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
absolute system of unit
aerodynamic equivalent diameter
amoibite (gersdorffite)
Antarctic Great Wall Station
antibiotics resistance
bakery.
Ban Nam Khlung
Be a Martian!
berada
blue-winged teals
bonnes
bronchial sarcoma
bulbourethral vein
carolanne
carphenazine
circumvolutory
consultatory
conveying of heated fuel oils
cuplike
dedicated file
Diacycline
disilyldisilanyl
dissipation loss
do-little
dote upon
double channel oil pressure self-locking valve
drift ga(u)ge
eaten
egalitarian family
elephant trunk technique
epitoniid
exclusion for income earned abroad
fargettes
flat trajectory gun
flue block
foam-padded
full magnetic controller
Fulunäs
ganov
gar-pike
glidazamile
Hardie, James Keir
Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time
horejcs
hydrogen-air-water system
induce sb to do sth
integrated access network
jiangdan
Jordan decomposition
judicial reversal of rulings
Kuz'minskaya
lobaria isidiosa
location flag
malapportion
maritimetin
market entry strategy
masking period
mejia
meyers
microprocessor development system
nailing sill
oil charging hole
out performance
papuloerythematous
parameningococcus
pastry cream,pastry custard
patulous follicle orifice
phyllite aggregate
prevage
razor burns
Rheum rhaponticum
run-time type information
running light indicator
sayid
scaffold(ing)
schizogenous gland
seismic measurement
shell-side
shitbirds
soil new growth
solfurated hydrogen
sonar dome coating
submarine exhalative sedimentary deposit
sweetens up
SxS
syphilipher
Syringa L.
take the piss out of
tetanizations
thrips flavus
tiller plow
tomosvaryella pernitida
transfer of knowledge
tributary flow
turkling
utilized bandwidth ratio
vivacest
windthrown
wood joist floor
yahoos
YKWIM