英语PK台 第17期:摄影师镜头下的Cosplay动漫发烧联盟(1)

 Cosplay

Danielle and Joe Tymczyszyn (Pronounced “Tim-chisen”), Americans living in Beijing, recently returned from a fascinating visit to Myanmar, a country opening up to international tourism.

Joe is a photographer and in the capital, Yangon, was delighted to discover Cosplay performances, as he continues to explain. This is a form of science fiction fantasies where young people dress up in costumes from the stories. Today it also takes in much from the comic book world. In Beijing they are held regularly at the National Convention¹ Centre next to the Olympic Green. They can attract several thousand people dressing² up.

Track one

In Myanmar when I walked on the streets I could walk up to anybody and say “I would like to take your picture’

They could understand English and 90% of the people would say “Yes”

That is a higher percentage than almost anywhere else in the world

It was a kind of heaven for photography

You were taking a lot of photographs of people dressed up in costumes – Cosplay

They had a Cosplay costume show in Myanmar

About 150 young people dressed up in costumes

That is very new and abnormal³ there

It was very similar to what they have in Beijing for Cosplay,

Except in Beijing there may be 2/3000 people in costumes at a show in the National Convention Centre

Whereas⁴ there, maybe 150 in a small hotel

It was you who introduced me to Cosplay – I had never heard of it before

I hadn’t either but a friend told me I would have fun as a photographer if I went to a Cosplay sow

And she told me where there was one in Beijing and the website where you can see all the Cosplay shows in China

Really fun because there, 100% of the people I ask if I can take their picture say “Yes”

Because they do not dress up in a costume to not be noticed and not be photographed

In the Beijing one you would be swarmed⁵ with other photographers

Actually it is not so bad – there aren’t that many photographers

There are a lot of people posing⁶

So except for the top 5% of the finest costumes the other 95% probably do not have a photographer around them

Questions

1. Why was Myanmar a ‘heaven for photography”?

2. Why does Joe go to Cosplay shows?

3. Where is Cosplay held in Beijing?

4. Why are people at Cosplay happy to be photographed?

5. What percentage of participants dress up in really fancy⁷ costumes?

1 convention   

n.惯例，习俗，常规，会议，大会

参考例句：

• How many delegates have checked in at the convention?大会已有多少代表报到？
• He sets at naught every convention of society.他轻视所有的社会习俗。

2 dressing   

n.(食物)调料；包扎伤口的用品，敷料

参考例句：

• Don't spend such a lot of time in dressing yourself.别花那么多时间来打扮自己。
• The children enjoy dressing up in mother's old clothes.孩子们喜欢穿上妈妈旧时的衣服玩。

3 abnormal   

adj.反常的，不正常的，不规则的

参考例句：

• This warm weather is abnormal for February.二月里这种温暖的天气不太正常。
• That is simply abnormal.那简直是反常的。

4 whereas   

conj.而，却，反之

参考例句：

• They want a house,whereas we would rather live in a flat.他们想要一座房子，而我们宁愿住在一套房间里。
• Some praise him,whereas others condemn him.有些人赞扬他，而有些人谴责他。

5 swarmed   

密集( swarm的过去式和过去分词 )； 云集； 成群地移动； 蜜蜂或其他飞行昆虫成群地飞来飞去

参考例句：

• When the bell rang, the children swarmed out of the school. 铃声一响，孩子们蜂拥而出离开了学校。
• When the rain started the crowd swarmed back into the hotel. 雨一开始下，人群就蜂拥回了旅社。

6 posing   

n. 摆架式 名词pose的现在分词形式

参考例句：

• The model was posing carefully. 这位模特儿在认真地摆着姿势。
• She is always posing. 她总是装腔作势。

7 fancy   

n.想像力，幻想；喜好，爱；adj.想像的，时髦的，华丽装饰的，奢侈的；技巧的；vt.想象，自认为，喜好

参考例句：

• He seemed to have taken quite a fancy to her.他似乎相当喜欢她。
• I have a fancy that it's going to rain.我想大概要下雨。