VOA标准英语2010年-Rare Dance Showcases Indigenous Art Fe
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(十)月
A rare performance by renowned 1 Aboriginal 2 dancers marked the start of one of Australia's most important festivals of indigenous 3 art. The unique dance of the Gurrir Gurrir people depicts 4 events associated with a devastating 5 tropical cyclone 6 in 1974. The catastrophic event helped create one of Australia's most highly regarded indigenous art movements.
The ceremony performed by the Gurrir Gurrir people remembers events surrounding Cyclone Tracy, which devastated 7 Darwin in northern Australia. Aborigines saw the 1974 disaster as a warning from ancient spirits that their culture must not be allowed to wither 8 and die in the face of European colonization 9.
The spirits were said to have imparted new songs and dances aimed at maintaining the diversity of indigenous culture and the Warmun artistic 10 tradition was born.
It is based in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, home of the Gurrir Gurrir. Its artists are renowned for their use of natural ochre and pigments 11 on canvas.
For the first time, Warmun rituals have been performed in eastern Australia, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The gallery over the next few days is hosting special events to showcase Aboriginal traditions.
Hetty Perkins, a senior curator at the gallery, says the benefits of the Warmum art tradition have been immense.
"You know, we suffer from some of the worst health statistics, for instance, in any developed nation in the world and art is for many of our people the only form of income that's possible, particularly in remote area communities," said Perkins. "It is really the only form - aside from welfare - that is coming into those communities, so it is absolutely a vital part of community life. But more than that, it is vital to the spiritual sustenance 12 and well-being 13 of our people."
More than 200 years after European colonization began, Aborigines make up less than 2 percent of Australia's population, but suffer disproportionately high rates of ill-health, unemployment and imprisonment 14.
Most Aborigines live in urban areas, where the effects of drugs and alcohol have devastated families and communities.
The government has spent millions of dollars addressing the chronic 15 problems, yet still indigenous communities languish 16 at the bottom of society. Although for some art has reignited cultural pride and provided economic independence.
- He is one of the world's renowned writers.他是世界上知名的作家之一。
- She is renowned for her advocacy of human rights.她以提倡人权而闻名。
- They managed to wipe out the entire aboriginal population.他们终于把那些土著人全部消灭了。
- The lndians are the aboriginal Americans.印第安人是美国的土著人。
- Each country has its own indigenous cultural tradition.每个国家都有自己本土的文化传统。
- Indians were the indigenous inhabitants of America.印第安人是美洲的土著居民。
- The book vividly depicts French society of the 1930s. 这本书生动地描绘了20 世纪30 年代的法国社会。
- He depicts the sordid and vulgar sides of life exclusively. 他只描写人生肮脏和庸俗的一面。
- It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
- Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。
- An exceptionally violent cyclone hit the town last night.昨晚异常猛烈的旋风吹袭了那个小镇。
- The cyclone brought misery to thousands of people.旋风给成千上万的人带来苦难。
- The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
- His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。
- She grows as a flower does-she will wither without sun.她象鲜花一样成长--没有太阳就会凋谢。
- In autumn the leaves wither and fall off the trees.秋天，树叶枯萎并从树上落下来。
- Colonization took place during the Habsburg dynasty. 开拓殖民地在哈布斯堡王朝就进行过。
- These countries took part in the colonization of Africa. 这些国家参与非洲殖民地的开发。
- The picture on this screen is a good artistic work.这屏风上的画是件很好的艺术品。
- These artistic handicrafts are very popular with foreign friends.外国朋友很喜欢这些美术工艺品。
- The Romans used natural pigments on their fabrics and walls. 古罗马人在织物和墙壁上使用天然颜料。 来自辞典例句
- The original white lead pigments have oxidized and turned black. 最初的白色铅质颜料氧化后变成了黑色。 来自辞典例句
- We derive our sustenance from the land.我们从土地获取食物。
- The urban homeless are often in desperate need of sustenance.城市里无家可归的人极其需要食物来维持生命。
- He always has the well-being of the masses at heart.他总是把群众的疾苦挂在心上。
- My concern for their well-being was misunderstood as interference.我关心他们的幸福，却被误解为多管闲事。
- His sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.他的判决由死刑减为无期徒刑。
- He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for committing bigamy.他因为犯重婚罪被判入狱一年。
- Famine differs from chronic malnutrition.饥荒不同于慢性营养不良。
- Chronic poisoning may lead to death from inanition.慢性中毒也可能由虚弱导致死亡。