降低的英文译语怎么说-名词性从句练习题
2023年4月19日发(作者:福州雅思)2012年第2期 悦读 考试・新英语
The Writer,S Life
byAlix Christie
F/cture credit:photostevelol(via Flickr)
A surveyo of Britain’s youth found that many aspiree tO become writers.They clearly
don’t know how hard it is,writes Alix Christie…
Britain’S most respected writers have at 1east one trait ̄in common:all had childhoods
steeped in@a passion for reading,enabled by public libraries.At a time when government cuts
threaten to close some 45o libraries around the country,the British Library has released“The
Writing味”,a new two-CD set of writers discussing their life,their work and,yes,their
fondnessO orf libraries.In gathering these interviews,the British Library was not aiming for a
polemic0.But as affordable access to literature becomes increasingly precariousO-in奇观的意思 libraries or
booksellers large and small—this collection iS a reminder of its impo ̄ance.
0 survey:If you carry out a survey,you try to ind out detailfed information about a lot of diferent people or things,
usually by asking people a series of questions.
o aspire:If you aspire tO something such as an important job.you have a strong desire to achieve it.
o trait:A trait is a particular characteristic,quality,or tendency that someone or something has.
0 steeped in:If a place or person is steeped in a quality or characteristic.they are surrounded by it or deeply
influenced byit.
0 fondness:If ou are yfond of someone,you feel affection for them.
o polemic:A polemic is a very strong written or spoken attack on,or defence of,a particular belief or opinion.
o precarious:Ifyour situationisprecarious,you arenotin complete control ofeventsandmightfailinwhatyou are
doing at anymome ̄.
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的意义并不在于躲在屋子里,等待暴风雨过后的平静,而在于走出去,大胆地在雨中跳舞。
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That isn’t to say that the authors here speak ̄vith an agenda.The pleasure of this seties is in
heating writers convey their private thoughts on their profession.We learn that Bery1 Bainbridge
thinks“there’s no such thing as the imagination.”Ian McEwan“always felt something of an
outsider.”Hilary Mantel believes that“In the ideal world.all writers would have a Catholic
childhood,or belong to some other religion which does the equivalent0 for them.’’Howard
Jaeobson,the most recent Booker prize winner,spent more of his youth stockpilingo books than
reading them.Michael Holroyd,a biographer,fears血at literature“has become the younger
brother of the performing arts.’’
Judging from the snarkyO online reaction to excerpts published in the Guardian,not all
readers are ready for a glimpse atO the appalling0 hubris0 and harrowing0 self-doubt that beset ̄
most writers.But or fthose who seriously attempt to write——for whom this collection is explicitly
intended一一these voices offer great encouragement.
“Such a lot of it is about keeping up your confidence,’’says last year’s Booker prize winner
Mantel,whose own first novel took nearly 20 years to make it into print.
Stunned0 by a survey that showed“writer”as he tnumber one career goal of British youth——
ahead of astronaut and 凭栏处什么意思 footballer——Sarah 0’Reilly at the British Library saw the project as a way
to put across the real challenges that come with the棉花地的那些事 profession.Culled ̄from hundreds of hours of
archived ̄interviews,the excerpts@“provide a useful corrective to he tidea that the writing life is a
o equivalent:If one amount or value is the equivalent of another。they are the same.
O stockpile:If people stockplie things such as food or weapons,they store large quantities of them for future use.
o snark-y:Unpleasant and scornfu1.
o a glimpse at:Ifyou get a glimpse of someone or something,you seethem verybriefly andnot verywel1.
0 appalling:You can use appalling to emphasize that something is ervy great or severe.
O hubris:If you accuse someone of hubris,you are accusing them of arrogant pride.(FORMAL)
o harrowing:A harrowing experience is extremely upsetting or disturbing.
Q beset:If someone or somethingisbesetbyproblems orfears.theyhavemanyproblemsorfarswhich afefectthem
severely.
o stunned:If you are stunned by omesthing.you are extremely shocked or surprised by it and are therefore unable to
speakor do anything.
culled:If items or ideas are culled from a particular source or 程门立雪的完整故事 number of sources,they are taken and gathered
together.
o arehived:The archive or archives are a collection of documents and records that contain historical information.
@excerpt:An excerpt is a short piece ofwriting or music which is taken from a larger piece.
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Life a1ways brir ̄s us wounds all over the body But the wounds will certainly become the 8reatest stren6th。
finally生活总是让我们遍体鳞伤,但到后来,那些受伤的地方一定会变成我们最强壮的地方。
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glamorous@life,”she says.Indeed,aspiing@wrirters should anticipate@inhabiting@a“place of
total and complete solitudee,”offers Linda Grant,a novelist included in the collection.
