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
Acadian French
acrocheir
alkali metal carboxylate
allocation/deallocation strategy
appraisal profit
asconoid type
astreopora ocellata
backbreakers
bed load discharge
Bhaktapur
block economy
botch
brake beams
Braxton Hicks
bucketfuls
butcher pig
cantering rhythm
cartographic induction method
categories of troops
CCPDS
coloured lamp
complex function circuit
confession of judgement
conserveness
current product cost
dark face
dark-current pulse
de flector apron
decade switch
delay line registor
drop tower test
dxcc
edgardoes
electric integrator
exciteable
exo-diphtheria toxin
field scanning rate
fission product adsorption
follow-up potentiometer
foreignise
freewheeled
frequently asked questions(faq)
freshen the hawse
generator failure
graduates nurse
Hapert
Henson trust
house bill of lading
ieee 802 standards
infectivity titration
infinitely large airstream
isocaproaldehyde
Lindenhardt
liquid crystal light valve projector
MLE (maximum likelihood estimate)
moggel
Morigio I.
mujahids
nifedipines
nitrogen dioxides
no-bail-out
nonlinear physics
objectivists
of even date
paino nobiles
parameter group identifier
phosphorus dibromomonofluoride
physiological manifestation
Platyventroceras
popcorn movie
postmodernization
prespark curve
protective relay
rated throughput
reconfinements
reduced wave number zone
retrieval environment
run out at
sargentgloryvine
sepdumag
simultane
social indicator statistics
software appliance
solar energy materials
stock turn
sulfathiadiazole
tabagie
technometer
tendent
thamnophis sirtaliss
to splash out on something
Tupirama
tzaricides
under the coat
unguentum hydrargyri ammoniati
urgite
virtual angle of friction
vivarinis
wallmaster
Weighted average Coupon
woolliest
worming