跟读练习: The world's most frustrating work of art - 通过视频学习英语口语
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I reckon that this dome here on a windswept field in Denmark is the world's most frustrating work of art.
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I know that's a bold claim, so let me explain.
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This is Elia, designed by an artist called Ingvar Kronhammer.
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He's famous for dark industrial art, art that looks like machinery, art that looks alienating and remote.
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Elia certainly qualifies as all that.
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It's been here, near the town of Herning in Denmark, since 2001.
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32 metres high, if you include those chimneys.
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The steps up to the viewing gallery are uncomfortably large.
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It feels like it wasn't designed for humans.
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Comparisons to an alien spaceship that's landed in the middle of rural Denmark, well, they're cliché, but standing here they feel about right.
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Something feels wrong about this sculpture.
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Which is all very impressive, but that's not the frustrating part.
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In the middle, just between those four pillars, there is a gas burner and it shoots a massive flame, eight metres in the air, a huge blast of fire.
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It's one more ominous, unsettling thing about the sculpture.
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It might burst into flame at any moment.
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But it probably won't, because it does that, on average, for just 25 seconds about once every two or three weeks,
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at random, decided by a computer.
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It might be months between eruptions, it might just be a few days.
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And according to an article in the local news, it won't go off if the wind is too high, which it probably is today, or if there are any people too close.
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Elia's website doesn't tell you when the flames are going to be, it just archives the time and date of all the ones that you've missed.
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They keep that up to date just to taunt you, I guess, I don't know.
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And sure, there are a couple of photos or videos from people online who've been lucky.
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You can go online and see that.
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But you can go online
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and see the Mona Lisa in much higher resolution than you ever could in person in incredible detail.
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That doesn't stop people crowding into the Louvre in Paris to fight with selfie sticks.
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There is something about being there.
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So if Elia calls to you if you want to see the fire in person, you are going to have to camp out and watch it.
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24 hours a day, maybe for months.
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As for me, I've got about an hour left until I have to leave to catch my flight.
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So here's hoping.
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Thank you.
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