Day 15
英文重现
I copy the painting with all the skills at my disposal,all the tricks,squaring up,measuring with calipers,using photographs,a projector,a light box for transparencies to get as near as I can to the true color.I try to match the pigments used by the artist,grinding my own Naples yellow,or buying it in a tube from Budapest where it is still legal to sell it ready made with lead and antimony.
——SAT 2009年1月题，Section 7
解析
1.第一个句子的主干是“I copy the painting”。“with all the skills at my disposal…to the true color”为方式状语，词组“at one's disposal”意思是“供某人使用的，可由某人支配的”，在这里是介词短语作后置定语来修饰“skills”；“squaring up,measuring with calipers,using photographs,a projector,a light box”是前面“all the skills,all the tricks”的同位语，展示出技巧的具体内容，因为同位语是一个名词对另一个名词进行修饰、限定或者说明，所以动词要用动名词形式；不定式“to get as near as I can to the true color”作“using photographs,a projector,a light box for transparencies”的目的状语。
2.“grinding my own Naples yellow”和“buying it in a tube from Budapest”是现在分词结构作方式状语，表明作者如何“match the pigments”；“buying it”和后面定语从句“where…sell it…”中的“it”都是指“Naples yellow”。
词意辨析
参考翻译
在临摹画作时，我会尽我所能地使用各种技巧：打上方格，用卡尺仔细测量，借助照片、投影仪和放透明幻灯片的灯箱以尽量接近原作的色彩。我尝试调出原画作者所使用的颜色，研磨我自己的拿浦黄，或者是从布达佩斯购买（只有那里）还在合法出售的含铅和锑的管装成品颜料。
实战演练
That is where vanity comes in.One wants to leave one's mark on the world.Like many another craftsman,like an apprentice stonecutter carving a gargoyle on a cathedral.I want to make my individual contribution to the grand design.I copy the painting with all the skill at my disposal,all the tricks,squaring up,measuring with calipers,using photographs,a projector,a light box for transparencies to get as near as I can to the true color.I try to match the pigments used by the artist,grinding my own Naples yellow,or buying it in a tube from Budapest where it is still legal to sell it ready made with Lead and antimony.But instead of adding my signature,I change some insignificant feature.I alter the expression of a man in a crowd,add a tiny animal face in a dim corner,a mouse or a weasel,replace the diamond on a woman's hand with a ruby,paint a watch on a wrist in an eighteenth-century portrait.How many casual observers would notice?Or care if they did?Most people chortle to see experts confounded.
As described in lines“I copy…antimony”,the narrator's approach to copying is best characterized as____.
(A)painstaking
(B)grudging
(C)innovative
(D)simplistic
(E)slipshod
答案：A
答案解析
这个题目比较简单，主要想让大家深刻地记住“排比”的作用。排比能传达出一股强大的力量，起到增强表达效果的作用。给定句子中，作者描述了她为了临摹画作所做的一切事情，多处用到排比（所有的v-ing的并列），有效地传达出作者为了临摹所下的功夫，因此比较容易判断出选项A“下功夫的，尽心的”为正确答案。选项B“勉强的，不情愿的”，选项C“创新的”，选项D“过于简单的”和选项E“马虎的，不认真的”都明显没有体现出作者的“努力”。