每日练习UKiset阅读精读素材讲解（一）

　　大量UKiset英语阅读练习主要是靠泛读保证，泛读的目的是拓宽知识面，提高阅读速度的训练。但是泛泛而读并不能保证读的质量和知识的吸收，所以一定量的精读是非常有必要的，因为精读的目的就是吃透一篇文章的所有东西。当然精读也是需要每天进行，而不是三天打鱼两天晒网。

　　阅读分析

　　Artists working with technology struggle to stay current

　　The first room, which looks at the period from 2000 to 2016, is acacophonyof art made using thetechnologies and visual language of social media, gaming, 3D printing,computer-generated imaging,browser interfacesand smart phones. Insubsequentrooms the technologybecomes, like thebulkywall ofanalogueTVmonitorsthatcomprisePaik’s “Internet Dream”(1994),nostalgicfor older visitors, and a mere historical curiosity for younger ones.

　　Artistsworking with technology today are acutely aware that their work is ageing.To reflect the inevitable outdating of their material, some, such as Cory Arcangelor Petra Cortright, use low tech graphics,outmodedsoftware andretrohardware as anironicaesthetic.

　　Other stake the internet’s visual vocabulary to extremes. They include Ryan Trecartin,who populates video and installation work with hyper-real,extravagantlycostumed characters; or Camille Henrot, whose film “GrosseFatigue” layers video clips, photographs and internet screen-grabs over oneanother asproliferatingbrowser windows.

　　HarunFarocki, a German film-maker who made “Parallel I-IV” just before he died in2014,predictedof online culture that “Reality will sooncease to bethe standard by which to judge the imperfect image. Instead, the virtual image will become the standard by which to measure the imperfections of reality.”

　　新词与表达

　　cacophonya loud harsh orstrident noise n.刺耳的音调；不和谐音

　　browsera program us ed to view HTML documents n. [计]浏览器

　　interfaceaprogram that controls a display for the user n.界面

　　subsequentfollowing in time or order adj.后来的，随后的

　　bulkyof large size for its weight adj.体积大的；庞大的；笨重的

　　analogueof a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input adj.类似的

　　monitordisplay produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor n.监视器

　　comprisebe composed of vt.包含；由…组成

　　nostalgicunhappy at being awayand longing for familiar things or persons adj.怀旧的；乡愁的

　　outmodedout of fashion adj.过时的，不流行的

　　retroaffecting things past adj.复古的

　　aestheticconcerning or characterized by an appreciation of beautyor good taste adj.美的；美学的

　　extravagantlyin a wasteful manner adv.挥霍无度地

　　proliferategrow rapidlyvi.增殖；扩散；激增

　　cease to benotany more不再是

　　长句翻译

　　To reflect the inevitable outdating of their material, some, such as Cory Arcangelor Petra Cortright, use low tech graphics, outmoded software and retro hardwareas an ironic aesthetic.

　　语法点：插入语

　　翻译：为了反映材料过时不可避免的趋势，有些人，比如CoryArcangel和PetraCortright，他们用低技术的制图方式、过时的软件和老旧的硬件体现一种讽刺的美感。　　

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