巴黎男子花100欧元抽中价值逾百万的毕卡索名画

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1. The inclusion of quotes from the winner and the organiser serves primarily to …

A. give personal perspectives and enhance credibility.

B. illustrate the humorous side of the event.

C. persuade readers to buy tickets in future raffles.

D. provide statistical data about ticket sales.

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Man wins €1m Picasso painting in €100 charity raffle

From: BBC

A man has won an original Pablo Picasso painting worth more than €1m (£870,000; $1.2m) in a charity raffle.

Ari Hodara, an engineer and art enthusiast, learned he was the winner on Tuesday when he answered a video call from Christie's auction house in Paris.

"How do I know this isn't a prank?" the 58-year-old asked when he was told he was the new owner of the 1941 work by the Spanish master.

Organisers said more than 120,000 tickets for the prize draw were sold at €100 (£87; $118) each, raising around €11m (£10m; $13m) for Alzheimer's research.

The draw was the third edition of the "1 Picasso for 100 euros" fundraising raffle, which was founded in 2013.

This year's prize was Tête de Femme (Head of a Woman), a gouache-on-paper portrait rendered in Picasso's signature style. It depicts his partner and muse, the French surrealist artist Dora Maar.

"I was surprised, that's it," said Hodara during a phone call with auctioneers after the draw. "When you bet on this, you don't expect to win... But I'm very happy because I'm very interested in painting, and it's great news for me."

Hodara's ticket was number 94,715. He said he bought it over the weekend after learning about the competition by chance.

French journalist Peri Cochin organised the raffle with backing from Picasso's family and foundation.

She said it was a "great thing" that the winner lived in Paris, despite tickets being sold in dozens of countries worldwide.

"It's going to be very easy for us to deliver the painting, so we're happy," she said.

The city is also where Picasso himself lived and worked for much of his life, and thousands of the artist's paintings, prints and sculptures are on display in its museums.

Of the money raised, €1m is set to go to the Opera Gallery, the painting's owner, with the remaining funds donated to France's Alzheimer's Research Foundation.

"This Picasso initiative is one more building block so that one day Alzheimer's will be nothing more than a bad memory," the foundation's head Olivier de Ladoucette said, the AFP news agency reported.

The first edition of the raffle was won by a 25-year-old American from Pennsylvania in 2013, with funds raised to help preserve the Lebanese city of Tyre - a Unesco World Heritage Site.

A 58-year-old Italian accountant won the second edition, in 2020, after her son bought her a ticket for Christmas. Proceeds were donated to sanitation projects in schools and villages in Cameroon, Madagascar and Morocco.

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Man wins €1m Picasso painting in €100 charity raffle

From: BBC

A man has won an original Pablo Picasso painting worth more than €1m (£870,000; $1.2m) in a charity raffle.

一名男子在慈善抽奖中赢得一幅价值逾100万欧元（87万英镑；120万美元）的毕卡索（毕加索）原作。

charity /ˈtʃær.ə.ti/ 表示“慈善事业；慈善组织，慈善机构”，英文解释为“help, especially in the form of money, given freely to people who are in need, for example because they are ill, poor, or have no home, and organizations that provide this help”举个🌰：She does a lot of work for charity. 她做了很多慈善工作。

raffle /ˈræf.əl/ 表示“（为社会公益事业进行的）抽彩（活动）”，英文解释为“an activity in which people buy tickets with different numbers, some of which are later chosen to win prizes, that is organized in order to make money for a good social purpose”如：a raffle ticket/prize 抽彩奖券/奖品。

Ari Hodara, an engineer and art enthusiast, learned he was the winner on Tuesday when he answered a video call from Christie's auction house in Paris.

工程师出身的艺术爱好者阿里・霍达拉（Ari Hodara）于周二（4月14日）接到巴黎佳士得拍卖行的视频电话时得知自己中奖。

auction house /ˈɔːk.ʃən ˌhaʊs/ 表示“拍卖行”，英文解释为“a company whose business is selling things at auction”

"How do I know this isn't a prank?" the 58-year-old asked when he was told he was the new owner of the 1941 work by the Spanish master.

58岁的他被告知自己成为这幅西班牙大师1941年作品的新主人时问道：“我怎么知道这不是恶作剧？”

表示“胡闹，玩笑，恶作剧”，英文解释为“a trick that is intended to be funny but not to cause harm or damage”举个🌰：When I was at school we were always playing pranks on our teachers. 我读书时我们总是搞恶作剧捉弄老师。

📍此外，恶作剧，开玩笑也可以说play jokes on someone.

