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[备考日记] 【揽瓜阁2.0】Day5 2020.06.19【人文科学-影视】【人文科学-书籍】

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发表于 2020-6-18 20:28:08 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
  揽瓜阁俱乐部第二期
  Day5 2020.06.19


【人文科学-影视】
For Hayao Miyazaki, flight is a metaphor for freedom
(477字 精读 必做篇

Hayao Miyazaki has spent his career conjuring up fantastical worlds full of outlandish creatures. “Spirited Away” (2001), which won an Oscar for best animated film, is set in a magical realm ruled by a bejewelled witch and populated by talking frogs, gremlins made of soot and a vaporous creature who emits gold nuggets from his fingertips. Amid today’s pandemic, one feature of Mr Miyazaki’s escapist movies is particularly intoxicating: his obsession with flying.

Flight is in Mr Miyazaki’s blood. He was born in 1941 in Tokyo, where his father ran a firm that manufactured parts for Japanese fighter planes during the second world war. He whiled away boyhood hours inventing his own aircraft; at night he dreamed of gliding above the city. Most imaginations become more earthbound with age, but as an adult Mr Miyazaki thought up a squadron of wondrous flying machines with designs that embody their pilots’ personalities. “Castle in the Sky” (1986) features a rag-tag family of pirates who buzz around in “flaptors”, contraptions with transparent, flapping wings that resemble giant mosquitoes.

He is a connoisseur of the sensory thrill of flight. His characters swoop over mountainous landscapes and arc through cerulean skies full of billowing white cumulus, leaving vapour trails twisting like ribbons in the air. When they dive into the clouds for cover, they make a splash as though sinking into clots of heavy cream.

In these animations, flying is about more than ingenious designs and sumptuous images. It also provides Mr Miyazaki’s deepest metaphors, standing for confidence, independence, the power of the imagination itself. Most of his protagonists are children undergoing rites of passage—the dislocation of moving house or trouble in the family. Take Mei and Satsuki, the young sisters in “My Neighbour Totoro” (1988) who have just relocated with their father to rural Japan. Exploring their new home, they discover a tubby woodland spirit in the roots of a camphor tree. A benevolent presence, Totoro soars above the countryside on a spinning top and takes the girls along for the ride. Gradually, as it emerges that their mother is gravely ill, these adventures seem more than mere flights of fancy. They are a form of solace.

That is what Mr Miyazaki’s enchanting stories offer as the world waits for borders to reopen and planes to take off again. His most resonant film is “Kiki’s Delivery Service” (1989), which follows a charmingly wilful 13-year-old witch who rides around on a broom. Determined to find her way in the world, she sets up a courier company to profit from her ability to fly. But when business slows and she suffers her first bout of boy trouble, she loses heart and her powers of levitation, too. “We fly with our spirit,” she says as she tries to restore her confidence, take to the skies and get her life going again. Sound familiar?

Source: The Economist


【人文科学-书籍】
Unread Books at Home Still Spark Literacy Habits
(384字 2分45秒 精听 必做篇

先做精听再核对原文哦~


We know that reading is good for children and presumably for adults as well. Now a new study suggests that just being around books has its benefits—even if you don’t make a point of reading them a lot. A team of researchers in Australia finds that growing up in a home with a sizable library enhances literacy, number sense and even technological know-how in later life. You can read all about it in the journal Social Science Research.

The researchers were exploring the advantages of scholarly culture. In particular, they were interested in a curious observation that some call the "radiation effect."

“Radiation effect is a situation where children grow up around books, but they don’t read books, but somehow books benefit them even though they don’t read them as much as maybe their parents would like them to.”

Joanna Sikora, a sociologist at the Australian National University. She and her colleagues parsed data collected between 2011 and 2015 by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The survey assessed the literacy, numeracy and technological competency of more than 160,000 adults from 31 different societies, and it included a question about how many books participants had in their homes during adolescence.

“What we were able to demonstrate was that people who grew up around books had better literacy, numeracy and digital problem-solving skills than people who had fewer books growing up but had similar education levels, similar jobs and even similar adult habits in terms of reading or engaging in various numeracy-enhancing activities.”

In fact, teens who only made it through high school but were raised in a bookish environment fared as well in adulthood as college grads who grew up in a house bereft of books.

Now, how might mere exposure lead to intellectual enrichment?

“So if we grow up in a house, in a home where parents enjoy books, where books are given as birthday presents and cherished and valued, this is something that becomes a part of our identity and gives us this lifelong incentive to be literacy oriented, to always kind of steer towards books and read more than we would otherwise.”

So keep those shelves stacked with books. Your kids will not only be grateful, they’ll be more likely to be able to spell grateful correctly as well.

