时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:英语PK台


英语课

 Section 1:


Where do you come from? It's such a simple question, but these days, of course, simple questions bring ever more complicated answers. And if "Where do you come from?" means "Where were you born and raised and educated?" then I'm entirely 1 of that funny little country known as England. And if "Where do you come from?" means "Where do you pay your taxes? Where do you see your doctor and your dentist?" then I'm very much of the United States, and I have been for 48 years now. And if "Where do you come from?" means "Which place goes deepest inside you and where do you try to spend most of your time?" then I'm Japanese, because I've been living as much as I can for the last 25 years in Japan.
And for more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil. If somebody suddenly asks me, "Where's your home?" I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be. I literally 2 couldn't point to any physical construction. My home would have to be whatever I carried around inside me.
And I've always felt that the beauty of being surrounded by the foreign is that it slaps you awake. You can't take anything for granted. Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked "on." Suddenly you're alert 3 to the secret patterns of the world. The real voyage of discovery, as Marcel Proust famously said, consists not in seeing new sights, but in looking with new eyes. And of course, once you have new eyes, even the old sights, even your home become something different.
Vocabulary:
Voyage, consist in

1 entirely
ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地
  • The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
  • His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。
2 literally
adv.照字面意义,逐字地;确实
  • He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
  • Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候,她不走到真正要昏厥了,决不肯坐下来。
3 alert
adj.机警的,活泼的,机灵的;vt.使...警觉
  • Drivers must be on the alert for traffic signals.驾驶员必须密切注意交通信号。
  • The rabbIt'seems to be very alert all its life.兔子似乎一生都小心翼翼,十分警觉。
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学英语单词
(a)etiology
aerodynamic size
all over the lot
allopregnane-3-alpha-,20-alpha-diol
angle lap
antismog device
automatic train speed restriction
bardwan (burdwan)
beer-mat
bog manganese
boundary of a polyhedron
Cacicus
Calcatoggio
calcic nephrite syenite
carosis
Chinchāl, Nahr
color inhibitor for kerosene
colorific
common feature
cpr-numbers
creolest
crumpled waste
cryptorheism
dendronanthus indicus
dhobi's itch
disclosure of relevant information
dopaflex
dzhida r.
Eastern Equatoria State
economic libertarian
envive
evuna
exotic dance
floating point truncation
for the altogether
forces and services bounty
fraction solids
group injection
Herzo
hong kong polytechnic university
hurrisome
hysteroscope
insertion vector
iso-camphenilol
Jokneam
law of economic contracts
least said soonest mended
locally-administratered state enterprise
lock a file
lyriform pore
method of recitation
monogamous
motor transmission shaft
mullahs
national oceanic and atmospheric administration (noaa)
nilsens
no-taker
no-warnings
nozzle sleeve
page-printing teleprinter
penal colony
phase corrector
phosphophyllite
picture signal
pivoted towing link
poling back
provocatrix
pudic nerve (or pudendal nerve)
put off the scent
quino
Rahbe
recocts
releckis
resistance in the dark
roadmate
Ruqqād, Wādī ar
screw that
self-leveling engineers level
semibituminous coal
severe contamination
shagbarks
shoneen
short sword
Sibbaldia perpusilloides
st. johnsbury
stand-fra
stereum ochraceoflavum
streak cultivation
stress-coping
subchondritic
suctorians
surge voltage protector
t.b.a
table layout
technology advances
touch roll
umm al-qaiwain
unbrowned
velocity radar
Win-47203
wolpertingers
Zabid