含有museum的英语名言
武夷山 辑译
5月18日是国际博物馆日,现辑译若干含有museum的英语名言,与大家分享。
Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.
——Orhan Pamuk,帕慕克,土耳其小说家,2006年诺贝尔文学奖得主
真实的博物馆就是时间被转化为空间的场所。
A museum is a place where nothing was lost, just rediscovered…
——Nanette L. Avery,美国女小说家
博物馆是这样的场所,那里任何东西都没有丢失,只是被重新发现......
Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.
——George Lois,1931- ,希腊裔美籍广告人
博物馆是顿悟的监护者,这些顿悟进入了中枢神经系统和心灵深处。
Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to wherever they lead you…and the world should begin to change for you.
——Jerry Saltz,1951- ,美国艺术批评家
博物馆是通向其他世界的虫洞。它们是带来陶醉体验的机器。博物馆把你的目光引向哪里你就奔向哪里......世界就会开始为你而改变。
A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.
——David Rockefeller,戴维·洛克菲勒,1915-2017,美国银行家
博物馆必须更新其藏品方有活力,但这并不意味着放弃重要的古老藏品。
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.
——Hans Haacke,1936- ,出生于德国的美国艺术家
博物馆是意识的管理者。它们为我们阐释历史,说明如何看世界,如何把握我们在世界上的定位。如果你想用正面词汇来表达,博物馆是伟大的教育机构。如果你想用负面词汇来表达,博物馆是宣传机器。
Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can"t take it in all at once.
——Audrey Hepburn,影星奥黛丽·赫本
人生就像匆匆掠过一个博物馆。直到后来,你才真正开始消化你所看到的东西,思考它们,到书籍里查寻它们,并付诸记忆——因为你不可能一下子将之全部吸收。
Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff.
——William Thorsell,1945- ,加拿大记者,曾任皇家安大略博物馆馆长
博物馆应该是人们提出问题的地方,而不仅仅是展示藏品。
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.
——Martin Filler,1948- ,美国建筑批评家
任何博物馆最基本的任务必须是,保护好受托保管的具有文化意义的作品,以教化和愉悦子孙后代。
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
——Edmond de Goncourt,1822-1896,法国作家
博物馆的画听过的荒唐看法之多,世上其余任何事物莫之能比。
The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.
——Kate Williams,1974- ,英国女历史学家
现代博物馆有多重目的——管理和保存藏品,科研,向公众推广。它们强烈建议我们对我们关于历史和周遭世界的假定提出质疑。
We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.
——Rudolf Bing,1902-1997,出生于奥地利的英国歌剧导演
我们与博物馆类似。我的作用就是将古老的杰作保存在现代的框子里。