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课件网) XB1U3Reading First impressions 第一印象 As a huge art fan, I knew exactly what I was looking forward to most about my trip to Paris: visiting the Musée d’Orsay. Housed in an old railway building, this world-famous art museum features some of the best-known paintings from the Impressionist movement of the 19th century. 作为一个狂热的艺术迷，我非常清楚自己此次巴黎之旅最期待的是什么——— 参观奥赛博物馆。这家世界闻名的艺术博物馆设在一座古老的铁路建筑里，以19世纪印象派运动时期一些最著名的画作为特色。 vt.收藏,安置 期待 vt.以…为特色 n.运动 As I wandered through the Impressionist gallery, I appreciated masterpieces like The Ballet Class and The Card Players. Even though I had admired them hundreds of times on my computer screen, nothing could have prepared me for the wonder I felt when I finally laid eyes on the real thing. 漫步于印象派展馆，我欣赏着像《舞蹈课》和《玩纸牌者》这样的杰作。尽管我在电脑屏幕上已经欣赏过数百次，但当我终于亲眼见到实物时，还是觉得猝不及防，惊叹不已。 vt.欣赏 n.展览馆,画廊 数百次 使某人为某事做好准备 看见 vi.漫步 While it was hard to pick a favourite painting out of so many amazing works, the artists who made the deepest impression on me were two of the greatest Impressionist painters, Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. 虽然从这么多令人称奇的作品中很难选出一幅最喜欢的，但两位伟大的印象派画家给我留下了最深的印象———克劳德·莫奈和皮埃———奥古斯特·雷诺阿。 给某人留下最深刻的印象 I could see from Monet’s works that he was greatly inspired by nature. In the last three decades of his life he painted mostly scenes from his garden. One of these scenes is shown in the famous piece Blue Water Lilies, which I studied for quite a while in the gallery. 从莫奈的作品中，我可以看出他深受大自然的启发。在他生命的最后三十年里，他画的大多是自家花园里的风景，其中一处风景就展现在他著名的《蓝睡莲》里，我在展馆里端详了好一阵子。 n.十年 深受…的启发 adv.主要地 vt.端详,仔细看 相当长一段时间 I couldn’t believe it when I heard he did around 250 paintings of the same water lily pond, all in different colours and styles. It is amazing that every time Monet studied this simple scene, he brought the pond’s beauty to the canvas in a unique way. 当听说同一个睡莲池他画了大约 250 幅画，每一幅颜色和风格都各异时，我简直难以置信。令人赞叹的是，莫奈每次端详睡莲池这处简单的风景，都以独特的方式让它的美跃然于画布之上。 n.画布 n.池塘 vt.端详,仔细看 用独特的方式 Renoir, I noticed, preferred to paint scenes of everyday life. For me, the most interesting of his paintings is his 1876 masterpiece Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, which shows life in a busy neighbourhood of Paris on a Sunday afternoon. 我注意到，雷诺阿更喜欢描绘日常生活场景。在我看来，他最有趣的画作是他 1876 年的杰作《煎饼磨坊的舞会》，这幅画展现了某个周日下午巴黎一处热闹街区的生活。 n.街区 更喜欢 When I saw it up close, I was struck by the small areas of light across the painting, and the way the soft edges of the figures seemed t ... ...