Organisers said more than 120,000 tickets for the prize draw were sold at €100 (£87; $118) each, raising around €11m (£10m; $13m) for Alzheimer's research.

主办方表示，此次抽奖共售出超过12万张票，每张售价100欧元（87英镑；118美元），为阿兹海默症研究筹得约1100万欧元（1000 万英镑；1300 万美元）。

draw /drɔː/ 1）作动词“画，绘画”大家都知道，在比赛中可以表示“打平，打成平局；以平局结束”，英文解释为“to finish without either side winning in a game such as football”，举个🌰：They drew 2-2. 他们以2比2打平。

2）作名词，同样可以表示“平局；和局；不分胜负”，英文解释为“a game in which both teams or players finish with the same number of points”，举个🌰：The match ended in a two-all draw. 比赛以二平结束。

3）还可以表示“抽签；抽奖”，英文解释为“a competition that is decided by choosing a particular ticket or number by chance”

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📍在杨倩yyds!!!文中提到另一个类似的词：tie. tie 可以作动词，也可以作名词，表示“（比赛、竞赛或选举中）分数相同，票数相同，平局，平手”，英文解释为“the result of a game, competition, or election when two or more people or teams get the same number of points, votes et”举个🌰：The match ended in a tie. 这场比赛以平局告终。Jane and I tied (for first place) in the spelling test. 在拼写比赛中（争夺第一名时）我和简打成平手。

The draw was the third edition of the "1 Picasso for 100 euros" fundraising raffle, which was founded in 2013.

这次抽奖是“100欧元抽一幅毕卡索”（1 Picasso for 100 Euros）募款活动的第三届，该活动创立于2013年。

This year's prize was Tête de Femme (Head of a Woman), a gouache-on-paper portrait rendered in Picasso's signature style. It depicts his partner and muse, the French surrealist artist Dora Maar.

今年的奖品是《女子头像》（Tête de Femme），一幅以毕卡索标志性风格创作的纸上肖像画，描绘的是他的伴侣兼缪思（希腊神话女神）、法国超现实主义艺术家朵拉・玛尔（Dora Maar）。

1）此前，在经济学人翻译的出路在哪里？这篇文章中出现过，render表示“翻译，把...译成...”，通常用法为render sth into English/Russian/Chinese etc，将sth译成英语/俄语/汉语等，举个🌰：She is rendering the book into English from French. 她正在把这本书从法语译成英语。

2）表示“（以某种方式）表达；表现”，英文解释为“to express or present something in a particular way”，如：a sculpture rendered in bronze 一尊青铜雕像；

3）表示“使成为；使变得；使处于某种状态”，英文解释为to cause someone or something to be in a particular state，举个🌰：His rudeness rendered me speechless. 他的粗暴无礼让我无言以对。

4）还可以指“给予，提供”，英文解释为to give something to someone or do something, because it is your duty or because someone expects you to，如：an obligation to render assistance to those in need 为有困难的人提供援助的义务，举个🌰：We see that freight railroads make good profits while rendering excellent service. 我们看到铁路货运公司在提供优质服务的同时也赢得了丰厚的利润。

5）还还还可以表示“粉刷；给（墙壁）抹灰（或水泥）”，英文解释为“to put a first layer of plaster or cement on a wall.”

depict /dɪˈpɪkt/ 表示“描写，描述，描绘；描绘，绘画”，英文解释为“to describe something or someone in writing or speech, or to show them in a painting, picture etc”举个🌰：The artist had depicted her lying on a bed. 画家画了她躺在床上的画像。

surrealist /səˈrɪə.lɪst/ 表示“超现实主义的”，英文解释为“relating to or producing a type of 20th-century art or literature in which unusual or impossible things are shown happening”如：surrealist painters 超现实主义画家，surrealist art 超现实主义艺术。

"I was surprised, that's it," said Hodara during a phone call with auctioneers after the draw. "When you bet on this, you don't expect to win... But I'm very happy because I'm very interested in painting, and it's great news for me."

“我就是很惊讶，就这样，”霍达拉在抽奖后与拍卖行通话时说，“参加这种抽奖时，你不会真的期待会中……但我非常高兴，因为我对绘画很有兴趣，这对我来说是个好消息。”

auctioneer /ˌɔːk.ʃəˈnɪər/ 表示“拍卖人；拍卖商”，英文解释为“a person in charge of an auction who calls out the prices that people offer”

Hodara's ticket was number 94,715. He said he bought it over the weekend after learning about the competition by chance.

霍达拉的中奖号码是94,715。他表示自己是在周末偶然得知这项活动后购买了票。

French journalist Peri Cochin organised the raffle with backing from Picasso's family and foundation.

