时间:2019-02-01 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(十月)


英语课

By Amanda Cassandra
New York
04 October 2006


In early autumn, an array of international artists presented their best on the page and on the stage in the Harlem section of New York City.  The presentation is part of a new festival celebrating storytelling through books and performance. 


The three-day UpSouth International Book Festival presented works and performances by artists and writers of various backgrounds and nationalities.  Some came from as far away as Mexico, Cuba, Ecuador, Trinidad and Sierra Leone; others as close as Harlem.


Festival founder 1 Malaika Adero says it was launched to shine a light on contemporary storytelling as an art and tool for enlightenment.


"The purpose is to promote great storytelling, to promote primarily great books and the people who make them," she said.  "To celebrate literature as a storytelling medium, but also to celebrate dance, music, film, all the forms in which we use to tell our stories and to do so in a way that showcases the brilliance 2 of diversity."


Guests of the festival included actor and activist 3 Ruby 4 Dee, who read from her book Life Lit by Some Large Vision, a compilation 5 of speeches by her late husband, actor Ossie Davis.  Another writer, Pulitzer Prize winner Oscar Hijuelos, read from his book Cuba Is ... Poetry in both Spanish and English.


Adero says her goal in starting the festival is to bring together a multi-cultural group of artists so they have a new platform to connect with each other and with audiences.


"It is an opportunity for artists to meet other artists doing other kinds of work," she said.  "It is an opportunity for the audience to meet artists and authors in an intimate way and engage with them.  It is very much about creating a dialog and creating community across all kinds of boundaries."


Actor Ruby Dee says although storytelling has taken on various new forms because of television and other media, books will never lose their allure 6.


"There are dimensions that we can get from books that are not possible on television.  There is something about seeing it in the book, that hearing on television and the radio does not satisfy," she said.


Adero hopes to continue to expand the festival each year, because she says the mission of the festival is timeless.  Humans, she says, have been telling stories since long before the written word.



n.创始者,缔造者
  • He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
  • According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说,罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。
n.光辉,辉煌,壮丽,(卓越的)才华,才智
  • I was totally amazed by the brilliance of her paintings.她的绘画才能令我惊歎不已。
  • The gorgeous costume added to the brilliance of the dance.华丽的服装使舞蹈更加光彩夺目。
n.活动分子,积极分子
  • He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
  • He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。
n.红宝石,红宝石色
  • She is wearing a small ruby earring.她戴着一枚红宝石小耳环。
  • On the handle of his sword sat the biggest ruby in the world.他的剑柄上镶有一颗世上最大的红宝石。
n.编译,编辑
  • One of the first steps taken was the compilation of a report.首先采取的步骤之一是写一份报告。
  • The compilation of such diagrams,is of lasting value for astronomy.绘制这样的图对天文学有永恒的价值。
n.诱惑力,魅力;vt.诱惑,引诱,吸引
  • The window displays allure customers to buy goods.橱窗陈列品吸引顾客购买货物。
  • The book has a certain allure for which it is hard to find a reason.这本书有一种难以解释的魅力。
学英语单词
absorption thickness
Achillea alpina
adamantanamtne
Adeste Fideles
admissible overload
aerosol valve
air control
amending statute
Anopheles quadrimaculatus
antimice
autofellated
b-girls
biblists
biological feedback
black squirrels
break-even method
butabon
Centralized Market
coeliaco-mesenteric artery
coelorinchus leptorhinus
come with
defeet
dhu al-hijjahs
dubrovski
duplex horizontal sprayer
environmentally correct
erector analis muscle
Estiva
ethylenethiourea
ever-smoker
Exosphaeroma
fore-hood
foreground collimating mark
fuel-burning area
fusspots
Glyconic, glyconic
ground sea
hangups
hemiblock
hierarchical indexed direct access method
homalocephalus
hydrolysis hydrogenation
in record time
instruments of punishment
intervertebral veins
Jiaoxi Township
Khalyasavey
law-executor
manual of budgetary control
march with
market position
Mascouten
medium-sized plot test
metayage system
Neocomian Stage
neurosecretory thickenings
new-builds
normal form for matrix
nozzle dimensions for level gauge
odourlessly
offering mechanism
ordinary sidelight
pick-harness
pointer type declaration
polymethylmethacrylate moldng material
pseudocoris bleekeri
pull-out time
rami cardiaci
rate identification of metals and alloys
refer to sb. as
reinforced grouted masonry
relucts
resin phase
rewarewa
Ronay
rosellini
RS-44872
run circles around someone
sand shadow
Sawākin
scampered
Skinari, Akra
stochastic control
strata pigmenti bulbi oculi
submarines
symbolic circuit
talizumab
tallac
tear a strip off
tellings-off
temperature detecting device
tense systems
the aviator
the wrong
trinking
Tyrrell County
underground utilities
uptrains
Vacuum Circuit Breakers
vertebrate photoreceptor optics
wood-spell