2023高考英语外刊语法填空含全文翻译和重难点句型讲解
Toon wars: manga v webtoons
Japan’s cartoon books are being eclipsed by the Korean interloper
Lee Hyun-Seok grew up in South Korea addicted to Japanese manga series such as “Dragon Ball” and “Slam Dunk”. As soon as he could, he 1._________(emigrate) to Tokyo to build a successful career as a manga artist and editor. Then in the early 2000s came “webtoons”, a South Korean cartoon innovation optimised for smartphones. Mr Lee was at first pared with manga’s inventive graphic styles and sophisticated plots, he found webtoons crude and superficial. “I thought: ‘Anybody can make this’.”
Yet Japanese manga is being eclipsed by Korean webtoons. Last year the manga print market shrank 2._________2.3% to 265 bn ($1.9bn). The size of the global webtoons market was meanwhile valued at $3.7bn—and projected 3._________(reach) $56bn by 2030. manga is gravitating to digital slowly, in part because it is still designed for print, so awkward to read on smartphones. The letters tend to be too small and the way the panels are laid out 4.__________(require) constant zooming in and out. Seeing which way the wind was blowing, Mr Lee abandoned manga for the webtoon industry in 2014.
Though webtoons such as “Itaewon Class” and “Solo Levelling” have become popular among Japanese consumers, most Japanese publishers have stuck doggedly to manga. “The Japanese industry is very conservative,” sighs Mr Lee. “There’s a strong belief 5._______ it’s better to stick with precedent.” The manga industry’s business model, in which stories are first published in weekly magazines and then in books, has hardly changed 6._______ the 1960s.
Their format is also sacrosanct. Japanese manga hew to unique templates which require special knowledge of readers, such as the order in which panels 7._______ be read. “The only people who know how to read manga are Japanese, Koreans and geeks across the world,” says Iwamoto Keita, 8.__________ runs a cartoon studio.Webtoons have grown so fast, in part, because they can be read more easily and intuitively.
Some still fret about the future. Japan’s manga fans are, like all its population, ageing. The average reader of the Weekly Shonen Magazine, a manga anthology for children (shonen means “young boy”) launched in 1959, is now over 30. “ manga 9.________ end up as old people’s culture,” warns Mr Lee. “Children these days are scrolling through webtoons on their smartphones. Why not make 10.________that suits their taste ”
①短语:
1.原文:Lee Hyun-Seok grew up in South Korea addicted to Japanese manga series
词典:be addicted to sth 1.成瘾、上瘾 2.入迷
例句:Many of the women are addicted to heroin and cocaine...
这些女人中很多人都吸食海洛因和可卡因成瘾了。
2.原文:he emigrated to Tokyo to build a successful career as a manga artist and editor
词典:emigrate (from...) (to...) 移居国外
例句:My grandparents emigrated to Canada to try their luck there.
我的祖父母移民到加拿大去碰碰运气。
3.原文:The size of the global webtoons market was meanwhile valued at $3.7bn—and projected to reach $56bn by 2030
词典:be projected to do sth 预计,预测,推想
例句:The unemployment rate has been projected to fall.
据预测失业率将下降。
4.原文:Manga is gravitating to digital slowly
词典:gravitate to/toward(s) sb/sth 被吸引到;受吸引而转向
例句:Many young people gravitate to the cities in search of work.
许多年轻人被吸引到城里找工作。
5.原文:The letters tend to be too small and the way the panels are laid out requires constant zooming in and out
词典:zoom in 使画面放大 zoom out 使画面缩小
例句:It is a tracking system which can follow a burglar round a building and zoom in on his face.
可对入户窃贼在整栋楼里进行跟踪并将其面部图像放大的追踪系统
6.原文:The letters tend to be too small and the way the panels are laid out requires constant zooming in and out
词典:lay sb out 1.把某人打昏; 2.(给死者)作殡葬准备
lay sth out 1.铺开、展开、摆开; 2.布置、策划、安排、设计 3.花钱
例句:I had to lay out a fortune on a new car.
我只好花一大笔钱买了辆新车。
The gardens were laid out with lawns and flower beds.
花园里布置了草坪和花坛。
7.原文:There’s a strong belief that it’s better to stick with precedent
词典:stick with/to sth 固守,持续,坚持
例句:They decided to stick with their original plan.
他们决定继续执行原来的计划。
8.原文:Japanese manga hew to unique templates which require special knowledge of readers
词典:hew to sth 遵守
例句:One traditional value Mr. Trump does hew to: wanting an old-fashioned wife but a modern, professional daughter.
