The Tate Gallery 泰特美術(shù)館
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The script of this programme 本節(jié)目臺詞
Vicki: Hi, and welcome to On the Town from BBC Learning English. I'm Vicki.
Chen Li: 我是陳鸝，大家好，今天，我們要說說和英國一個十分有名的美術(shù)館有關(guān)的事情。
Vicki: An art gallery, the Tate gallery, one of the most famous museums in Britain.
Chen Li: 泰特美術(shù)館位于倫敦嗎？ Vicki?
Vicki: Well, the Tate is not actually one museum, there are several different parts. Here's John, who’s a member of the Tate, to explain.
Chen Li: Member 會員。在這里，它的意思就是說，John 捐款給泰德美術(shù)館，這樣，他就擁有一個特權(quán)，那就是，在每個展覽對公眾開放之前，他都可以先睹為快。
The Tate gallery houses Britain’s largest collection of art, British art over many centuries at Tate Britain, mainly modern art at the Tate Modern. Then art that’s specific to the West Country at the Tate in St. Ives, and there’s an extension of the main Tate Gallery in Liverpool as well, so it’s in four locations in the UK.
John Escolme, member of the Tate
Vicki: So there are four different parts of the Tate, only two of them in London. Tate Britain has British art from many centuries. He said it houses the largest collection of art.
Chen Li: Houses 這里是動詞，意思是收藏，他說泰特美術(shù)館的主要藏館，泰特英國美術(shù)館，收藏了很多幾個世紀(jì)前古老的美術(shù)作品。
The Tate Modern gallery
Vicki: Then there's the Tate Modern, which has most of the modern art in it. Then there are two parts of the museum which are not in London. One is in St. Ives, in the South-West of England – an area called 'the West Country'. And the other is in Liverpool, a large city in the North of England.
The Tate gallery houses Britain’s largest collection of art, British art over many centuries at Tate Britain, mainly modern art at the Tate Modern. Then art that’s specific to the West Country at the Tate in St. Ives, and there’s an extension of the main Tate Gallery in Liverpool as well, so it’s in four locations in the UK.
John Escolme, member of the Tate
Vicki: In the programme today we've been talking about the Tate gallery, one of the most famous art museums in the world.
Chen Li: 我們剛才也聽到，泰特美術(shù)館還有兩個藏館位于倫敦之外。
Vicki: Yes, one in the West Country, as the South-West of England is called, and one in Liverpool. At Tate Liverpool, at the moment, there's a special exhibition of Chinese art.
Chen Li: 是嗎？在利物浦的泰特美術(shù)館里，正舉辦一個中國藝術(shù)展覽？
Vicki: Yes. It's an exhibition of modern Chinese art. Here's Karen Smith, one of the curators.
Chen Li: A curator 展覽負(fù)責(zé)人。
I don’t think that any exhibition can really represent China in art. At best what we could hope to do was come up with something that would be a comprehensive slice, rather than being an overview of what’s been going on since 2000.
Karen Smith, a curator of the Tate
Vicki: She says that the exhibition isn't an overview.
Chen Li: An overview 概覽，總觀。
Vicki: But a comprehensive slice.
Chen Li: 而是具有全面代表性的一個切片。Comprehensive 全面的。
Vicki: Here’s John Wilson with an interesting comment about the art in the exhibition, which he compares with European art.
What surprised me with this exhibition was the size and scale of many of the works, which dwarf the ambitions of many European artists. What’s clear is that the Chinese artists have industry and adaptable skilled labour on their side, and they’re using that to good effect.
John Wilson
Vicki: So he described the size and scale of the art.
Chen Li: Size 大小，還有 scale 規(guī)模。
Vicki: And he says that this is because the Chinese artists are using industry to create art.
Chen Li: 他說，中國的藝術(shù)家們使用了大規(guī)模的工業(yè)化形勢進(jìn)行創(chuàng)作，而且他們具有靈活而熟練的藝術(shù)技巧，這一切使他們擁有歐洲藝術(shù)家們所沒有的優(yōu)勢。 歐洲藝術(shù)家們是無法創(chuàng)作出如此大規(guī)模的藝術(shù)作品的。
Vicki: He says these pieces dwarf European artworks.
Chen Li: To dwarf 使某人或某事，在相比之下顯得小。
Vicki: Well, that's all we have time for today.
Chen Li: 聽起來挺有意思的，也許，我會去利物浦看看這個中國藝術(shù)展。
Vicki: Maybe I'll come with you!
Chen Li: Ok. 那好，咱們下次節(jié)目再會。
Vicki: Bye!
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