時代經(jīng)典用詞人文篇音樂　藝術(shù)

Music & Art
音樂　藝術(shù)
Art Nouveau
新藝術(shù)
His sinuous and elastic line took part of its character from Art Nouveau calligraphy,
他的有力、有彈性的線條部分特色是來自于新藝術(shù)的書法藝術(shù)，
the pervasive civic style of Barcelona in his boyhood.
那是他小時候在巴塞羅那流行的民間書寫風(fēng)格。
Influenced by the supple lines and Asian touches of the art nouveau movement, he did better with fabric and furniture.
他受到新藝術(shù)運動有力的線條與亞洲風(fēng)味的影響，對布料與家具方面比較有心得。
Bauhaus
包豪斯
Led by Jean Clair, the director of the Musee Picasso in Paris, six curators have set out to raise and question the ghosts of the queen cities of Modernism:
Paris, Berlin and New York-with detours to London, Weimar (for the Bauhaus),
Cologne (for Dada) and Moscow (for Constructivism) - in the decade between the end of world War I and the arrival of the 1929 Depression.
caricature
諷刺畫，扭曲
Years later I was told that he had drawn a caricature of Stalin. But it wasn't this that caused his arrest.
多年后我聽說他畫了一張斯大林的諷刺畫，但他被捕倒不是因為這個。
Two years after the American invasion of Panama, that nation is once again a corrupt parody of democracy.
美國侵略巴拿馬事件的兩年之后，那個國家又回復(fù)到腐敗的狀況，是民主的一大諷刺。
diva
首席女主角
Less fancifully, she's Rachel Marron (Whitney Houston, playing what she is, a pop diva cossing over to the movies,
平實一點來說，她演的是Ｒａｃｈｅｌ　Ｍａｒｒｏｎ一角（也就是惠特妮•休斯頓演自己的角色：一位首席熱門女歌手越界演起電影，
though it's unlikely that she will be up for an Oscar the first time out, as is the fictional Rachel.
雖然她這頭一次演出不大可能獲得奧斯卡獎，像戲里的Ｒａｃｈｅｌ那么順利。
gospel music
福音音樂
Cuban-born singer Jon Secada, who co-wrote several of Estefan's best-selling songs,
古巴出生的歌手Ｊｏｎ?。樱澹悖幔洌岷停牛螅簦澹妫幔詈蠈懥藥资缀笳咦顣充N的歌曲，
has since recorded his own hits, which combine elements of Cuban music , Top 40 and gospel.
后來自己也灌了暢銷曲，里面合并了古巴音樂，排行榜，以及福音音樂的元素。
Braxton, 25, seems destined for pop diva-dom. Ironic, given that Braxton, the daughter of a fundamentalist minister,
Ｂｒａｘｔｏｎ現(xiàn)年２５歲，似乎注定要成為熱門音樂女王。這有點諷刺，因為她是基本教義派牧師之女，
was only permitted to listen to gospel music growing up.
從小只準聽福音音樂。
groupie
迷，盲目追隨者
Alternative has no strict definition, but is has a feel. Its musicians reject show-biz glitz.
沒有嚴格的定義，可是有它特殊的感覺。它的樂和排斥演藝界的浮華。
They support progessive social causes. Many of them avoid dating groupies and models.
他們支持改進社會的目標，許多人也避免和樂迷與模特兒約會。
By trial's end, all the contentious testimony may be reduced to a new twist on age - old gender imperatives.
審判結(jié)束時，雙方針鋒相對的證詞可能只剩下古老的性別原則的一種新的變奏。
Either:a star thinks he can take anything he wants.
或者是大明星自認為可以予取予求，
Or:inside every good girl beats a groupie's concupiscent heart.
或者是在每個良家少女的心中潛伏著崇拜者獻身給偶像的欲望。
Minimalism
簡單主義
The mix of witless conceptualism, pseudo documentary and weakly recycled minimalism is stifling.
呆滯的觀念主義、虛假的紀實，以及稍微加工的簡單主義，這些東西混在一起令人窒息。
Motown
汽車城音樂
Her father was a jazz guitarist, and she remembers Motown, Bob Dylan and classical music being played around the house.
她父親是爵士吉他手，她記得從前家里一直播放著汽車城音樂，鮑勃•狄倫以及古典音樂