High on life: Amsterdam’s hippy past

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High on life: Amsterdam’s hippy past

• hippy 嬉皮士；嬉皮风

1. These days it is famous for having more bikes than people and scores of coffeeshops where the sale of marijuana, though illegal, is tolerated.

2. But back in the 1960s the Dutch capital was flourishing in a more overtly radical way.

• overtly 明显地;公开,公然
• flourishing 繁荣的；蒸蒸日上的；繁茂的

3. An exhibition called “Amsterdam, The Magic Center”, which opens today at the city’s Stedelijk Museum, explores how the so-called Venice of the North got its start as a hub of art and countercultural thought.

• countercultural 反主流文化的；反文化的

4. Artists flocked to the city and the streets became a canvas on which they offered a critique of society with humor and irony.

• flocked to 蜂拥而至
• canvas 帆布；画布；油画
• critique 批判
• irony 反语；反话

5. One collective bombarded a busy central square with huge inflatable objects; another artist decorated a gigantic Christmas tree on a main street in the middle of summer.

• bombard 炮轰；频频不断地；被轰炸的
• inflatable 可充气的；可膨胀的；充气式的
• gigantic 巨大的；庞大的

6. A highlight of the show is the squatter movement’s how-to manual for aspiring renegade homemakers.

• squatter
• renegade 叛徒；叛逆者；背叛者；变节者

7. Things may not be quite so psychedelic now, but the city has not lost its sparkle.

• psychedelic 引起幻觉的；使人精神恍惚的；产生迷幻效果的

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