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
abuzz
Afrique, C.(Africa, C.)
All are not saints that go to church.
alphodermia
apertura externa aquaeductus vestibuli
apostles
Avermin
boria
burranet
canary grass
capacitance-frequency method
Cardiotrophin
characteristic spread
chytrid
cicurates
climbing tram-rail
compact-grain
contact grasp
coreless coil
dacytlothyrea spinipes
deposit tank
dragles
drift turbulence
duhun (dihun)
EIAA
El Roble, Pta.
equivalent echoing area
Euler number 2
exterior paint
fabric seal
fertilised
financial futures trading
forescripts
fragile fibre
frequentative mood
gas discharge counter
giant northwest shipworm
gill bud
give sb his gruel
granda
grosmonts
Gustavo Adolfo
Hadseloya
hydraulic reserve tank
incombered
inspection accuracy
interlocking apparatus
islander
James Cleveland Owens
kokopelli
LP(a)
main jet tube
Manéah
maximum inscribed circle diameter of throwaway
mean solar second
micro-processes
Mogogelo
Morea
nematolyt
nitrile rubber ring
noise bars
nota bene
off-hook
on the swag
palaeotypal(palaeotype)
parthas
peak-clipping circuit
pendergast
performace property
perlmen
phone patch
phosphoric cyanide
pick counter
plat-eye
polymer additives
pondily
pressure-flank
prisoners of conscience
psychological perspective
pull a gag
radioanatomy
recureless
Reinga
reserve for outstanding loss
savoxepin
scaraboid
scarlatinas
screen-scraped
selective system of preference
sesenta
shuwaikh
single-phase shunt commutator motor
splitting of levels
still pot
thunure
triphen-
unilateral movement
vent header
vertical boring and turning machine
warping bank
wehunt
workless