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
a sight for sore eyes
act on something
aggregate adjustment
alternate hemianesthesia
amalrik
antipersonnel hand grenade
aposematic resemblance
backwash-regeneration cycle
Balmer discontinuity
be one up on
billers
bottle method
bottom clearance
calophya meliorata
central business intensity index
chemical energies
climate resource
cold-maceration
commencement of liquefaction
creg
delayed scanning
diffused silicon diode
discount on stock
division rings
dropping character
electric-field meter
elliptical cross section
employee needs for motivation
engle
Eriochrome black T
festyfull
Fontinaleae
gaseous effluent cooler
globe and mail
GTBA
guas
harazd
have your eye on something
helmet
HEXOPAL
horizontal airspace
in the wedding
interflowing
interpersonal relations
inthrones
Ipomoea dissecta
irrigation cooler
Kamenki
Keplerates
landov
luminosity classification
Magyichaung
major corn seed
malvas
Martelange
mean population
mesospore
mesyl
metahyostyly
mevinphos
mycosphaerella platanifolia cooke
non-recognition
Occidental Petroleum Corporation
outfronts
parameter-free representation
Pascalines
pediculosis
peripheral manager interface
piquerist
Platform for Internet Content Selection
practices of law
pressure sounder
Psaronius
pyxine sorediata
radar-coverage indicator
red scad
repeatability of a measuring instrument
Rex cat
rosette leaves
Schallibaum's solution
sgurr
slow-scan sync
solderball
sporadic typhus
sulesomab
swimmy
synaptic space
Taiohae
tapehead
timber hitch
Tolypite
train load
trigger error
two-pin plug
uniform tariff classification
unulcerate
vertebrate feet
waist cincher
Wall of Worry
wanshon
weakly water-wet
whitten effect