节目资讯
刊物:旅游精选
日期:2010-03-22
难易度:High
关键字:set foot in, sobering, riveting, chronologically,
Welcome back from the break.
Yes, the Netherlands has more to offer than art, tulips and cheese.
Right now, we’re focusing on that great Dutch city Amsterdam, which is full of
history both old and modern.
One of Amsterdam’s historical sites became famous after the Second World War.
It’s the Anne Frank House.
And there are few places in the world like it.
Admittedly, it’s a little depressing, but it’s also inspiring.
It’s a place of sadness, but also a place of hope.
Let’s return there now as we pick up the reading on line 6.
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Enjoying the Netherlands.
Walk through tiny rooms, and continue up steep, narrow staircases as you imagine
living in hiding in the house.
The riveting displays capture the horrors of being Jewish in Europe before and
during World War II.
The Van Gogh Museum houses the largest collection of the master artist’s works.
They are displayed chronologically, so people can see the changes in his
techniques and color choices.
In the Rijksmuseum, discover the Masterpieces collection with works by Dutch
masters as well as furniture, pottery and statues.
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Welcome back.
We are here talking about the different things that you can see in Amsterdam,
and one of those is the Anne Frank House.
And it’s a sobering situation because of who Anne Frank was.
She lost her life during World War II after her family had hidden for a couple
of years.
And they found her diary after she died and after World War II was over.
So while you’re there, you can go visit the house that they hid in.
And Chip, while you’re in this house, what are some different things you can do?
OK, well in this sobering house, you can walk through tiny rooms, and continue
up steep, narrow staircases as you imagine living in hiding in the house.
And, uh, ”living in hiding” is another way to say hiding in the place that
you’re living.
And so she was living in hiding, and these reveting displays capture the horrors
of being Jewish in Europe during World War II.
And if...
If this is riveting, Chelsea, what... what does that mean?
Well, that means that it’s very, very interesting.
So you would learn a lot here, and maybe even start to feel what they felt, uh,
while they were living in hiding.
It was very scary.
They were trying not to be captured.
So, it is very riveting, and that... it would maybe, uh, just make you feel very
emotional about what they had to go through.
But that’s not all you can see in Amsterdam.
You can also visit the Van Gogh Museum.
And of course, you probably heard of Vincent van Gogh, a very, very famous
artist.
And his museum houses the largest collection of the master artist’s work.
And his works are displayed in chronological order.
Or, another way to say that is that they are displayed chronologically, which is
talking about the order that they are displayed.
So, uh, if something is happening chronologically, that means it’s happening in
the same order as it happened in real time or in history.
So it sounds a little bit like at the beginning of the museum, near the front
entrance, uh, are probably, uh, Van Gogh’s earlier works of art.
And then as you progress deeper into the museum, you will see his later works of
art.
And the reason they display them chronologically is so that people can see the
changes in his techniques and color choices.
Of course, over the years as an artist, a lot of times you change the way you do
things, and you improve, you get better and better.
So you can see how he changed over the years.
So the Van Gogh Museum would be another very interesting place to visit.
But there’s still one museum we would like to tell you about.
It’s called the Rijksmuseum.
And there you can discover the Masterpieces collection.
And the Masterpieces collection has works by Dutch masters, as well as
furniture, pottery, and even statues.
OK. And if these are masterpieces, then that means that these are some of the
best works of art that these artists have produced.
So, furniture, pottery and statues... uh, this sounds like an exciting place to
go.
It sounds very, very exciting.
There’s so much to do and to see.
You know, I think if I went here, I would definitely go to the Anne Frank House
first.
I think it would be a... uh, almost a hard situation because you realize how
serious it was when they are in hiding.
But it would be very interesting to learn about as well.
And I would definitely want to hit these other places too.
Well, Chelsea, I, too, would definitely want to visit the Anne Frank House, or
the Anne Frank Huis.
And I think I would also want to see some of Van Gogh’s work in... in his museum
because I really like the idea of seeing how an artist progresses,
and how an artist’s skills and techniques developed over time.
Yes, and he’s a very famous artists; a good one to study and to see maybe how he
progressed over the years.
Now, you know, Chip, my sister actually lived in Amsterdam for a while, and she
talked about a lot of these places that she was able to visit.
I remember her talking about the windmills, though.
These are structures that we don’t see very often in the West or even in Asia,
but in the Netherlands they are very, very famous and all over the place.
And she thought these were very neat structures, and they really, uh, give a
certain personality to the Netherlands.
And I think... along with the tulips, I think these windmills would make the
Netherlands just a beautiful vacation spot; a beautiful place to... to visit.
Maybe you can hear the Netherlands beckoning you.
Well, before we go today and before we come back tomorrow, let’s watch a video.
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And it’s time for us to say goodbye.
I’ll see you next time.
Bye-bye.
Thank you, Michelle.
OK, today we got a small taste of how the Netherlands can excite and please
people with art.
Two of the world’s most famous artists were born in the Netherlands.
Vincent van Gogh, creator of the ”Starry Night” masterpiece, we just mentioned.
And tomorrow we’ll touch on another equally famous son of the lowlands,
Rembrandt van Rijn.
Now before I go, I want remind you all of some helpful STUDY TIPS listed on page
3.
If you want to get the most out of this program and your Studio Classroom
magazine - and I know you do - check it out.
Day two of Enjoying the Netherlands starts tomorrow.
Friends, we’ll see you then.
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