时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:新东方现代文背诵篇章


英语课

From Boston to Los Angeles, from New York City to Chicago to Dallas, museums are either planning, building, or wrapping up wholesale 1 expansion programs. These programs already have radically 2 altered facades 3 and floor plans or are expected to do so in the not-too-distant future.


In New York City alone, six major institutions have spread up and out into the air space and neighborhoods around them or are preparing to do so.


The reasons for this confluence 4 of activity are complex, but one factor is a consideration everywhere - space. With collections expanding, with the needs and functions of museums changing, empty space has become a very precious commodity.


Probably nowhere in the country is this more true than at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which has needed additional space for decades and which received its last significant facelift ten years ago. Because of the space crunch 5, the Art Museum has become increasingly cautious in considering acquisitions and donations of art, in some cases passing up opportunities to strengthen its collections.


Deaccessing - or selling off - works of art has taken on new importance because of the museum's space problems. And increasingly, curators have been forced to juggle 6 gallery space, rotating one masterpiece into public view while another is sent to storage.


Despite the clear need for additional gallery and storage space, however," the museum has no plan, no plan to break out of its envelope in the next fifteen years," according to Philadelphia Museum of Art's president.



1 wholesale
n.批发;adv.以批发方式;vt.批发,成批出售
  • The retail dealer buys at wholesale and sells at retail.零售商批发购进货物,以零售价卖出。
  • Such shoes usually wholesale for much less.这种鞋批发出售通常要便宜得多。
2 radically
ad.根本地,本质地
  • I think we may have to rethink our policies fairly radically. 我认为我们可能要对我们的政策进行根本的反思。
  • The health service must be radically reformed. 公共医疗卫生服务必须进行彻底改革。
3 facades
n.(房屋的)正面( facade的名词复数 );假象,外观
  • Terraces of asphalt are placed by the building's south and west facades. 沥青露台位于建筑的南面和西面。 来自互联网
  • Preserving historic buildings or keeping only their facades (or fronts) grew common. 保存历史建筑或是保持它们普通的正面增长。 来自互联网
4 confluence
n.汇合,聚集
  • They built the city at the confluence of two rivers.他们建造了城市的汇合两条河流。
  • The whole DV movements actually was a confluence of several trends.整个当时的DV运动,实际上是几股潮流的同谋。
5 crunch
n.关键时刻;艰难局面;v.发出碎裂声
  • If it comes to the crunch they'll support us.关键时刻他们是会支持我们的。
  • People who crunch nuts at the movies can be very annoying.看电影时嘎吱作声地嚼干果的人会使人十分讨厌。
6 juggle
v.变戏法,纂改,欺骗,同时做;n.玩杂耍,纂改,花招
  • If you juggle with your accounts,you'll get into trouble.你要是在帐目上做手脚,你可要遇到麻烦了。
  • She had to juggle her job and her children.她得同时兼顾工作和孩子。
学英语单词
academic building
achromic point
Agaie
agonous
algebraic apparent power
Alternanthera sessilis
Anapsida
answer jack
aperture of antenna
apodal
at a push
be chicken
become thin
blustein
Boudjouma
boundary layer flux
boylesk
butter colo(u)r
Cartesian devil
circumferential component
commonplace-book
complementary enterprise
conspiratorily
countermeasure sonar
creatine phosphoric acids
cylindrical equation
dead reckoner
declutch shift shaft
depth factor
Diospyrin
dried crab roe
Duckworth-Lewis method
electricity production
favonian
fellwalkings
field magnetomotive force
flaction
flame material
fluoracyl chloride
Greek numerals
group relay
hetlage
Hildegard of Bingen
hush-hush
hydrodynamic form
if-a-then-b gate
interaction prediction principle
Japanophone
Jean Louis
Jānī Beyglū
katrice
l-shapeds
lacquered cable
linear planting
liquid toilet soap
local tabulation
loppel
meningocoele
musculi interfoveolaris
NEPA (Nuclear Energy for Propulsion of Aircraft)
null sharpness
Old Belarusian
oxidates
parachute opening speed
pathetism
photoelectric phenomena
physiologic excavation
pigeon pox virus
poorly paid
population growth form
pre-axal
pur-chop
Raynham Park
resource-allocation
rotating joint with multiple flow paths
rowapraxin
rubidium dichromate
Santo Cristo, R.
scoop tube
seal on the spot
seatrouts
sessilifolan
social-messaging
soundmasters
standard time of observation
sunsun
suvs
take the wraps off something
taper-tap
tar us
thran
throught ticket
titration curve of neutralization
Truncus nervi accessorii
turbant
underwashing
Vedanta
ventriloquism effect
voltage compensation method
wave of infinitely small amplitude
wood drill bit chuck
worst-case bound