【英译汉必译题】Strolling beside Amsterdam’s oldest ca
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【英译汉必译题】
Strolling beside Amsterdam’s oldest canals, where buildings carry dates like 1541 and 1603, it is easy to imagine the city’s prosperity in the 17th century. Replace today’s bicycles and cars with horse-drawn carts, add more barges on the waterways, and this is essentially how Amsterdam must have looked to Rembrandt as he did his rounds of wealthy merchants.
Such musings are not, of course, unprompted. This year, Amsterdam is celebrating the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth, and it is hard to escape his shadow. His birthplace in Leiden, 20 miles south, has naturally organized its own festivities. But Amsterdam has two advantages: it boasts the world’s largest Rembrandt collection — and tourists like to come here anyway.
True, anniversaries can be pretty corny, but what city resists them? This year, Amsterdam is competing with Salzburg, where Mozart was born 250 years ago, and Aix-en-Provence, where Cézanne died a century ago. A sign in Amsterdam’s tourist office by the Central Station hints at one motive for such occasions: “Buy your Rembrandt products here.”
Still, if you start off by liking Rembrandt, as I do, there is much to discover. For instance, when in Amsterdam I always make a point of paying homage to the Rembrandt masterpieces in the Rijksmuseum, yet until now I had never bothered to visit Rembrandt House, where the painter lived from 1639 until driven out by bankruptcy in 1658. In brief, I had never much connected his art to his person.
Now, at least, I have made a stab at doing so because, for this anniversary (he was born on July 15, 1606), Amsterdam has organized a host of events that offer insights into Rembrandt’s world. They highlight not only what is known about his life, but also the people he painted and the city he lived in from the age of 25 until his death at 63 in 1669.
Although the Rijksmuseum is undergoing a massive renovation through 2009, the museum is not snubbing its favorite son. Throughout the year, in part of the building to be renovated last, it is presenting some 400 paintings and other 17th-century objects representing the Golden Age in which Rembrandt prospered. These include works by Jan Steen, Vermeer and Frans Hals as well as by Rembrandt and his pupils. And they climax with Rembrandt’s largest and best known oil, “The Night Watch,” itself the focus of “Nightwatching,” a light and sound installation by the British movie director and Amsterdam resident, Peter Greenaway.请帮忙给出正确答案和分析,谢谢!
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漫步在阿姆斯特丹最为古老的运河旁,沿岸的楼房可以追溯到1541年和1603年,这使人很容易联想到这座城市在17世纪时有多么繁华。把今天的自行车和汽车换成马车,在水中多加些驳船,这应该就是伦勃朗在给富商作画时眼中的阿姆斯特丹了。当然,这些想法不是凭空产生的。今年,阿姆斯特丹要庆祝伦勃朗诞辰400周年,城市里到处都有他的身影。在阿姆斯特丹南部20英里远的莱顿市是伦勃朗的出生地,那里自然也组织了自己的庆祝活动。不过阿姆斯特丹有2个优势:自诩拥有世界上最多的伦勃朗收藏品——而且游客也喜欢来这里。周年庆典确实相当老土,不过各个城市不都这么做吗?今年,阿姆斯特丹要与莫扎特250年前的诞生地——萨尔茨保和塞尚100年前的去世之地——埃克斯昂普罗旺斯竞争。阿姆斯特丹中央车站旁的旅游办公室里有个牌子,暗示出举行庆典活动的一个动机:在这里买伦勃朗的纪念品。不过,如果你像我一样也是刚刚喜欢上伦勃朗,这里有很多东西等待你去发现。例如在阿姆斯特丹,我总说要去国立博物馆瞻仰一下伦勃朗的大作。不过直到现在,我都没拜访过伦勃朗的住所,这位画家从1639年便住在那里,直到1658年因破产被赶了出来。简言之,我基本上不把他的作品和他本人联系起来。至少我现在尽力不这么想,因为为了这次周年庆典(伦勃朗于1606年7月15日出生),阿姆斯特丹已经举办了大量的活动帮助人们探究伦勃朗的世界。这些活动不仅关注他的生活,同时还关注他画中的人物和他居住的城市。伦勃朗25岁起便在此居住,直到1669年63岁的他去世。
尽管国立博物馆2009年全年都要进行大规模整修,但它仍不冷落自己的宠儿。这一年在博物馆最后整修的展馆里,有一部分将用来展示伦勃朗所作的400多幅画作和其它17世纪时的作品。这些作品代表了伦勃朗成功时的黄金时代,其中包括珍·斯汀,维米尔,弗朗斯·哈尔斯以及伦勃朗和他学生的画作,而扛鼎之作则是伦勃朗最大也是最著名的油画“夜巡者”。这幅画将重点放在夜巡上,其中的灯光和音响则是由英国电影导演,同时也是阿姆斯特丹居民的皮特·格里纳韦安装。