1221天英語精煉團第十二天-第十二課

'specialspe'cificatthatmagicI

had

a

very

specific

vision

ofwhat

this

would

look

like.wha

-

thi

-

su

-

look

likeNo

hard

feelings.練習

practiceexercise其他字典有道OEDUrban

DictionaryThere's

more

to

this

painting

than

meets

the

eye.除了肉眼所看到的，這幅油畫隱含了

內(nèi)容。meet

the

eye看見，呈現(xiàn)在眼前的例1：There

was

something

thatKay

didn'tunderstand

in

all

this,

something

that

didn'tquite

meet

the

eye.

在這一切現(xiàn)象的背后蘊藏著某些Kay

不理解的東西，也就是某些用肉眼看不見的東西。

新生大學全系列認準

：501863613例2：You

will

recognize

that

there

can

be

more

therethan

meets

the

eye.你會認識到，世界不僅僅是你肉眼看到的樣子。It’s

an

acrylic

painting

of

a

man,

but

I

didn't

paint

it

oncanvas.它是一幅描繪一個人的丙烯油畫，但我并沒有把它畫在畫布上。canvasn.油畫布，帆布例1：She

was

in

her

studio

again,painting

onto

alarge

canvas.她又回到了畫室，在一張大帆布上作畫。例2：The

artist

stretched

a

new

canvas.畫家展開了一張新畫布。What

I n

my

art

is

I

skip

the

canvas

altogether,

and

if

Iwant

to

paint

your

portrait,

I'm

painting

it

on

you,physically

on

you.我所做的藝術工作是跳過畫布本身，如果

要給你畫張肖像畫，我會直接在你身上畫。portraitn.肖像畫例1：Freud

has

been

asked

to

paint

a

portraitof

the

Queen.已受邀為

畫肖像畫。例2：He

told r

that

his

portrait

of

her

wasfinished

and

to

stop

fiddling

with

it.他告訴 他給她畫的肖像畫已經(jīng)完成，不要再改了。Everything

in

this

scene,

the ,

the

clothes,

chairs,

wall,gets

covered

in

a

mask

of

paint

that

mimics

what's

directlybelow

it.這個場景里的一切，人、衣服、椅子、墻壁、都被一層畫遮蓋著，這層畫模仿著畫面下的物體。mimicv.模仿例1：He

could

mimic

anybody.他可以模仿任何人。例2：Don't

try

to

mimic

anybody.You

have

to

beyourself

if

you

are

going

to

do

your

best.不要試圖仿效任何人，要是你想做到最好，就得做你自己。I

was

fascinated

with

the

absence

of

light,

and

Iwanted

to

find

a

way

that

I

could

give

it

materialityand

pin

it

down

before

it

changed.我著迷于陰影，

要找到

法，可以將它物質化，并在它改變之前將其固定下來。pin

down把…固定住，確定例1：It

has

taken

until

now

to

pin

down

its

exact

location.直到現(xiàn)在才確定了它的準確位置。例2：The

Boy

had

to

pin

down

the

dog

to

wash

him.這男孩必須扣牢這只狗幫它

。But

something

kept

on

flickering

before

my

eyes.但有個東西一直在

眼前閃爍。flickerv.閃爍例1：lights

flickered,

and

then

the

room

wasbrilliantly,

blindingly

bright.

燈閃了幾下，接著屋子里非常明亮，刺得人睜不開眼。例2：He

looked

at

me,

a

flicker

of

amusement

inhis

cold

eyes.

（名詞）他

我，冷酷的眼神里閃過一絲嘲笑。I

couldn‘t

have

foreseen

that

when

I

wanted

to

paint

a

shadow,

Iwould

pull

out

this

whole

other

dimension,

that

I

would

collapseit,

that

I

would

take

a

painting

and

make

it

my

friend

and

thenbring

him

back

to

a

painting.

當

要畫一個陰影的時候，我并不能預見怎樣畫，我會把其他的維度也一并帶出來，并將它

，我會畫一下畫再畫一下

朋友，然后將他帶回到畫中。foreseev.預知，預見例1：It

was

not

easy

to

foresee

the

consequences.預見

是非常難的。例2：He

could

never

have

foreseen

that

one

dayhis

books

would

sell

in

millions.他從來沒預想過有一天他的書會賣掉幾百萬本。I

was

a

little

ed

though,

because

I

was

soexcited

about

what

I‘d

found,

but

I

was

just

about

tograduate

from

college

with

a degree

in

politicalscience.

