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
a-prime
adjacent edge
agrypnotics
aitificial brain
American shares
and I don't know what else
anterior region of wrist
asura tricolor
Autenrieth-Funk's method
bailee policy
bank balance
Beggars must cannot be choosers.
bend ova
big boys
black finish adjustable wrench
black sateen
burn shock
cardiac embarrassment
closed chromosome
constanta constant species
copper-chloride process
cut-out Brix
decktop
detailed soil survey
difforse
dinwiddie
disenchained
dungeoning
embryotheca
eubrianax manakikikuse
exhortative
external combustion stove
fast retrieval storage
flat die forging
foreign transfer
formation of hologram
glammest
go near
greenei
Group Areas Act
group reference pilot
gyroangle
height of eye
hemorrhagic fevers
hereditary patterns
Holly Pond
hyacinthoidess
hyms
incoherent radiation
information group separator
jackpudding
lilienfeld
lipoidaemias
livable
load radio
lycopus americanuss
magnitude of error
misanthropically
motivation research
MTRS (magnetic tape record start)
native grass
niebaum-coppola
official emoluments
Orvault
oxedrine tartrate
photo communication
pitchblende (massive uraninite)
Planomonospora
plate-screen modulation
pneumatic dispensing
policy primeval soup
prassoite (palladseite)
primary affix
psammocarcinoma
ranging-pole
Realico
red-heeled
retirement plan trust
sedded
self-end
semi-winterness
sipars
specific absorptivity
spiral grain loader
spreading via tissue space
stee
superheats
Taftville
teacher-participation
telangiectatic glioma
travicom
tricot knitting
uh-hum
user-specifieds
Ushuaians
vapour phase osmometer
visual think
Wadsworth mounting
wind onset
Windows Mail
worry about
Zenkov