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2006 年 Text 4 ①Many things make people think artists are weird. ②But the weirdest may be this: artists ’ only job is to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad. ①许多事情使人们认为艺术家是怪人。②而最怪异的可能是：艺术家唯一的工作 就是探索情感，但他们却将焦点投向负面的情感。 ①This wasn ’t always so.②The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited for expressing joy. ③But somewhere from the 19th century onward, more artists began seeing happiness as meaningless, phony or, worst of all, boring, as we went from Wordsworth’s daffodils to Baudelaire’s flowers of evil. ①情况并不总是如此。①最早的艺术形式，如绘画和音乐，是最适合表达欢乐的。 ③但是从 19 世纪的某个时候开始，当我们从华兹华斯的《水仙花》转向波德莱 尔的《恶之花》时，越来越多的艺术家开始把快乐看作是毫无意义的、虚伪的甚 至是令人厌倦的东西。 ①You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen so much misery. ②But it ’s not as if earlier times didn ’t know perpetual war, disaster and the massacre of innocents. ③The reason, in fact, may be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the world today. ①你可能认为艺术对快乐产生越来越多的怀疑是因为现代社会经历了太多的痛 苦。②但是这并不是说以前的时代就没有经历过连年的战争、灾难和滥杀无辜。 ③事实上，原因可能正好相反：如今的世界上有太多的快乐了。 ①After all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated to depicting happiness? ②Advertising. ③The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology. ①归根结底，几乎完全致力于描绘快乐的那种现代表达方式究竟是什么？②广 告。②反快乐艺术的兴起，几乎与大众传媒同时出现，并且，随着它的出现产生 了一种商业文化，在这种文化氛围中，快乐不仅是一种理想，而且成为一种意识 形态。 ①People in earlier eras were surrounded by reminders of misery. ②They worked until exhausted, lived with few protections and died young. ③In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in danger and that they would someday be meat for worms. ④Given all this, they did not exactly ne