VOA慢速英语:Nam June Paik Turned Video into an Object of Art

短语讲解：

1. It is made up of three hundred thirty-six televisions, fifty DVD players, and over one hundred seventy meters of neon lighting.

make up of 构成，组成
例句：There were plans to change the make up of the board.
有计划要改变董事会的构成人员。

2. This video sculpture makes use of over one thousand televisions.

make use of 利用
例句：You should make use of this chance.
你应该好好利用这次机会。

3. The sculpture looks like a huge layered birthday cake.

look like 看起来像
例句：Look like a teenager?
看起来像个少年吗？

4. Nam June Paik was born in Korea in nineteen thirty-two.

born in 出生于；生来就有……的（才能）
例句：I was born in a small city near guangzhou.
我出生在离广州不远的一个小城市。

5. He said that television images were no longer only the property of governments or broadcast companies.

no longer 不再，已不
例句：She is no longer a child.
她不再是小孩子了。

6. This device helped open up the world of video to more artists.
 
open up 开辟
例句：I can help you open up more territories.
我能帮你开辟更多的市场。

7. It turns out this is one way he came up with ideas, making notes to himself, playing on paper with ideas and materials.

come up with 追赶上；比得上
例句：Slow down a bit and let me come up with you.
跑慢一点让我赶上吧。

8. People have been surprised to see this aspect of Paik’s work focused on because they are used to seeing the big banks of televisions with a lot of dancing and twisting images.

a lot of 诸多
例句：I subscribed to a lot of periodicals last year.
去年我订了诸多期刊。