original:侧重 thinking thought 思想的独创 origin: 祖先的根,渊源
creative:侧重 hand 动手能力 inventive innovative
fertile:土壤有肥力 思想有创见
imaginative: 有创建性 imaginary: unreal,fiction 虚幻的
resourceful: 足智多谋
I like originals. 我喜欢原版的.
originality n. :创建性
manipulate v. manipulate the machine 开机器
backstage manipulator: 在幕后操纵的人 wire-puller string-puller
puppet show: 木偶戏
Is there any pigeonhole for me.有没有给我安排位置的可能.
pigeonhole:=vacancy ,空缺 My room is a pigeonhole. 我家拥挤不堪.
I can't swing a cat in my room.
Lesson10
In our new society there is a growing dislike of original, creative men. The manipulated do not understand them; the manipulators fear them. The tidy committee men regard them with horror, knowing that no pigeonholes can be found for them. We could do with a few original, creative men in our political life—if only to create some enthusiasm, release some energy--but
where are they? We are asked to choose between various shades of the negative. The engine is falling to pieces while the joint owners of the car argue whether the footbrake or the handbrake should be applied. Notice how the cold, colourless men,
without ideas and with no other passion but a craving for success, get on in this society, capturing one plum after another and taking the juice and taste out of them. Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them. Between mid-night and dawn, when sleep will not come and all the old wounds begin to ache, I often have a nightmare vision of a future world in which there are billions of people,