【英语时差8,16】礼来图书馆（上）
时间：2018-12-27 作者：英语课 分类：英语时差8，16
In the heart of the Indiana University campus is a veritable trove 1 filled with invaluable 2 artifacts. Not very many people know about it.It's called the Lilly Library,and it's due for a visit. Luckily, This treasure trove is open to the public.That said, it’s a little different than a regular library. First off, you have to go through the librarian at the front desk, who will ask you to check your bags in the locker 3 room. Then you approach another set of locked doors where you wait for a click.And open to find the Lilly’s reading room. This is where anyone can read rare books and manuscripts, even comic books!Christoph Irmscher is an English professor and he spends a lot of time in the reading room.Christoph found a schedule that poet Sylvia Plath wrote for her child’s nanny.He says that Plath was enormously compulsive. She typed out everything from her responses to complaining students, notes, letters, and this schedule that left no room for improvisation 4.But then, you flip 5 over this pink sheet of paper, remember, this is not a reprint, but the original paper – and Plath’s poet husband, Ted 6 Hughes had used the back of her schedule to scrawl 7 out a few verses.Hughes and Plath had a tumultuous relationship that ended in Plath’s suicide.For Christoph, there is so much to be taken from seeing unpublished manuscripts like this one.
Joel Silver, the Lilly Library’s Curator of Books brought one of his favorite items out of the stacks. This book, this VERY book he’s looking at right now was made in 1623.
The Lilly has all kinds of special materials. They have a Gutenberg Bible, handwritten letters from Charles Darwin, a first edition of Mein Kampf, and a 4 foot long first edition of Audobon’s Birds of America – a book they also have … in miniature form.
- He assembled a rich trove of Chinese porcelain.他收集了一批中国瓷器。
- The gallery is a treasure trove of medieval art.这个画廊是中世纪艺术的宝库。
- A computer would have been invaluable for this job.一台计算机对这个工作的作用会是无法估计的。
- This information was invaluable to him.这个消息对他来说是非常宝贵的。
- At the swimming pool I put my clothes in a locker.在游泳池我把衣服锁在小柜里。
- He moved into the locker room and began to slip out of his scrub suit.他走进更衣室把手术服脱下来。
- a free-form jazz improvisation 自由创作的爵士乐即兴演出
- Most of their music was spontaneous improvisation. 他们的大部分音乐作品都是即兴创作的。
- I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书，看来似乎很有趣。
- Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。