英语听力精选进阶版 7865

Feifei: 喜欢摄影吗？欢迎你跟随杨莉一起看看《伦敦街头摄影展》!

Yang Li: I’ve just come to one of my favourite museums in London. Can you guess which one? It is the Museum of London. By the way, do you know it is the largest urban museum in the world? 世界上最大的城市博物馆。 At the moment there is a very interesting exhibition going on which is called ‘London Street Photography’. If you are interested in photography today you are in for a treat. Follow me to find out more about this exhibition.

Mike: Well, I’m Mike Seaborne, and I’m senior curator of photographs at the Museum of London, and curator of this exhibition. And I'm also a photographer.

Yang Li: 那是伦敦博物馆的高级馆员 senior curator Mike, 他本人也是一位摄影师 a photographer. 他说，这次展览要探索三个主题。请大家注意听这三个主题都是什么？What are the three themes?

Mike: There are really three themes that the exhibition is trying to explore. One is looking at London in the past, over a 170 year period, and doing it through this particular kind of photography, which I think people can relate to very easily. The second is to tell a story about London and how it’s changed over that time, as reflected through the photographs. You know, you see how London has changed physically¹, but you also see how people behave differently and dress differently, and relate to each other differently. And thirdly, we wanted to explore how the changing technology of photography has enabled different kinds of photographs to be taken at different periods.Obviously, we’re covering the whole of the history of photography, from the very earliest, and very, very basic equipment that was very limited in what it could do, right the way through to the present day, when everybody carries a camera in their mobile phone and can just snap like that.

Yang Li: 他说，第一个主题就通过街头照片来看看伦敦过去170年来的历史变迁 how has London evolved historically. 第二，领略一下伦敦的人文变化，比如行为和装束以及人际关系的变化 how has London changed culturally. 第三，就是探索摄影技术的发展 to explore the changing technology of photography. 不过，怎样才能让参观者领略欣赏街头照片的独特艺术魅力呢? Look for these expressions: an element of chance 机遇，preconceived ideas 预先设想，spontaneously 即兴地，a juxtaposition² 物体前后或左右之间的对比。

Mike: Street photography was a particular genre³, and I think what really characterises street photography is what I call an element of chance. This is the photographer not having preconceived ideas about what they’re going to photograph but just literally⁴ wandering through the streets and just reacting to something that happens.

Yang Li: Spontaneously?

Mike: Spontaneously, or possibly the photographer just sees a juxtaposition of something – this one object or person in relation to another, or something in the background. So there’s this element of chance.

Yang Li: All these are special features that characterise street photography. But how did the visitors like the exhibition? Pay attention to these phrases: come on 发展 candid⁵ shots 抓拍。

Woman 1: Very interesting, because, you know…I mean, you live in London, but you don’t really take that amount of notice until you see it in black and white. It’s so marvellous!

Woman 2: An interesting and fascinating exhibition, seeing how things have changed, and yet some things seem to have stayed the same from… through the years. Thoroughly⁶ enjoyed it.

Woman 3: Yes, I found it interesting on two levels because you can see how photography has come on over the years, as well as seeing how London and the people have changed. And as you come more up-to-date you get more of these candid shots, whereas they’re rather more formal to start off with.

Yang Li: Interesting and fascinating. Those comments have certainly put a smile on the organiser's face. Mike again:

They really are fascinated by the fact that most of the photographs in this exhibition were taken with technology that we no longer use, and they create something which is different to seeing an image on the screen. It’s a print, it’s on paper and it’s got surface qualities to it which make it a different experience and also because they’re organised in a way which tells a narrative⁷. And I think that seems to have worked very well.

Yang Li: A wonderful narrative indeed 精彩的故事！再会。

1 physically   

adj.物质上，体格上，身体上，按自然规律

参考例句：

• He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服，心绪也很乱。
• Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。

2 juxtaposition   

n.毗邻，并置，并列

参考例句：

• The juxtaposition of these two remarks was startling.这两句话连在一起使人听了震惊。
• It is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors.这是并列对比色的结果。

3 genre   

n.(文学、艺术等的)类型，体裁，风格

参考例句：

• My favorite music genre is blues.我最喜欢的音乐种类是布鲁斯音乐。
• Superficially,this Shakespeare's work seems to fit into the same genre.从表面上看， 莎士比亚的这个剧本似乎属于同一类型。

4 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

5 candid   

adj.公正的，正直的；坦率的

参考例句：

• I cannot but hope the candid reader will give some allowance for it.我只有希望公正的读者多少包涵一些。
• He is quite candid with his friends.他对朋友相当坦诚。

6 thoroughly   

adv.完全地，彻底地，十足地

参考例句：

• The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting.一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下种。
• The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons.士兵们都系统地接受过保护武器的训练。

7 narrative   

n.叙述，故事；adj.叙事的，故事体的

参考例句：

• He was a writer of great narrative power.他是一位颇有记述能力的作家。
• Neither author was very strong on narrative.两个作者都不是很善于讲故事。