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1 ．据说，画家以他的婶婶作他画中的模特，她的面容饱经沧桑却不是坚定。

2 ．战后政治漫画里开始出现了一个名叫山姆大叔的人物，很快，山姆大叔就成了受美国人欢迎的象征。

3 ．这幅画展示一个神色严肃的男子，旁边站了一位女子，身后是农舍，他们的原型分别是画家的牙科医生和姐姐。

4 ．他为了镍币另一面上的野牛，只好到中央公园的动物园里素描一只老野牛，这只老野牛后来被宰杀用于墙上的装饰。

5 ．有个故事说，“ US ”是“山姆大叔”的缩写，“山姆大叔”原名叫山姆．威尔逊，他曾和一名男子一道工作过，这名男子和美国政府签订了一份合同，给军队提供肉食。

　　B. Translate the following into Chinese.

1. In the mid-1870s, French artist Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was working on an enormous project called Liberty Enlightening the World , a monument celebrating US independence and the France-America alliance.

2. Now more than sixty years old, Barbara---who declines interviews but it is said to have loved the doll ----may be the most famous unknown figure on the planet.

3. He was strongly influenced by medieval artists and inspired by the Gothic window of an old farmhouse but the faces in his composition were what captured the world's attention.

4. But the Buffalo nickel, produced from 1913 to 1938, honored a pair of connected tragedies from the settlement of the American frontier---the destruction of the buffalo herds and the American Indians.

5. While white people had previously been used as models for most American coins, famed artist James Earle Fraser went against tradition by using three actual American Indians as models for his creation.

答案:

1. It is said that the painters used his aunt as the model in the painting whose face represented suffering yet strength.

2. After the war, a character called Uncle Sam began appearing in political cartoons, and soon became American's most popular symbol.

3. The painting shows a serious-looking man and a woman standing alongside him in front of a farmhouse, their models being respectively the painter's dentist and sister.

4. In order to have the buffalo on the other side of the nickel, he went to the Central Park Zoo to sketch an aging buffalo which was later killed for a wall decoration.

5. One story says that “US” was short for “Uncle Sam” whose real name was Sam Wilson, who had once worked with a man who had signed a contract with the government to provide meat to the US army.

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1. 19 世纪 70 年代中期，法国艺术家弗里德里克．奥古斯特．巴托尔迪正在设计一个大项目，名为“自由照耀世界”。这是一座庆祝美国独立和美法联盟的纪念碑。

2 ．如今芭芭拉已有 60 多岁了，她拒绝接受采访，但据说非常喜欢芭比。她可能是当今世上真名实姓不为人知的最著名的人物。

3 ．他深受中世纪艺术家的影响，他的灵感来自于一所农舍的哥特式窗户，但最令世人瞩目是画中人物的脸。

4 ．但 1913 至 1938 年间发行的野牛硬币，却是纪念由美国拓居引起的两起相互关联的悲剧 ----- 野牛群的灭绝和美洲印第安人的毁灭。

5 ．此前一直是白人被用作美国硬币上的模特，而著名的艺术家詹姆斯．厄尔．弗雷泽却反传统而行之，起用了三名真正的美洲印地安人为自己创作的原型。

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