2015考研英语阅读腹地美景_大学英语阅读

2015考研英语阅读腹地美景

　　And just as the buildings nestle into and hug their surroundings, with few right angles, so theroofs arch and swoop and fall, mimicking the region s mountains. Trees surround themuseum; as they grow they will enshroud it with leaves in full summer and expose it inwinter. Crystal Bridges does not look like a traditional Japanese structure, but something ofthe Japanese aestheticsimplicity and cleanness of design, reverence for nature, theimpulse to build in harmony with rather than atop the natural worldpervades it.

　　正因为建筑物嵌进了周围的环境，与周围的环境浑然一体，所以屋顶呈弧形猛扑而下，模拟这个地区的山脉。树木环绕着博物馆，随着树木的生长，整个夏天它们会用树叶遮蔽住博物馆，而在冬季则露出博物馆。水晶桥看起来不像日本的传统建筑物，但日本美学的某些东西，如设计上的简朴和清洁、对自然的敬畏、建筑与自然和谐而不是凌驾在自然之上的驱策等等，在博物馆的建筑上随处可见。

　　The museum s collection manages to be both thorough and surprising. Those who wish tosee works by major American artists such as Winslow Homer, Thomas Hart Benton andRobert Rauschenberg will not be disappointed. But Don Bacigalupi, the museum director,says that in building a collection at this late date he looked at identifying new scholarshipand new research that led us toward artists and moments less well discovered. That hasinspired a particularly strong focus on women in American artas patrons, subjects andcreators. Janet Sobel, who made drip paintings several years before Jackson Pollock, getsher due. Among the museum s first-rate collection of portraits, nothing exceeds DennisMiller Bunker s sombre, haunting image of Anne Page ; and in itscontemporary galleries Alison Elizabeth Taylor s marquetry Room is, like the museumitself, a chamber of wonders in an unexpected place.