时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:阅读空间


英语课

   It's truly old fashioned romance. Sarah and Gabriel Chrisman were drawn 1 to each other out of a shared fascination 2 with the Victorian era. And over time, their passion has bloomed in a very unconventional fashion.


  这是真真正正旧式的浪漫。萨拉和盖布里埃尔·克利斯曼都痴迷于维多利亚时代,也因此彼此吸引。岁月流逝,他们不羁于传统,激情澎湃,热情不减。
  For the last five years, the Seattle-based couple who married in 2002 have dressed, traveled, cooked, eaten, and entertained themselves as if they lived in the 19th century. Though a life free of cell phones, internet, modern transport and sneakers smacks 3 of horror to most people today, the Chrismans insist they are the lucky ones.
  这对佳人2002年成婚,过去五年里都住在西雅图,他们着装打扮、出游旅行、煮食烹饪、餐饮娱乐都如同生活在19世纪一般。尽管对多数现代人而言,没有手机和因特网、远离现代交通和跑鞋有点儿耸人听闻,但克利斯曼夫妇坚信他们是幸运的一对。
  每天都是电影:假装活在维多利亚时代的夫妇
  Sarah wears a corset all day, every day. Gabriel, a library and information science academic, wears authentic 4 gold-rimmed 19th century glasses.
  萨拉终日穿束身衣,每日都如此。盖布里埃尔是图书馆和信息科学方面的学者,他戴的19世纪的金镶边眼镜,货真价实。
  Their home, built in 1888, is equipped with oil-powered lamps, and doesn't have an electric fridge or oven. Clothes are washed in a bucket of room-temperature water. For entertainment, Sarah reads 1890s editions of Cosmopolitan 5, or the couple go for a cycle ride on their penny farthings.
  他们的家园建于1888年,配有燃油灯,但没有冰箱和烤箱。水桶盛好衣服,在室温下水洗。至于娱乐休闲,萨拉阅读19世纪90年代的《时尚·COSMOPOLITAN》杂志,或者小夫妻骑着前轮大后轮小的古董自行车去兜风。
  After one year of wearing a corset every day, Mrs Chrisman said her waist went from 32 inches to 22 inches, she experienced fewer migraines and her posture 6 improved.
  整整一年天天穿束身内衣后,克利斯曼太太称,她的腰围从32英寸缩减至22英寸,不怎么偏头痛了,姿势体态也更美了。
  'We live in a world that can be terribly hostile to difference of any sort. Societies are rife 7 with bullies 8 who attack nonconformists of any stripe. We have been called "freaks," "bizarre," and an endless slew 9 of far worse insults.'
  "我们所处的这个世界,但凡有点不同就会饱受恶意。社会环境满是恃强凌弱者,但凡有人不愿墨守陈规,便群起而攻之。我们被唤作‘怪人’、看我们‘格格不入’,还有源源不断更为不堪的赃害与谩骂。”
  publishing her book Victorian Secrets: What a Corset Taught me About the Past, the Present, and Myself, Sarah insisted she and Gabriel still meet up with friends to discuss academia, or go hiking - in their Victorian clothes.
  萨拉出版了著作《维罗利亚时代的秘密:束身衣教我认识过往、现今和自己》之后,萨拉强调说,她现在和盖布里埃尔还一直去见朋友讨论学术问题、去徒步旅行,一道穿着他们维多利亚时代的衣服去。
  'Not being ground down by them, not letting other people's hostile ignorance rob us of the joy we find in this life — that is the hard part. By comparison, wearing a Victorian corset is the easiest thing in the world.'
  “不被谩言攻击打倒,不让他人的恶意和无知夺取我们生活的乐趣——这才是最难的。相形之下,穿维多利亚时代的束身衣是世上最容易的事情。”

v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的
  • All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
  • Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。
n.令人着迷的事物,魅力,迷恋
  • He had a deep fascination with all forms of transport.他对所有的运输工具都很着迷。
  • His letters have been a source of fascination to a wide audience.广大观众一直迷恋于他的来信。
掌掴(声)( smack的名词复数 ); 海洛因; (打的)一拳; 打巴掌
  • His politeness smacks of condescension. 他的客气带有屈尊俯就的意味。
  • It was a fishing town, and the sea was dotted with smacks. 这是个渔业城镇,海面上可看到渔帆点点。
a.真的,真正的;可靠的,可信的,有根据的
  • This is an authentic news report. We can depend on it. 这是篇可靠的新闻报道, 我们相信它。
  • Autumn is also the authentic season of renewal. 秋天才是真正的除旧布新的季节。
adj.世界性的,全世界的,四海为家的,全球的
  • New York is a highly cosmopolitan city.纽约是一个高度世界性的城市。
  • She has a very cosmopolitan outlook on life.她有四海一家的人生观。
n.姿势,姿态,心态,态度;v.作出某种姿势
  • The government adopted an uncompromising posture on the issue of independence.政府在独立这一问题上采取了毫不妥协的态度。
  • He tore off his coat and assumed a fighting posture.他脱掉上衣,摆出一副打架的架势。
adj.(指坏事情)充斥的,流行的,普遍的
  • Disease is rife in the area.疾病在这一区很流行。
  • Corruption was rife before the election.选举之前腐败盛行。
v.(使)旋转;n.大量,许多
  • He slewed the car against the side of the building.他的车滑到了大楼的一侧,抵住了。
  • They dealt with a slew of other issues.他们处理了大量的其他问题。
标签: 维多利亚
学英语单词
a bit of muslin
abnormal hearing
adipocytes
aerodynamic maneuver
alkylantimony halide
aloe chinensis bak.
Ambohibary
analog-digital-analog conversion system
atonest
autograt
be up to one's old tricks
Brooklynite
brunei b.
bull gear reducer
calcium 5'-ribonuucleotide
caveated
cerous hydropyrophosphate
chelseas
Chetopir
Chirita monantha
combining
constant formula diet
copesmate
corporation library
counter-balance piece
davuls
debris storage capacity
decolonialized
descanted
ductography
Duggendorf
encylical
Fanta Shet'
feathering paddle-wheel
finance statistics
fusible interlining
glutinane
go down to
golpe
goodstein
gotterleben
gyffe
have one's fingers in the till
heredo-familial corneal dystrophy
iced-tea spoons
implementation requirement
in view of
inclosure(enclosure)
inner ring axis
internal dielectric membrane
inuredness
inwardmost
kiet
lacewear
large pill
learning activity package
Marquess of Queensberry rules
maximum grinding hole diameter
megalomycin
minelaying
morticer
multi-gradient magnetic separator
multispectral remote sensing system
omit function
overtoils
oxandrin
peace camp
pectinellus
pentagrid converter
Pierofanina
pilot's automatic telephone weather answering service
powder-like fur
pro-europeans
pure clay
pyrophosphatases
qusternary syphilis
r-l-c oscillator
ratchet-toothed escape wheel
raw gasoline
recognized component
revised price
Rubia mandersii
run-on sentences
scheerer
seminal cyst
shell tap
soft emplacement
sowing plot
spongio-
spontaneous request
tank block
tavarus
technofetishist
to smash
tobicillin
total derived functor
triple deck screen
two lined octave
vaccinoids
whitetailed
wrightstown
zawadski