1221天英语精炼团第十二天-第十二课

'specialspe'cificatthatmagicI

had

a

very

specific

vision

ofwhat

this

would

look

like.wha

-

thi

-

su

-

look

likeNo

hard

feelings.练习

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，这幅油画隐含了

内容。meet

the

eye看见，呈现在眼前的例1：There

was

something

thatKay

didn'tunderstand

in

all

this,

something

that

didn'tquite

meet

the

eye.

在这一切现象的背后蕴藏着某些Kay

不理解的东西，也就是某些用肉眼看不见的东西。

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：501863613例2：You

will

recognize

that

there

can

be

more

therethan

meets

the

eye.你会认识到，世界不仅仅是你肉眼看到的样子。It’s

an

acrylic

painting

of

a

man,

but

I

didn't

paint

it

oncanvas.它是一幅描绘一个人的丙烯油画，但我并没有把它画在画布上。canvasn.油画布，帆布例1：She

was

in

her

studio

again,painting

onto

alarge

canvas.她又回到了画室，在一张大帆布上作画。例2：The

artist

stretched

a

new

canvas.画家展开了一张新画布。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.我所做的艺术工作是跳过画布本身，如果

要给你画张肖像画，我会直接在你身上画。portraitn.肖像画例1：Freud

has

been

asked

to

paint

a

portraitof

the

Queen.已受邀为

画肖像画。例2：He

told r

that

his

portrait

of

her

wasfinished

and

to

stop

fiddling

with

it.他告诉 他给她画的肖像画已经完成，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.这个场景里的一切，人、衣服、椅子、墙壁、都被一层画遮盖着，这层画模仿着画面下的物体。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.不要试图仿效任何人，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.我着迷于阴影，

要找到

法，可以将它物质化，并在它改变之前将其固定下来。pin

down把…固定住，确定例1：It

has

taken

until

now

to

pin

down

its

exact

location.直到现在才确定了它的准确位置。例2：The

Boy

had

to

pin

down

the

dog

to

wash

him.这男孩必须扣牢这只狗帮它

。But

something

kept

on

flickering

before

my

eyes.但有个东西一直在

眼前闪烁。flickerv.闪烁例1：lights

flickered,

and

then

the

room

wasbrilliantly,

blindingly

bright.

灯闪了几下，接着屋子里非常明亮，刺得人睁不开眼。例2：He

looked

at

me,

a

flicker

of

amusement

inhis

cold

eyes.

（名词）他

我，冷酷的眼神里闪过一丝嘲笑。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.

当

要画一个阴影的时候，我并不能预见怎样画，我会把其他的维度也一并带出来，并将它

，我会画一下画再画一下

朋友，然后将他带回到画中。foreseev.预知，预见例1：It

was

not

easy

to

foresee

the

consequences.预见

是非常难的。例2：He

could

never

have

foreseen

that

one

dayhis

books

would

sell

in

millions.他从来没预想过有一天他的书会卖掉几百万本。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.

不过，我又有点，因为我对于我所发现的东西太过于兴奋，但同时我就要从大学毕业并获得政治科学

。edadj.的，

的例1：So

I

find

myself我发现

很ed.◦例2：Despite

knowing

that

all

sons

must

oneday

live

their

own

lives,

he

is

ed.尽管明知天下做儿子的总有一天都要过自己的生活，可他还是

着。Why

did

this

have

to

get

in

the

way

of

all

that?为什么这个要在其中挡路？The

last

time

I'd

painted,

I

was

16

years

old

at

summercamp.我最后一次画画，是在十六岁时参加的夏令营里。summer

campn.夏令营例1：They

went

to

a

summer

camp

for

theholiday

last

year.去年他们去夏令营度假了。例2：The

photo

reminded

me

of

the

days

whichwe

spent

in

the

summer

camp.这张

使

起了

在夏令营度过的日子。It's

nearly

impossible

to

get

paint

to

stick

to

the

greasein

an

egg.要让颜料固定在鸡蛋的油脂上面几乎是不可能的。greasen.油脂，动物油脂例1：Her

hair

is

thick

with

grease.头发油乎乎的。例2：Animal

grease

contains

an

abundant

ofcholesterol.动物油脂中 胆固醇。It

just

would

erasemy

brush

strokes

like

invisibleink.它会像

墨水一样把我画的每一笔都擦去。brush

stroken.笔触例1：Each

brush

stroke,each

painting,reveals

how

hereached

his

conclusions.每一笔、每一幅画，都在揭示自己如何得出了结论。例2：To

me,

the

whole

process

of

being

a

brush

stroke

insomeone

else's

painting

is

a

little

difficult.对我来说，要成为别人绘画作品中的一笔，实在有点难。He

also

didn't

really

have

much

embarrassment

about

beingtaken

out

into

very

public

places

for

exhibition,like

the

Metro.他对于把他带到一些公共的场合进行展览这件事并不感到尴尬，比如到地铁里。theMetron.地铁地铁UndergroundMetroSubwayThe

tube例1：The

Metro

journeyback

to

the

center

of

thetown

was

hot

and

fortable.乘地铁返回市中心又热又不舒服。例2：The

Metro

is

efficient

and

spotlessly

clean.地铁非常快捷，而且一尘不染。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.它是在不断变化，与其去与之，不如去拥抱它，看牛奶会把带向什么样的方向，甚至会使初始想法变得更好(弥补)。compensatev.

抵消，弥补，补偿例1：You

must

compensate

me

for

this

loss.你必须补偿

这个损失。例2：Nothing

can

compensate

for

the

loss

ofone's

health.失去健康是无法补偿的。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.有时，当Shila在牛奶里躺下的时候，牛奶会将她胳膊上所有的颜料的洗掉， 的解决方法可能有些笨拙，那就是的胳膊

。clumsyadj.

笨拙的例1：Unfortuna y,

I

was

still

very

clumsy

behindthe

wheel

of

the

jeep.令人遗憾的是我开起吉普来还是笨手笨脚。例2：His

movements

were

clumsy,and

his

gaitpeculiarly

awkward.他动作笨拙，步态尤其难看。And

one

time,

she

got

so

mu ilk

in

her

hairthat

it

just

smeared

all

the

paint

offof

her

face.有一次，

头发沾染了太多牛奶，并且牛奶把她脸上的画都抹去了。smearv.涂抹例1