2013高中英語 我的“鉛筆控”人生作文素材

1、我的“鉛筆控”人生Many years ago, 1)before the dawn of the word processor, I worked at The New Yorker at a job called 2)collating, where I had to copy 3)legibly all the changes on a piece of writing(from the editor, the author, the fact checker, and the proofreaders) onto clean page proofs, which were then e

2、nclosed in a 4)Plexiglas 5)cannister and shot via 6)pneumatic tube to a higher floor, where they were transmitted by 7)state-of-theart fax to the printer, in Chicago. (That comma is necessary because we used only one printer, 8)R. R. Donnelley & Sons, and they were based in Chicago.) It was a me

3、dieval sort of joba copyist or 9)scrivenerand I did it for only one year, which was lucky for everyone, because my handwriting is the second-worst in the office. My boss at the time, who had grown 10)humpbacked in the service of the magazine, had exquisite 11)penmanship, but a light touch, and somet

4、imes his marks did not transmit, and the 12)typesetter would complain. So an effort was made to solve the problem by supplying the collating department with No.1 pencils, which have a softer 13)lead than the standard test-taking No.2 pencils and therefore make a darker impression. I got used to the

5、feel of the softer lead, and a pencil 14)snob was born. When the small stationery stores in midtown began to go out of business, our office became a customer of one of the big office-suppliers, which eventually stopped carrying No.1 pencils. Writing with No.2 pencils makes me feel as if I had a 15)h

6、angover, so I started buying my own pencils(somewhat 16)grudgingly). One Christmas, I asked for No.1 pencils, and received a 17)gross of Dixon Ticonderogas (“The Worlds Best Pencil”). I thought twelve packs with twelve pencils each would last for years, if not the rest of my career. But the point of

7、 each pencil, after being sharpened down about an inch and a half, would break off when I bore down on it. The entire column of lead in every pencil was 18)shattered. I had gotten a bad batch. Someone at the office suggested I try a mechanical pencil, but I found it soulless. For a while, I was 19)s

8、craping along with four art pencils when a fellow pencil 20)enthusiast, browsing on , discovered that the Blackwingblack, with a distinctive flat eraserhad come back on the market. 21)Devotees of the Blackwing had been paying up to forty dollars 22)apiece for them after they were discontinued, in 19

9、98. I received a box of twelve Blackwings, and I got hooked. The lead is ungraded, but it is definitely softer than a No.2, and very expressive. The Blackwing motto is “Half the Pressure, Twice the Speed.” Therefore it was with great enthusiasm that I attended a party recently, at the 23)Art Directo

10、rs Club, to celebrate the 24)revival of the 25)artisanal pencil: the Palomino Blackwing and the Palomino Blackwing 602. The host was Charles Berolzheimer, of Cal Cedar, a sixth-generation pencil-maker. He was dressed in shades of pencil lead. Hundreds of pencil enthusiasts were there: drawing, 26)gr

11、affiti style, on big white sheets of paper, adding to small communal notebooks, creating do-it-yourself 27)Thaumatropes, experimenting with the 28)camera obscura and the 29)camera lucida. One woman wore two Blackwings in her hair. A time line of the pencil covered one long wall, and of all the 30)lo

12、re and storied names attached to the pencil in general, and all the 31)ancillary products that arose from the pencil (the sharpener, the eraser crimp), my favorite fact from the pencil party was this: Every pencil is a sandwich. All these years, I have been wondering how the lead got inside the penc

13、il. It turns out that pencils are made from 32)slats of 33)corrugated wood about the size of a Hershey bar. The graphite is laid in the 34)grooves, another slat is 35)glued on top, and then the sandwich is sawn into individual strips, which are sanded, painted, fitted with 36)ferrules and erasers, a

