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 person of substance
A.N.U.
abetter
acid etching of tooth surface
acousmata
amphicar
analytical standard
art criticism
assault boat,assault craft
atropine conjunctivitis
ball-breaker
blackberry-seed oil
blunderbushes
brabantine
bulk intrinsic germanium
ceinid
Chloor-hexaviet
clock-makings
concertato style
cutter-loader
Dalglish
darn tooting
deference to the executives
deterministic finite automata string search
Diairacin
difluroaniline
double row of dots
dourdan
education on demand
ekram
ergodic invariant measure
Ewart
family bittacidaes
futures prices
garumnian
gas filter outlet pipe
glutathioselenol
hardlaws
Hayes Glacier
hold one's cards close to one's chest
I Want You
induced ventilation
inductive plasma accelerator
infiltration and redistribution
integent
Iraqi dinar
kwaku
lady
lelv
logic in legal contexts
lower beam
Macquisten film-flotation machine
man and biosphere (mab) reserve
max. swing angle of steering pitman arm
merino combing
minimal arts
mitochondrial swelling
monitor copy
mym
name plate
narsharab
no-float
offset litho duplicating
organizational maintenance
palletized system
pericardicentesis
pigmentation rule
pinguitude
primary drilling
puopulsion motor exciter
roller-skatings
schmooze-athon
selectional
ski drill
solid state image intensifier
spelunking
stay out of sth
stop payment order
subcontracts
sunam
sungen
surdar
swing-seat
textless
the triple crown
Tompkins
took lying down
top piston land
truss bead rivet
unclose
undistinguishedly
Ust'-Karenga
ution
vallicule
valvula quadrigemina
vanadyl(iv) chloride
vesv
visible lights
von Hansmann cell
WBGTkIT
wooden rake