VOA慢速英语，作为国际英语学习者的重要资源，通过清晰缓慢的发音与简洁的词汇，为初学者及中等水平学习者搭建了通往流利英语的桥梁。它不仅帮助提升听力理解能力，还丰富了词汇量，增强了语感，是学习地道英语表达不可或缺的工具，对全球英语学习者的语言提升至关重要。让我们一起进入今天的VOA慢速英语听力训练：词汇故事airbrush。

英文原文

Today, we talk about the pursuit of perfection, or at least the things we do to try and make things seem perfect. If you paint something with a brush, it often leaves brush marks. When you paint with a roller, you might still have lines left behind by the roller. Some consider this a flaw, something bad that you don't want in the paint job. So, people came up with a process to cover things up with a perfect layer of paint called airbrush.

今天，我们来谈谈对完美的追求，或者至少是我们为了让事物看起来完美所做的努力。如果你用刷子画画，往往会留下刷痕。如果你用滚筒刷，也可能会留下滚筒的痕迹。有些人认为这是瑕疵，是你在绘画工作中不希望看到的。因此，人们发明了一种方法，用一层完美的涂料来遮盖瑕疵，这种涂料被称为喷枪。

The Airbrush Museum says in 1876, Fe Stanley created a device that could spray watercolor and ink. Three years later, Abner Peeler came up with a paint distributor that was later sold as an airbrush. However, this may have not been the first attempt at airbrushing. Some archaeologists claim that early cave people, Neanderthals, used the process to airbrush some of their paintings by blowing paints through hollow bones.

喷枪博物馆表示，1876年，费·斯坦利发明了一种可以喷涂水彩和墨水的设备。三年后，艾布纳·皮勒想出了一种喷油漆的设备，即之后出售的“喷枪”。然而，这可能并不是粉饰的首次尝试。一些考古学家声称，早期的洞穴人，即尼安德特人，通过向中空的骨头吹颜料来修饰他们的一些画。

Back in the modern day, we also use airbrush as a verb to describe painting or changing something to cover imperfections with or as if with an airbrush. For example, let's say some vandals painted offensive words on the side of your house. If you do not want to see the words ever again, you airbrush over the words to cover them completely. Here is another example. If you apply beauty products or makeup on your face, you can airbrush just about any mark on your skin.

在现代，我们还用airbrush作为动词来描述通过喷枪或类似喷枪的方式绘画或改变某物来遮盖瑕疵。例如，假设有些破坏者在你家的墙上喷了侮辱性的话。如果你再也不想看到这些话，你可以用喷枪的方式把它们完全遮盖住。再举一个例子，如果你在脸上使用美容产品或化妆，你就是在遮盖你皮肤上的斑痕。

In some publications, workers often use software called Photoshop to change an image. They could use it to airbrush all the flaws in an image or even remove pieces of the image completely. The term Photoshop has since taken on the same meaning as airbrush.

在一些出版物中，工作人员经常使用一种名为Photoshop的软件来改变图像。他们可以用它来遮盖图像中的所有瑕疵，甚至可以完全删除图像的一部分。从那时起，“Photoshop”一词就具有了与“airbrush”相同的含义。

There is another way we use the term airbrush. If someone is accused of airbrushing history, they are being accused of changing something bad in the past as if it did not happen. Now, let's hear these two friends use the term airbrush. "Hey, let's meet for coffee tomorrow." "Sure, how about Halves, that new coffee shop down the street? I hear the coffee is really good." "Um, let's go somewhere else. I don't like the owner." "Why? What's wrong with Hal?" "Don't you remember? He ran for office two years ago, and during the campaign, some really bad stuff came out about him." "Really? I don't remember that." "That's because he airbrushed it all from history, removed, gone. It's like it all never happened." "Well, people cover up bad things from their past all the time. Besides, he makes really good coffee. I will find another coffee shop."

我们还用“airbrush”这个词来表示另一种含义。如果有人被指责“篡改历史”，那就意味着他们被指责篡改了过去的坏事，好像这件事从未发生过。现在，让我们听听这两个朋友是如何使用“airbrush”这个词的。“嘿，明天一起去喝咖啡吧。”“好啊，去那家新开的咖啡店‘Halves’怎么样？我听说他们的咖啡很不错。”“嗯，我们还是去别的地方吧。我不喜欢那个老板。”“为什么？Hal有什么问题吗？”“你不记得了吗？他两年前竞选公职时，竞选期间曝出了很多他的丑闻。”“真的吗？我不记得了。”“那是因为他把所有丑闻都从历史上抹去了，删除了，消失了。就好像这一切从未发生过。”“好吧，人们总是会掩饰自己过去的坏事。而且，他做的咖啡真的很好喝。我会找另一家咖啡店的。”

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