Selling the family silver: mesuem finances
Paintings by Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Claude Monet, which once hung on the walls of the Brooklyn Museum, will be auctioned this evening by Sotheby’s in New York. The proceeds will contribute to the creation of a $40m endowment to pay for staffing costs and the care and conservation of the institution’s remaining collection. Museums, which often rely on ticket sales for income, have been dealt a heavy financial blow by the pandemic. In May a report by the Network of European Museum Organisations found that major museums were losing between €100,000 and €600,000 ($118,000–$710,000) in revenue per week. A study by UNESCO of 95,000 museums around the world found that a tenth were unlikely to reopen. The Brooklyn Museum may have given others ideas. This month the Baltimore Museum of Art announced that it would sell three paintings from its permanent collection to raise $65m.
sell the family silver: 【idiom】To sell or part with a very valuable resource for a quick and immediate gain or advantage, rather than holding onto it for future use or to accrue even greater value.
auction: 拍卖
Sotheby: 苏富比
the proceeds:所得款项
endowment:n. 捐款,捐赠
contribute:v. 捐赠,捐助
conservation: 保护
the network of European meseum Organization: 欧洲博物馆组织网络(NEMO)
revenue: 财政收入
raise: 募(款)
Contain yourself: India and America V China
America’s secretaries of state and defence, Mike Pompeo and Mark Esper, are in New Delhi today to meet their Indian counterparts for a second “2+2” meeting. The Americans come bearing gifts, mainly a geospatial information-sharing agreement. The Indians reciprocate with enthusiasm for a military alliance that scarcely dare speak its name. Unofficially, it is the Quad: America, Australia, India and Japan. Last week India invited Australia to join its annual Malabar naval exercise. Mr Pompeo met India’s foreign minister, S. Jaishankar, in Tokyo earlier this month. These four “Indo-Pacific” powers may sing from the same hymn sheet about liberal democracy, but what binds them is their common rival. India has not fretted this much about China since 1962, when it lost a war over a disputed bit of the Himalayas. This year Chinese troops have been nibbling back territory India held on to back then.
secretaries of state and defence:国务卿和国防部长
counterpart:职务(或作用)相当的人
geospatial:地理空间
reciprocate:回报,回应
scarcely:几乎不
Quad: 四边机制(包括美国,澳大利亚,日本,印度)
naval excise:海军演习
hymn:赞美诗,圣歌(尤指基督徒唱的颂扬上帝的歌);歌颂某事物的电影(或书等)
liberal:宽宏大度的
democracy:民主政治
bind: 捆绑,缠绕,联合在一起
fret:发愁,使烦恼,焦急
dispute:争论,辩论
nibble:啃咬
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韩语学习 day4
单词
词性
语法--终结语尾:-아요/-어요/-여요(对对方尊敬才可以用在,在亲密的场合用的)
语干最后音节的母音为ㅏ/ㅗ时用-아요,
ㅏ,ㅗ以为的其他母音时用:-어요
以하为结尾的用言语干用여요—해요
句子
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