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
-oecium
adjustment for over-with-holding
adularia-ablite series
aggressive mechanism of convict
alloy bulk diffusion technique (abdt)
anchor gate
anti-free
artistic representation
beet technical monogerm seed treatment
bicaval
Bilzen
bond discount accumulation
box-styles
Candarli
Carnegiea
chain floor trolley
clinophosinaite
cock's-head
colo(u)r sensitometry
concaulescence
continentization
de-updating
deagglomerated
debropol
dependency of attenuation on frequency
distribution-diagram
episcopacies
fetus
field alignment
fin of minimum weight
fine-tuned universe
flexible-wing aircraft
gender intensification
generalized performance indices
gladiatour
graphisoft
gravity filter
harmonic rectifier
hollow bloom
hot room
intercrurals
inverse Compton scattering
job search list
La Désirade
lathe tool bit
levosimendan
lingual bar
Longyang Xia
main piping
man-year of inspection
mechanical variables measurement
megalocoly
Mendlesham chairs
militarical
mixed tie-up
MK325
multiple centrifugal fan
Narie, Jezioro
neti pots
NHCAA
non-military personnel
nonessentialists
pecks at
Phlogacanthus pyramidalis
photopolymerize
phylogenists
plane bolter
pleathered
plica circularis
polocyte
potassium tetracyanozincate
profile set
provincial park
quadragesimalia
quillaja-sapotoxin
Ravenelia ornata
re-structures
rear vault dismount
Rodzinski, Artur
rural-urban integration
Scirpus cyperinus
sebi-
secure delete
seismic map
semimetallicity
service routine
shelfwares
smoke indicator
solar cell array wing
Straus'reaction
strouter
Terpsiphone atrochalybeia
Thiessen
thinger
tinnitis
trialkylaluminium
true porcelain
tzeng
unmurmured
vertical conjugate deviation
wiz
xylene resin