时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:新东方现代文背诵篇章


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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
absolute irregular pulse
acquisition technique
allocation of workers and staff
antidocumentary
antithesise
aphose
Arab somersault
arrange a credit
auto insert notification
bottom irregularities
bubble-cap plate tower
burst into a passion of
Buxiphyllum velutinum
cargo handling space
case instruments
centripetal force
ceramic trimmer
cherups
Civril
Clerodendrum villosum
closing dike
coastal tourism
code bar drive magnet
complexometric indicator
contemporary physics
cwsw
dietary fibres
dip-solder
direction of propagation
dloes
dress-styles
dried sugar beet cossettes
eclogites
editorial autonomy
Edridge-Green lantern tests
English speaker
essencify
evolution program
execution date
flair bartender
flesch
folicle
galactic rotation curve
gemmac
genus dinorniss
hecchele
higher isotope
hydrogen permeating material
kohalaite
Langerhans cells
light as a butterfly
liver-failure
logic bombs
low-profile tyre
Makhanchkala
Methozin
Mina, R.
Mobius' sign
mogul cap
multispectrals
naggers
nebularine
occupation forces
Ord No.
oryzanin
output relay panel
parascolopsis eriomma
pedal generator
Pergamese
planning control sheet
plus driver
pretors
rangey
reentry decoy
retrotransillumination
revalidates
right circular cone
rigid cross beam method
Robardesmen
Saybolt distilling flask
screw templet
seasonal polymorphism
severalfold
shop worn
slaved tracking
slipping force
spirale
St-Martial-de-Valette
statutory authorities
strike off the roll
syngenetic(primary)corcretion
tapotements
television modulator
the authority
truck bearing spring
two-story septic tank
upside downwards
walcher
warm front precipitation
wavelength width of a slit
well-feeling
wreck removal charge