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| Two years ago, I was invited as an artist to participate in an exhibition commemorating 100 years of Islamic art in Europe. |
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participate:v.参加;参与; commemorating:vt.庆祝,纪念;成为…的纪念; Islamic:adj.穆斯林的;
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| The curator had only one condition: |
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curator:n.馆长;监护人;管理者;
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| I had to use the Arabic script for my artwork. |
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script:n.剧本;电影剧本;笔迹;广播(或讲话等)稿;v.为电影(或戏剧等)写剧本;
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| Now, as an artist, a woman, an Arab, or a human being living in the world in 2010, |
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| I only had one thing to say: |
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| I wanted to say no. |
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| And in Arabic, to say "no," we say "no, and a thousand times no." |
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| So I decided to look for a thousand different noes. |
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| on everything ever produced under Islamic or Arab patronage in the past 1,400 years, from Spain to the borders of China. |
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patronage:n.赞助;光顾;任免权;
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| I collected my findings in a book, placed them chronologically , stating the name, the patron, the medium and the date. |
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findings:n.调查发现;判决;裁决;(finding的复数) chronologically:adv.按年代地; medium:n.(传播信息的)媒介;手段;工具;方法;adj.中等的;中号的;
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| Now, the book sat on a small shelf next to the installation , which stood three by seven meters, in Munich, Germany, in September of 2010. |
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installation:n.安装;设施;设置;安装的设备(或机器);
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| Now, in January, 2011, the revolution started, and life stopped for 18 days, and on the 12th of February, we naively celebrated on the streets of Cairo , believing that the revolution had succeeded. |
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revolution:n.革命;旋转;运行;循环; naively:adv.无邪地;天真烂漫地; Cairo:开罗(埃及首都)
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| Nine months later I found myself spraying messages in Tahrir Square. The reason for this act was this image that I saw in my newsfeed . |
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spraying:v.喷;喷洒;向…扫射(或抛洒);撒尿(以示领地占有);(spray的现在分词) newsfeed:新闻供应;
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| I did not feel that I could live in a city where people were being killed and thrown like garbage on the street. |
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garbage:n.垃圾;废物;
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| So I took one "no" off a tombstone from the Islamic Museum in Cairo, and I added a message to it: "no to military rule." |
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tombstone:n.墓碑;墓石; military:adj.军事的;军人的;适于战争的;n.军队;军人;
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| And I started spraying that on the streets in Cairo. |
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| But that led to a series of no, coming out of the book like ammunition , and adding messages to them, and I started spraying them on the walls. |
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series:n.系列,连续;[电]串联;级数;丛书; ammunition:n.弹药;军火;v.装弹药于;装弹药;
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| So I'll be sharing some of these noes with you. |
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| No to a new Pharaoh , because whoever comes next should understand that we will never be ruled by another dictator . |
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Pharaoh:n.法老;暴君; whoever:任何人:无论是谁: dictator:n.独裁者;命令者;
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| No to violence : Ramy Essam came to Tahrir on the second day of the revolution, and he sat there with this guitar, singing. |
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violence:n.暴力;侵犯;激烈;歪曲;
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| One month after Mubarak stepped down, this was his reward . |
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reward:n.[劳经]报酬;报答;酬谢;v.[劳经]奖励;奖赏;
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| No to blinding heroes. Ahmed Harara lost his right eye on the 28th of January, and he lost his left eye on the 19th of November, by two different snipers . |
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snipers:n.狙击手(sniper的复数);
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| No to killing, in this case no to killing men of religion, because Sheikh Ahmed Adina Refaat was shot on December 16th, during a demonstration , leaving behind three orphans and a widow . |
