2015考研英语阅读埃利布罗德_大学英语阅读

2015考研英语阅读埃利布罗德

　　For instance, the controversial story of how he fell out with the board of MoCA, which heco-founded in 1980 and then rescued when it came to the brink of liquidation in 2008, is givena mere page, when it alone could have filled an entire book. And he writes nothing about howhe fell out with the board at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, let alone about MoCA smore recent troubles.

　　例如，他在1980年是洛杉矶当代艺术博物馆的创建人之一，后虽与博物馆的董事会几经争吵，但他还是在2008年博物馆面临破产倒闭之时挽回了局面，单单这个故事就足以写作一整本书，但这个众说纷纭的故事在书中仅占据了一页篇幅。他只字未提是怎样陷入与洛杉矶艺术博物馆董事会的争吵中的，读者也就更无从知道当代艺术博物馆新近的麻烦了。

　　On the other hand, distilling a lifetime into a series of practical lessons has clearly pushed MrBroad to do some hard thinking and self-analysis, which makes his book a useful read,especially for anyone engaging in entrepreneurship or philanthropy. His personality comesthrough clearly enough, though one can quibble over whether his choice of unreasonableto describe it is exactly right. Mr Broad means it in the same way George Bernard Shaw did,when he said that the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man. Mr Broad started adaptingthe world to himself at an early age, telling classmates to rhyme his name with road,rather than his immigrant father s rod. But he also adapted himself to the world, not least infighting to overcome dyslexia, which he says gave him a work ethic that infuses every partof his life .