superficially,this Shakespeare's work seems to fit into the same genre.从表面上看， 莎士比亚的这个剧本似乎属于同一类型。
- She was quite explicit about why she left.她对自己离去的原因直言不讳。
- He avoids the explicit answer to us.他避免给我们明确的回答。
- You've leveraged your graphics experience into the video area.你们把图形设计业务的经验运用到录像业务中去。
- Improved graphics took computer games into a new era.经改进的制图技术将电脑游戏带进了一个新时代。
- Please format this floppy disc.请将这张软盘格式化。
- The format of the figure is very tasteful.该图表的格式很雅致。
- [ Scoffs ] Why should a young girl like that love an old fart like me? 为什么一个那样的年轻女孩应该喜欢我这样的老家伙？
- The noise of the moment scoffs at the music of the Eternal. 瞬刻的喧声，讥笑着永恒的音乐。