时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:新东方背诵文选


英语课

For the last 82years, Sweden's Nobel Academy has decided 1 who will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, thereby 2 determining who will be elevated from the great and the near great to the immortal 3. But today the Academy is coming under heavy criticism both from the without and from within. Critics contend that the selection of the winners often has less to do with true writing ability than with the peculiar 4 internal politics of the Academy and of Sweden itself. According to Ingmar Bjorksten , the cultural editor for one of the country's two major newspapers, the prize continues to represent "what people call a very Swedish exercise: reflecting Swedish tastes."
The Academy has defended itself against such charges of provincialism in its selection by asserting that its physical distance from the great literary capitals of the world actually serves to protect the Academy from outside influences. This may well be true, but critics respond that this very distance may also be responsible for the Academy's inability to perceive accurately 5 authentic 6 trends in the literary world.
Regardless of concerns over the selection process, however, it seems that the prize will continue to survive both as an indicator 7 of the literature that we most highly praise, and as an elusive 8 goal that writers seek. If for no other reason, the prize will continue to be desirable for the financial rewards that accompany it; not only is the cash prize itself considerable, but it also dramatically increases sales of an author's books.


1 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
2 thereby
adv.因此,从而
  • I have never been to that city,,ereby I don't know much about it.我从未去过那座城市,因此对它不怎么熟悉。
  • He became a British citizen,thereby gaining the right to vote.他成了英国公民,因而得到了投票权。
3 immortal
adj.不朽的;永生的,不死的;神的
  • The wild cocoa tree is effectively immortal.野生可可树实际上是不会死的。
  • The heroes of the people are immortal!人民英雄永垂不朽!
4 peculiar
adj.古怪的,异常的;特殊的,特有的
  • He walks in a peculiar fashion.他走路的样子很奇特。
  • He looked at me with a very peculiar expression.他用一种很奇怪的表情看着我。
5 accurately
adv.准确地,精确地
  • It is hard to hit the ball accurately.准确地击中球很难。
  • Now scientists can forecast the weather accurately.现在科学家们能准确地预报天气。
6 authentic
a.真的,真正的;可靠的,可信的,有根据的
  • This is an authentic news report. We can depend on it. 这是篇可靠的新闻报道, 我们相信它。
  • Autumn is also the authentic season of renewal. 秋天才是真正的除旧布新的季节。
7 indicator
n.指标;指示物,指示者;指示器
  • Gold prices are often seen as an indicator of inflation.黃金价格常常被看作是通货膨胀的指标。
  • His left-hand indicator is flashing.他左手边的转向灯正在闪亮。
8 elusive
adj.难以表达(捉摸)的;令人困惑的;逃避的
  • Try to catch the elusive charm of the original in translation.翻译时设法把握住原文中难以捉摸的风韵。
  • Interpol have searched all the corners of the earth for the elusive hijackers.国际刑警组织已在世界各地搜查在逃的飞机劫持者。
学英语单词
absolute system of measurement
adhesive excipient
adsorbed gases
alloy-steel tube
Badajoz
bandslash
bouled
brisky
bronchitics
C. F.
camino-real
Captain Horatio Hornblower
circular hall
constellate
coralroots
dead pull
define way point
deputize for
dermatological pathology
dinaric alps (dinara planina)
direct wages
drawing rooms
drying principles
dust-separation equipment
economic dispute cases
effective tractive effort
electrical speed governor
electron-like particle
enter a caveat
ethnonationalism
ethyl malathion
exposure level
fault-screened hydrocarbon reservoir
fire resistant hydraulic oil
fixed broadband
floating-point operation stack
foot operating lathe
full-board
grammes per square metre
Guarayos, R.
hereditary sweat gland disorder
inceptual
indeterminate structure
integrated image analysis
interjectionalise
investment securities traded
ion sound wave
Ishmaiah
level ventilation system
lever fork
longitudinal inclinometer
madpersons
magnifies
match-funding
moist-soil
neonatalogist
neuroelectric
non-popularity
Norala
notchback
opal convex lens
Ossau, V.d'
pachyperiosteoderma
paleys
pay level
plug line
point contact diode
prepainted
propellable
Protoungulata
pseud
punch sb's lights out
qadiriyah
rate-of-climb sensor
re-occludes
recirculation of air
rhachomyces tenuis
right-hand rotation reamer
river silt engineering
sabb
sandvick
sea return
senior schools
shurikens
sickle knife
side-fired recirculating still
skeleton of process structure
standard atmosphere pressure
Stave Construction
styrene maleic anhydride copolymer
superchlorination water
tapatio
tearing mode instability
thefloor
thiophanates
timestamp
topologically complete space
trolley frame
type T personality
unmoderately
veronica anagallis-aquaticas
will-lessly