14、nd there you have it: delicious Blackwings. Thank you, Mr. Berolzheimer. Well take a gross. 許多年以前，在文字處理器還未面世之前，我曾在紐約客雜志社做校勘的工作。我必須將一頁文章中（被編輯、作者、事實(shí)調(diào)查員和校對員修改過的）所有改動清楚地復(fù)寫到清樣稿上，然后它們會被放入一個(gè)樹脂玻璃小罐，再經(jīng)由氣動導(dǎo)管推到上一層去，它們將通過當(dāng)時(shí)最先進(jìn)的傳真機(jī)傳送到芝加哥的印刷廠。（這個(gè)逗號是必要的，因?yàn)槲覀冎皇褂靡患矣∷S，當(dāng)納利印刷集團(tuán)，而他們的總部在芝加哥。） 這是一項(xiàng)挺原始的活兒就是一個(gè)抄寫員或是代筆人罷了而我也

15、只干了一年，這對于每個(gè)人來說都是件幸事，因?yàn)槲业淖舟E在辦公室里可謂第二爛。而那時(shí)我的老板，盡管因?yàn)槁耦^于雜志工作而變得駝背了，卻寫得一手好字，但字跡很淺，有時(shí)他寫的字傳送不出去，排字工就會抱怨不已。于是公司積極解決這個(gè)問題，給?？辈刻峁┝艘惶栥U筆，其筆芯比標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的應(yīng)試二號鉛筆要軟，因此字跡要深一些。我逐漸習(xí)慣于這種軟筆芯的觸感，一個(gè)鉛筆控由此誕生。 當(dāng)市中心的小文具店開始相繼結(jié)業(yè)時(shí)，我們辦公室就開始從某家大型辦公用品供應(yīng)商購入文具，但最后這家供應(yīng)商停止了供應(yīng)一號鉛筆。用二號鉛筆寫字讓我覺得自己像是宿醉未醒，所以我開始自己掏錢買鉛筆（這多少有點(diǎn)心不甘情不愿的）。有一年圣誕節(jié)，我想要一號鉛筆作為禮物

16、，結(jié)果收到了一羅迪克森·泰康德儒格公司生產(chǎn)的鉛筆（號稱“世界上最好的鉛筆！”）。我以為12盒、每盒12支的鉛筆即便撐不到我余下的職業(yè)生涯，也應(yīng)該可以用上好多年了。但是當(dāng)我把每支鉛筆的尖端削尖到約1.5英寸（約3.8厘米）后，一下筆筆芯就會斷掉。每支鉛筆中間的整根石墨條都碎掉了。我得到的是一批次品。 辦公室里的某個(gè)同事建議我試試自動鉛筆，但我發(fā)現(xiàn)這種筆缺乏靈魂。有一陣子我只能靠四支藝術(shù)鉛筆勉強(qiáng)度日，直到一個(gè)鉛筆同好在瀏覽時(shí)發(fā)現(xiàn)了一種黑翼牌鉛筆黑色，帶有獨(dú)特的扁平橡皮擦重返市場。1998年黑翼牌鉛筆停產(chǎn)后，其狂熱粉絲們曾以每支四十美元的高價(jià)搶購。我曾收到過一盒12支的黑翼牌鉛筆，被其深深迷住了。其石墨芯沒有分等級，但絕對比二號鉛筆要軟，還非常流暢。黑翼牌鉛筆的格言是：“壓力減半，速度加倍?！?因此，最近，我滿心熱情地參加了一個(gè)在紐約藝術(shù)指導(dǎo)俱樂部舉行的派對，慶祝手工鉛筆帕洛米諾·黑翼和帕洛米諾·黑翼602的復(fù)蘇。主持人是鉛筆制造商卡爾·希達(dá)爾公司的第六代繼承人查爾斯·伯羅茨海默。他身著筆芯色的服裝。成百上千的鉛筆愛好者聚集在那里：在大張白紙上、在小公共手冊上涂鴉式地畫畫，自己動手制作西洋鏡，用暗箱和明箱做試驗(yàn)。一位女士還在她的頭發(fā)里插了兩支黑翼牌鉛筆。 一張