VOA标准英语2010年-Venezuelan Muralists, Cartoonist, Pain
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(八)月
Government-sponsored political imagery abounds 1 in the Venezuelan capital, where President Hugo Chavez constantly seeks to link his socialist 2 program to ideals espoused 3 by liberators, revolutionaries, and leftist icons 4 from South America and beyond. The omnipresent messaging on walls and billboards 5 - meant to inspire ideological 6 fervor 7, political loyalty 8, and reverence 9 - stands in sharp contrast to the work of humorists who poke 10 fun at Mr. Chavez.
Walk the streets of Caracas, and you will find yourself under the watchful 11 gaze of South American revolutionary hero Simon Bolivar, Argentine-born communist Ernesto "Che" Guevara, and, of course, Venezuela's own Hugo Chavez.
Marketing 12 the president's leftist ideals takes many forms and relies on numerous actors, including bands of muralists contracted by the government. Meet 22 year-old Nelson:
"Art serves to communicate, to deliver a message," he said. "I love painting and using color to get people's attention, to help them understand the message."
Overseeing the project is David Tarazona, who rejects any suggestion that he is a Chavez propaganda tool.
"We do not want a country full of Chavez-followers," said David Tarazona. "We want a country full of socialists 13."
Tarazona admits the seeming contradiction of his group's independent contracting work - a capitalist construct - in support of a socialist government.
What do the murals accomplish? Political analyst 14 Luis Vicente Leon says the evocative visual messages breathe emotional life into the relationship President Chavez maintains with his backers.
"He is applauded because he distributes oil wealth, because he spends money," said Luis Vicente Leon. "There comes a point where that model is unmanageable even if you have all the money in the world, when votes can no longer be bought. And so Chavez has to find a new connection with the people, one based on emotion and ideology 15. He needs people to say, 'I don't care if I am hungry, I stand with Chavez!'"
If muralists seek to inflate 16 the president's persona and ideals, Eduardo Sanabria wields 17 a pen to deflate them. The political cartoonist for Caracas' "El Mundo" newspaper delights in poking 18 fun.
"Humor has to question power. It absolutely does,"said Eduardo Sanabria. "We are living in tense times. We are very polarized. And humorists are tasked with alleviating 19 that tension, opening people's eyes and making them think. But also making them laugh."
And does President Chaves have a sense of humor?
"Few people acknowledge it, but Chavez is very much like most Venezuelans," said Sanabria. "Chavez is the typical Venezuelan jokester, and that is one of the reasons people identify with him."
By conveying his thoughts through cartoons rather than verbalizing direct critiques of the president, Sanabria has yet to be a target of government wrath 20. Even so …
"Humor reveals the seams in the fabric 21 of power," he said. "Rulers do not like it."
Across town, muralists put the finishing touches on their work.
"It is fantastic. I am content, truly," said Nelson.
The message: Venezuela will never be a colony of any nation or force.
"Venezuela who does it belong to? Us or somebody else? It belongs to us," he said.
In politically-polarized Venezuela, two forms of communication with diametrically-opposed goals but the same primary subject matter: President Chavez and his socialist revolution.
- The place abounds with fruit, especially pears and peaches. 此地盛产水果，尤以梨桃著称。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- This country abounds with fruit. 这个国家盛产水果。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- China is a socialist country,and a developing country as well.中国是一个社会主义国家，也是一个发展中国家。
- His father was an ardent socialist.他父亲是一个热情的社会主义者。
- They espoused the notion of equal opportunity for all in education. 他们赞同在教育方面人人机会均等的观念。
- The ideas she espoused were incomprehensible to me. 她所支持的意见令我难以理解。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Distinguish important text items in lists with graphic icons. 用图标来区分重要的文本项。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
- Daemonic icons should only be employed persistently if they provide continuous, useful status information. 只有会连续地提供有用状态信息的情况下，后台应用程序才应该一直使用图标。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
- Large billboards have disfigured the scenery. 大型告示板已破坏了景色。 来自辞典例句
- Then, put the logo in magazines and on billboards without telling anyone what it means. 接着我们把这个商标刊在杂志和广告看板上，却不跟任何人透漏它的涵意。 来自常春藤生活英语杂志-2006年4月号
- He always tries to link his study with his ideological problems. 他总是把学习和自己的思想问题联系起来。
- He helped me enormously with advice on how to do ideological work. 他告诉我怎样做思想工作，对我有很大帮助。
- They were concerned only with their own religious fervor.他们只关心自己的宗教热诚。
- The speech aroused nationalist fervor.这个演讲喚起了民族主义热情。
- She told him the truth from a sense of loyalty.她告诉他真相是出于忠诚。
- His loyalty to his friends was never in doubt.他对朋友的一片忠心从来没受到怀疑。
- He was a bishop who was held in reverence by all.他是一位被大家都尊敬的主教。
- We reverence tradition but will not be fettered by it.我们尊重传统，但不被传统所束缚。
- We never thought she would poke her nose into this.想不到她会插上一手。
- Don't poke fun at me.别拿我凑趣儿。
- The children played under the watchful eye of their father.孩子们在父亲的小心照看下玩耍。
- It is important that health organizations remain watchful.卫生组织保持警惕是极为重要的。
- They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
- He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。
- The socialists saw themselves as true heirs of the Enlightenment. 社会主义者认为自己是启蒙运动的真正继承者。
- The Socialists junked dogma when they came to office in 1982. 社会党人1982年上台执政后，就把其政治信条弃之不顾。
- What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
- The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。
- The ideology has great influence in the world.这种思想体系在世界上有很大的影响。
- The ideal is to strike a medium between ideology and inspiration.我的理想是在意识思想和灵感鼓动之间找到一个折衷。
- The buyers bid against each other and often inflate the prices they pay.买主们竞相投标，往往人为地提高价钱。
- Stuart jumped into the sea and inflated the liferaft.斯图尔特跳到海里给救生艇充气。
- She wields enormous power within the party. 她操纵着党内大权。
- He remains chairman, but wields little power at the company. 他还是主席，但在公司没有什么实权了。
- If it's alleviating pain,who knows what else it's doing? 如果它减轻了疼痛，天知道还影响什么？
- Measuring poverty is not the same as alleviating it, of course. 当然，衡量贫困和减轻贫困是截然不同的。
- His silence marked his wrath. 他的沉默表明了他的愤怒。
- The wrath of the people is now aroused. 人们被激怒了。