【英语时差8,16】礼来图书馆（上）

 In the heart of the Indiana University campus is a veritable trove¹ filled with invaluable² artifacts. Not very many people know about it.It's called the Lilly Library,and it's due for a visit. Luckily, This treasure trove is open to the public.That said, it’s a little different than a regular library. First off, you have to go through the librarian at the front desk, who will ask you to check your bags in the locker³ room. Then you approach another set of locked doors where you wait for a click.And open to find the Lilly’s reading room. This is where anyone can read rare books and manuscripts, even comic books!Christoph Irmscher is an English professor and he spends a lot of time in the reading room.Christoph found a schedule that poet Sylvia Plath wrote for her child’s nanny.He says that Plath was enormously compulsive. She typed out everything from her responses to complaining students, notes, letters, and this schedule that left no room for improvisation⁴.But then, you flip⁵ over this pink sheet of paper, remember, this is not a reprint, but the original paper – and Plath’s poet husband, Ted⁶ Hughes had used the back of her schedule to scrawl⁷ out a few verses.Hughes and Plath had a tumultuous relationship that ended in Plath’s suicide.For Christoph, there is so much to be taken from seeing unpublished manuscripts like this one.

 

Joel Silver, the Lilly Library’s Curator of Books brought one of his favorite items out of the stacks. This book, this VERY book he’s looking at right now was made in 1623. 

 

The Lilly has all kinds of special materials. They have a Gutenberg Bible, handwritten letters from Charles Darwin, a first edition of Mein Kampf, and a 4 foot long first edition of Audobon’s Birds of America – a book they also have … in miniature form.

1 trove   

n.被发现的东西，收藏的东西

参考例句：

• He assembled a rich trove of Chinese porcelain.他收集了一批中国瓷器。
• The gallery is a treasure trove of medieval art.这个画廊是中世纪艺术的宝库。

2 invaluable   

adj.无价的，非常宝贵的，极为贵重的

参考例句：

• A computer would have been invaluable for this job.一台计算机对这个工作的作用会是无法估计的。
• This information was invaluable to him.这个消息对他来说是非常宝贵的。

3 locker   

n.更衣箱，储物柜，冷藏室，上锁的人

参考例句：

• At the swimming pool I put my clothes in a locker.在游泳池我把衣服锁在小柜里。
• He moved into the locker room and began to slip out of his scrub suit.他走进更衣室把手术服脱下来。

4 improvisation   

n.即席演奏(或演唱)；即兴创作

参考例句：

• a free-form jazz improvisation 自由创作的爵士乐即兴演出
• Most of their music was spontaneous improvisation. 他们的大部分音乐作品都是即兴创作的。

5 flip   

vt.快速翻动；轻抛；轻拍；n.轻抛；adj.轻浮的

参考例句：

• I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书，看来似乎很有趣。
• Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。

6 ted   

vt.翻晒，撒，撒开

参考例句：

• The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
• She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。

7 scrawl   

vt.潦草地书写；n.潦草的笔记，涂写

参考例句：

• His signature was an illegible scrawl.他的签名潦草难以辨认。
• Your beautiful handwriting puts my untidy scrawl to shame.你漂亮的字体把我的潦草字迹比得见不得人。