时间:2019-02-05 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力:文化博览2008年


英语课

 I’m on the trail of Haruki Murakami, the elusive 1 Haruki Murakami. He’s Japan’s most successful novelist. He writes off-beat books where dream, memory and reality often swap 2 places with one another. His stories are fueled by his great passion—music, especially jazz. And his fame has spread far beyond Japan. He’s been translated into over 40 different languages. Murakami’s most recent book After Dark happens down there.


 
Even at a time like this, the street is bright enough and filled with people coming and going, people with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no  purpose; people trying to hold back time and people trying to urge it forward. The date is just about to change. I think about the old days a lot. Memory is so crazy. You know what I think, she says, that people’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.
 
Haruki Murakami grew up in the 1950s in a country fueled by the very darkest memories, memories of a shameful 3 war, of devastation 4, humiliation 5 and defeat. The cult 6 hero of Japanese literature when Murakami was growing up was Yukio Mishima, a nationalist, a militarist, a writer obsessed 7 with Japan’s past and traditions, who ended up committing hara-kiri, in the ultimate act of devotion to his samurai ideals. Murakami despised everything Mishima stood for. He wrote, all I could think about when I began writing fiction in my youth was how to run as far as I could from the Japanese condition. I wanted to distance myself as much as possible from the curse of Japanese. 

adj.难以表达(捉摸)的;令人困惑的;逃避的
  • Try to catch the elusive charm of the original in translation.翻译时设法把握住原文中难以捉摸的风韵。
  • Interpol have searched all the corners of the earth for the elusive hijackers.国际刑警组织已在世界各地搜查在逃的飞机劫持者。
n.交换;vt.交换,用...作交易
  • I will swap you my bicycle for your radio.我想拿我的自行车换你的收音机。
  • This comic was a swap that I got from Nick.这本漫画书是我从尼克那里换来的。
adj.可耻的,不道德的
  • It is very shameful of him to show off.他向人炫耀自己,真不害臊。
  • We must expose this shameful activity to the newspapers.我们一定要向报社揭露这一无耻行径。
n.毁坏;荒废;极度震惊或悲伤
  • The bomb caused widespread devastation. 炸弹造成大面积破坏。
  • There was devastation on every side. 到处都是破坏的创伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.羞辱
  • He suffered the humiliation of being forced to ask for his cards.他蒙受了被迫要求辞职的羞辱。
  • He will wish to revenge his humiliation in last Season's Final.他会为在上个季度的决赛中所受的耻辱而报复的。
n.异教,邪教;时尚,狂热的崇拜
  • Her books aren't bestsellers,but they have a certain cult following.她的书算不上畅销书,但有一定的崇拜者。
  • The cult of sun worship is probably the most primitive one.太阳崇拜仪式或许是最为原始的一种。
adj.心神不宁的,鬼迷心窍的,沉迷的
  • He's obsessed by computers. 他迷上了电脑。
  • The fear of death obsessed him throughout his old life. 他晚年一直受着死亡恐惧的困扰。
学英语单词
account manager
acipensers
appear in the light of
aspiration-psychrometer
auto-crimes
autofleet
barcon
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de
biomedical engineering in obstetrics and gynaecology
Blakeney Point
blastwave
bloomeria croceas
bootstrap loader routine
branch on equality
brass watch case blank
break into a passion of tears
bring someone into bring disrepute on someone
car position indicator
chaenomeles eburnea nakai
change gear shaft sleeve
closed bed
colo(u)r decoder
communication skills
completed product
condictio sine causa
cymatium parthenopeum echo
Dalbergia kingiana
diagonal cutting nipper with pointed jaws and tip cutters
disposedly
double gap cavity
dynamic storage allocation
electric portable lamp
floating arithmetic
g factor
gas-tube boiler
General Protection Fault
gum albanum
gypsum board
high-modulus furnace black
hydatids
immunogerontological
inembryonate
instant random access
Internet protocols
K-4
kantorowicz
kerss
Lancelin I.
leucothrombin
liftoff site
linkified
loria
lymphonoduli
make much
method of successive displacements
moneybag
multigun tube
network interface unit
newly-invented
nutloaf
ontogenetic
ophthalmoscop
oscillating disc viscometer
oxygen status of soil solution
package toilet
Panum's'casein
paralimna hirticornis
Phaeosclera
pompously
positive scribing
program technic
pseudo-stable output pattern
public-defender
pulasan
radio orientation
repeated stress testing machine
respireth
rhodium pentasulfide
RWL
safe custody charges
serum aminotransferase determination
shuffle sort
silence machine
simple quinoline alkaloid
single face damping machine
six-bar sentence
Special economic zones in coastal areas
spray characteristics
subsurface stream
surface flow
tag along sort
temporary suspension of payment
three-point fix method
toot our own horn
top-blast refining
tracer dose
Trecastle
trial method
wavelength coverage
well dry
windows latch