特朗普所坚持的一个传统价值观是:妻子是老派的,但女儿则是现代化的、职业化的。
9.原文:It is tempting to see the way manga traditionalists are ceding the global cartoon market to South Korean innovators as symbolic of a broader malaise
词典: cede sth (to sb) 割让;让给;转让
例句:Only a short campaign took place in Puerto Rico, but after the war Spain ceded the island to America.
在波多黎各的战事很短暂;但是战争结束后,西班牙将该岛屿割让给了美国。
10.原文:Other recent South Korean exports, such as the Netflix sensation “Squid Game” and BTS, a boy band, have taken the world by storm
词典:take sb/sth by storm 1.在某处大获成功;让观众为之倾倒 2.突然袭击
例句:Kenya’s long distance runners have taken the athletics world by storm.
肯尼亚的长跑运动员在田径界获得了巨大成功。
11.原文:Having run up huge losses, it may soon be abandoned
词典:run sth up 1.积欠(账款、债务等);累积 2.赶制(衣服,尤指缝纫)
3.竖起,升起(旗帜)
例句:How had he managed to run up so many debts
他怎么欠了这么多债?
He had run up credit card debts of thousands of dollars.
他积欠了数千元的信用卡借款。
12.原文:I doubt webtoons would ever trump manga in terms of quality
词典:in terms of sth; in…terms 谈及;就…而言;在…方面
例句:He’s talking in terms of starting a completely new career.
他正在谈论开创全新的事业。
The job is great in terms of salary, but it has its disadvantages.
就薪金而言,这个工作倒是挺不错的,但也有一些不利之处。
13.原文:Some still fret about the future
词典:fret about/over sth苦恼、烦躁、焦虑不安
例句:I was working all hours and constantly fretting about everyone else’s problems.
我一刻不闲地工作,总是为别人的事操心。
14.原文:Children these days are scrolling through webtoons on their smartphones.
词典:scroll through sth (鼠标)滚动一遍
例句:Use the arrow keys to scroll through the list of files.
用箭头键把文件目录滚动一遍。
②长难句
1.原文:The manga industry’s business model, in which stories are first published in weekly magazines and then in books, has hardly changed since the 1960s.
2.分析:主句是主语+谓语动词结构:The manga industry’s business model has hardly changed。in which引导定语从句,修饰business model。在定语从句中,是被动语态结构stories are first published。最后的since the 1960s是时间状语。
3.译文:日本漫画行业的商业模式为:故事会在周刊上首发连载,然后印制成书。而这一模式自20世纪60年代以来几乎没有改变。
1.原文:By contrast, complex plots with dramatic twists are hard to convey in webtoons, which can display only a limited number of words.
2.分析:本句的主句是主系表结构complex plots are hard to convey。hard to convey整体上为表语(形容词+to do结构,to do相当于副词作状语修饰前面形容词hard)。which引导定语从句,修饰webtoons,表明“网络动漫仅能展示有限的词句”。By contrast作状语。
3.译文:相比之下,网络漫画仅能展示有限的词句,很难传达出带有戏剧性转折的复杂情节。
③写作技巧:
It is tempting to see the way manga traditionalists are ceding the global cartoon market to South Korean innovators as symbolic of a broader malaise
日漫传统主义者将全球漫画市场拱手让给韩国创新者的做法,不禁让人们认为这象征着一种更广泛的病症
表达:这句话的结构是It is tempting to see A as B,表示“不禁让人们将A视为B”。在写作中可以用于开头,描述某种现象。It is tempting to do sth也可以单独使用,表示“很想去做某事”。
例句:It is tempting to idealize the past.
人都爱把过去的日子说得那么美好。
It is tempting to see the current labour market as the nadir.
人们不禁把如今的劳动市场状况视为谷底。
④背景知识:
“酷日本”战略:酷日本(Cool Japan),是日本“数字好莱坞大学”校长杉山知之提出的,是描绘日本现代文化的新词汇。是把出口“酷日本”文化当成国策,在世界上培养更多的日本游戏迷和日本动漫迷。日本希望通过发展“新文化产业”,变产品输出为文化输出,推动日本经济发展。酷日本战略旨在向海外推介以动漫、游戏为首的日本内容产品及食品等领域的国内独特文化。
⑤段落大意:
【1】以前的日漫如日中天,水准高于韩国网络动漫
【2】如今,韩国网络动画正在让日本动漫黯然失色
【3】日本出版社执着于出版日漫
【4】日漫对读者的阅读要求较高
【5】日漫应当推出更多符合儿童口味的作品
「答案」
1.emigrated 2.by 3.to reach 4.requires 5.that 6.since 7.must 8.who 9.could 10.something