首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
If you had asked me then if I would accept a job as a restaurant critic for The New York Times, or any established publication,
If you had asked me then if I would accept a job as a restaurant critic for The New York Times, or any established publication,
admin
2015-04-26
28
问题
If you had asked me then if I would accept a job as a restaurant critic for The New York Times, or any established publication, I would have replied, without a second thought, " Of course not " And not just because I did not want to think of myself as an ambitious sort. Working in restaurants was honest labor; anyone could see that. Writing about them for the mainstream press was not; it felt like joining the enemy.
But reviewing was fun, so much fun that when mainstream publishers started paying me for my opinions, I didn’ t do the decent thing. Before I knew it, I had stopped cooking professionally. Then I stopped cooking altogether. " She’ s joined the leisure class," my friends said.
I disarmed my critics by inviting them along; nobody I knew could afford to eat out and nobody refused We went with equal amounts of guilt and pleasure, with a feeling that we were trespassing on the playgrounds of the rich.
We didn’ t belong in those starchy restaurants. We always got the worst table. And then, because I didn’ t own a credit card, I had to pay in cash. The year turned into two, and three, and more. I got a credit card. I got good clothes. I was writing for increasingly prestigious publications. Meanwhile, a voice inside me kept whispering, "How could you?"
When I receive weekly letters from people who think it is indecent to write about $ 100 meals while half the world is hungry, the voice yacks right, along. " They’ re absolutely right," it whispers. And when it asks, "When are you going to grow up and get a real job?" it sounds a lot like my mother.
And just about then is when I tell the voice to shut up. Because when my mother starts telling me that all I’m doing with my life is telling rich people where to eat, I realize how much the world has changed.
Yes, there are still restaurants where rich people go to remind themselves that they are different from you and me. But there are fewer and fewer of them. As American food has come of age, American restaurants have changed going out to eat used to be like going to the opera; today, it is more like going the movies.
Why would the author have refused to accept the job as a restaurant critic if people had asked her then?
选项
A、Because she was ambitious.
B、Because she didn’ t think highly of the job.
C、Because she didn’ t think well of the job as a cook.
D、Because she didn’ t want to criticize anyone.
答案
B
解析
由第一段最后一句writing about them…felt like joining the enemy可知在作者眼中,当餐厅评论家与投奔敌人一样。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/quua777K
本试题收录于:
翻译硕士(翻译硕士英语)题库专业硕士分类
0
翻译硕士(翻译硕士英语)
专业硕士
相关试题推荐
Languageexiststocommunicatewhateveritcancommunicate.Somethingsitcommunicatessobadlythatweneverattempttocommun
MemorandumofUnderstanding的译文是()。
WhichofthefollowingisNOTaromanticpoet?()
Generouspublicfundingofbasicsciencewould______considerablebenefitsforthecountry’shealth,wealthandsecurity.
There______nothingmorefordiscussion,themeetingcametoanendhallanhourearlier.
Inflationhassurgedinrecentmonthsduetodouble-digitspikeinsensitivefoodpricesblamedonshortagesofporkandotherb
The______purposeofscientificdiscourseisnotthemerepresentationofinformationandthought,butratheritsactualcommunic
Whilethishealthylifestyleapproachtohealthworkedforsome(thewealthymembersofsociety),peopleexperiencingpoverty,u
Itisreportedthatthirtypeoplewerekilledina______ontherailwayyesterday.
TheyhaveleftNewYork______good;they’llnevergobackandlivethereagain.
随机试题
党在过渡时期总路线的主体是逐步实现【】
轻度高渗性失水时,失水量相当于体重的重度高渗性失水时,失水量相当于体重的
下列措施中属于银监会对违反国家有关银行业监督管理规定的处罚措施的有()。
下列关于房产税的说法中,正确的是()。
【2015年河北张家口.判断】根据耶克斯一多德森定律,越高程度的动机激起学习水平越有利于学习的提高。()
全面贯彻落实科学技术是第一生产力的思想,要求大力实施()。
市场不能向公众提供纯粹的公共物品,是因为()。
()与()一并成为元杂剧中历史悲剧的“双璧”。
文君是新世界数码技术有限公司的人事专员,十一过后,公司招聘了一批新员工,需要对他们进行入职培训。人事助理已经制作了一份演示文稿的素材“新员工入职培训.pptx”,请打开该文档进行美化,要求如下:根据第五张幻灯片右侧的文字内容创建一个组织结构图,其中总经
Formostofus,theworkisthecentral,dominatingfactoflife.Wespendmorethanhalfourconscioushoursatwork,preparing
最新回复
(
0
)