时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:白领英语晨读


英语课
Pen of Life 人生之笔

Suppose someone gave you a pen - a sealed, solid-colored pen.

  假如有人送你一支笔,一支不可拆卸的单色钢笔。

You couldn't see how much ink it had. It might run dry after the first few tentative words or last just long enough to create a masterpiece(or several) that would last forever and make a difference in the scheme of things. You don't know before you begin. Under the rules of the game, you really never know. You have to take a chance!

  看不出里面究竟有多少墨水。或许在你试探性地写上几个字后它就会枯干,或许足够用来创作一部影响深远的不朽巨著(或是几部)。而这些,在动笔前,都是无法得知的。 在这个游戏规则下,你真的永远不会预知结果。你只能去碰运气!

And of what would you write: Of love? Hate? Fun? Misery 1? Life? Death? Nothing? Everything? Would you write to please just yourself? Or others? Or yourself by writing for others? Would your strokes be tremblinglytimid or brilliantly bold? Fancy with a flourish or plain? Would you even write? Once you have the pen, no rule says you have to write. Would you sketch 2? Scribble 3? Doodle or draw? Would you stay in or on the lines, or see no lines at all, even if they were there? Or are they?

  你又会用笔写下些什么呢:爱?恨?喜?悲?生?死?虚无?万物?你写作只是为了愉己?还是为了悦人?抑或是借替人书写而愉己?你的落笔会是颤抖胆怯的,还是鲜明果敢的?你的想象会是丰富的还是贫乏的?甚或你根本没有落笔?这是因为,你拿到笔以后,没有哪条规则说你必须写作。也许你要画素描,乱写一气?信笔涂鸦?画画?你会保持写在线内还是线上,还是根本看不到线,即使有线在那里?嗯,真的有线吗?

There's a lot to think about here, isn't there?

  这里面有许多东西值得考虑,不是吗?

Now, suppose someone gave you a life...

  现在,假如有人给予你一支生命的笔……

n.痛苦,苦恼,苦难;悲惨的境遇,贫苦
  • Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.商业不景气常使工薪阶层受苦。
  • He has rescued me from the mire of misery.他把我从苦海里救了出来。
n.草图;梗概;素描;v.素描;概述
  • My sister often goes into the country to sketch. 我姐姐常到乡间去写生。
  • I will send you a slight sketch of the house.我将给你寄去房屋的草图。
v.潦草地书写,乱写,滥写;n.潦草的写法,潦草写成的东西,杂文
  • She can't write yet,but she loves to scribble with a pencil.她现在还不会写字,但她喜欢用铅笔乱涂。
  • I can't read this scribble.我看不懂这种潦草的字。
学英语单词
aeroisoclinic wing
aftercoming head
air defense missile
anchoring cone
antisabia foliacea
back up tape
back-channel
bearer instrument
benzoylacrylic acid
bevacqua
biocrudes
biplumbic
bleaching powder and liquor section
blood-nourishing drug
brampton stock,brompton stock
Buddleja formosana
burst slug detection
by-pass feeder
cabblers
calorific value determination in a bomb calorimeter
Canary Ridge
chain-smoker
chlortetracycline calcium
chock blasting
clausum mare
Cortelan
counting circuit
coupling bolt
cushion-tire
date of death
diffused reflex
dried egg white
Enchodontoidei
everyguy
exorcisable
expading value-added tax
expandable fund
ferro-friedelite
four figure system
gas conduction lamp
gauge annunciator
generator electrode
grandoe
Gussenbauer's suture
hanged ceiling
hard-foughts
have snakes in one's boots
homologist
hydrodynamics of equatorial ocean
internuncial neuron
intranetwork
Kandé
keel date
kinocillium
Landau damping
large vessel anchorage
memorandum book
mitodepression
Morison's method
mustardless
nettle grub
nny
normalizing tranform
ocult hemorrhage
oil-out
optical designation
paramongoloid
polycarpon indicum(retz)merr.
prices tend upwards
prior art
pseudobranchs
psychomyiids
pythium megalacanthum debary var.callistephi tasugi et shiino
quickmounting
rhincalanus nasutus
rotation detector
Salavatskiy Rayon
segment rack
semi-automatic quality control
semiconductor hole
sidewalk greening
sizing press
sociomoral
soft coating
sound modulation
source duration
spot-billed duck
stud stretcher
surface medium
syncwords
taking a dip
TETRACTINELLIDA
Tetraxonida
Theophyll-SR
tindales
tube-type beam splitter
unflexes
unstable mixture
vat dyestuff
virgin diamond
writ of detention
zero reactor pressure