《每日英语》电子报总第502期-09.22

   《每日英语》

----Daily English---

　::每日一词::　 

lifelong　 (a.) 终身的,一辈子的

competition　 (n.) 竞争,比赛

Henry"s lifelong project is to create his own TV show.
亨利长达一生的计划就是要创作自己的电视节目。

The children are having a competition to see who can eat the most shrimp.
小朋友们在比赛看谁可以吃最多的虾子。

Many people piled onto the bus.

许多人挤到公共汽车上。

pile有堆的意思，这里用做一个不及物动词，表示挤，根据挤进的地方不同使用不同的介词。
例：
Many students piled into the auditorium.许多学生挤进那礼堂。
They piled into my car.他们挤进我的车。

Three months into the relationship
Stephen: Hi, Dana. This is Stephen.
Dana: Oh, hi. How come you haven"t called me all week?
Stephen: I"ve just had a big project at work.
Dana: You could have at least called me to let me know.
Stephen: You"re right. I"m sorry.
Dana: I"m afraid it"s not that easy.
Stephen: Let me take you out to make it up to you. Besides, there"s something I want to tell you.

(续上期,下期待续)

交往了三个月
史帝芬︰嗨，黛娜。我是史帝芬。
黛　娜︰喔，嗨。你为什么整个星期都不打电话给我？
史帝芬︰我工作上刚接到一个大案子。
黛　娜︰你至少打个电话跟我说啊。
史帝芬︰你说得对。我很抱歉。
黛　娜︰我恐怕没这么好敷衍吧。
史帝芬︰让我带你出去好好补偿你。而且，我有事要跟你说。



重点解说：

1、 relationship (n.) 关系，尤其指男女交往关系
2、 How come... （口）…是怎么回事？
3、 at least 至少
4、 make it up to... 补偿（某人）

1.您近来在忙些什么？

2.你要想跟我们一块走，那就得快点。

3.你现在是成年人了, 要对自己的言行负责任。

4.这个贫穷的母亲怅惘地回忆她已经逝去的青春。

5.报刊上流传起关于这对皇家夫妇的传闻，两周后此事得到证实，他们宣布离婚，真是无风不起浪嘛。

6.To be what we are,and to become what we are capable of becoming,is the only end of life.(英译汉)

昨日参考：

1. We face the perennial problem of not having enough money.

2. If you trust me, let me do it for you.

3. Why are you so late? We were worried to death about you.

4. His cartoons mercilessly lampoon the leading politician of the day.

5. We"ll leave this case/thing/matter entirely to you，so do as you see fit．
see/think fit:decide that an action is necessary，wise or advisable 认为合适；认为（做某事）适当

6.You can not live a happy life if you carry much hatred.(英译汉)
如果心中的仇怨太多, 怎么可能生活得开心呢。

翻译没有标准答案，我们所给的都是参考答案，比如说很多动词都可以用一些同义词或者是词组来代替．这些都是要靠我们平时自己不断的积累．

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The city of Shibam, Yemen, rises from the Rub al Khali, or Empty Quarter, a sea of sand that occupies one-fifth of the Arabian Peninsula. The distinctive mud-brick skyscrapers that house Shibam"s 5,000 residents have earned the city its nickname: "Manhattan of the Desert."

The Genius of Photography 摄影演义后传- 2

In the course of our 170 year relationship, photography has delighted us, served us, moved us, outraged us and occasionally disappointed us. But mainly, it has intrigued us by showing the secret strangeness that lies beneath the world of appearances. And that is photography"s true genius.

To hold a camera in your hands in the 1920s was to hold the future. The photographer Bernice Abbott felt the camera made her "the contemporary being par excellence." Writer James Agee called the camera "the central instrument of our time." Hungarian artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy believed the camera offered a new vision that would spark a 20th century renaissance. "Anyone who fails to understand photography," he said, "will be one of the illiterates of the future."

“The 1920s was perhaps the decade of the most intense debates as to what photography is for. What is it good at? What role is it going to play in the arts of the future or even in the society of the future?”

But what language did photography speak? And whose interests did it serve? The future or the past, the masses or the individual, society"s or its own?

“Is it a medium that you need to wrestle with, and take control of, or is it something that is perhaps at its best when artists rained in leaving the photographers as a sort of functionary, as a sort of operator?”

