时间:2019-01-16 作者:英语课 分类:2017年NPR美国国家公共电台2月


英语课

 


AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:


Who says nobody dreams big anymore?


MATT NEGRIN: I want to write about what it's like to never leave the Mall of America.


ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:


That's Matt Negrin. He's a comedy writer in New York. This week, he learned that there is a job just right for him at this country's largest mall, the Mall of America.


CORNISH: Dan Jasper is vice 1 president there.


DAN JASPER: We're having a writer-in-residence contest.


CORNISH: The mall turns 25 this summer, and they're hiring a writer-in-residence as part of the celebration. They already have 500 entries.


SHAPIRO: As Thoreau once took inspiration from Walden Pond, one lucky writer will have the chance to go to the mall and live deliberately 2.


JASPER: Have five days on the mall. They can interact with shoppers or ride a roller coaster or swim with sharks, be immersed into the life and the excitement of the mall and get to write whatever they really feel like that pertains 3 somehow to Mall of America.


CORNISH: Writer Matt Negrin put one additional condition on his application.


NEGRIN: I want to make sure, should you select me as your writer-in-residence, that a security guard is assigned to my person 24 hours a day. Not to protect me, but to stop me from trying to escape the Mall of America.


SHAPIRO: One note. The terms and conditions say that the writer's work must not be inaccurate 4, derogatory, incompatible 5 with, inconsistent with or otherwise contradictory 6 to the Mall of America's desired presentation. Art isn't easy.


CORNISH: The application closes March 10. Good luck.


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n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
adv.审慎地;蓄意地;故意地
  • The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
  • They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。
关于( pertain的第三人称单数 ); 有关; 存在; 适用
  • When one manages upward, none of these clear and unambiguous symbols pertains. 当一个人由下而上地管理时,这些明确无误的信号就全都不复存在了。
  • Her conduct hardly pertains to a lady. 她的行为与女士身份不太相符。
adj.错误的,不正确的,不准确的
  • The book is both inaccurate and exaggerated.这本书不但不准确,而且夸大其词。
  • She never knows the right time because her watch is inaccurate.她从来不知道准确的时间因为她的表不准。
adj.不相容的,不协调的,不相配的
  • His plan is incompatible with my intent.他的计划与我的意图不相符。
  • Speed and safety are not necessarily incompatible.速度和安全未必不相容。
adj.反驳的,反对的,抗辩的;n.正反对,矛盾对立
  • The argument is internally contradictory.论据本身自相矛盾。
  • What he said was self-contradictory.他讲话前后不符。
学英语单词
A.S.W.
aloys senefelders
anas zonorhyncha
As affairs stand
atomdef
automatic beam intensity limiter
Ban Nadi
becoming gradually larger at one end
biological accumulation
black-shortness
cartridge ejector
claim expenses
classroom assistant
cockrell hill
cognitive behavioral therapy
coloring triangle
commencement of cover
commercial war
continuously acting system
dead-soft
deaspiration
disposal of rubbish
endless loop
equal-payment series
Erivan
Eupatorium japonicum
extended turn
felzberg
Ficus virens
foxwoods
games of exhaustion
gas reversion
glianimon
glomeruli of mesonephros
golden potto
Greenbrier County
hakata
hydraulic fender
impact pressure
installation instructions
interstitial proliferation
issuance of capital stock for non cash assets
jump at the job
kaffir bread
Kassubian
kneeling-squatting position
kochkarite
li'l ol'
Ligamentum pisometacarpale
lump-sum payment isurance
main steam-piping system
manned spacecraft system
mertrix pebechialis
microgenesis
ncjw
nearabout
nonbusiness
oligotrophic conditions
Orgueil meteorite
piston head end
plate circuit detector
Porro prism
posed as
power-savings
precision leveling
principle of contradiction
printed circuit board
probabilistic risk analysis
processing step
prootic
proscriptive
reacting force
reactive violet
redundant file
rossio
Saturn's ring
schistose rock
scrofulophyma
self-neutralization
sembl-
Shivpuri National Park
short cultivation
sodium n-alkylbenzenesulfonate
soft magnetic material
stercotelemeter
subdifferential
superparamagnetic limit
Tachardia lacca Kerr
Tematangi Atoll
the cenozoic era
the Feast of Lanterns
to the end of the chapter
top-down model
totanine
trametes hirsuta
varnished insulation
vinyl sheet flooring
virtual workplace
wiljas
Windows-based client
wireless telegraphy direction finder
wrapping choice model