时间:2018-12-05 作者:英语课 分类:托福听力短文


英语课

(woman) You may remember that a few weeks ago we discussed the question of what photography is. Is it art, or is it a method of reproducing 1 images? Do photographs belong in museums or just in our homes? Today I want to talk about a person who tried to make his professional life an answer to such questions.


Alfred Stieglitz went from the United States to Germany to study engineering 2. While he was there, he became interested in photography and began to experiment with his camera. He took pictures under conditions that most photographers considered too difficult--- he took them at night, in the rain, and of people and objects reflected in windows. When he returned to the United States he continued these revolutionary efforts. Stieglitz was the first person to photograph skyscrapers 3, clouds, and views from an airplane.


What Stieglitz was trying to do in these photographs was what he tried to do throughout his life: make photography an art. He felt that photography could be just as good a form of self-expression as painting or drawing. For Stieglitz, his camera was his brush. While many photographers of the late 1800's and early 1900's thought of their work as a reproduction of identical 4 images, Stieglitz saw his as a creative art form. He understood the power of the camera to capture 5 the moment. In fact, he never retouched his prints or made copies of them. If he were in this classroom today, I'm sure he'd say, "Well, painters don't normally 6 make extra copies of their paintings, do they?"



1 reproducing
复制( reproduce的现在分词 ); 重现; 再版; 生殖
  • Mind has become self-reproducing through man's capacity to transmit experience and its products cumulatively. 通过传递生活经验和积累创造的产品,人类的智慧在不断地进行着自我丰富。
  • Spores form a lipid membrane during the process of reproducing. 孢于在生殖过程中形成类脂膜。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 预防生物武器
2 engineering
n.工程,工程学,管理,操纵
  • The science of engineering began as soon as man learned to use tools. 人类一学会使用工具,工程科学就开始了。
  • It was the first great engineering works in the world. 这是世界上第一家大型的工程工厂。
3 skyscrapers
n.摩天大楼
  • A lot of skyscrapers in Manhattan are rising up to the skies. 曼哈顿有许多摩天大楼耸入云霄。
  • On all sides, skyscrapers rose like jagged teeth. 四周耸起的摩天大楼参差不齐。
4 identical
adj.完全一样的,完全相同的;同一的
  • She wore the identical dress on both occasions.她在两种场合穿的是同一件衣服。
  • He is identical in character with his wife.他的品性和他的夫人相同。
5 capture
vt.捕获,俘获;占领,夺得;n.抓住,捕获
  • The company is out to capture the European market.这家公司希望占据欧洲市场。
  • With the capture of the escaped tiger,everyone felt relieved.逃出来的老虎被捕获后,大家都松了一口气。
6 normally
adv.正常地,通常地
  • I normally do all my shopping on Saturdays.我通常在星期六买东西。
  • My pulse beats normally.我脉搏正常。
学英语单词
accreditation
Aidun
amerciament
amplifier noise
amylum solani
anhydrite plaster
arteriae auricularis posterior
Artëm-Ostrov
audit operation committee
auriculotemporal
austrian oak
Beauport
boombas
bronchomalacia
butylcellosolve
catalytie desulfurization
chassis lubricator
contestable clause
corner structure
cremaster
diagonal cleavage
disller's feed
electrologging
emergency hand drive
erratic formula
fast dyed yarn
feathering button
feedingmachine
femic minerals
forpassing
frias
frigatoon
grass snipe
hackneyed
Hard words break no bones,fine words butter no parsnips.
having it off
heart-centre
herentals (herenthals)
heterosexualist
high stabilized photomultiplier
high-energy gamma source
honkala
industrialized aircraft gas turbine
infrared tracking system
interface-based
international tourism expenditures
interpretation of vegetation
iodomethyl cyanide
Koksan-gun
lip curb
literary classic
literaturology
logic strings
macroscopic fractography
magnetic bit extractor
make the cut
Mandrax
merrins
misleader
mixing accuracy
multiple spline shaft
notabler
nuclei funiculi cuneati
open to offers
overinvested
overwears
PAF-A
pari delicto
pink stem borer
Plica lacrimalis
poorness of supply
preferred of normal capacity
preparation of coal samples
rabbit-punch
radiological exposure
Ramsey number
repreevable
rhizoma alismatis
sawdust mortar
series magnet coil
sheer away
single side-band transmitter
slashing
smoothhound
sorry ass
squireen
straddle option
subsidized credits
telepherage
test-best
Tetraverin
thermoplastic flow
tirgu jiu (targu jiu)
tourism destination
transposabilities
triazene
trigonocera rivosa
tropidophid
tunning factor
tupua
Tφmmerby Fd.
Wahl correlation