听写训练 Test 18 Cartoon Artist

 Cartoon Artist

 

In a good cartoon，/ the artist can tell in a few lines / as much as a writer can tell in half a dozen paragraphs. / The cartoon artist not only tells a story / but he also tries to persuade the reader to his way of thinking. / He has great influence on public opinion. / In a political campaign, he plays an important part. / Controversial issues in Congress or at meetings of the United Nations / may keep the cartoon artist well- supplied with current materials. / A clever cartoon artist may cause laughter / because he often uses humor in his drawings. / If he is sketching¹ a famous person，/ he takes a prominent feature and exaggerates it. / Cartoon artists, for instance, / like to lengthen² an already long nose and to widen an already broad grin. / The artist uses such exaggeration to put his message across.

1 sketching   

n.草图

参考例句：

• They are sketching out proposals for a new road. 他们正在草拟修建新路的计划。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• "Imagination is busy sketching rose-tinted pictures of joy. “飞舞驰骋的想象描绘出一幅幅玫瑰色欢乐的场景。 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险

2 lengthen   

vt.使伸长，延长

参考例句：

• He asked the tailor to lengthen his coat.他请裁缝把他的外衣放长些。
• The teacher told her to lengthen her paper out.老师让她把论文加长。