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
a veil of silence
acetylene oxygen flame
algebraic curve
amphiroa ephedraea
an inch of cold iron
andesine basalt
androphobia
apparancy
Australian Standard
bacchantes
beginning of curve (b.c.)
beginning of term
between the cup and the lip
bradymerus masumotoi
brake-rod spring
carnulose
chrysomphalus aonidum
class Chrysophyceae
classical complex simple Lie algebras
completion riser
connection problem counter
convection diffusion equation
creyse
damper segment
death-grip
department of human resources
dhoby
digitated trifoliolate
dinas powys
dynamic multifunctional pipeline
dynamic tube constant
each-uisges
eccentric sheave
effective embedment level
emplectum
ento-enzyme
equal area criterion of twomachine system
error energy
falling fouling
femorotibial
femtohm
fictive
fluorescent brightening
future value
Garner, Alan
get off the grass
give sb. the edge of one's tongue
glessum
Golden Globe Award
graduated disk
gravity concentration apparatus
hand time release
heaser
hen-and-chickens
holistic mark
hydroxylation
hypnodendron reinwardfii (weinw.et hormch) lindb
income to net worth ratio
initial external procedure
landing runway
Lavater, Johann Kaspar
lavers
lemon soda
leyline
lingual diastematy
lining rubber tanker
malignant vesicle
manor-place
microwave detector
misinferring
motorino
nahr
National Gallery
neural arches
non-intimate
off-stage
output bus
parallel machines
pentagraph
piru
planeticose
post-nova
propyl gallate
pulmonary cavitation
rolling-out process
scram dump tank
Shiokawa
skyline cable logging
spoiler effects
starting-points
step load change
STHRF
subimmersed
survey and drawing of investigation
take a pride in
testing facilities
turret traverse
watched my back
willowlike
wire-walking
zap us
zinc fluoborate