时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:新东方现代文背诵篇章


英语课

  A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great responsibilities, for the composer is utterly 1 dependent on them. A student of music needs as long and as arduous 2 a training to become a performer as a medical student needs to become a doctor. Most training is concerned with technique, for musicians have to have the muscular proficiency 3 of an athlete or a ballet dancer. Singers practice breathing every day, as their vocal 4 chords would be inadequate 5 without controlled muscular support. String players practice moving the fingers of the left hand up and down, while drawing the bow to and fro with the right arm—two entirely 6 different movements.


  Singers and instruments have to be able to get every note perfectly 7 in tune 8. Pianists are spared this particular anxiety, for the notes are already there, waiting for them, and it is the piano tuner’s responsibility to tune the instrument for them. But they have their own difficulties; the hammers that hit the string have to be coaxed 9 not to sound like percussion 10, and each overlapping 11 tone has to sound clear.


  This problem of getting clear texture 12 is one that confronts student conductors: they have to learn to know every note of the music and how it should sound, and they have to aim at controlling these sound with fanatical but selfless authority.


  Technique is of no use unless it is combined with musical knowledge and understanding. Great artists are those who are so thoroughly 13 at home in the language of music that they can enjoy performing works written in any century.


 



1 utterly
adv.完全地,绝对地
  • Utterly devoted to the people,he gave his life in saving his patients.他忠于人民,把毕生精力用于挽救患者的生命。
  • I was utterly ravished by the way she smiled.她的微笑使我完全陶醉了。
2 arduous
adj.艰苦的,费力的,陡峭的
  • We must have patience in doing arduous work.我们做艰苦的工作要有耐性。
  • The task was more arduous than he had calculated.这项任务比他所估计的要艰巨得多。
3 proficiency
n.精通,熟练,精练
  • He plied his trade and gained proficiency in it.他勤习手艺,技术渐渐达到了十分娴熟的地步。
  • How do you think of your proficiency in written and spoken English?你认为你的书面英语和口语熟练程度如何?
4 vocal
adj.直言不讳的;嗓音的;n.[pl.]声乐节目
  • The tongue is a vocal organ.舌头是一个发音器官。
  • Public opinion at last became vocal.终于舆论哗然。
5 inadequate
adj.(for,to)不充足的,不适当的
  • The supply is inadequate to meet the demand.供不应求。
  • She was inadequate to the demands that were made on her.她还无力满足对她提出的各项要求。
6 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。
7 perfectly
adv.完美地,无可非议地,彻底地
  • The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
  • Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。
8 tune
n.调子;和谐,协调;v.调音,调节,调整
  • He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子,并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
  • The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。
9 coaxed
v.哄,用好话劝说( coax的过去式和过去分词 );巧言骗取;哄劝,劝诱
  • She coaxed the horse into coming a little closer. 她哄着那匹马让它再靠近了一点。
  • I coaxed my sister into taking me to the theatre. 我用好话哄姐姐带我去看戏。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
10 percussion
n.打击乐器;冲突,撞击;震动,音响
  • In an orchestra,people who play percussion instruments sit at the back.在管弦乐队中,演奏打击乐器的人会坐在后面。
  • Percussion of the abdomen is often omitted.腹部叩诊常被省略。
11 overlapping
adj./n.交迭(的)
  • There is no overlapping question between the two courses. 这两门课程之间不存在重叠的问题。
  • A trimetrogon strip is composed of three rows of overlapping. 三镜头摄影航线为三排重迭的象片所组成。
12 texture
n.(织物)质地;(材料)构造;结构;肌理
  • We could feel the smooth texture of silk.我们能感觉出丝绸的光滑质地。
  • Her skin has a fine texture.她的皮肤细腻。
13 thoroughly
adv.完全地,彻底地,十足地
  • The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting.一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下种。
  • The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons.士兵们都系统地接受过保护武器的训练。
学英语单词
adrenocorticotrophin (ACTH)
aircraft computers
airfa
American depository receipt
ammonium antimonyl tartrate
anionic polyelectrolyte
apposition beach
asfas
auditee
average outgoing quality limit
baleen record method
biosamples
boat fall block
Bower-Barff
BVDT
cache line
car tracking
casearia glomerata roxb.
chaplygin's transformation
circulen
compound expansion steam engine
consultant fee
cristicole
czaristic
cziffras
Djerid, Chott
donutlike
ECTFT
epoxy plastic
feature fatigue
flutterable
foam dyeing
free-air effect
germ ring
glow-discharge current
glycerin value
goal-seekings
gravitational fields
high-power ultrasensitive radar
insidiary
Ipomoea coccinea
job-creation
karpins
Kent Bridge
klystron
Kodumuru
labour absorption
Lampridae
large vessel
laughathon
lee way
marteks
monolines
multi-parametric process
neurosprora sitophila
Nizhniy Mamon
nonhardening
North Canara
nuclear design criterion
occipital branch
Open Vault
overwent
owner's capital
paria
petrolisthes pubescens
picturs
pipestapple
potamogeton
rave
reharmonized
revetment bulkhead
Roussillon, Plaine du
rue the day
sagrillo
shaft line efficiency
skew line
smartbot
soleula taiwanensis
source iteration method
spyridia filamentosa
start-up groan
stay in beijing
strappado
stt yarn
sun-shading
tabular difference
Takoradi
tardious
telephone rates
Terapon
The Pill
throat drops
ticker-tape machine
triisopropanolamine
tropical draft
unbreakable
underground facility arrangement
verbeek
wayfarers
Witold Gombrowicz
woodsia alpina gray
xga