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灵感来源
Laura Weiss was a retired nurse in Boulder, Colorado. Over the past seven months, Weiss and her colleagues have inoculated hundreds of thousands of people, so she wanted to find a way to pay tribute to their collective effort.
韦斯是科罗拉多州博尔德的一个退休护士。过去七个月，韦斯和她的同事们已经为成千上万的居民接种了疫苗，所以她准备想个办法向他们共同的努力致敬。
She's done that with a 4-foot-tall chandelier made with hundreds of vaccine vials that she's called the Light of Appreciation.
为此，她用几百个疫苗注射瓶做了一个四尺高的水晶灯,并叫它“感恩之光”。
"I knew I had wanted to do something with light because I felt like it's just been such a dark year and a half that I wanted to bring light to whatever I was doing. And then it started."
“我一直确信我想要用光做点什么。因为这整整一年半的时间都非常灰暗，所以我希望无论我在干什么的时候都能有光。于是我开始了这项工程。”
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变废为宝
At work, she said, "we had hundreds and hundreds of empty vials that they were going to be wasted and I thought they were beautiful."
在创作时，她说：“我们有成百上千将会被丢弃的疫苗试剂空瓶。我觉得它们很漂亮。”
"I just started playing with it," Weiss recalled.
“于是我就开始尝试利用它们。”韦斯回忆道。
"I figured out how to drill holes and clean all the vials, and then I just started stringing them together with some crystals."
“我找到了在空瓶上钻孔和清洗空瓶的方法，然后我开始将它们和水晶串在一起。”
Weiss was trying to drill holes on the vials.
The result is quite stunning.
成品出乎意料的漂亮。
"I love that from far away it just looks like a beautiful chandelier, and then you get closer and you realize it's all vaccine vials," she said about the one-of-a-kind work of art.
“我非常喜欢我的作品。从远处看，它是一个漂亮的水晶灯；当你走近时，你就会发现它完全是用疫苗注射瓶打造的。”她对这件举世唯一的艺术品这样评价。
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团结之果
All in all, Weiss used 271 glass vials of the vaccine and about 10 of the smaller bottles to decorate the bottom tier of the Light of Appreciation.
271个疫苗注射瓶和10个小一些的瓶子，组成了韦斯这件“感恩之光”作品的底层。
The whole sight of the artwork
It is a fraction of the vials that have been used in the county's successful vaccination drive. As of September 4, 82% of the eligible population has received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
这个小镇总计使用过的注射瓶还远远不止这些——截至9月4日，该镇82%的适宜接种人口已接种了至少一剂疫苗。
"I think it's just awesome everyone came together like that," Weiss said.
“看到每个人都如此团结，实在是太棒了。”韦斯说。
"The nurses there had such passion and dedication and skill and care to do this for hours and hours, day upon day. And not just the nurses. We had wonderful volunteers and administrators, and clerical people."
“耐心、热忱、细致......这些技艺精湛的护士，全心投入接种工作，日复一日。如此辛苦的不仅仅是护士们，还有非常尽心尽力的志愿者、管理者和神职人员。”
"I have had people see this and just thank us because they could finally see their families again. And it is really, really heartwarming," she said.
“我看到人们欣赏了这件作品之后，对我和我的同事们表示真挚的感谢。因为他们终于能够和家人团聚了。这是非常、非常令人动容的。”她说。
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医艺结合
"Light of Appreciation" is absolutely an amazing creation. Weiss has broken the boundary between science and art by her effort. This artwork represents the joint effort of residents in Boulder, and has really cast a beam of light in the dull life during the pandemic.
毫无疑问，“感恩之光”是一件令人惊叹的作品。韦斯通过努力打破了科学与艺术的界限。这件作品象征着博尔德居民们的齐心协力，并且为疫情期间人们沉闷的生活带来了一束光亮。
难点词汇与搭配：
1）inoculate：To inoculate a person or animal means to inject a weak form of a disease into their body as a way of protecting them against the disease. 给...预防接种
例：A corps of doctors arrived to inoculate the recruits.
2）tribute：A tribute is something that you say, do, or make to show your admiration and respect for someone. 称赞; 敬意
例：The director paid tribute to all she had done for the charity.
3）stunning：A stunning event is extremely unusual or unexpected. 令人震惊的
例：He resigned last night after a stunning defeat in Sunday's vote.
4）a fraction of：A fraction of things is a part—especially a small part of something.一（小）部分
例：After five treatments, there has been dramatic improvement in my arm, and the pain is a fraction of what it was.
5）eligible：Someone who is eligible to do something is qualified or able to do it, for example, because they are old enough. 有资格的
例：Almost half the population are eligible to vote in today's election.
原文链接：
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/08/1034983586/nurse-chandelier-vaccine-vials-colorado-boulder
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