長難句：many things make people think artists are weird. but the weirdest may be this: artists’only job is to explore emotions,and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad.

重點詞匯：explore，focus

■答案■

1、長難句翻譯：許多事情讓人們覺得藝術家是怪人，而最古怪的事情也許就是：藝術家的唯一工作就是探索情感，而他們所關注的卻又是那些令人不快的情感。

分析：句子比較簡單，應該關注explore和focus兩個單詞的意思。

2、重點詞匯： explore有“考究；探索；探討”的意思。scientists have been known to explore in this region of the earth.（科學家們一直在考察這一地域。）we must explore all the possibilities for the solution of the problem.(我們必須探討解決這個問題的所有可能性。） focus作名詞表示“焦點”，作動詞意為“重視；關注”。because of his strange clothes,he immediately became the focus of attention when he entered the office.（他由于服裝奇特，一走進辦公室便成了大家注意的中心。）you must try to focus your mind on work and study.(你應該努力把思想集中在工作和學習上。）all eyes were focused on the speaker.（大家的目光都集中在發言人身上。）