Source: Scientific American


【笔记格式要求】

精读笔记格式要求:
1.总结文章中心大意
2.总结分论点或每段段落大意
3.摘抄印象深刻或者觉得优美的句子
4.总结文章中的生词
5.记录阅读时间、总结时间、总时间

精听笔记格式要求:
1.逐句听写整篇文章
2.对照原文修改听写稿,标记出错原因
3.总结文章中心大意
4.总结精听过程中的生词
5.记录听写时间、总结时间、总时间

这里也给大家两点学习小建议哦~
精读:如遇到读不懂的复杂句,建议找出句子主干,分析句子成分,也可以尝试翻译句子来帮助理解~
精听:建议每句不要反复纠结听,如果听 5 遍都没听出来,那就跳过,等完成后再回听总结原因,时间宝贵,不要过于执着哦~


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 楼主| 发表于 2020-6-18 20:28:21 | 显示全部楼层
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发表于 2020-6-19 10:15:13 | 显示全部楼层
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发表于 2020-6-19 13:24:31 | 显示全部楼层
揽瓜阁 Day 5
Dovis 2020 6 19
精读 For Hayao Miyazaki, flight is a metaphor for freedom
一 文章大意
飞行,在宫崎骏的笔下,是最深层的隐喻,代表着信心,独立,想象力本身的力量。他的作品中主人公的种种经历也体现了这一点。
二 段落总结
  • 宫崎骏在其动漫生涯中,创造了一个个稀奇古怪的生物和魔法世界,其作品中无不透露出他对飞行的特殊情结。
  • 飞行情结简直是刻在宫崎骏的血液里。这和他的童年经历有关。他父亲经营一家日本战机零件公司,让他从小对飞行就充满了想象。
  • 他是各类飞行体验的鉴赏家。笔下的角色有各种奇妙的飞行体验。
  • 在他的动漫中,飞翔更是自己内心深处的自信/独立/想象力的象征。
  • 宫崎骏作品中“以精神飞翔”,用信心重燃生活的希望,引发了人们的共鸣。
三 生词摘录
enchant 使着迷; 使陶醉; 使中魔法; 对…用魔法(或念咒语)
resonant 嘹亮的; 响亮的; 回响的; 悠扬的; 共振的; 谐振的; 共鸣的; 引起联想的;
Conjure 变魔术; 变戏法; 使…变戏法般地出现(或消失)
outlandish 古怪的; 极不寻常的; 奇特的
animated 兴致勃勃的; 活跃的; 生气勃勃的; 栩栩如生的; 把…制作成动画片
bejewelled 缀(以)珠宝
gremlins (机器停止运转时人们所责怪假想的) 小精灵
vaporous 充满蒸气的; 似蒸气的
nugget 天然金块; (某些食品的) 小圆块; 有价值的小东西
fingertip 指尖
Pandemic 大流行的; 普遍的,全世界的
obsession 痴迷; 着魔; 困扰; 使人痴迷的人
intoxicating 含酒精的; 醉人的; 令人陶醉的; 令人头脑迷糊的
earthbound (只在) 地球上的,陆地的,地面上的; 世俗的; 物质世界的; 缺乏想象力的
squadron (空军或海军的) 中队
wondrous 奇异的; 美好的; 了不起的
rag-tag 混杂的,无组织纪律的
pirate (尤指旧时的) 海盗; 盗版者; 盗印者; 非法播音者(或组织)
contraptions 奇异的机械; 奇特的装置
connoisseur 鉴赏家; 鉴定家; 行家
swoop 向下猛冲,俯冲; 突然袭击; 突击搜查; 突然行动
billow 鼓起; (烟雾) 涌出,汹涌向前; 大量冒出
cerulean 深蓝色的; 蔚蓝色的
cumulus 积云
vapour 蒸气; 潮气; 雾
sumptuous 华贵的; 豪华的; 奢华的
protagonists 主要人物,主人公,主角; (比赛、斗争中的) 主要人物,主要参与者; (政策、运动的) 倡导者,拥护者;
tubby 矮胖的
camphor 樟脑
benevolent 慈善的; 仁慈的; 乐善好施的;
solace 安慰; 慰藉; 给以安慰的人(或事物)
四 句子摘抄
“Castle in the Sky” (1986) features a rag-tag family of pirates who buzz around in “flaptors”, contraptions with transparent, flapping wings that resemble giant mosquitoes.

His characters swoop over mountainous landscapes and arc through cerulean skies full of billowing white cumulus, leaving vapour trails twisting like ribbons in the air. When they dive into the clouds for cover, they make a splash as though sinking into clots of heavy cream.
五 用时记录
通读 3.8min 总结33min 共计42min
发表于 2020-6-19 14:53:40 发自手机 Web 版 | 显示全部楼层
精听 Unread Books at Home Still Spark Literacy Habits
一 文章大意
调查研究表明,在拥有大量书籍的家庭中长大,可以提高人们的读写能力,数字意识,甚至可以提高以后生活中的技术知识。这也被称为辐射效应。
二 生词摘录
sizable 相当大的; 颇大的;
parse作语法分析; 作句法分析
bookish 书呆子气的; 学究似的
bereft 完全没有,丧失,失去(某物); 感到失落
三 用时记录
听力 4min 听写28min,共计37min

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