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


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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.


(SOUNDBITE OF ALLAH-LAS SONG, "FERUS GALLERY")



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。
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acoustic signal processing
aenictus lifuiae
ansorges
balsam fir oil
belcik
bird's-nest moss
bonite
capacity potential
chamigrene
chrysose
cochliobolus carbonum
collateralizing
commission on issue and public offerings
compact heat exchanger
contributories
Cornus walteri
cylinder type former
demisexualities
dive-dapper
dogoodism
dummy out
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Emden function
engraving disc revolver
exclude columns
form and content
germinating bed
ground water geophysics
h-pad
hivemind
holloing
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hydrogen reservoir
indoleglyoxal
ingardens
insulating ceramic
interactive test controller
jagged-edge
lagostomus maximuss
laser injury
laxen
Lee-White method
ligamenta tuberculi costae
limited-monarchy
locomotive rating
Loran position line
machine state grammar
marchant
marginal cost of information
maturity stage
mineragenetic province
minocyclines
Montevideo, B.de
multi-valued displacement
multifile sorting
non-consideration
normaway
nuclearship
nux moschata
Oborniki
Ojika-jima
papaverines
paraglobulin
Pedicularis wardii
perpetuum mobile
phase-shift oscillation
phosphorus suboxide
piece ... together
piement
platteland
polarization modulation
radio listening silence
Rayleigh phase velocity
reestablishers
reestates
relational hierarchy
res ipsa loquiturs
Rhododendron dasypetalum
right side view
rostratum
rungiss
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self-referrals
Sminthuridae
solar interplanetary medium
sphaerocobaltite (spherocobaltite)
spiritu
spot-next
state monoply of material supply and marketing
structural isomerization
the helm
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travelbag
treated wastewater
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ywept