【英语趣味课堂】喜爱阅读-Love of Reading

Sarah: So Peter, I hear that you love to read. What types of books do you like to read?

 

Peter: I like to, I especially like to read fantasy and science fiction books. I love all kinds of reading but I guess one of my favorite books come from that genre¹ so I really, yeah, I really love that kind of book.

 

Sarah: So, what's your favorite fantasy genre book?

 

Peter: I think if I had to choose it would be The Lord² of the Ring series. I read it, I think I read it back in high school and it was one of the most gripping³, interesting, fascinating stories I've ever read. And I know it's fiction and it's an imagined world but I think at that time that book was really meaningful to me because it gave me kind of an escape and I could be busy with this book for weeks and weeks on end and I actually ended up re-reading the book twice or three times I think because I just fell in love with the characters and stories of adventure and fun and making friends and going through hardships together. And so it was a really meaningful book for me at the time and then when the movies came out, of course I went to see them but somehow it never, although it came close, it kind of never matched up to what I had going in my imagination and I think because the book was so imaginative⁴, I've kind of fallen in love with reading science fiction and books about possibilities of how life could be or imaginative lives of people. Yeah, that's ... I think that's why I really love that book.

 

Sarah: Oh, it's very interesting.

 

Peter: Yeah. How about you, do you read fiction or science fiction or anything fiction related⁵?

 

Sarah: Not really, I tend to like non-fiction books.

 

Peter: Oh, okay. Do you have any favorites from the non-fiction range of books?

 

Sarah: One that I've read recently, well I like reading non-fiction because I like to read things that I can learn something from so I love to read books on culture and religion and different things.

 

Peter: Okay.

 

Sarah: And one of the books I read recently that I really liked was called Spirit of the Rainforest and it's about a tribe⁶ out in the Amazon and it was told from their perspective⁷ and as like foreigners came in, different anthropologists and their opinion and their views of them and their culture.

 

Peter: Right.

 

Sarah: It's really interesting.

 

Peter: Wow, it sounds fascinating.

 

Sarah: Yeah.

 

Peter: I've heard that there are tribes⁸ that still remain undiscovered in the Amazon and, well, people know about them but they don't disturb them. Was this one of those examples or do you think it's something...

 

Sarah: I think so, yeah. There were a few examples of people, you know, that had come in to sort of study them but they always seemed to leave, nobody seemed to stick around.

 

Peter: Right. What was the most interesting part from it for you?

 

Sarah: Oh, that would be really difficult to say. I can't think of anything specific at the moment.

 

Peter: Okay.

 

Sarah: Yeah.

 

Peter: Sounds great.

 

重点词汇：

 

Learn Vocabulary from the lesson

gripping

 

notesit was one of the most gripping stories.

 

Gripping is very interesting. Notice the following:

 

The movie was gripping, I couldn't stop watching it.

It was the most gripping book I have ever read.

on end

 

 

notesfor weeks and weeks on end

 

On end means continuing without stopping. Notice the following:

 

I worked on the project for days on end.

For years on end, she practiced volleyball every day.

non-fiction

 

 

notesI tend to like non-fiction books.

 

Non-fiction is true information, not an imagined story. Notice the following:

 

I like love-stories, but I love to read non-fiction.

You can learn a lot by reading non-fiction books.

tribe

 

 

notesIt's about a tribe out in the Amazon.

 

A tribe is a small group of people, or society. Usually this refers to native local people. Notice the following:

 

There were many wars between the different tribes.

The leader of the tribe is a wise man.

stick around

 

 

notesNobody seemed to stick around.

 

To stick around is to stay in one place. Notice the following:

 

If you stick around until 3pm, I'll take you home.

He didn't stick around, so he missed the best part of the meal.

 

1 genre   

n.(文学、艺术等的)类型，体裁，风格

参考例句：

• My favorite music genre is blues.我最喜欢的音乐种类是布鲁斯音乐。
• Superficially,this Shakespeare's work seems to fit into the same genre.从表面上看， 莎士比亚的这个剧本似乎属于同一类型。

2 lord   

n.上帝，主；主人，长官；君主，贵族

参考例句：

• I know the Lord will look after him.我知道上帝会眷顾他的。
• How good of the Lord not to level it beyond repair!上帝多么仁慈啊，竟没有让这所房子损毁得不可收拾！

3 gripping   

adj.吸引注意力的v.抓紧( grip的现在分词 )；吸引；引起；使感兴趣

参考例句：

• a gripping Victorian melodrama 动人心弦的维多利亚时代情节剧
• a gripping narrative of their journey up the Amazon 他们沿亚马孙河而上的扣人心弦的描述

4 imaginative   

adj.富有想象力的，爱想象的

参考例句：

• The imaginative child made up fairy stories.这个想像力丰富的孩子自己编神话故事。
• Scott was an imaginative writer.司格特是位富于想象力的作家。

5 related   

adj.有关系的，有关联的，叙述的，讲述的

参考例句：

• I am not related to him in any way.我和他无任何关系。
• We spent days going through all related reference material.我们花了好多天功夫查阅所有有关的参考资料。

6 tribe   

n.部落，种族，一伙人

参考例句：

• This is a subject tribe.这是个受他人统治的部落。
• Many of the tribe's customs and rituals are as old as the hills.这部落的许多风俗、仪式都极其古老。

7 perspective   

n.视角，观点，想法

参考例句：

• You can get a perspective of the whole city from here.从这里你可以看到城市的全景。
• We may get a clear perspective of the people's happy lives.我们知道人民对幸福生活的展望。

8 tribes   

n.部落( tribe的名词复数 )；（动、植物的）族；（一）帮；大群

参考例句：

• tribes living in remote areas of the Amazonian rainforest 居住在亚马孙河雨林偏远地区的部落
• In Africa the snake is still sacred with many tribes. 非洲许多部落仍认为蛇是不可冒犯的。 来自《简明英汉词典》