Music & Art
音乐　艺术
Art Nouveau
新艺术
His sinuous and elastic line took part of its character from Art Nouveau calligraphy,
他的有力、有弹性的线条部分特色是来自于新艺术的书法艺术，
the pervasive civic style of Barcelona in his boyhood.
那是他小时候在巴塞罗那流行的民间书写风格。
Influenced by the supple lines and Asian touches of the art nouveau movement, he did better with fabric and furniture.
他受到新艺术运动有力的线条与亚洲风味的影响，对布料与家具方面比较有心得。
Bauhaus
包豪斯
Led by Jean Clair, the director of the Musee Picasso in Paris, six curators have set out to raise and question the ghosts of the queen cities of Modernism:
Paris, Berlin and New York-with detours to London, Weimar (for the Bauhaus),
Cologne (for Dada) and Moscow (for Constructivism) - in the decade between the end of world War I and the arrival of the 1929 Depression.
caricature
讽刺画，扭曲
Years later I was told that he had drawn a caricature of Stalin. But it wasn't this that caused his arrest.
多年后我听说他画了一张斯大林的讽刺画，但他被捕倒不是因为这个。
Two years after the American invasion of Panama, that nation is once again a corrupt parody of democracy.
美国侵略巴拿马事件的两年之后，那个国家又回复到腐败的状况，是民主的一大讽刺。
diva
首席女主角
Less fancifully, she's Rachel Marron (Whitney Houston, playing what she is, a pop diva cossing over to the movies,
平实一点来说，她演的是Ｒａｃｈｅｌ　Ｍａｒｒｏｎ一角（也就是惠特妮•休斯顿演自己的角色：一位首席热门女歌手越界演起电影，
though it's unlikely that she will be up for an Oscar the first time out, as is the fictional Rachel.
虽然她这头一次演出不大可能获得奥斯卡奖，像戏里的Ｒａｃｈｅｌ那么顺利。
gospel music
福音音乐
Cuban-born singer Jon Secada, who co-wrote several of Estefan's best-selling songs,
古巴出生的歌手Ｊｏｎ　Ｓｅｃａｄａ和Ｅｓｔｅｆａｎ合写了几首后者最畅销的歌曲，
has since recorded his own hits, which combine elements of Cuban music , Top 40 and gospel.
后来自己也灌了畅销曲，里面合并了古巴音乐，排行榜，以及福音音乐的元素。
Braxton, 25, seems destined for pop diva-dom. Ironic, given that Braxton, the daughter of a fundamentalist minister,
Ｂｒａｘｔｏｎ现年２５岁，似乎注定要成为热门音乐女王。这有点讽刺，因为她是基本教义派牧师之女，
was only permitted to listen to gospel music growing up.
从小只准听福音音乐。
groupie
迷，盲目追随者
Alternative has no strict definition, but is has a feel. Its musicians reject show-biz glitz.
没有严格的定义，可是有它特殊的感觉。它的乐和排斥演艺界的浮华。
They support progessive social causes. Many of them avoid dating groupies and models.
他们支持改进社会的目标，许多人也避免和乐迷与模特儿约会。
By trial's end, all the contentious testimony may be reduced to a new twist on age - old gender imperatives.
审判结束时，双方针锋相对的证词可能只剩下古老的性别原则的一种新的变奏。
Either:a star thinks he can take anything he wants.
或者是大明星自认为可以予取予求，
Or:inside every good girl beats a groupie's concupiscent heart.
或者是在每个良家少女的心中潜伏着崇拜者献身给偶像的欲望。
Minimalism
简单主义
The mix of witless conceptualism, pseudo documentary and weakly recycled minimalism is stifling.
呆滞的观念主义、虚假的纪实，以及稍微加工的简单主义，这些东西混在一起令人窒息。
Motown
汽车城音乐
Her father was a jazz guitarist, and she remembers Motown, Bob Dylan and classical music being played around the house.
她父亲是爵士吉他手，她记得从前家里一直播放着汽车城音乐，鲍勃•狄伦以及古典音乐 

New Age
新世纪
Deep Forest was conceived by Michel Sanchez and Eric Mouquet, two French musicians who blended New Age electronics with UNESCO field recordings of music from Zaire,
《深林》是桑切斯和穆凯两位法国音乐家构想出来的，他们调合了新世纪电子音乐与联合国教科文组织的田野录音，录自扎伊尔、
the Solomon Islands, Burundi, Tibesti and the Sahel.
所罗门群岛、布隆迪、提贝斯提以及非洲撒哈尔草原地区的音乐。
The talk used to be confined to new-age booktores,
这方面的话题从前只出现在新世纪书店、
healthfood shops and holistic magazines pinted on whole-grain paper.
健康食品店与整体医疗杂志（用“天然”纸张印的），
But alternative medicine has now gone slickly mainstream...
可是“另类医疗”这个话题现在已很风光地成为主流。
postmodern
后现代
Last New Year's Day, Boston's Sheriff Robert Rufo gave 935 hardened criminals a present:
今年元旦，波士顿警长鲁福送给９３５名惯犯一个礼物：
a postmodern pink concrete-and-brick high-rise home-a new designer, prison, with a colonnaded inner courtyard where the inmates, clad in bright orange jackets,
一栋后现代的粉红色水泥砖块大楼，是名家设计的新监狱，里面的院子还有回廊。身穿鲜艳橘色夹克的囚犯可以
could stroll in pairs.
双双对对散步。
reggae
雷盖（音乐）
The New York-based, Irish-American group Black 47, which mixes rap,
以纽约为根据地，成员为爱尔兰裔的乐团Ｂｌａｃｋ４７，
reggae and traditional Irish melodies, has appeared on both the Tonight Show and Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
曲风混合拉普、雷盖与传统爱尔兰旋律，曾经上过《今夜》节目以及Ｃｏｎａｎ　Ｏ’Ｂｒｉｅｎ的《深夜》节目。
Loaded with angry lyrics, a reggae revival is spicing up the mainstream and heating up the charts.
充斥着愤怒的歌词，雷盖音乐的卷土重来，让主流音乐添加了不同风味，也让排行榜发烧。
rap music
拉普音乐
Both albums were pure Top 40, accessorized with rap cliches.
两张专辑都是不折不扣的排行榜歌曲，附有拉普音乐的一些公式。
It happened to Professor Griff, formerly of the politically charged rap group Public Enemy.
这种经验曾发生在Ｐｒｏｆｅｓｓｏｒ Ｇｒｉｆｆ身上。他原来是有政治意味的拉普音乐团体Ｐｕｂｌｉｃ　Ｅｎｅｍｙ的成员。
Woodstock
伍德斯托克音乐会
John Paul had arived on the scene of what some were calling a "Catholic Woodstock,"
教皇约翰•保罗二世已然抵达现场，这一次的青年盛会有人把它叫做“天上教徒的伍德斯托克，”
a four-day youth festival that had drawn more than 180,000 people from all over the world.
吸引了来自世界各地１８万以上的人潮。
Baby boomers-especially the older ones like Clinton who were born in the 1940s - have been pop-cultural imperial-ists since before Woodstock;
战后婴儿潮这一代，尤其是像克林顿一样出生在４０年代的，自从伍德斯托克音乐会之前开始就已经是大众文化的帝国主义者。
the rest of America, like it or not, has had to endure their collective self-absorption as they metamorphosed from hippies to yuppies to cometitive parenting.
美国其他的人不论愿不愿意，都得忍受他们这些人集体的自我中心观念；从嬉皮士蜕变成雅皮士，再变成竞相宠爱子女的家长。