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
acid etching of tooth surface
aclorhydria
allowable ground-level concentration
anisodiametric
apotropaion
astronomical almanac
bare wire arc welding
bottom contact platform
bulge transport department
canroy machine
car.
catalytic cyclization
cheer you up
chilled-water refrigeration system
chloranilanillide
comediant
condon
convex tooled joint
D.N.A.ase
dandifies
defined label
desmodromic
differential-lock
dilettanti
emulsifiable solution
equimass diffusion
feed-back action
Feresa
fibrokeratomas
Fox, William
fuckas
fuckwitted
futures contract in interbank interest rate
gear-up
Harlemer
helicobacters
herbwomen
heteropolar symmetry
horizontal cells
hyprex
indication of inspection status
inservice inspection
intraocular microscissors
Iris cristata
isotac
keteleeria
knaytons
labita
lamp-post
le cateau
long manipulation
majkowskis
maritime association
nehela
non-perspective projection
NONDIM
normalized curve
operation characteristic
organophosphorus compounds
Orpheus
paperface
pasive homing guidance
point source dose
polarization-maintaining single-mode fiber
polo sticks
prepared piano
pronasion
pukka sahib
quasi-linear function
real-time delivery versus payment
recursive program scheme
red kernel
relaxation oscillator alarm
retection
reverse sequence
Rhinoviruse
Rhododendron aberconwayi
Roseau County
saltatory evolution
samac
screw lid
secondary intention
short - term investments
Sofians
soft binary
spotted skunks
Standon
steam scrubbing
supraomphaloaymia
take-over speed
Tengelic
terramycins
thirty-six
triangular-cored optical fiber
udotea conglutinata (sol.)lamx.
unhonour'd
unproper
vampire teabags
wagon-restaurant
what else is new
white-golds
wind slab