TV set 电视机
projector, film projector 电影放映机
slide projector 幻灯机
copier打印机
microfilm reader 缩微阅读机
book 图书
pamphlet, booklet 小册子
pocket book 袖珍书
secondhand book 旧书
front cover 封面
back cover 封底
fly page, flyleaf 扉页
title page 书名页
briefs, synopsis 内容提要
network 网络
terminal 终端
retrieval 检索
keyword 关键词
fairy tale神话故事,
Pinocchio 童话中的主角,fairy仙女, god神, goddess女神, monster怪物, 妖怪, villain坏人,
addict oneself to 沉溺于, 醉心于
《论语》 Analects of Confucius
《春秋》 Spring and Autumn Annals
《山海经》 the Classic of Mountains and Rivers
《史记》 Shi Ji; Historical Records
《资治通鉴》 History as a Mirror
《水浒传》 Heroes of the Marshes / Water Margins
《三国演义》 The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
《西游记》 Pilgrimage to the West / Journey to the West
《红楼梦》 A Dream of Red Mansions / The Story of the stone
《聊斋志异》 Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio
《西厢记》 The Romance of West Chamber
《阿Q正传》 The True Story of Ah Q
《围城》 A Surrounded City
Beauty and the Beast 美女和野兽
Cinderella 灰姑娘
Tortoise and the Hare 龟兔赛跑
Snow white and the seven dwarfs 白雪公主和七个小矮人
Aladdin and the Magic Lamp 阿拉丁和神灯
Ali Baba and the forty thieves 阿里巴巴和四十大盗
语句库:
Many great writers were not appreciated fully while they were alive.
This is a poem about frontier life in the United States.
This writer uses vivid descriptions in his writings.
How much do you know about the works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
He thought his book would change society, but he didn’t bring it off.
他原以为他的书能改变社会,但愿望没能实现。
She likes to read novels with happy endings.
她喜欢读有快乐结局的小说。
Your latest book amused me no end.
我觉得你那本新书十分有趣。
Some people have compared books to friends.
有些人把书比作朋友。
They’re selling like hot cakes.
这些都很畅销。
Hamlet was a fictitious character.
哈姆莱特是一个虚构的人物。
a fictitious story虚构的故事
a fruitful author of fiction多产的小说作家
It is an excellent novel in every way.
无论从哪方面来看,这都是一本优秀的小说。
Try to look on the bright side of things.
尽量从好的方面看。
All characters in the book are imaginary.
书中所有的人物都是虚构的。
As is well known, books teach us to learn life, truth, science and many other useful things. They increase our knowledge, broaden our minds and strengthen our character. In other words, they are our good teachers and wise friends. This is the reason why our parents always encourage us to read more books.
如众所周知,书籍教我们学习人生,真理,科学以及其它许多有用的东西。它们增加我们的知识,扩大我们的心胸并加强我们的品格。换句话说,它们是我们的良师益友。这是为什么我们的父母终是鼓励我们要多读书的理由。
Reading is a good thing, but we must pay great attention to the choice of books. It is true that we can derive benefits from good books. However, bad books will do us more harm than good.
读书是一好事,但我们必须多加注意书的选择。不错,我们能从好书中获得益处。然而,坏书却对我们有害无益。
Reading books can strongly shape you inclination, mature your thoughts, widen you horizon and enrich your personality. Life is limited, but knowledge is boundless. The more books we read, the more knowledge we get.
However, books can also be harmful, particularly the pornographic books. Bad books contain evil thoughts. In them, there might be much description about violence, superstition, and *.
Before we encourage our children to read books, we should teach and help them to identify good and bad books.
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement and disposition of business.
读书可以作为娱乐,作为装饰,作为能力的培养。娱乐的作用通常见于离群独处时;装饰的作用体现在高谈阔论中;至于才能,则表现在裁处事务上。
To spend too much time in studies, is sloth.
读书费时过多,无异于懒惰. (培根)
They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
读书弥补天性的缺陷,经验又弥补读书的不足:人的天性犹如自然的花木,需要学习予以整枝培育;读书自身无边无际,需要经验予以制约。
关于网络文学:
Internet literature books are shifting from the very edge of the publishing industry to the centre of it.
It’s a dead end road if Net literature keeps waiting for something to happen. As Net literature becomes more and more popular, it should be enriched with more variety in its content and more depth in its thinking. The publishing industry is shouldered with the responsibility of making Net literature become more mature.
Marketing: key to producing bestsellers
Books are often made popular by how well they are promoted, rather than how well they are written. At least this is certainly true of some novels.
Bestsellers (best-selling books) 畅销书
Behind every bestseller there is a huge investment into the promoted campaign.
We invested a considered sum of money into it, and the income is worth the investment.
Before Rich Dad Poor Dad was printed in China, the company had it promoted in more than 40 advertisements in newspapers and magazines and over 600 websites in just one month.
Books have to be advertised to get the public’s attention.
There are so many books company in the market. If you don’t promote it and just rely on word of month, it’s doomed to fail.
To promote a book, a publishing house first decides on a good topic and invites a write to write on it.
If you find the right topic, the topic readers are interested in, you find the market, then you have done half the job of making your book succeed.
What I like reading best are biographies of all kinds of people, especially those successful ones, for they are educational, can lift my spirit, give me energy and lead me to a right road.
关于Gwendolyn Brooks格温多林·布鲁克斯
Gwendolyn Brooks wrote hundreds of poems during her lifetime. She had more than twenty books published. She was known around world for using poetry to increase understanding about black culture in America.
Gwendolyn Brooks wrote many poems about being black during the Nineteen-Forties and Nineteen-Fifties. Her poems described conditions among the poor, racial inequality and drug use in the black community. She also wrote poems about the struggles of black women.
Gwendolyn Brooks once said that she wrote about what she saw and heard in the street. She said she found most of her material looking out of the window of her second-floor apartment house in Chicago, Illinois.
In Nineteen-Fifty, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. She won the prize for her second book of poems called "Annie Allen." "Annie Allen" is a collection of poetry about the life of a Bronzeville girl as a daughter, a wife and mother. She experiences loneliness, loss, death and being poor.
One of Gwendolyn Brooks most famous poems is called "We Real Cool". It is a short poem that talks about young people feeling hopeless:
"We real cool. We left school. We lurk late. We strike straight. We sing sin. We thin gin. We jazz June. We die soon."
关于ERNEST HEMINGWAY海明威
"A writer is always alone, always an outsider," Ernest Hemingway said. Others said that of the many people he created in his books, Hemingway was his own best creation.
The novel was called the sun also rises. It is about young Americans in Europe after world war one. The war had destroyed their dreams. And it had given them nothing to replace those dreams.
The book was an immediate success. At the age of twenty-five Ernest Hemingway was famous.
Hemingway's sentences were short, the way he had been taught to write at the Kansas City Star newspaper. He wrote about what he knew and felt. He used few descriptive words. His statements were clear and easily understood.
He was able to paint in words what he saw and felt.
His new book told about an American soldier who served with the Italian army during world war one. He meets an English nurse, and they fall in love. They flee from the army, but she dies during (22) childbirth. Some of the events are taken from Hemingway's service in Italy. The book is called a Farewell to arms.
A farewell to arms was very successful.
In nineteen-sixty-one Ernest Hemingway killed himself. Among the papers he left was one that described what he liked best:
"to stay in places and to leave...to trust, to distrust...to no longer believe and believe again...to watch the (43) changes in the seasons...to be out in boats...to watch the snow come, to watch it go...to hear the rain...and to know where I can find what I want."