英国卫报：萨达姆雕像的倒塌：美军如何制造神话(6)

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After the Gulf¹ war in 1991, sanctions imposed by the international community banned all trade with Iraq except in humanitarian² circumstances.

1991年海湾战争后，国际社会实施制裁，禁止与伊拉克进行除人道主义之外的所有贸易。

Among many hardships, this made it difficult for artists and sculptors³ to access materials.

面对这些困难，艺术家们和雕塑家们很难获得材料。

One way to get paint, canvas, bronze and stone was to paint pictures or make sculptures of Saddam.

而有一种办法可以拿到颜料、画布、青铜和石头，那就是为萨达姆画像或雕刻雕像。

If the art was right, the regime would provide.

政府只支持正确的艺术。

While the Iraqi people suffered under sanctions, Saddam built vast palaces filled with monuments to himself.

当伊拉克人民饱受制裁之苦时，萨达姆建造了巨大的宫殿，里面全是他自己的纪念碑。

It is unclear how many statues of himself Saddam put up in this period, though there were hundreds in Baghdad alone.

虽然仅在巴格达就有数百座萨达姆雕像，但目前尚不清楚在这一时期建造了多少座萨达姆雕像。

There was nothing special about the statue of Saddam that was put up in Firdos Square in April 2002 to mark his 65th birthday.

2002年4月，为纪念萨达姆65岁生日，政府在佛多斯广场建造了一座萨达姆雕像，这座雕像并没有什么特别之处。

Firdos Square is not the most important location in Baghdad, and the statue was unexceptional: a bronze standing⁴ figure, 12 metres high, weighing around a tonne.

佛多斯广场并不是巴格达最重要的地方，而这座雕像也很普通：一座高12米、重约1吨的青铜雕像。

The fact that it was not a big deal may be one reason why, since its destruction, there has been confusion as to who made it.

也许就是因为它很普通，所以自它被摧毁以来，人们一直对建造它的人感到困惑。

At least two different sculptors have been credited with creating this statue, with two different narratives⁵.

至少有两位不同的雕刻家参与建造了这座雕像，关于它的故事有两种版本。

This is characteristic of the story of Saddam's statue in Firdos Square.

这就是佛多斯广场萨达姆雕像故事的特点。

The boundary between what is real and what is fake would soon disappear altogether.

真假之间的界限很快就会完全消失。

The French philosopher Jean Baudrillard defined hyperreality as a state in which you cannot tell the difference between reality and a simulation of reality.

法国哲学家让·鲍德里亚将超现实定义为一种无法区分现实和模拟现实的状态。

In 1991, at the time of the first Gulf war, he wrote three essays touching⁶ on this theme, later published together as The Gulf War Did Not Take Place.

1991年第一次海湾战争爆发时，他写了三篇关于该主题的文章，后来一起发表为《海湾战争没有发生》。

Baudrillard argued that the relevant events in the first couple of months of 1991 were not really a war, in the sense that "war" was commonly understood: they were a simulation of a war.

鲍德里亚认为，1991年前几个月的相关事件并不是一场真正的战争，就“战争”这个概念而言：它们是一场模拟战争。

1 gulf   

n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂

参考例句：

• The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
• There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。

2 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

3 sculptors   

雕刻家，雕塑家( sculptor的名词复数 )； [天]玉夫座

参考例句：

• He is one of Britain's best-known sculptors. 他是英国最有名的雕塑家之一。
• Painters and sculptors are indexed separately. 画家和雕刻家被分开，分别做了索引。

4 standing   

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。

5 narratives   

记叙文( narrative的名词复数 )； 故事； 叙述； 叙述部分

参考例句：

• Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning. 结婚一向是许多小说的终点，然而也是一个伟大的开始。
• This is one of the narratives that children are fond of. 这是孩子们喜欢的故事之一。

6 touching   

adj.动人的，使人感伤的

参考例句：

• It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
• His letter was touching.他的信很感人。