In Germany, a nation struggling with the trauma and chaos of defeat, photography offered clarity, rationality and order. One of the surprise best-sellers of 1925 was Karl Blossfeldt"s Art Forms of Nature, which revealed in ravishing detail, the precision engineering that underpinned the vegetable world.

“Karl Blossfeldt made huge compendious albums of different plant forms, and there, as heraldic as if they"ve been made in cast iron. They"re quite extraordinary and he ranges them side by side so you can see all the difference in the, in the plant forms. So it"s a kind of encyclopedic desire to record the world as a series of typologies, using the new shiny commercial papers of the 1920s.”

The potential for making systematic and accurate records of places, people and things had been one of photography"s trump cards from the outset. The first typology, Anna Atkins" catalog of algae, appeared just four years after the medium"s invention

Vocabulary:

par excellence: the very best of a particular thing

Traditional ethics is a sort of the anthrop centrical ethics, which ignores the purpose and the value of the nature par excellence, and cannot provide a standard for the human action in the technological world.

                      传统的伦理学是一种人类中心的伦理,它忽视了自然和生命本身所具有的目的和价值, 无法为技术世界人的行动提供判断的尺度。

wrestle with: struggle to deal with or overcome sth. 奋力对付或制服某事物

                    The pilot was wrestling with the controls.  

rain in: 涌进，蜂拥而至

ravishing: unusually attractive, pleasing, or striking

She looked ravishing.

a ravishing smile

underpin:  1.support (a wall, etc) from below with masonry, etc 用砖石结构等从下面支撑（墙等）; 加固（墙等）的基础.

2. (比喻) form the basis for (an argument, a claim, etc); strengthen 为（论据﹑ 主张等）打下基础; 加强; 巩固:

The evidence underpinning his case was sound.

有利于他的证据是确凿的.

These developments are underpinned by solid progress in heavy industry.

重工业的稳固发展为这些进展打下了基础.

compendious: marked by brief expression of a comprehensive matter: concise and comprehensive

a compendious writer, handbook, catalogue

heraldic: (adj.）纹章学的, 纹章的, 传令官的

trump card: Something kept back to be used to win success if nothing else works.

                     The coach saved his star pitcher for a trump card. Mary had several ways to get Joan to come to her party. Her trump card was that the football captain would be there.

algae: a very simple plant without stems or leaves that grows in or near water藻; 藻类.

Find A Way ※ 寻路

有时候，觉得生活象一个迷宫
每次都以为自己走的路是通向正确的出口
可是却越走越迷茫
面对眼前曲折蜿蜒的很多选择
我在这些复杂曲折的路中徘徊着
只希望在下一个路口看到的标牌
不再是
“此路不通”

"Find A Way"

J-five的这首RAP和美国歌手的RAP相比，少了许多躁动，暴戾的气息，整首歌没有特别强烈的节奏，听起来很舒服。其中穿插的小孩和女歌手的声音使整首歌听起来更加灵动，和男歌手的嗓音相得益彰，让这首歌上升了一个层次。

Artist: J-Five
Song: Find A Way

You know, when i was a little kid
all i want to do was making something bigger out of my life
and before i forgot the rest
So, check it

There"s a light at the end
Of the tunnel
Humble beginnings
In a fight to the finish
Hangin" on with a grimace
Give the look of God
When told faith is fraud
"Cause you gave it all you had
So why won"t they applaud
Wrong again
Bitter sweet
Hard to stomach if you love it
Not friend
But a puppet with strings attached
Dance to the beat
Of a dying heart
Change your pace
"Cause if I keep on movin"
I might fing a way

Refrain:
I"m alive
I"ll give you all my time
I"ll put it all on the line, hey
Find a way to the light
Why"s there gotta be a test
On every breath I"m holdin"
To make it
I"ll find a way for you
There"s a long road,
But no one will take it
I"ll find a way
Why"s there gotta be a test
On every breath I"m holdin"
To make it
I"ll find a way for you
There"s a long road,
There"s a long road,
There"s a long road,
Why won"t you take it

Can you feel the nails digging
Deep inside of your skin
Prove yourself until your dead
The end,but you didn"t begin
And if someone doesn"t reach out
Soon,you might lose it
"Cause you humbled yourself just to be
Proved you can do it, don"t do it
Don"t give up to get it back
Fuck that,put it to your chest
And let your hesrt attack
Come back
I ain"t done tryin",you"re killin" me
Softly with your words and I love dyin"