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课件网) Unit 2 A life's work Understanding ideas Life Behind the Lens (Language points) A white-haired old man riding an ordinary bicycle around the streets of New York, always wearing the same blue workers jacket and simple black running shoes. Translation 一位白发老人总是穿着一件蓝色工装夹克和样式简单的黑色跑鞋，骑着一辆普通的自行车在纽约街头穿梭。 And yet every member of New York's wealthy high society wanted nothing more than to pose for this man. high society 上流社会 nothing more than 仅仅，只不过=only / merely pose v. (使)摆好姿势;假装; 炫耀; 引起; 提问 n. 姿势; 装腔作势 pose a threat/ challenge/ danger/ risk 构成威胁/挑战/危险/风险 pose a question 提出问题 pose for...为(画像、摄影等)摆好姿势 pose as sb.佯装某人，冒充某人，假扮某人 This ordinary-looking man was Bill Cunningham, one of the most important American photographers of the last 50 years. ordinary-looking adj.相貌平平的 It certainly wasn't the use of expensive technologically-advanced equipment. Cunningham always used simple, relatively cheap cameras and took all his pictures on the streets of New York, not in a studio. technologically-advanced adj.技术先进的 take pictures/ photos 拍照片 Nor was it a wide range of contacts and connections. a wide range of 范围广泛的;大范围的;一系列的 range n．一系列；范围，界限，区间；山脉；射程 vi.变动,变化；vi.& vt.徘徊，漫步，四处移动 range from... to... 在…与…之间变化； 包括从…到…之间 range between... and... 在…与…之间变化 He found inspiration where others could not. in simple, everyday scenes such as a man buying oranges at the local grocery store, or a woman riding home on the graffiti-covered subway. grocery store 超级市场 graffiti-covered adj.涂鸦覆盖的 Translation 他能在一些简单的日常场景中得到其他人无法得到的灵感，比如一个在当地杂货店买橘子的男人，或是一个乘坐画满涂鸦的地铁回家的女人。 These things were real, and it was within their reality that Cunningham saw both beauty and potential. Through his fascination with what people were wearing, and not who they were, he opened the doors of fashion to everyone-fashion as he saw it belonged to the people, not just to high society and big brands. as he saw it 在他看来 belong to 属于；是...的成员 fashion n. (衣服、发式等的)流行款式，时兴式样； (行为、活动等的)时尚，时兴 be in fashion 正流行 come into fashion 流行，开始风行 be/go out of fashion 不流行的，过时的 fascination n. 着迷，迷恋 a fasciantion for/with 对...十分感兴趣，酷爱 be fascianted by 对...着迷，被...吸引 Through his fascination with what people were wearing, and not who they were, he opened the doors of fashion to everyone-fashion as he saw it belonged to the people, not just to high society and big brands. Translation 他用自己迷恋的对象一一关注人们穿什么，而不是这些人是谁一一向所有人打开了时尚的大门。在他看来，时尚属于民众，而不仅仅属于上流社会和大品牌。 Moreover, what made Cunningham great was his devotion to photography, and the hours and hours of sheer hard work ... ...
