时间:2018-12-07 作者:英语课 分类:晨读英语美文60篇


英语课

Write Your Own Life


 Suppose someone gave you a pen—a sealed, solid-colored pen. You couldn’t see how much ink it had. It might run dry after the first few tentative words or last just long enough to create a masterpiece (or several) that would last forever and make a difference in the scheme of things. You don’t know before you begin. Under the rules of the game, you really never know. You have to take a chance!


 Actually, no rule of the game states you must do anything. Instead of picking up and using the pen, you could leave it on a shelf or in a drawer where it will dry up, unused. But if you do decide to use it, what would you do with it?


 How would you play the game?


 Would you plan and plan before you ever wrote a word? Would your plans be so extensive that you never even got to the writing? Or would you take the pen in hand, plunge 1 right in and just do it, struggling to keep up with the twists and turns of the torrents 2 of words that take you where they take you? Would you write cautiously and carefully, as if the pen might run dry the next moment, or would you pretend or believe (or pretend to believe) that the pen will write forever and proceed accordingly?And of what would you write: Of love? Hate? Fun? Misery 3? Life? Death? Nothing? Everything?


 Would you write to please just yourself?Or others? Or yourself by writing for others?


 Would your strokes be tremblingly timid or brilliantly bold? Fancy with a flourish or plain?


 Would you even write? Once you have the pen, no rule says you have to write.


 Would you sketch 4? Scribble 5? Doodle or draw?


 Would you stay in or on the lines, or see no lines at all, even if they were there? Or are they?


 There’s a lot to think about here, isn’t there? Now, suppose someone gave you a life…



1 plunge
v.跳入,(使)投入,(使)陷入;猛冲
  • Test pool's water temperature before you plunge in.在你跳入之前你应该测试水温。
  • That would plunge them in the broil of the two countries.那将会使他们陷入这两国的争斗之中。
2 torrents
n.倾注;奔流( torrent的名词复数 );急流;爆发;连续不断
  • The torrents scoured out a channel down the hill side. 急流沿着山腰冲刷出一条水沟。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • Sudden rainstorms would bring the mountain torrents rushing down. 突然的暴雨会使山洪暴发。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
3 misery
n.痛苦,苦恼,苦难;悲惨的境遇,贫苦
  • Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.商业不景气常使工薪阶层受苦。
  • He has rescued me from the mire of misery.他把我从苦海里救了出来。
4 sketch
n.草图;梗概;素描;v.素描;概述
  • My sister often goes into the country to sketch. 我姐姐常到乡间去写生。
  • I will send you a slight sketch of the house.我将给你寄去房屋的草图。
5 scribble
v.潦草地书写,乱写,滥写;n.潦草的写法,潦草写成的东西,杂文
  • She can't write yet,but she loves to scribble with a pencil.她现在还不会写字,但她喜欢用铅笔乱涂。
  • I can't read this scribble.我看不懂这种潦草的字。
学英语单词
AASND
adrianople twill
alto-cumulus
blood platelet disorder
bribe payer index(bpi)
charcoal ink factory
Chromvesuvian
coat hanger
cockatoos.
combined joint special operations task force
cone surface of bit
crown-rash
cryptozonate
diaphragma auris
double slider-crank mechanism
early closing day
echinopanacen
education for accounting
effectuated
electronic editor
Engadin
ensing staff
eventuated
excopy
extensive function
external feedback type
Fairleigh Dickinson University
fibroid degeneration
fishergates
get back at
Girouard
gish
gobbon
gog
gold(iii) arsenate
Good Middling Tinged
gotten started
gynnes
height of head
high-temperature lubricating coating
humid desert climate
i-schipped
income levels
injunctively
jebel toubkal
joint lever
Kellogg
Linxacin
livestreaming
Lièvre, Rivière du
lucasite-(Ce)
malt extract bath
mechanical sounding
mesitylene lactone
Middle-earth
middleborough
minehunting sonar
mobilizings
mosaic endosperm
multiparameter
mus yamashinai
my name is nobody
net freight contract
oil-spill collect vessel
opaque injection
oshidashi
osmium(iii) oxide trihydrate
parrachite
pelvic curve
permolybdate
pertunda
PIE (parallel interface element)
plot-lines
poikilothermic
polyhedrane
position order
Ppt.
prefigurated
pretypify
put back
rachen
Rana palustris
rdg
seikoes
stick ... nose into
stool pigeons
straight flow production line
strap-down inertial guidance system
subgingival contour
ten pretty girls
the reports
theory
there you have it
thrashing-
timber trade certificate
trans-stadial transmission
Walker's towing log
wanions
whole-footed
windshield cross sill
Wogeman
X(-)terminal