时间:2018-12-07 作者:英语课 分类:晨读英语美文60篇


英语课

Write Your Own Life


 Suppose someone gave you a pen—a sealed, solid-colored pen. You couldn’t see how much ink it had. It might run dry after the first few tentative words or last just long enough to create a masterpiece (or several) that would last forever and make a difference in the scheme of things. You don’t know before you begin. Under the rules of the game, you really never know. You have to take a chance!


 Actually, no rule of the game states you must do anything. Instead of picking up and using the pen, you could leave it on a shelf or in a drawer where it will dry up, unused. But if you do decide to use it, what would you do with it?


 How would you play the game?


 Would you plan and plan before you ever wrote a word? Would your plans be so extensive that you never even got to the writing? Or would you take the pen in hand, plunge 1 right in and just do it, struggling to keep up with the twists and turns of the torrents 2 of words that take you where they take you? Would you write cautiously and carefully, as if the pen might run dry the next moment, or would you pretend or believe (or pretend to believe) that the pen will write forever and proceed accordingly?And of what would you write: Of love? Hate? Fun? Misery 3? Life? Death? Nothing? Everything?


 Would you write to please just yourself?Or others? Or yourself by writing for others?


 Would your strokes be tremblingly timid or brilliantly bold? Fancy with a flourish or plain?


 Would you even write? Once you have the pen, no rule says you have to write.


 Would you sketch 4? Scribble 5? Doodle or draw?


 Would you stay in or on the lines, or see no lines at all, even if they were there? Or are they?


 There’s a lot to think about here, isn’t there? Now, suppose someone gave you a life…



1 plunge
v.跳入,(使)投入,(使)陷入;猛冲
  • Test pool's water temperature before you plunge in.在你跳入之前你应该测试水温。
  • That would plunge them in the broil of the two countries.那将会使他们陷入这两国的争斗之中。
2 torrents
n.倾注;奔流( torrent的名词复数 );急流;爆发;连续不断
  • The torrents scoured out a channel down the hill side. 急流沿着山腰冲刷出一条水沟。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • Sudden rainstorms would bring the mountain torrents rushing down. 突然的暴雨会使山洪暴发。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
3 misery
n.痛苦,苦恼,苦难;悲惨的境遇,贫苦
  • Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.商业不景气常使工薪阶层受苦。
  • He has rescued me from the mire of misery.他把我从苦海里救了出来。
4 sketch
n.草图;梗概;素描;v.素描;概述
  • My sister often goes into the country to sketch. 我姐姐常到乡间去写生。
  • I will send you a slight sketch of the house.我将给你寄去房屋的草图。
5 scribble
v.潦草地书写,乱写,滥写;n.潦草的写法,潦草写成的东西,杂文
  • She can't write yet,but she loves to scribble with a pencil.她现在还不会写字,但她喜欢用铅笔乱涂。
  • I can't read this scribble.我看不懂这种潦草的字。
学英语单词
abnoxious
amebic pyothorax
Atikameg
bacterial calls
balance of finance and materials
beachcombed
bleser
bring sb to terms
broth medium
brown off
bulgaria (bulgariya)
Burgbrohl
buriel
cable input plug
carosine
celestial marriage
certificate of control
circinotrichum falcatisporum
coaxial electron entrance
computational knowledge engine
conspurcating
coprorrhea
Dalradian Series
Daym Zubayr
derived number
desert dome
dimethipin
diminution of employment
direct discourse
electronic banking service
enhungering
entropy of transformations
equalization point
ethylene propylene diene monomer
fakhars
family berberidaceaes
family Panorpidae
flash bangs
fog system
glyt
gypsie's kiss
Hedychium flavum
homogeneous heating
intertrade
Juncus chrysocarpus
late injection
line tilt correction
llach
medium speed computer
Mermithidae
Miedwie, Jezioro
Minkowski method
mollys
neurologic syndrome
node numbering
non-reflexive
NVEs
omega-3 fatty acids
operating aground
opportunistically
P'ohang
periglacial landforms
perimeters
phenyl-dimethyl-arsine dichloride
phosphosphingolipid
pigdom
piquillo
Pitihra
power system planning
pulling rate
race grinder
reaggravating
real-valued random variable
reflection of radiation
removal of fractured root by flap operation
rope strop
santalene
sarotitis
scavenging air plate valve complement
self propelled ingot buggy
Shangugu
shopboys
side tipping
slave ship
Spinal Tapian
subfamily Dracaenaceae
sun-vector sensor
swallow flycatcher
sympycnus bisulcus
tchervonetz
temperature gage
Terminal instrument.
three-level addressing
traumatic twilight state
treaty freight system
tumo(u)r biochemistry
uncontaminable
vaporization heat
varieth
Veteran Administration
vv. subcutane? abdominis
weather part