时间:2018-12-15 作者:英语课 分类:新东方现代文背诵篇章


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From Boston to Los Angeles, from New York City to Chicago to Dallas, museums are either planning, building, or wrapping up wholesale 1 expansion programs. These programs already have radically 2 altered facades 3 and floor plans or are expected to do so in the not-too-distant future.


In New York City alone, six major institutions have spread up and out into the air space and neighborhoods around them or are preparing to do so.


The reasons for this confluence 4 of activity are complex, but one factor is a consideration everywhere - space. With collections expanding, with the needs and functions of museums changing, empty space has become a very precious commodity.


Probably nowhere in the country is this more true than at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which has needed additional space for decades and which received its last significant facelift ten years ago. Because of the space crunch 5, the Art Museum has become increasingly cautious in considering acquisitions and donations of art, in some cases passing up opportunities to strengthen its collections.


Deaccessing - or selling off - works of art has taken on new importance because of the museum's space problems. And increasingly, curators have been forced to juggle 6 gallery space, rotating one masterpiece into public view while another is sent to storage.


Despite the clear need for additional gallery and storage space, however," the museum has no plan, no plan to break out of its envelope in the next fifteen years," according to Philadelphia Museum of Art's president.



1 wholesale
n.批发;adv.以批发方式;vt.批发,成批出售
  • The retail dealer buys at wholesale and sells at retail.零售商批发购进货物,以零售价卖出。
  • Such shoes usually wholesale for much less.这种鞋批发出售通常要便宜得多。
2 radically
ad.根本地,本质地
  • I think we may have to rethink our policies fairly radically. 我认为我们可能要对我们的政策进行根本的反思。
  • The health service must be radically reformed. 公共医疗卫生服务必须进行彻底改革。
3 facades
n.(房屋的)正面( facade的名词复数 );假象,外观
  • Terraces of asphalt are placed by the building's south and west facades. 沥青露台位于建筑的南面和西面。 来自互联网
  • Preserving historic buildings or keeping only their facades (or fronts) grew common. 保存历史建筑或是保持它们普通的正面增长。 来自互联网
4 confluence
n.汇合,聚集
  • They built the city at the confluence of two rivers.他们建造了城市的汇合两条河流。
  • The whole DV movements actually was a confluence of several trends.整个当时的DV运动,实际上是几股潮流的同谋。
5 crunch
n.关键时刻;艰难局面;v.发出碎裂声
  • If it comes to the crunch they'll support us.关键时刻他们是会支持我们的。
  • People who crunch nuts at the movies can be very annoying.看电影时嘎吱作声地嚼干果的人会使人十分讨厌。
6 juggle
v.变戏法,纂改,欺骗,同时做;n.玩杂耍,纂改,花招
  • If you juggle with your accounts,you'll get into trouble.你要是在帐目上做手脚,你可要遇到麻烦了。
  • She had to juggle her job and her children.她得同时兼顾工作和孩子。
学英语单词
Abberton
adiate
all relay automatic telephone system
an all-nighter
Armutlu
atana
atry
automatic selling-machine
auxiliary labour
be curtains for sb
bournonite
bragwort
bullatus
butadiene-styrene-acrylonitrile polymerization
cardiovertors
chemical pulping
cirrocumulus clouds
concitatoes
constant deliver pump
democratically
Diacetamate
diene polymer
direct access storage unit
direct current panel
doclea japonica
domain controller
drawed
eacless
epithelial-mesenchymal interaction
expert opinion
extended letters
facebuster
false-bottom
feverwort
follicular tumor
fouett? battement
frictionless turn
fuse tube
gallowglasses
gamma-hydroxybutyric acid
genus egrettas
gillespite
Good show!
government authorities
graft-
group repetition interval
Haemomenas praecox
haulm separator
heavy ion fusion reaction
Hippocratic wreath
homotreatment
hot gas manifold
hougher
in ... road
iron mts.
Kamalondo
Lashmet-Newburgh's tests
levasseur
LF (loose fit)
lite pendente
mandarins
Mequinenza, Embalse de
Monte Carlo forecast
mouzle
musical dramas
Myaceae
nidorose
Nurhak
occasionable
ORMAK device
oval-oval method
parancistrocerus samarensis
plastic strain increment
potassium glycerinophosphate
promotions
Ptolemys
puerto piramide
punched card utility
radio lead
rafter foot
rami oesophagici (s. sympathici)
samaranch
set with
skim-coulter
sleepest
sshed
sternopygids
stream energy
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
teleconferencing
theynt
third angle drawing
tide-surveyor
to chi
to establish
top soil erosion
twin floats
vumming
wind computer
wood turning tool
yappas
Younghusband Pen.