Yet these CDs are instructive,too, th authors weighing in on developing characters,finding
ideas,researching context¥and igurifng out how it all works together.The nitty-gritty¥of when,
where and how—pencil,pen or computer?Morning or night?Each day or as the spiirt calls?一
-are as varied as the writers.If there is a single bit of common advice,it is to(in the words of
Penelope Lively):“read,read,read”.About this,everyone agrees.“You learn how to structure a
novel from loking at the great novels ofthe past,”says Philip Hensher,a novelist.As Peter Porter,
a late Australian poet ass,“Ikf literature had no effect on you,why would you write it?”
“Writers are made by reading.”says Mante1.“By the time 1 was 18 I had read such a huge
number o愿老人家一路走好 f novels that I think I knew how to riwte one.because I do think that’s how it’s done…
that you learn the different ways as patterns,almost like isualv patterns.’’
Nearly all,too,say the chief delight of writing is the ineffableO process of discovery.“You
don’t have very much choice in the matter,”says Michael Frayn,a playwright and novelist.“The
thing seems to have some kind of reality in one’s head…it seems to be something that one is
discovering rather than inventing.”For U A Fanthorpe,a late poet,“There is a way in which the
poem exists before you wri圣洁的反义词 te it.”Adds Dame P.D.James,a celebrated0 crime novelist,“I don’t
think we choose our genre0.I think that it—a genre—chooses us.’’
All would-be writers should listen to this series,as it corrects some common misconceptions.
No,the work does not emerge complete and perfect,like Athena from Zeus’s head.Texts are
o glamorous:If you describe someone or something as glamorous,you mean that th are more attractive,exciting,
or interesting than ordinary people or things.
0 aspiring:If ou use yaspiring to describe someone who is starting a particular career,you mean that they are trying
to become successful in it.
o anticipate:If ou antiycipate an event,you realize in advance that it may happen and you are prepared for it.
o inhabit:If a place or region is inhabited by a group of people or a species of anima1.those people or animals live
there.
o solitu疤组词 de:Solitude is the state of being alone.especially when this is peaceful and plasant.e
o context:The context of an idea or event is the general situation that relates to it。and which helps it to be
understood.
O nitty-gritty:If people get down to the nitty-gritty of a matter,situation,or activity,they discuss the most
important,basic parts ofit or facts about it.g ̄ORMAL)
o ineffable:You use ineffable to say that something is so great or extreme that it cannot be described in words.
(FORMAL)
o celebrated:A celebrated person or thing is famous and much admired.
m genre:A genre is a particular type f oliterature,painting,music,film,or other art form which people eonsider as a
class because it has special characteristics.(FORMAL)
-Do something today that your future self will thank you for.今天做些让将来的自己会感激的事吧。
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written and rewritten dozens of times.Anne Fine,a children’s writer,says she has fil被迫的近义词 led boxes
three-feet high th drafts for any given book.No,the media appearances are not really what
writers enjoy.“The book should do the speaking and I should stay at home,”says Holroyd.But,he
laments@,now“you have to go out and blow the trumpet@and bang@the drum in front of your
book.I think that because we’re not longer a literary culture…it isn’t the word that speaks,you
have toperformthewordabit,youhavetodemonstrate@it,youhavetoappear,youhavetobethe
book.’’
This imperative@of celebrity is what’s most corrosive@,says Wendy Cope,a poet.“I'm very
depressed th this whole thing of young people just wanting to be famous for the sake of being
famous.If you want to be劝学荀子原文诵读 a riwter,a serious riwter,your focus has to be on writing as well as you
can and all those other things are incidentalO.’’
While tue,trhis also shows that many of these writers came of age in a much quieter,gentler
time.If Shakespeare were wrffing now,said Porter,he too would be forced to make the rounds f o
morning news shows.Contemporary author-recluses@,such as Harper Lee and Anne Tyler,
wouldn’t stand a chance in today’s dinO.
And yet,the writing life continues to capture@its victims.The inalf word on the sedes goes to
Maureen Duffy,a poet and novelist,who in turn quotes a poem by Gerald Mardey Hopkins:“What
I do is me,for that I came.’’One hopes the Library of Congress will be inspired to capture
America’s most important writers the same way.◆
o lament:If you lament something,you express your sadness,regret,or disappointment about it.(mainly FORMAL
or WRtTTF20
0 trumpet:A trumpet is a musical instrument of the brass family which plays quite high notes.
o bang:Ifyou bang on something or ifyou bang it,you hit it hard,making a loud noise.
o demonstrate:To demonstrate a fact means to make it clear to people.
o imperative:If it is imperative that something is done。that thing is extremely important and must be done.
(FORMAL)
o corrosive:=damaging.Ifyou saythat somethinghas acorrosive effect。youmeanthatit graduallycauses serious
harm.(FORMAL)
0 incidental:Ifonethingisincidentalto another,itislessimportantthantheotherthingorisnot amajorpart ofit.
o author-recluses:A recluse is a person who lives alone and deliberately avoids other people.
0 din:A din is a very loud and unpleasant noise hat ltasts for some time.
o capture:If ou captufe someone or sometyhing,you catch them,especially in a war.
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