不過，我又有點，因為我對于我所發(fā)現(xiàn)的東西太過于興奮，但同時我就要從大學畢業(yè)并獲得政治科學

。edadj.的，

的例1：So

I

find

myself我發(fā)現(xiàn)

很ed.?例2：Despite

knowing

that

all

sons

must

oneday

live

their

own

lives,

he

is

ed.盡管明知天下做兒子的總有一天都要過自己的生活，可他還是

著。Why

did

this

have

to

get

in

the

way

of

all

that?為什么這個要在其中擋路？The

last

time

I'd

painted,

I

was

16

years

old

at

summercamp.我最后一次畫畫，是在十六歲時參加的夏令營里。summer

campn.夏令營例1：They

went

to

a

summer

camp

for

theholiday

last

year.去年他們?nèi)ハ牧顮I度假了。例2：The

photo

reminded

me

of

the

days

whichwe

spent

in

the

summer

camp.這張

使

起了

在夏令營度過的日子。It's

nearly

impossible

to

get

paint

to

stick

to

the

greasein

an

egg.要讓顏料固定在雞蛋的油脂上面幾乎是不可能的。greasen.油脂，動物油脂例1：Her

hair

is

thick

with

grease.頭發(fā)油乎乎的。例2：Animal

grease

contains

an

abundant

ofcholesterol.動物油脂中 膽固醇。It

just

would

erasemy

brush

strokes

like

invisibleink.它會像

墨水一樣把我畫的每一筆都擦去。brush

stroken.筆觸例1：Each

brush

stroke,each

painting,reveals

how

hereached

his

conclusions.每一筆、每一幅畫，都在揭示自己如何得出了結論。例2：To

me,

the

whole

process

of

being

a

brush

stroke

insomeone

else's

painting

is

a

little

difficult.對我來說，要成為別人繪畫作品中的一筆，實在有點難。He

also

didn't

really

have

much

embarrassment

about

beingtaken

out

into

very

public

places

for

exhibition,like

the

Metro.他對于把他帶到一些公共的場合進行展覽這件事并不感到尷尬，比如到地鐵里。theMetron.地鐵地鐵UndergroundMetroSubwayThe

tube例1：The

Metro

journeyback

to

the

center

of

thetown

was

hot

and

fortable.乘地鐵返回市中心又熱又不舒服。例2：The

Metro

is

efficient

and

spotlessly

clean.地鐵非?？旖?，而且一塵不染。It

was

in

constant

flux,

and

we

had

to,

rather

than

fightit,

embrace

it,

see

where

the

milk

would

take

us

andcompensate

to

make

it

even

better.它是在不斷變化，與其去與之，不如去擁抱它，看牛奶會把帶向什么樣的方向，甚至會使初始想法變得更好(彌補)。compensatev.

抵消，彌補，補償例1：You

must

compensate

me

for

this

loss.你必須補償

這個損失。例2：Nothing

can

compensate

for

the

loss

ofone's

health.失去健康是無法補償?shù)?。Sometimes,when

Sheila

would

lay

down

in

the

milk,

it

wouldwash

all

the

paint

off

of

her

arms,

and

it

might

seem

a

littlebit

clumsy,but

our

solution

would

be,okay,

hide

your

arms.有時，當Shila在牛奶里躺下的時候，牛奶會將她胳膊上所有的顏料的洗掉， 的解決方法可能有些笨拙，那就是的胳膊

。clumsyadj.

笨拙的例1：Unfortuna y,

I

was

still

very

clumsy

behindthe

wheel

of

the

jeep.令人遺憾的是我開起吉普來還是笨手笨腳。例2：His

movements

were

clumsy,and

his

gaitpeculiarly

awkward.他動作笨拙，步態(tài)尤其難看。And

one

time,

she

got

so

mu ilk

in

her

hairthat

it

just

smeared

all

the

paint

offof

her

face.有一次，

頭發(fā)沾染了太多牛奶，并且牛奶把她臉上的畫都抹去了。smearv.涂抹例1