这次抽奖由法国记者佩里・科钦（Peri Cochin）主办，并获得毕卡索家族与基金会的支持。

She said it was a "great thing" that the winner lived in Paris, despite tickets being sold in dozens of countries worldwide.

她表示，得主住在巴黎是件“很棒的事”，尽管抽奖门票在全球数十个国家贩售。

"It's going to be very easy for us to deliver the painting, so we're happy," she said.

“这让我们交付画作变得非常容易，所以我们很高兴。”她说。

The city is also where Picasso himself lived and worked for much of his life, and thousands of the artist's paintings, prints and sculptures are on display in its museums.

巴黎也是毕卡索生前长期生活与创作的城市，当地博物馆收藏并展出数千件他的绘画、版画与雕塑作品。

sculpture /ˈskʌlp.tʃər/ 表示“雕塑，雕刻；塑像，雕塑品，雕刻品”，英文解释为“the art of forming solid objects that represent a thing, person, idea, etc. out of a material such as wood, clay, metal, or stone, or an object made in this way”

Of the money raised, €1m is set to go to the Opera Gallery, the painting's owner, with the remaining funds donated to France's Alzheimer's Research Foundation.

此次募款所得将有100万欧元支付给画作所有者——歌剧画廊（Opera Gallery），其余款项将捐给法国阿兹海默症研究基金会。

"This Picasso initiative is one more building block so that one day Alzheimer's will be nothing more than a bad memory," the foundation's head Olivier de Ladoucette said, the AFP news agency reported.

法新社援引该基金会负责人奥利维耶・德拉杜塞特（Olivier de Ladoucette）表示：“这项毕卡索计划是迈向未来的一块基石，希望有一天阿兹海默症只会成为一段不好的回忆。”

building block /ˈbɪl.dɪŋ ˌblɒk/ 表示“积木”，英文解释为“a piece of wood or plastic used by children to build things with”

building blocks 表示“基础；构成要素”，英文解释为“the basic things that are put together to make something exist”举个🌰：Science and the arts are the building blocks of a good education. 科学和艺术是良好教育的基本要素。

📍写作句型积累：xxx set up the building blocks for/of ... 奠定了...的基础。如：The first grade sets up the building blocks for all future learning, with introductions to reading, writing, and math. 一年级对阅读、写作和数学进行了介绍，为所有未来的学习奠定了基础。

The first edition of the raffle was won by a 25-year-old American from Pennsylvania in 2013, with funds raised to help preserve the Lebanese city of Tyre - a Unesco World Heritage Site.

首届抽奖于2013年举行，中奖者是一名来自美国宾州的25岁青年，募款用于协助保存黎巴嫩古城泰尔（Tyre），该地为联合国教科文组织世界遗产。

preserve /prɪˈzɜːv/ 表示“保护，维护；保留；保养”，英文解释为“to keep something as it is, especially in order to prevent it from decaying or being damaged or destroyed”如：to preserve the environment 保护环境。

作名词，preserve /prɪˈzɜːv/ 同reserve， 表示“（尤指野生动物）保护区”

heritage /ˈher.ɪ.tɪdʒ/ 表示“遗产（指流传下来的具有历史意义的传统、语言、建筑等）”，英文解释为“features belonging to the culture of a particular society, such as traditions, languages, or buildings, that were created in the past and still have historical importance”

A 58-year-old Italian accountant won the second edition, in 2020, after her son bought her a ticket for Christmas. Proceeds were donated to sanitation projects in schools and villages in Cameroon, Madagascar and Morocco.

第二届于2020年举行，中奖者是一名58岁的义大利会计师，她的儿子在圣诞节为她购买了抽奖票。所得款项则捐给喀麦隆、马达加斯加与摩洛哥的学校与村庄卫生项目。

proceeds /ˈprəʊ.siːdz/ 复数形式，表示“（从事某种活动或变卖财物的）收入，收益，进款”，英文解释为“the amount of money received from a particular event or activity or when something is sold”举个🌰：She sold her car and bought a piano with the proceeds. 她卖掉了汽车，然后用这笔收入买了一架钢琴。

🎬电影《神偷艳贼》（Gambit）中的台词提到：I bag the coins and donate the proceeds to charity. 我要把这些硬币封装好捐给慈善机构。

sanitation /ˌsænɪˈteɪʃən/表示“公共卫生；卫生设备；卫生设施体系”，英文解释为“Sanitation is the process of keeping places clean and healthy, especially by providing a sewage system and a clean water supply.”如：disease resulting from poor sanitation 卫生条件差导致的疾病，the hazards of contaminated water and poor sanitation 污水和不良公共卫生的危害。

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