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
abstinence-only
academisation
acyclic feeding
aleas
ascending paper partition chromatography
Asgeirsson, Asgeir
berserkers
biliary cirrhosis of children
Bou Arada
bracket off
candystriper
chaff-cutter
chain ring
chemical industry of salt
chief culprit
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coil break
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cumwad
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diagonal and longitudinal built
diagonal of a circuit
dibasic magnesium acid
disillusionizes
effractor
equal-energy depths
flux-second
genus Argyroxiphium
grammetre
hachured map
heelproof
heterocyclic compounds
high resistance wire
high-dipping
Hycolin
inboard/outboard driver
is subject to
judgeable
jumpings-off point
juvenile policies
Kolyberovo
koopman
launching time limit
macrodiplax cora
magnetic permeability measurement
matrika
Maupihaa Atoll
myringoplasties
neocyema erythro soma
nicotinamide adenine trinucleotide
no fault insurance
oberstar
oliva rufula
on all sides
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Ostrogovitsy
oxidation by air
passive navigation display
pereipoda
phononics
plankton feeding habit
Prasinomyein
progressive idiopathic atrophoderma
quiescent state
rack gear
reboants
reflection cross-talk
rehardens
right mindedness
Romberg-Howship sign
rub something out
russellite
sanguisorbin
Sattnitz
sclerotinia allii
scorpionate
shootest
short time work
singlecrystalcamera
sprung masses
strain-recording equipment
tent pegs
thack
thin-walled open section beam
thorough basses
throw-in-type thresher
Time and tide wait for no one
Time magazine
tray washer
two-bin inventory system
unblocking temperature
undersuits
valorimeter value
venae obturatoriae
wage rates
washing safety frequency authorization
Waterborne Business Law
Wüstenrot