Unit1新视野大学英语4第二版课文及翻译.docVIP

Unit1新视野大学英语4第二版课文及翻译 An artist who seeks fame is like a dog 1chasing/1 his own tail who, when he captures it, does not know what else to do but to continue chasing it. P1The 2cruelty/2 of success is that it often leads those who seek such success to participate in their own destruction. Dont quit your day job! is advice frequently given by understandably 3pessimistic/3 family members and friends to a budding artist who is trying hard to succeed. P2The 4conquest/4 of fame is difficult at best, and many end up emotionally if not financially 5bankrupt/5. P3Still, impure 6motives/6 such as the desire for 7worshipping/7 fans and praise from peers may 8spur/8 the artist on. The 9lure/9 of 10drowning/10 in fames 11imperial/11 glory is not easily resisted. Those who gain fame most often gain it as a result of exploiting their talent for singing, dancing, painting, or writing, etc. P4They develop a style that 12agents/12 market aggressively to 13hasten/13 popularity, and their ride on the express 14elevator/14 to the top is a 15blur/15. Most would be hard-pressed to tell you how they even got there. Artists cannot remain 16idle/16, though. When the performer, painter or writer becomes 18bored/18, their work begins to show a lack of 19continuity/19 in its appeal and it becomes difficult to 20sustain/20 the attention of the public. After their enthusiasm has dissolved, the public simply moves on to the next flavor of the month. Artists who do attempt to remain current by making even 21minute/21 changes to their style of writing, dancing or singing, run a significant risk of losing the audiences favor. The public simply 22discounts/22 styles other than those for which the artist has become famous. Famous authors styles—a Tennessee Williams play or a 23plot/23 by Ernest Hemingway or a poem by Robert Frost or T.S. Eliot—are easily recognizable. The same is true of painters like Monet, Renoir, or Dali and 24moviemakers/24 like Hitchcock, Fellini, Spielberg, Chen Kaige