考研英语高频词汇
architect n. 建筑师,设计师
<历年真题考查频次:5次>
真题复现1:The phrase “less is more” was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who like other people associated with the Bauhaus, a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at American architecture schools. (2011年英语二text3P3)
真题翻译:事实上,“少即是多”这句话最早是由德国人路德维希·米斯·范德罗推广的,他和其他与包豪斯设计学院有联系的人一样,在第二次世界大战前移民到美国,并在美国建筑学校任职。
真题复现2: Like other modern architects, he employed metal, glass and laminated wood—materials that we take for granted today but that in the 1940s symbolized the future.(2011年英语二text3P4)
真题翻译:和其他现代建筑师一样,他使用了金属、玻璃和层压木材材料,我们今天认为这些材料是理所当然的,但在20世纪40年代,这些材料象征着未来。
真题复现3: The “Case Study Houses” commissioned from talented modern architects by California Arts & Architecture magazine between 1945 and 1962 were yet another homegrown influence on the “less is more” trend. (2011年英语二text3P7)
真题翻译:1945年至1962年间,《加州艺术与建筑》杂志委托才华横溢的现代建筑师建造的“案例研究屋”是对“少即是多”趋势的又一次本土影响。