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
acifer
Adenophora hubeiensis
all-highest
Arteria temporalis profunda anterior
Australian National University
auxiliary computation
barrier method
be a game of two halves
bengolas
benzydamine
Berango
bis-trimethylsilylacetamide
Bring on board
car-makers
ceriopyrochlore
cross magnetizing effect
cultural trait
cupola space
Curie plot
curtain sth off
degenerative oxidizing condition
disfiguring
domineerer
dowsons
drip-sheet bath
egg rings
ejurate
enrasentan
euerose
experiment group
extremal system
fabric measuring apparatus
fall-rise
flexible modular scheduling
get onto
grabrails
hearselike
hexacyclic
high head hydro power station
Holy Willies
hurler on the ditch
Impatiens odontopetala
in the past fifty years
inoculating hood
interrupted dc tachometer
jbm
jinggangmeisu
jumped-in
LAN technology
maternal deprivation syndrome
Mediscreen
MEDLOG
mercury trap
multiplying oscilloscope
mycide
mycoacaricides
nonefficiency
not restricted
NTB Non-tariff Barriers
nto
oarlock
official script
P-well CMOS
paper process
penalty parameter
penislike
pentapeptide
Penthesile(i)a
physical bomb damage
propamidine isethionate
pseudallescheriasis
pulsed radiolysis
quick start unit
radiation dose-meter
Reliability Availability and Serviceability
remote supervisory control system
rhodite
rigid-framed structure
scooping
sector alignment indicator
semiquartile
single-fluid process
solidiform
Sterculia lanceolata
suicide door
sundry creditors
superfusions
surface nature
tax on industry and commerce returns
thaw-mounting
toll-cable
training and battle simulation
transverse diffusion
tuber crop(s)
tuberculum sellae (or tubercle of sella)
two flank gear rolling tester
uranoschisis
Vakuta I.
Video Connect
whorled aster
xanthite
zaydes