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智课网TOEFL备考资料托福阅读机经背景：糖果店里的孩子 Books Arts 图书与艺术 The Metropolitan Museum of Art 大都会艺术博物馆 The Metropolitan’s new director gives his first interview 与大都会博物馆新管理人的初次面谈 “I FEEL like Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz’; picked up by a whirlwind and dropped down in a land where everything is much more brightly coloured,” says Thomas Campbell, who on January 1st became the new director and CEO of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. His description is both apt and unexpected. “我感觉像《绿野仙踪》里的桃乐茜;被一阵旋风刮起，然后在一个地方掉了下来，那里一切都是色彩斑斓，”托马斯·坎贝尔的描述恰如其分，也令人出乎意外。元月一日他成为了纽约大都会艺术博物馆的新任管理人和行政总裁。 Until five months ago, the British-born 46-year-old, educated at Oxford University and London’s Courtauld Institute of Art, was by his own account, “an open shirt, tweed jacket sort of guy”. He liked to clear his diary to give time to his research and writing. Now he owns several new suits and has a crammed schedule. The studies to which he has devoted the past 20 years have had to become a hobby, like the watercolours he paints. The Campbells have moved from the suburbs to a flat near the Fifth Avenue museum. It comes with what many consider the international museum world’s top job. 坎贝尔出生于英国，现年46岁，他在牛津大学和伦敦考陶尔德学院受过教育，按他自己的说法，五个月前他还是“一个穿开禁衬衫、粗花呢夹克的家伙”，他正要清理工作日志以腾出时间进行研究和写作。现在，他有了几套新西装和一份排得满满的日程表，于是他投入了二十年的研究不得不变成了爱好，就像他喜欢画水彩画一样。坎贝尔一家从郊外搬到了平坦的第五大街博物馆附近。他开始了被很多人看作是国际博物馆界最高级别的工作。 Cinderella also comes to mind when considering the events of the past year. During the search for a successor to Philippe de Montebello, the French-born director who was retiring after 31 years as head of the museum, Mr Campbell, a British tapestry specialist, never featured on the gossips’ shortlist, although all but two of the museum’s directors in the last century have been recruited from within. Mr Campbell joined the Met in 1995, but he has never headed a department and was only one of its ten curators in European sculpture and decorative arts. 想想过去一年发生的事情，这时灰姑娘也不禁浮现在脑海里。前一任管理人是出生于法国的菲利普·德·蒙提贝罗，他在位已三十年，正准备退休。在寻找接班人期间