下面小编跟大家一起了解考研英语作文文章分享，希望对大家的学习的有所帮助。
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　　Of all the changes (that have taken place in English-language newspapers) during the past quarter-century, perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline (in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.)
　　inexorable : that cannot be stopped or changed.
　　far-reaching :影响深远的
　　coverage : thereporting ofnews and sport in newspapersand on the radio and television.
　　过去的25年，发生在英文报纸上所有的变化中，可能意义很为深远的变化就是文艺报道范围的持续缩小和报道严肃性的不断降低。
　　It is difficult to the point of impossibility / for the average reader (under the age of forty) to imagine a time (when high-quality arts criticism could be found in most big-city newspapers.) Yet a considerable number of the most significant collections of criticism (published in the 20thcentury) consisted in large part of newspaper reviews. To read such books today is to marvel at the fact (that their learned contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circulation dailies.)
　　marvel : to be very surprised or impressed bysth.
　　suitable : right or appropriate for a particular purpose or occasion.
　　对不到40岁的普通读者来说，很难想象当年在很多大城市的新闻报纸上可以发现高质量的文艺评论。然而，在20世纪出版的大多数重要的评论作品占了报纸评论很大一部分。如今再去读这样的书的话，就会对一个事实感到惊讶---之前人们认为这些广博的内容是适合发在大众日报的。
　　We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper reviews (published in Englandbetween the turn of the 20thcentury and the eve of World War II,) at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the publications (in which it appeared.) In those far-off days, it was taken for granted that the critics of major papers would write in detail and at length about the events (they covered). Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers (who wore their learning lightly, like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman,) could be trusted to know what they were about. These men believed in journalism as a calling, and were proud to be published in the daily press. “So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism,” Newman wrote, “that I am tempted to define ‘journalism’ as ‘a term of contempt[applied by writers who are not read]to[writers who are.]’”
　　newsprint : the cheap paper that newspapers are printed on.
　　stylish :fashionable, elegant and attractive.
　　ornament : an object that is used as decoration in a room, garden/yard, etc. rather than for a particular purpose.
　　far off : 遥远的
　　take for granted : 认为...理所当然
　　at length :详尽的
　　wear one's learning lightly: 不怎么卖弄学问
　　calling :a profession or career.
　　end up in : 以...而告终
　　be tempted to :忍不住去
　　contempt applied by XXXtoXXX
　　我们已经远离了那些没有关注焦点的报纸评论---这是在20世纪初和二战前夕英国发表的，那时候新闻纸很便宜，时尚文艺评论也被当成这种出版物的装饰部分。很久以前，那些主流报纸的评论家会把报道的事件详细的记录下来，甚至那些像GBS和EN一样不卖弄自己学问的评论家也知道自己在做什么。人们觉得做新闻报道是一种职业，觉得文章能发表在上面也是自豪的一件事。但有思想的作者，或者有文学天赋的作者，在新闻业上实现自己的理想是很少的。EN写到“我忍不住把新闻业定义为那些实际没什么学问的作者对真正作家的蔑称。”
　　Unfortunately, these critics are virtually forgotten. Neville Cardus, (who wrote for theManchester Guardianfrom 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975,) is now known solely as a writer of essays (on the game of cricket.) During his lifetime, though, he was also one of England’s foremost classical-music critics, a stylist so widely admired / that hisAutobiography(1947) became a best-seller. He was knighted in 1967, the first music critic to be so honored. Yet only one of his books is now in print, and his vast body of writings on music is unknown / save to specialists.
　　cricket : 板球
　　stylist : a writer who takesgreat care to write or say.
　　autobiography :自传
　　kinght: to give sb the rank and title of a knight.
　　in print : 已经出版
　　save : except.
　　不幸的是，实际上人们已经忘了这些评论家。NC，从1917年开始为曼彻斯特的卫报写作，直至1975年死前不久。现在也只作为写板球运动的作家为人所知。然而，在他的一生中，也是当时重要的古典音乐评论家之一，并且也是一位广受称赞的文体家。他在1947年的自传成了畅销书，在1967年他又被封爵，是一、位获此殊荣的音乐评论家。但他出的书只有一本在版，而且他在音乐方面的作品除了专业人士，知道的人很少。
　　Is there any chance that Cardus’s criticism will enjoy a revival? The prospect seems remote. Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern readers have little use for the richly upholstered Vicwardian prose (in which he specialized.) Moreover, the amateur tradition (in music criticism) has been in headlong retreat.
　　remote : not very great.
　　headlong :quick and done without looking where you are going.
　　NC的评论还有机会重新流行起来么？前景好像不太乐观。因为在他去世之前很久，新闻业的口味就已经变了，而且后现代的读者很少使用，也不需要他所擅长的那种修辞华丽的维多利亚和爱德华时期的散文。还有就是，在音乐评论的业余性也已迅速衰退。
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