时间:2018-12-17 作者:英语课 分类:2009年NPR美国国家公共电台7月


英语课
The spring season of the latter years of high school are an anxious time when students will , choose one: fall in love, drink too much, or whatever's available, work really hard, slack off, make your hopes soar, dash them to the depth or all of the above. In short, they are living,trying out who they want to be.Increasingly ,in a stressed-out age,there's a private space to which more and more of these teenagers retreat---their journals.High school students are big purchasers of the journals in bookshops and stores like "Target",because even amid the Internet age or perhaps because of it,any teenager who can pick up a pencil can also pick up a notebook,anyone.That's what's so great about writing.You create a private world of the self,spill over the pages,fill the boundaries.In 11 counties in the foothills and mountains of eastern Tennessee,juniors and seniors are participating in this year's Walter state community college-high school creative writing contest.Interest in the contest has grown. Encompassing 1 fiction,nonfiction and poetry, more than 200 teenagers took part this year.Walt Stingson of Jefferson County High was among last year's winners. He wrote a note"To a rail splitter."Watching him,it looks so easy.One swing of the gold devil and the wood jumps apart.I try ,I practise in solitude,hoping to just one time hear that clapping burst and see the pieces multiply before my eyes." Another Jefferson High student, Kandeys Harara, wrote :"Daughters of eve.Daughters, forgive me, for I have eaten the fruit of deception 2 and for ever cursed your immortality 3.However,the promises of the serpent were very persuasive 4 and the temptation far too great." Gee,who hasn't felt like that? Over the years,PJ Brise Means,who teaches English at Walter state community college has looked at spidery contributions on minimalist scraps 5 of paper and full-part hardbacks. One was called " Orange county 1968." "Teenagers have so much to say",she says."and clearly,even more,far more if we're willing to listen ,to reveal."This year's high school winners at Walter state community college will be chosen in April and published in the school's journal among these hills。



1 encompassing
v.围绕( encompass的现在分词 );包围;包含;包括
  • Being too large and all-encompassing is a common defect among state-owned enterprises. 过分追求大而全,是国企的一大通病。 来自互联网
  • Our services are: all-encompassing, love justice and high quality. 我们的服务目标是:全方位、真情义、高质量。 来自互联网
2 deception
n.欺骗,欺诈;骗局,诡计
  • He admitted conspiring to obtain property by deception.他承认曾与人合谋骗取财产。
  • He was jailed for two years for fraud and deception.他因为诈骗和欺诈入狱服刑两年。
3 immortality
n.不死,不朽
  • belief in the immortality of the soul 灵魂不灭的信念
  • It was like having immortality while you were still alive. 仿佛是当你仍然活着的时候就得到了永生。
4 persuasive
adj.有说服力的,能说得使人相信的
  • His arguments in favour of a new school are very persuasive.他赞成办一座新学校的理由很有说服力。
  • The evidence was not really persuasive enough.证据并不是太有说服力。
5 scraps
油渣
  • Don't litter up the floor with scraps of paper. 不要在地板上乱扔纸屑。
  • A patchwork quilt is a good way of using up scraps of material. 做杂拼花布棉被是利用零碎布料的好办法。
学英语单词
adelogenic
angiosclerotic myasthenia
applictions
appointings
axial force of rail
baseball-related
be alive to
block cipher system
burgeri
cavenger jig
celling rate
cheongsam
chive
chrome bleaching
chrysanthemaxenthin
closing error in coordinate increment
coleosporium clematidis barclay
contact loss
continuous-wave interference
cooperative enterprises
data collection facility
dessert fork
dysluite
electrophoresis force
Epist.
erratic flow
event horizon
excitancy
fillmass chute
flat-platform body
floor-operated crane
goldchip
Gui Xian
half a loaf is better than none
harry
heat in the exterior
hidden reserve
hydrochlorothiazides
i-telle
Indigofera muliensis
informatical
information quantity
itbs
jacky 2,Jacky
kickiest
Kivitoo
lanting
law of independent assortment
lionskin
loading sequence
make system
mohnyins
morpholinobiguanide
moveout correction
myelosclerotic
naturalistic conception of definitions
Neocinnamomum
New Forest pony
non-deterministic space complexity
non-self-luminous object
option buyer
patchlike
peak magnetizing force
phagostatin
phase-shifter
physical loss or damage
pole-plate
powersafes
pump discharge manifold
pushing rod jack
Pyrenaria
quaking puddings
rackingly
radar equipment feeding
residual cake valve
resistivity sounding configuration
Riccitensor
sea monkeys
secondary acid
sensitive plant
separate regenerative chamber
severe heat stroke
short land memo
ssfa
stress-relaxation modulus
sualci venosi
suckled
take care tonight
tender chafing block
thymolytic
timed indefinite shipment
top needle
transition process
transparence diaphaneity
undefeatableness
unionless
unit of budget
valvulotomies
without much further ado
WSBA
Xuan Phu