雅思口语素材-连环画

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摘要: 雅思口语素材-连环画　　The scene is still vivid for many grown-ups born before the 1980s. Class dismissed, you fumble through your pockets for coins and dash to the stall-keeper around the corner. ...

雅思口语素材-连环画

　　The scene is still vivid for many grown-ups born before the 1980s. Class dismissed, you fumble through your pockets for coins and dash to the stall-keeper around the corner. There you will spend about two hours before sunset immersed in the fictitious world of heroes and demons created by lianhuanhua, or pocket-size picture storybooks.

　　Lianhuanhua literally means "linked pictures," and are also known as xiaorenshu, or children's book. These educational storybooks once dominated many Chinese children's bookshelves. For quite a number of children in small towns and remote rural areas, they were often the only reading material with which they had fun and learned about values and virtues.

　　But the genre began to wither around 1985, because of a decline in quality as a result of fierce competition, and also losing readers because of large inflows of cartoon books from overseas, TV programs and then Internet content.

　　"A great number of publishing houses closed and only a few survived the slump," said Chen Yuanshan, Director of the Lianhuanhua Editing Department of the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House (SPFPH).

　　A surge in collecting lianhuanhua since the late 1990s has brought to life memories of a once best-loved friend, and such pocket books have become increasingly visible at all kinds of auctions, book fairs and exhibitions. This has enticed former publishers of lianhuanhua in Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin and Shandong Province into reprinting a few editions.

　　Still, young Chinese don't buy them. Having grown up with a proliferation of Internet applications and accustomed to Hollywood and Japanese cartoons, they find these mostly black-and-white, classic literature and traditional value-focused storybooks—didactic rather than entertaining, sometimes—hardly tempting.

　　In an effort to promote the traditional values and classics of China put across in this form of publication, the SPFPH helped the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture, Radio, Film and TV in applying for national recognition of lianhuanhua as an intangible cultural heritage in September.

　　Lianhuanhua in their modern sense originated in Shanghai in the 1920s. It witnessed two development booms in the 1950s-60s and the 1980s when entrusted by the government to improve the population's literacy in historical and literary classics, and its knowledge of the revolution and the government's achievements.

　　"They aim to educate and entertain the general public, focusing on the readability of stories instead of the drawing skills of the illustrators," Chen said. "Their scripts broadly cover from the Anti-Japanese War, the Liberation War and China's classic literature, dramas, fairy tales and foreign literature."

　　fictitious 假的, 虚构的, 编造的, 假设的, 假装的

　　genre〈法〉(文学、艺术等的)类型, 体裁, 风格

　　wither 萎缩;(尤指渐渐)破灭，消失

　　slump 萧条期;(销售量、价格、价值等的)骤降，猛跌，锐减

　　the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House (SPFPH) 上海人民美术出版社

　　surge(数量的)急剧上升，激增;大量;一大批

　　auction 拍卖, 拍卖方式

　　entice 诱使;引诱

　　proliferation 增殖,分芽繁殖,扩散

　　didactic 1. 教学的,教导的2. (指人)学究式的,迂腐的

　　the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture, Radio, Film and TV 上海市文化广播影视管理局

　　intangible cultural heritage 非物质文化遗产

　　During the second boom (1977-85), when scripts were further enriched to include contemporary literature and supplementary reading materials for school children, printing runs increased greatly.

　　At their peak in 1982, China published more than 860 billion copies, or 2,100 titles, accounting for one third of the year's total publications of all kinds, said Wei Hua, author of A Simple History of Lianhuanhua Art in New China.

　　For several generations, "in the absence of a TV set in most Chinese families, lianhuanhua functioned like the now popular TV program Lecture Room on CCTV 10 where scholars from universities give lectures on varied topics of China's history and culture—both widely accessible and enjoyable interpretations of China's ancient history and great novels," said Xie Chunyan, painter and fine arts critic.

　　Taking inspiration from episodes in the classic novel, the 60-piece picture storybook, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, created in the 1950s, remains the masterpiece of all SPFPH publications in this genre. The work involved more than 30 painters and portraits of 115 characters in a story consisting of about 7,000 drawings, spanning eight years.

　　The series is overwhelmingly impressive, not only because of the characters and grand, awe-inspiring battle scenes it depicts, but also readers' memories of waiting for months and even years to see its latest development, said Tian Yunqing, a Shanghai-based lianyou, or fan and promoter of lianhuanhua.

　　"Readers had to frequently visit bookstores for years in order to have a complete collection, during which many grew up from school children to breadwinners," said Tian.

　　China currently boasts about 1 million lianyous nationwide. "It's not something for elite tastes, though. A lianhuanhua collection is an affordable hobby for the working class. It provides a feeling of warmth when they flip through these xiaorenshu," Xie said.

　　For many of them, the rereading process is like opening a dust-covered chest in the attic of their parents' house, and within that is every part of their childhood treasures and memories of fun, hardships and sorrows.

　　Fan Lin, a Shanghai taxi driver born in 1966, is not an authentic lianyou. He cannot name most of the eminent painters and their representative works, nor can he say how the pocket books evolved in China.

　　But lianhuanhua serves as a footnote to his childhood. He recounts how difficult it was to collect all the storybooks of heroism and how he accidentally lost them when moving to a new apartment. His story is mixed with regret and remorse over his earlier years of running wild.

　　contemporary 当代的;现代的

　　supplementary 1. 增补的; 补充的2. 额外的;外加的

　　interpretation 解释, 说明; 诠释

　　episode(人生的)一段经历;(小说的)片段，插曲;(电视连续剧或无线电广播小说的)一集

　　elite〈法〉精华,精锐,中坚分子; 上层集团;(统称)掌权人物，社会精英

　　attic(紧靠屋顶的)阁楼，顶楼

　　eminent (人)知名的; 受人尊崇的

　　evolve 演变; 进化

　　remorse 懊悔, 悔恨, 自责

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