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。
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3-mesantion
abamperes
actinoptera shirakiana
agra-agar
Albanya
amphibille
Amydrium hainanense
an essential aspect
ancient cultural relic
androgony
asian tiger mosquitoes
atoneth
Ban Pa Kha Luang
brittle strength
central neuritis
chalice vine
cherifs
classical groups
Clematis kockiana
control engineering
Cristallovar
crystelle
current microbiology
cycloheptadienes
deglobalize
Deliceto
Dilāghah
dollar value LIFO method
Edsall's disease
equivalent acidity
erratic shifts
expeditors
flavoured sausage
flexible mica
gas dynamic laser
hemiformal
hoochinoo
hormones poisoning
household rubbish
Hurst Moor
hydatopyrogenic
IDS (interim decay storage)
infra-epimeron
intertrappean
IP spoofing
iraqi-kurdish
Itapinima
laurel water
levelling concrete
limnic peat
line bank contact
liquid condition
LPRR (Low Power Research Reactor)
lynceus biformis
make a nuisance of himself
megalonychid
metacentric diagram
methoxy-
metroethnicities
missing data
mixon
mobile winder
money function
nemoraea metallica
neoholotype
order of reference of accounts
painly
panplain
pessella
profit-maximization
qingbai glaze moon palace pillow
relaxation shrinkage on wetting
rikki
ring introducer
Sacta
Sarykol'
semitangent
sheep dismount
siakam
sign on the dotted line.
sinusoidal oscillator
skew symmetric
spill money
Stainless Steel Pipe
stay of lathe
still-picture transmission
subfringe technique
supraorganism
swear something out
Taoist Trinity
tape-format plotting system
three-colour reproducer
to blow away the cobwebs
tote box
trifle
urolagnic
v-shaped antenna
vaginoplasty
wave form audio
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