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Dunhuang arts and China's multicultural past

 

中國近代以漢文化為尊；但其實唐、元時期，中原與中亞、中東各民族交流頻繁，文化百花齊放，看看敦煌出土的洞穴壁畫便知曉。

These caves, hewn by hand out of cliffs that descend into the great Gobi Desert, chart the development of Chinese art for a thousand, uninterrupted years. They are also depositaries of a multicultural past that adds fluidity and colour to China's national identity.

 

hew 砍，劈

(verb 動詞 ; passive hewn)

 

1. cut with a cutting tool

2. behave according to rules 依規矩辦事

例子：The military school has strict orders to hew with their vigorous schedule.

 

chart 仔細觀察；詳細紀錄

(verb 動詞)

 

例子：The boys like to chart their height by drawing a mark on the wall.

 

uninterrupted（尤指一段時間）持續的，不間斷的

(adjective 形容詞)

 

例子：Jenny made a moving and uninterrupted speech at school assembly.

 

depositories（尤指大型）倉庫，存放地

(noun 名詞)

 

fluidity 流水般的

(noun 名詞)

 

例子： That principle dancer moves with such fluidity.

 

可惜「人怕出名豬怕肥」，今日敦煌遊人如鯽，要再見昔日淨土之貌難矣！

Fierce crowd control means that everyone is whisked through the few accessible caves by brusque official guides swinging their torches from one bodhisattva to another, and giving highly condensed versions of the great Jataka tales as told by centuries-old murals.

 

fierce 猛烈的；激烈的；駭人的

(adjective 形容詞)

 

例子： A fierce thunderstorm ripped through the city last night.

 

whisk

(verb 動詞)

 

1. 突然拿走，快速帶走

 

例子：The horse whisked the flies off his back with his tail.

 

2. 發打

 

例子： This recipe calls for four eggs to be whisked with a cup of sugar.

    

brusque 粗魯的，唐突的

(adjective 形容詞)

 

例子：The guards showed no mercy with their brusque handling of the prisoners.

 

condensed 壓縮，縮短（講話或文章）

(adjective 形容詞)

 

例子：The tour was too condensed to take in all the information.

例子：I like putting condensed milk on my toast.

 

Crystal’s Slang Time

 

Nirvana

(noun 名詞)

 

1. 涅槃（佛教徒所追尋的超脫一切的極度精神自由的境界）

2. perfect state of happiness 極樂

= paradise, heaven, peace, bliss, Shanghri-la

   
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