时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2010年(七)月


英语课

Manga, a longstanding Japanese version of graphic 1 novels, is such a popular literary form that ian entire category in several bookstores.t's


In a recent Washington Post story, Michael Dirda described young people sprawled 2 on the floor at bookstores, their eyes riveted 3 on the books in front of them. In fact, Dirda wrote, no other readers look quite so utterly 4 absorbed.


The books belonged to a hot but, until recently, somewhat obscure genre 5 that many Americans have never heard of.




Franklin Park Library, Flickr Creative Commons

This is an obviously well-attended workshop, specifically on how to create graphic novels, at a library in Franklin Park, Illinois.


It's the graphic novel. And the graphic part has nothing to do with explicit 6 written descriptions of people, places, acts, or events. It refers to the illustrations, or graphics 7, that, in this form of book, carry the story as much as, or more than, the words.


Graphic novels - whose format 8 has been traced all the way back to medieval woodcuts and to adult 19th Century Japanese illustrated 9 stories called manga - look a lot like comic strips in book form. But each volume tells a full and complex story. 


Graphic novels are mocked in some literary quarters as simplistic - another example of what some consider the dumbing down of the American culture.




portlant, Flickr Creative Commons

The first word is washed out a bit from the flash reflection, but it reflects a meeting announcement for a book club of folks who read graphic novels in Portland, Oregon.

Writer Alan Moore, for instance, scoffs 10 that graphic novel is nothing but a marketing 11 term . . . meaning 'expensive comic book.'


That's an interesting take, since Moore is himself a British comic-book writer.

 



adj.生动的,形象的,绘画的,文字的,图表的
  • The book gave a graphic description of the war.这本书生动地描述了战争的情况。
  • Distinguish important text items in lists with graphic icons.用图标来区分重要的文本项。
v.伸开四肢坐[躺]( sprawl的过去式和过去分词);蔓延;杂乱无序地拓展;四肢伸展坐着(或躺着)
  • He was sprawled full-length across the bed. 他手脚摊开横躺在床上。
  • He was lying sprawled in an armchair, watching TV. 他四肢伸开正懒散地靠在扶手椅上看电视。
铆接( rivet的过去式和过去分词 ); 把…固定住; 吸引; 引起某人的注意
  • I was absolutely riveted by her story. 我完全被她的故事吸引住了。
  • My attention was riveted by a slight movement in the bushes. 我的注意力被灌木丛中的轻微晃动吸引住了。
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。
n.(文学、艺术等的)类型,体裁,风格
  • My favorite music genre is blues.我最喜欢的音乐种类是布鲁斯音乐。
  • Superficially,this Shakespeare's work seems to fit into the same genre.从表面上看, 莎士比亚的这个剧本似乎属于同一类型。
adj.详述的,明确的;坦率的;显然的
  • She was quite explicit about why she left.她对自己离去的原因直言不讳。
  • He avoids the explicit answer to us.他避免给我们明确的回答。
n.制图法,制图学;图形显示
  • You've leveraged your graphics experience into the video area.你们把图形设计业务的经验运用到录像业务中去。
  • Improved graphics took computer games into a new era.经改进的制图技术将电脑游戏带进了一个新时代。
n.设计,版式;[计算机]格式,DOS命令:格式化(磁盘),用于空盘或使用过的磁盘建立新空盘来存储数据;v.使格式化,设计,安排
  • Please format this floppy disc.请将这张软盘格式化。
  • The format of the figure is very tasteful.该图表的格式很雅致。
嘲笑,嘲弄( scoff的第三人称单数 )
  • [ Scoffs ] Why should a young girl like that love an old fart like me? 为什么一个那样的年轻女孩应该喜欢我这样的老家伙?
  • The noise of the moment scoffs at the music of the Eternal. 瞬刻的喧声,讥笑着永恒的音乐。
n.行销,在市场的买卖,买东西
  • They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
  • He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。
学英语单词
-tropal
absolute extremum
Age of Reason, the
aishas
aitchless
alanin
angle of descent
area of facial nerve
atramentitious
bandy with
Berger's sign
bird tracks
blackline
bondra
book debt(s)
brake release weight
break up into
breaking factor
cameramount
cardiocarpa
Chaplin, Charlie
chinese nickel-titanium wire
container marine line
conveyer pawl casing
criterion-referenceds
current annual rate of interest
cuvelier
dahabiya
demibastions
denote
ecofins
edit operation
Elmendorf Air Force Base
exponential absorption
fatty n-alcohol
fire-escapes
giroud
goz
hair matrix
Hoban-ri
infantile death
initialisations
insurance against suspension of work
irriguate
judical sale
kelvin balance
lantanoseB
loess tableland
long-standing case
loud-talking
Macc
manganous sulfide
matrix decoding method
meshing frame
micropaleobotany
minimal distance docoding
multimammas
Nigroporus
nls
normalisations
observation and recording device
orthotopes
overhung type motor
paragraph marks
perforated wall centrifuge
phase down
pixel data
plate budding
prebunching
prevalidate
product base
pterocanium orcinum
punish capitally
reptantia
Salmonella amager
salt as fire
sassafras trees
Schrodinger wave equation
sectional observation
Shāhwāli
single user facility
sizofiran
spin-other-orbit interaction
spray cooling
stift clay
street-sellers
sulfited juice
surface staining
symmetrical network
thrust efficiency
tokocyte
tooling zone
torquer
toubkal
tricycling
uranoscopus oligolepis
vilify
viola adenothrix tsugitakaensis
wattless component
wheel horse
while-construct
wristpad