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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now to honoring a civil rights legend in a new way. Producer James Brown of PBS station WXXI reports on how artists in Rochester, New York, pay tribute to the late John Lewis. It's part of our arts and culture series, Canvas.
EPHRAIM GEBRE, Muralist, I Am Speaking: This wall will be a landmark. The colors are not going to fade. It's going to be here long after we're gone. I grew up right across from the Genesee brewery, St Simon's Terrace. It is very exciting for me to come back and just show love to the city that has given me so much. This is a painting of a young John Lewis giving a speech. Original photo is from Danny Lyon, the premier, like, civil rights photographer back in the day. We just wanted to honor his legacy and what he's done for the fair treatment of our people, of Black and brown people. With his recent passing, I just wanted to kind of pay homage to him and his name and his legacy and also bring Danny Lyon's image to life. And so, like it's larger than life.
WOMAN: And we don't lose sight of, like, where everyone is going to be going.
EPHRAIM GEBRE: I Am Speaking is the title. And the project is, I Am. So, we have end in Chicago. The first one is I Am a Man. The photo was from the Memphis sanitation strike. Second one was in Louisville, Kentucky, and that was titled I Am Singing. It's a protest photo, like people singing and clapping and like their hands in the air. And then this one is, I Am Speaking. Across the street is the site where Frederick Douglass gave his What is Fourth of July to a slave speech. So, I thought it would be a good idea to name it I Am Speaking. I think it's a good fit. I wanted to stop people in their tracks. I can't control how this piece is going to be perceived. I know all of the collective emotions and feelings, like, delivering this to this community. And it's positive and it's uplifting. I hope that the community feels the same way about it. As long as evoking some kind of emotion is do its job.
重点解析
1.civil rights 民事权利，公民权利
The administration hopes to avoid another bruising battle over civil rights.
政府希望避免因民权问题再次发生激烈冲突。
2.lose sight 忘记
We must never lose sight of the fact that man must work in harmony with nature.
我们绝不能忘记这一点——人类必须与大自然和谐共处。
3.good fit 适合
Looking back, he says Harvard wouldn't have been a good fit.
他说，回首过去，哈佛可能并不一定适合他。
4.stop sb/sth in their tracks 阻止……前进
I've seen our doctors and volunteers rebuild after earthquakes and stop pandemics in their tracks.
我看到地震后我们的医生和志愿者们开展重建工作、遏止流行疾病的蔓延。
5.pay tribute to 表示敬意
I want to pay tribute to all those working in these exceptionally difficult situations.
我要向所有在这些极端困难境况下工作的人们致以敬意。
参考译文
朱迪·伍德拉夫：现在以一种新的方式来纪念一位民权传奇人物。PBS电视台WXXI的制片人詹姆斯·布朗报道了纽约罗彻斯特的艺术家们是如何向已故的约翰·刘易斯致敬的。本则新闻来自艺术和文化板块Canvas。
以法莲·盖布里，壁画家，我在发声：这堵墙将成为地标，这些颜色不会褪色。在我们离开后很长一段时间，它还会在这里。我就在Genesee啤酒厂对面的St Simon's Terrace长大。这座城市给予了我很多东西，能回到这里表达我对这里的爱，我感到非常兴奋。这幅画画的是约翰·刘易斯年轻时演讲的场景，原始照片来自丹尼·里昂，总理，那天的民权摄影师。我们只是想尊重他的遗产以及他为了我们黑人和棕色人种的公平权利所做的一切。他最近去世了，我只是想对他和他的名字以及他的遗产表示敬意，同时也把丹尼·里昂的形象带进大众的生活。所以，它比生命还要重要。
女士：我们不会忘记自己自己要走的路。
以法莲·盖布里：“我在发声”是它的主题。这个项目的名字就叫“我是”。所以我们会在芝加哥结束。第一幅是“我是一个男人”，照片来自孟菲斯的环卫罢工。第二个是在肯塔基州的路易斯维尔，主题是“我在歌唱”，它是一张抗议照片，人们在唱歌、鼓掌，手举在空中。然后这个是“我在发声”。街对面是弗雷德里克·道格拉斯发表“7月4日对奴隶来说是什么”的演讲的地方。所以我觉得起“我在发声”这个名字挺不错的，我觉得挺合适的。我想阻止人们，我控制不了别人对这幅作品的看法，我知道大家的情感和感受，比如，把这些传递给这个社区，这是积极的，令人振奋的，我希望社区也能这么想。它的作用就是唤起某种情感。
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