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【英语听和读】沙咖艺术展

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 Amber1: Hello, I’m Amber and you’re listening to bbclearningenglish.com.

In Entertainment today, we visit the largest art event in the Arab world - the
Sharjah Art Biennial2 in the United Arab Emirates. (A biennial is an event that
happens every 2 years.)
Artists from all over the world have come to the Emirates to create new work
especially for this event, and the theme this year is a big, important issue - the
environment. The Sharjah Art Biennial is focussing on how art can create a
better understanding of our relationship with nature and on the challenges the
world is facing due to excessive urban development and pollution. Now the
United Arab Emirates is one of the most rapidly developing man-made
environments on the planet – think of the gleaming rows of newly-built hotels
and skyscrapers4 in the city of Dubai, for example. So how does an art event
with an ecological5 theme fit in?
BBC reporter Tim Marlow went to investigate. He describes a piece of work
which certainly makes you think about the pollution from car exhausts! As you
listen, try to image what the art work looks like.
Tim Marlow
‘It sounds, I’m sure, as if I’m standing3 in a car park! But, in fact, this is an art work. It’s by
the German-born, London-based artist, Gustav Metzger, and it was a proposal called
‘Stockholm, June 1972’ and it was never realised until now. And it involves 120 cars, each
with their exhaust pipes hosed up into a central construction which is right in front of me -
which is covered in polythene - and all the pollution, all the exhaust fumes6 are mingling7
inside. I can see a certain amount of condensation8, I can see a certain amount of darkness, and
this, I suppose, is the emblematic9 piece for the 8th Sharjah Biennial, whose themes, you’ll be
amazed to discover, are ecology and the politics of change.’ 
Entertainment © BBC Learning English 2007
Page 2 of 3
bbclearningenglish.com
Amber: Can you picture the piece in your mind? There are 120 cars, each with their
exhaust pipes ‘hosed up’, joined together by hoses or pipes, into ‘a central
construction’, and all the pollution, all the exhaust fumes, are ‘mingling’ (or
mixing) as they collect inside.
Tim calls it ‘the emblematic’ piece for the exhibition – it’s symbolic10, it
suggests the themes of the whole exhibition.
Listen again and try to catch the two compound words Tim uses to describe the
artist who created the piece.
Tim Marlow
‘It sounds, I’m sure, as if I’m standing in a car park! But, in fact, this is an art work. It’s by
the German-born, London-based artist, Gustav Metzger, and it was a proposal called
‘Stockholm, June 1972’ and it was never realised until now. And it involves 120 cars, each
with their exhaust pipes hosed up into a central construction which is right in front of me -
which is covered in polythene - and all the pollution, all the exhaust fumes are mingling
inside. I can see a certain amount of condensation, I can see a certain amount of darkness, and
this, I suppose, is the emblematic piece for the 8th Sharjah Biennial, whose themes, you’ll be
amazed to discover, are ecology and the politics of change.’
Amber: Tim describes Gustav Metzger as a ‘German-born, London-based’ artist.
Next, Tim met the director of the Sharjah Biennial and asked him why he
thinks artists are willing to create work on themes like the environment and
the politics of change.
As you listen, try to catch the adjective we hear to describe the crucially
important ‘issues’ facing societies and ‘the world in general’.
Director of Sharjah Biennial
‘Artists are intellectuals and they have their role in society. Their role is to be at the forefront
of the pressing issues of the societies that they live in, or the world in general. And they have
to kind of participate, or in this situation, initiate11 the discussion.’ 
Entertainment © BBC Learning English 2007
Page 3 of 3
bbclearningenglish.com
Amber: Did you catch it? We heard that the role or work of artists is to be at the
forefront (the very front) of the ‘pressing’ issues of the societies in which they
live. They should ‘initiate’ (begin) discussion.
Now here’s a list of the language we focussed on in the programme today.
 
biennial, the Sharjah Art Biennial
hosed up
mingling
emblematic
German-born
London-based
pressing issues

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1 amber LzazBn     
n.琥珀;琥珀色;adj.琥珀制的
参考例句:
  • Would you like an amber necklace for your birthday?你过生日想要一条琥珀项链吗?
  • This is a piece of little amber stones.这是一块小小的琥珀化石。
2 biennial 7oRyT     
adj.两年一次的
参考例句:
  • The workers were strongly against the biennial election.工人们强烈反对两年一次的选举。
  • His is a biennial,and one of the most useful pasture plants we have.这是两年生植物,也是我们最有用的牧草之一。
3 standing 2hCzgo     
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
参考例句:
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
4 skyscrapers f4158331c4e067c9706b451516137890     
n.摩天大楼
参考例句:
  • A lot of skyscrapers in Manhattan are rising up to the skies. 曼哈顿有许多摩天大楼耸入云霄。
  • On all sides, skyscrapers rose like jagged teeth. 四周耸起的摩天大楼参差不齐。
5 ecological IrRxX     
adj.生态的,生态学的
参考例句:
  • The region has been declared an ecological disaster zone.这个地区已经宣布为生态灾难区。
  • Each animal has its ecological niche.每种动物都有自己的生态位.
6 fumes lsYz3Q     
n.(强烈而刺激的)气味,气体
参考例句:
  • The health of our children is being endangered by exhaust fumes. 我们孩子们的健康正受到排放出的废气的损害。
  • Exhaust fumes are bad for your health. 废气对健康有害。
7 mingling b387131b4ffa62204a89fca1610062f3     
adj.混合的
参考例句:
  • There was a spring of bitterness mingling with that fountain of sweets. 在这个甜蜜的源泉中间,已经掺和进苦涩的山水了。
  • The mingling of inconsequence belongs to us all. 这场矛盾混和物是我们大家所共有的。
8 condensation YYyyr     
n.压缩,浓缩;凝结的水珠
参考例句:
  • A cloud is a condensation of water vapour in the atmosphere.云是由大气中的水蒸气凝结成的。
  • He used his sleeve to wipe the condensation off the glass.他用袖子擦掉玻璃上凝结的水珠。
9 emblematic fp0xz     
adj.象征的,可当标志的;象征性
参考例句:
  • The violence is emblematic of what is happening in our inner cities. 这种暴力行为正标示了我们市中心贫民区的状况。
  • Whiteness is emblematic of purity. 白色是纯洁的象征。 来自辞典例句
10 symbolic ErgwS     
adj.象征性的,符号的,象征主义的
参考例句:
  • It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.它象征着现代妇女的战斗精神。
  • The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.基督教的洗礼仪式是一种象征性的做法。
11 initiate z6hxz     
vt.开始,创始,发动;启蒙,使入门;引入
参考例句:
  • A language teacher should initiate pupils into the elements of grammar.语言老师应该把基本语法教给学生。
  • They wanted to initiate a discussion on economics.他们想启动一次经济学讨论。
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