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.


(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。
学英语单词
acetylmuramyl-alanylisoglutamine
airborne particles
aircraft prototype
Akkerman
aldol condensation
alteriuss
amylomaize
AN-2
annual laminaria
antero-posterior diameter of vertebral foramen
anti-parallel domain
appearance by guardian
atmolysed
automatic scavenging valve
Bacon's Rebellion
blown their top
bolt spring
bowdrey
bring to a standstill
Carmonita
caudothalamic
channel control unit
coaptation splints
COBOL standard
condiome
decanted
depreciation-maintenance method
digital television camera
dinitro-salicylate
dispersing control system
draw away
effectiveness of internal control
fore-and-aft distance
foveola
fractional percolation
genus Trimorphodon
get a look at
glass-frame cabinet
gravitational darkening
grouted annulus
gutwrenching
haking
high feed
hilda lining
hot-end coating meter
hydroxylauric acid
indicator device driver maintaining washer
Kennedy Town
Kodavere
least harmonic majorant
littlemissmatched
local jack
magnetic sorting bridge
magnetoassociation
Maratua, Pulau
metageneses
methylhydrazine sulfate
misbelieves
misexpounded
nephroblastomata
noncognitivist
nonmale
normal data line
Old Low Franconian
on-state power dissipation
outer container
overall length of broach
pancreatico-duodenal vein
pansperm
pediculated cells
pentadactylous
perfusion scanning
pipewort family
planishing stand
platform door control panel
postbounce
potassium hyperoxide
price discovery
price taggers
raspberrylike
recuperation of current
relaxation spectra
Rhododendron amandum
sabata
saccharomycete
salvadore
self-dump rake
semi-dry dock
static evaluatin value
switchboard operators
system software library
the lion's den
trajectory of curve
travelling toothpaste
unhirsute
uranium mining
ventile
wantt-
westbrooks
wooden rake
world council of churchess
zambuk