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Sheikh:n.族长;阿拉伯酋长(等于sheik); demonstration:n.示范;演示;论证;证明; orphans:n.孤儿(orphan的复数);v.成为孤儿(orphan的三单形式); widow:n.寡妇;遗孀;vt.使丧偶;使成为寡妇(或鳏夫);
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| No to burning books. The Institute of Egypt was burned on December 17th, a huge cultural loss. |
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Institute:v.开始(调查);制定;创立;提起(诉讼);n.学会,协会;学院; cultural:adj.与文化有关的;文化的;与艺术、文学、音乐等有关的;
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| No to stripping the people, and the blue bra is to remind us of our shame as a nation when we allow a veiled woman to be stripped and beaten on the street, and the footprint reads, "Long live a peaceful revolution," |
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stripping:v.脱光衣服;表演脱衣舞;除去;(尤指)剥光;(strip的现在分词) bra:n.文胸,胸罩,(汽车前部的)活动罩 remind:v.提醒;使想起; veiled:adj.隐藏的; v.戴面纱(veil的过去式和过去分词); stripped:adj.剥去的;v.剥夺;脱衣;把…剪成条状;(strip的过去式和过去分词) footprint:n.足迹;脚印;
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| because we will never retaliate with violence. |
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retaliate:v.报复;反击;复仇;
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| No to barrier walls. On February 5th, concrete roadblocks were set up in Cairo to protect the Ministry of Defense from protesters . |
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barrier:n.屏障;障碍;障碍物;关口;v.用栅围住; concrete:n.混凝土;adj.混凝土制的;确实的,具体的;vt.用混凝土覆盖 roadblocks:n.路障;障碍(roadblock的复数);v.设置路障(roadblock的单三形式); Ministry:n.(政府的)部门; protesters:n.(公开)抗议者,反对者;(protester的复数)
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| Now, speaking of walls, I want to share with you the story of one wall in Cairo. |
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| A group of artists decided to paint a life-size tank on a wall. It's one to one. |
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life-size:adj.与实物大小一样的;与真人实物一样大小的;
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| In front of this tank there's a man on a bicycle with a breadbasket on his head. To any passerby , there's no problem with this visual . |
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breadbasket:n.胃;面包篮;产粮地区;大型空投炸弹; passerby:n.行人,过路人; visual:adj.视觉的,视力的;栩栩如生的;
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| After acts of violence, another artist came, painted blood, protesters being run over by the tank, demonstrators , and a message that read, "Starting tomorrow, I wear the new face, the face of every martyr . I exist." |
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demonstrators:游行示威者;示范者(demonstrator的名词复数); martyr:vt.牺牲;折磨;杀害;n.烈士;殉道者;
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| Authority comes, paints the wall white, leaves the tank and adds a message: "Army and people, one hand. Egypt for Egyptians ." |
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Authority:n.权威;权力;当局; Egyptians:n.埃及人;埃及语;(Egyptian的复数)
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| Another artist comes, paints the head of the military as a monster eating a maiden in a river of blood in front of the tank. |
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monster:n.怪物;恶魔;庞然大物;adj.巨大的; maiden:adj.未婚的,处女的;初次的;n.少女;处女;
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| Authority comes, paints the wall white, leaves the tank, leaves the suit, and throws a bucket of black paint just to hide the face of the monster. |
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bucket:n.大桶状物; v.拼命划桨;
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| So I come with my stencils , and I spray them on the suit, on the tank, and on the whole wall, and this is how it stands today until further notice. (Laughter) |
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stencils:n.模板;钢板;[印刷]模版印刷(stencil的复数形式); on the whole:基本上,大体上;就全体而论;
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| Now, I want to leave you with a final no. |
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| I found Neruda scribbled on a piece of paper in a field hospital in Tahrir, and I decided to take a no of |
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scribbled:n.混纺纱线;v.乱画;潦草地书写(scribble的过去分词); field hospital:n.野战医院;
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| Mamluk Mausoleum in Cairo. |
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Mausoleum:n.陵墓;阴森森的大厦;
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| The message reads, |
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| '"You can crush the flowers, but you can't delay spring." |
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crush:v.压碎;弄皱,变形;使…挤入;n.粉碎;迷恋;压榨;拥挤的人群;
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| Thank you. (Applause) |
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| Thank you. Shukran. (Applause) |
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