文化交流英语words and expressions unit 1-8

Words and expressions in cross – culture course

Unit 1 Performing Arts

1.Beijing Opera performance 京剧表演

2.Musical instrument 乐器

3.Traditional Chinese musical instruments 民乐乐器

4.Facial paintings 脸谱

5.4种表演形式：唱、念、做、打

4 performing methods: singing, recitation, facial and body

posturing and acting, martial arts

6.4 类演员角色：生、旦、净、丑

4 roles: male role (sheng), female role (dan), male roles with

facial paintings(jing), clown (chou)

7.stringed instrument 弦乐

8.percussion instrument打击乐

9.“Song of a Pipa Player”琵琶行

10.a great treasure of Chinese culture

11.dance of Kerchief 巾舞，Dance of Sleeve 长袖舞

12.Dances in the Han Dynasty freed themselves from the restriction

of “rituals”.汉舞摆脱了宗教仪式的束缚。

13.Zhao Feiyan “was light as a swallow and could dance on another

one’s palm ”.

14.stage props 道具

15.excavate 出土

16.wave and float the kerchiefs and sleeves into various bows and

flowers 舞动长巾、袖，以展现各式各样花结

17.Kunqu Opera 昆曲

18.the sister opera of Beijing Opera京剧的姐妹剧

19.Kunqu used to be shown to royal or wealthy families only.

20.poetic style 诗情画意的风格

21.refined 优雅的

22.flute 笛子

23.lyricism 抒情

24.The posture of each role is in a dancing mode.每一个人物造型

都是舞蹈动作。

25.folk music 乡村音乐

26.4 famed Peking Opera female-role performers

京剧四大名旦（梅兰芳、程砚秋、尚小云、荀慧生）

Two Calligraphy and Painting

1.Chinese character

2.4 treasures of the study

3.Writing brush, ink stone

4.Pictographic character 象形文字

5.Stroke 笔画

6.Calligrapher 书法家

7.Ideographic character 表意文字

8.Phonographic character 表音文字

9.“One-stroke character” “一笔书”

10.Internal line of energy 气脉

11.Xing style calligraphy 行体

12.Practice one’s calligraphy 练字

13.New Year painting 年画

14.Figure paintings 人物画，landscapes paintings山水画，

Flower-and- bird paintings 花鸟画

15.horizontal scroll 横幅画

16.Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival清明上河图

17.Impressionism painting 印象派

18.Cubism 立体派

19.Jiaguwen means the inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells, and

the way the Chinese characters were inscribed on them became known as a special style of Chinese character writing known now as jianguwen. “jinwen”, the inscriptions on bronze wares, “xiaozhuan”, the seal script of the Qin Dynasty, ”lishu”, the

official script of the Han Dynasty, ”kaishu ”,the regular script, “xingshu”, the fast-written script, and “caoshu” ,the cursive script.

Unit 3

1.Hutong 胡同

2.Hutong is a unique Beijing architectural structure.胡同是北京

一个特殊的建筑。

3.Hutong is the passage formed by the lines of a Siheyuan.胡同

是一条巷子，两边是一个又一个的四合院。

4.One hutong connects with another, and siheyuan connects

with siheyuan, to form a block(街区)，blocks join with blocks to form the whole city.

5.Lifestyle 生活方式

6.“encyclopedia of Beijing”“北京的百科全书”

7.“The Four Generations Under One Roof”四世同堂

8.Chinese Gardens 中国园林

9.Artistic designs 艺术设计

10.A serious art form 严肃的艺术形式

11.Sculpture 雕塑

12.Taoist principles of balance and harmony, man and nature天

人合一的道家原则

13.Category 种类