时间:2019-01-03 作者:英语课 分类:VOA常速英语2013年(八月)


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Detroit Art Institute at Center of Bankruptcy 1 Debate 在破产边缘的底特律艺术学院



底特律—底特律艺术博物馆,又名DIA,拥有着价值连城的绘画、雕塑,以及来自世界各地的文物。



Inside its massive halls are more than 60,000 objects that make up one of the top collections of art in the United States.


Visitors to the Detroit Institute of Arts Museum can see up close the brush strokes of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Self Portrait” or William-Adolphe Bouguereau's “Nut Gatherers” which is so finely detailed 2 it looks more like a photograph than a painting.


It was the large wall murals of Detroit’s auto 3 industry, painted by Diego Rivera, that attracted Virginia-based airline pilot Terrence O’Toole.


“And I thought it was interesting to come in here and see the murals depicting 4 the cultural diversity of the plant,” O'Toole explained.


If you look closely as you walk the halls of the DIA, there are placards that describe each artifact on display.


Underneath 5 the title of many of the pieces are four important words - “City of Detroit Purchase.”


What sets the DIA apart from most major museums is that the city owns the DIA building and its collections.  


Even before Detroit’s emergency manager Kevyn Orr filed for bankruptcy protection, he inquired about the Institute’s inventory 6, setting the art world - and Detroit’s citizens - into a frenzy 7.


“It’s a slam against all the citizens of this city and a slam against the citizens of the whole area here," said bookseller John King, a lifelong Detroit resident who stayed in the city as its population dramatically declined.  He said the DIA is important to what is left of Detroit's spirit, and hopes creditors 8 don’t force the sale of its assets to pay the city’s debt.


“It’s sad they’re even talking about going after that asset," King said. "I, mean they have other assets they could go after, and they shouldn’t really be touching 9 the Detroit Institute of Arts.”


Finance professor Amiyatosh Purnanandan of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan says the total value of the DIA’s collection is far less than what Detroit owes its creditors.


“You’re looking at $18 billion of debt," Purnanandan said. "The Art museum will fetch you about $1 to $2 billion.  Even if you sell that, it’s not going to solve your problems.”


“To have to sell it piecemeal 10 would be sad," commented visitor O’Toole, adding that selling the collection could also undermine the very thing Detroit needs at the moment.


“It brings visitors, it brings cash flow to this community, which this city is in desperate need of some cash flow,” he noted 11


The non-profit group ArtServe Michigan says the state earned $2 billion in tourism money in 2011, based mostly on cultural institutions, like the Detroit Institute of Arts.  Not only would selling the DIA’s collection hurt tourism income, experts say such a sale would mean a large amount of rare and important artwork would flood the market, potentially undermining the city’s ability to get the best price possible for its holdings.  




n.破产;无偿付能力
  • You will have to pull in if you want to escape bankruptcy.如果你想避免破产,就必须节省开支。
  • His firm is just on thin ice of bankruptcy.他的商号正面临破产的危险。
adj.详细的,详尽的,极注意细节的,完全的
  • He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
  • A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。
n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车
  • Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
  • The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。
描绘,描画( depict的现在分词 ); 描述
  • a painting depicting the Virgin and Child 一幅描绘童贞马利亚和圣子耶稣的画
  • The movie depicting the battles and bloodshed is bound to strike home. 这部描写战斗和流血牺牲的影片一定会取得预期效果。
adj.在...下面,在...底下;adv.在下面
  • Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
  • She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣,里面套着一条连衣裙。
n.详细目录,存货清单
  • Some stores inventory their stock once a week.有些商店每周清点存货一次。
  • We will need to call on our supplier to get more inventory.我们必须请供应商送来更多存货。
n.疯狂,狂热,极度的激动
  • He was able to work the young students up into a frenzy.他能激起青年学生的狂热。
  • They were singing in a frenzy of joy.他们欣喜若狂地高声歌唱。
n.债权人,债主( creditor的名词复数 )
  • They agreed to repay their creditors over a period of three years. 他们同意3年内向债主还清欠款。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Creditors could obtain a writ for the arrest of their debtors. 债权人可以获得逮捕债务人的令状。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.动人的,使人感伤的
  • It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
  • His letter was touching.他的信很感人。
adj.零碎的;n.片,块;adv.逐渐地;v.弄成碎块
  • A lack of narrative drive leaves the reader with piecemeal vignettes.叙述缺乏吸引力,读者读到的只是一些支离破碎的片段。
  • Let's settle the matter at one stroke,not piecemeal.把这事一气儿解决了吧,别零敲碎打了。
adj.著名的,知名的
  • The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
  • Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
学英语单词
a cinch
Alpha Cr.
ameloblastic sarcoma
Arhynchodina
axle sleeve(axle bush)
Backus normal form
ball head insulator
basic information unit segment
breidhafj?rdhur (breidha fjord)
catalytic kinetic photometry
cedarane
chiquita banana
Clistogastra
coil insertion device
cross steam pipe
Customer-Premises Equipment
customs harbour
cytopharyngeal armature
de-asphalting
described below
doppelduro process
double-ended power transmitting tube
edge sb. on
electron bombardment melting
epididymal duct
estuarine species
exceptio beneficium ordinis seu excussionis
feed-drive
fetal tranfusion syndrome
fission product release rate
foreign loans
fringed loosestrifes
fully ventilated propeller
gaseous chlorine
hand trip switch
health care facilities
hemapophysis
hestina assimilis formosana
high-resolution detector
Hydrocharitales
hygienic chemistry
imf institute
increment interrupt
injection grease gun
inky-cap mushrooms
instantaneous storage
iris cell
konarite (connarite)
latinoamericanoes
lawned
leontideus rosalia
literary film
long-term audit plan
map publishing house
mathematical function programs
mechanical self starter
medullary osmotic pressure gradient
metacarple
moving magnet ammeter
muile
natural force
niggertoe
non-orientable topological manifold
noncompostable
Not so good!
nuclear Zeeman effect
optimal replacement algorithm
paperbarks
perendinating
poppen
port management
pratyahara
Predictive Model Markup Language
prejudgement
pseudorandomizes
Qomolangma Mount
radio-beacon facilities
rain praises on sb
raking in
Ricse
sacrospinal muscle
Scripps, Edward Wyllis
shoved over
snow carrying waterway
sobhuza
spin quantum number
spring stiffness
sufflamen fraenatus
super-agent
superficial treatment of timber
symbiopsychotaxiplasm
syndrome of lingering heat
syphilopsychosis
tefloncompensator
transparent material
tulkus
undecrypted
under the radar
VDRT
venerably
wheat stem rust
woman-to-woman