时间:2019-01-27 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


英语课

The Fernwood Library sponsored Fernwood’s 42nd Art Fair this weekend. The three-day event was held, as usual, at Memorial Park. Almost 100 artists showed up each day. More than 1,000 locals and visitors strolled through the shady park daily, as temperatures remained in the comfortable 70s all weekend.


All kinds of art were on display and for sale. Prices ranged from a couple of dollars to a couple of thousand dollars. Oscar, a native of Peru, was selling his beautiful paintings of the mountain village of Ayacucho, where he lives most of the year. “Every year I come to the United States to sell my paintings at about five different art shows. Then I return to my country. That is where I do all my paintings, in our beautiful mountains.”


Peter is a photographer. He travels throughout the southwest US. One of his favorite areas is northeast Arizona. “That’s where Spider Rock is,” he said, pointing to a beautiful color photograph of a towering sandstone spire 1 about 800 feet high. This rock, according to Navajo Indian lore 2, was the home of Spider Woman, a goddess revered 3 by the tribe.


A Navajo woman was selling her own rug weavings at the fair. She was busy creating a rug while visitors watched. When asked how long it took, she replied that her creations usually took months. She said that Navajo tradition was to always weave a slight flaw into an article so as not to offend Spider Woman, because only Spider Woman could create a perfect weave.


The exhibit areas were located throughout the park. Artists’ creations included jewelry 4, ceramics 5, bird houses, gourd 6 art, furniture, pottery 7, handmade musical instruments, music CDs, and sculpture. Almost all the artists had their work displayed beneath shady canopies 8.


“This was another successful year for our art fair,” said the head librarian. “The artists sold enough of their work to encourage them to return next year, and the library raised almost $700 from sales of various items. We’ll use this money to purchase a few more tables and chairs.”


 



n.(教堂)尖顶,尖塔,高点
  • The church spire was struck by lightning.教堂的尖顶遭到了雷击。
  • They could just make out the spire of the church in the distance.他们只能辨认出远处教堂的尖塔。
n.传说;学问,经验,知识
  • I will seek and question him of his lore.我倒要找上他,向他讨教他的渊博的学问。
  • Early peoples passed on plant and animal lore through legend.早期人类通过传说传递有关植物和动物的知识。
v.崇敬,尊崇,敬畏( revere的过去式和过去分词 )
  • A number of institutions revered and respected in earlier times have become Aunt Sally for the present generation. 一些早年受到尊崇的惯例,现在已经成了这代人嘲弄的对象了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The Chinese revered corn as a gift from heaven. 中国人将谷物奉为上天的恩赐。 来自辞典例句
n.(jewllery)(总称)珠宝
  • The burglars walked off with all my jewelry.夜盗偷走了我的全部珠宝。
  • Jewelry and lace are mostly feminine belongings.珠宝和花边多数是女性用品。
n.制陶业;陶器
  • an exhibition of ceramics by Picasso 毕加索陶瓷作品展
  • The ceramics bore the imprint of Luca della Robbia. 陶器上印有卢卡·德拉·罗比亚的字样。
n.葫芦
  • Are you going with him? You must be out of your gourd.你和他一块去?你一定是疯了。
  • Give me a gourd so I can bail.把葫芦瓢给我,我好把水舀出去。
n.陶器,陶器场
  • My sister likes to learn art pottery in her spare time.我妹妹喜欢在空余时间学习陶艺。
  • The pottery was left to bake in the hot sun.陶器放在外面让炎热的太阳烘晒焙干。
(宝座或床等上面的)华盖( canopy的名词复数 ); (飞行器上的)座舱罩; 任何悬于上空的覆盖物; 森林中天棚似的树荫
  • Golf carts with bright canvas canopies wandered the raingreen fairways. 一场雨后显得愈加葱绿的高尔夫球场草地上,散放着一些带有色彩缤纷的帆布华盖的高尔夫小车。
  • Rock permitted seven canopies, cornices floors, decorative glass, Ambilight, momentum magnificent, magnificent. 七檐佛殿背倚山岩,楼层飞檐翘角,殿顶琉璃装饰,流光溢彩,气势恢宏,蔚为壮观。
学英语单词
ablaqueate
account to be credited
Archiclematis
automatic closing gear
barrel end opening
body odour
Boolean operater
burning-off curve
cadmium-mercury excimer laser
chemiluminiscence
cirrus floccus
closing cell
coarse elutriation
contacted clad(ding)
criterion numeral
cut and carry die
date when performance is due
debris sampler
deepenings
dentent
deputy Speaker
double extended shaft
dry-laid nonwoven fabric
dunceish
elizabeth gaskells
ependymoma
equity division
everyway
falcula
fautrier
fertility planning status
fill the prescriptions
flavans
flibbertigibbety
flight plan-aided tracking (fpat)
flunamic
funds for public undertakings
fused ring
gefitinib
genus
ground-launched cruise missile
had no further use for
Hagelstadt
hair-care
homogeneous liquid membrane
hour indicator driving wheel
impulse of restitution
indigerable
infiltration gallery
inner-directed behavior
integrated personnel information report
kafr buhum (kafr behum)
kasabach-merritt syndrome(hemangioma-thrombo-cytopenia syndrome)
kurusu
left-half pointer
lenero
leucyltransferase
local standard time (lst)
low liquid limit silt
Lumumba, Patrice (Emergy )
lynch laws
make fun
melacel
mercury motor type
modulating choke
mountainboarders
necessarians
News of the Screws
nicodicodeine
obstruct wilfully
occupational union
OMVC
outsuffered
over great distances
paintcoat
Polypathy
profile set
pump discharge shutoff valve
Retzite
rorippa indica(l.)hiern
santees
servo signal
shadjam
sonar attack plotter
space environment simulation
Spiraea sublobata
spiral lens mount
steel-wire screen
still water resistance
strectamine
Sts.
subliming apparatus
submolecule
thomas lanier williamss
touch-type
trade language
transatlantically
unprocedural
unshared
verging ray
warm season foragegrass
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