VOA慢速英語聽力訓(xùn)練素材：詞匯故事airbrush

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VOA慢速英語，作為國際英語學(xué)習(xí)者的重要資源，通過清晰緩慢的發(fā)音與簡潔的詞匯，為初學(xué)者及中等水平學(xué)習(xí)者搭建了通往流利英語的橋梁。它不僅幫助提升聽力理解能力，還豐富了詞匯量，增強了語感，是學(xué)習(xí)地道英語表達(dá)不可或缺的工具，對全球英語學(xué)習(xí)者的語言提升至關(guān)重要。讓我們一起進(jìn)入今天的VOA慢速英語聽力訓(xùn)練：詞匯故事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，我們來談?wù)剬ν昝赖淖非?，或者至少是我們?yōu)榱俗屖挛锟雌饋硗昝浪龅呐?。如果你用刷子畫畫，往往會留下刷痕。如果你用滾筒刷，也可能會留下滾筒的痕跡。有些人認(rèn)為這是瑕疵，是你在繪畫工作中不希望看到的。因此，人們發(fā)明了一種方法，用一層完美的涂料來遮蓋瑕疵，這種涂料被稱為噴槍。

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.

噴槍博物館表示，1876年，費·斯坦利發(fā)明了一種可以噴涂水彩和墨水的設(shè)備。三年后，艾布納·皮勒想出了一種噴油漆的設(shè)備，即之后出售的“噴槍”。然而，這可能并不是粉飾的首次嘗試。一些考古學(xué)家聲稱，早期的洞穴人，即尼安德特人，通過向中空的骨頭吹顏料來修飾他們的一些畫。

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.

在現(xiàn)代，我們還用airbrush作為動詞來描述通過噴槍或類似噴槍的方式繪畫或改變某物來遮蓋瑕疵。例如，假設(shè)有些破壞者在你家的墻上噴了侮辱性的話。如果你再也不想看到這些話，你可以用噴槍的方式把它們完全遮蓋住。再舉一個例子，如果你在臉上使用美容產(chǎn)品或化妝，你就是在遮蓋你皮膚上的斑痕。

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，工作人員經(jīng)常使用一種名為Photoshop的軟件來改變圖像。他們可以用它來遮蓋圖像中的所有瑕疵，甚至可以完全刪除圖像的一部分。從那時起，“Photoshop”一詞就具有了與“airbrush”相同的含義。

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."

我們還用“airbrush”這個詞來表示另一種含義。如果有人被指責(zé)“篡改歷史”，那就意味著他們被指責(zé)篡改了過去的壞事，好像這件事從未發(fā)生過?，F(xiàn)在，讓我們聽聽這兩個朋友是如何使用“airbrush”這個詞的。“嘿，明天一起去喝咖啡吧。”“好啊，去那家新開的咖啡店‘Halves’怎么樣？我聽說他們的咖啡很不錯?！薄班?，我們還是去別的地方吧。我不喜歡那個老板。”“為什么？Hal有什么問題嗎？”“你不記得了嗎？他兩年前競選公職時，競選期間曝出了很多他的丑聞?！薄罢娴膯?？我不記得了?！薄澳鞘且驗樗阉谐舐劧紡臍v史上抹去了，刪除了，消失了。就好像這一切從未發(fā)生過?！薄昂冒?，人們總是會掩飾自己過去的壞事。而且，他做的咖啡真的很好喝。我會找另一家咖啡店的?！?/span>

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