[E323]An artist celebrates|经济学人
本文音频及原文摘自杂志The Economist《经济学人》2016年第3期，China版块。
|From the print edition
Lego produced its first interlocking bricks in 1949, the year the Chinese Communist Party founded the People’s Republic. While the former has generally inspired creativity[激发创造性], the latter is typically more fearful of it. But last year Ai Weiwei (pictured), a Chinese artist, accused Lego of censorship[审查;审查制度;审查机构] when it refused his large order because it could not approve of using bricks “for political works”. He planned an artwork on dissidents['dɪsɪdənt][异议人士]. On January 12th Lego backed down[放弃;让步], saying it would no longer query a buyer’s purpose[不再(质疑/询问/查询)买家的(用途/意图/目的)]. The reversal[反转;逆转] comes too late for Mr Ai: members of the public have already donated millions of bricks, many of them dropped into second-hand BMWs set up by the artist as collection points. He must have enough by now to build a Great Wall.
1949年，第一块乐高塑料积木问世，同年，中国共产党建立了中华人民共和国。相对前者能广泛地激发人们的创造性，后者则对之畏惧不已。去年，因乐高不愿意其积木被用作政治性创作而拒绝中国艺术家艾未未的大额积木订单后，艾未未控诉乐高的审查行为。1月12日，乐高方面终于让步，声明不会再对买家的用途进行审查质疑。然而，这一反转对艾未未来说已经太迟了：公众已经捐赠了成千上万块积木，一大部分都堆放在了一辆二手宝马车上，艾未未将其作为捐赠收集点，他已经有了足够的积木用来创造一座长城了。
注：个人翻译，仅供参考，有什么不对的麻烦指出
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▷ interlock [,ɪntɚ'lɑk]
adj. 连锁的
n. 连锁；咬合作用
The problems of Israel, Lebanon, and the Gulf were tightly interlocked...
以色列、黎巴嫩与海湾的问题一环扣一环。
▷ brick [brɪk]
n. 砖; 砖块; 积木; 可靠的朋友
He compounded water, sand and soil and formed bricks.
他用水拌和沙和泥土做成砖块.
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