和谐英语

VOA慢速英语:A Snapshot of Picture Taking in the 1950s; The Music of Photography

2012-07-27来源:VOA

短语讲解:

1. It was manufactured by Kodak, from nineteen forty-nine to nineteen sixty-one, and millions came to photography looking down into its viewfinder and taking pictures of Mom and Dad, the family cat, the new car, birthday parties, senior proms, vacations -- everything we wanted to remember, and preserve.

look down into 向下看(某物的)里面
例句:On the other side he could look down into deep green woods. 
而在另一边,他则可俯视茂密而又翠绿的森林。 

2. The Brownie Hawkeye – we called it a box camera, long before “point and shoot” entered the language.

long before 早...之前,很久以前
例句:They' ve seen that TV play long before. 
他们早就看过那部电视剧了。 

3. Even those, like myself, who might wish to make a sentimental journey back to their true photographic “roots” and work with a different photographic style.

work with 与…共事/合作
例句:As the leader of this office, she can work with everyone.
作为办公室的领导,她和每个人都合作得很好。

4. RANDY SMITH: “Film will last forever, if you take care of the film and catalog it and put it away, and fifty years from now, somebody’ll find your negatives and print them out, and it will just be a treasure that they feel they’ve just found.

take care of 照料
例句:"Yeah, I have to be here to take care of her," he said.
王志军也咧嘴笑着说:“是啊,我必须在这照顾她。”
print out 打印出
例句:Print out your goal in big words.
用大号字体将你的目标打印出来。

5. FAITH LAPIDUS:  That is “Centerfold” by the J. Geils Band. The song came out in nineteen eighty-one on the group’s album “Freeze Frame.”

come out 出版
例句:That magazine comes out every Monday.
那份杂志每星期一出版。