Brazil unfurled a vast canvas celebrating its rainforest and the creative energy of its wildly diverse population to the tune of samba, bossa nova and funk in welcoming the world on Friday to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
In a country of great economic inequality, the opening ceremony celebrated the culture of the favelas, the slums that hang vertiginously above the renowned beaches of Rio and ring the site of Friday’s spectacle, the famed Maracana stadium.
There was no glossing over history either: from the arrival of the Portuguese and their conquest of the indigenous populations to the use of African slave labor for 400 years. The clash of cultures, as the ceremony showed, is what makes Brazil the complex mosaic that it is.
Home to the Amazon, the world’s largest forest, Brazil used the ceremony to call on the 3 billion people watching the opening of the world’s premiere sporting event to take care of the planet, plant seeds and reconquer the verdant land that Europeans found here five centuries ago.
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creative[kriː'eɪtɪv]adj. 有创造力的
【同替】original, inventive
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diverse[daɪ'vɜːs]adj. 多种多样的
【同替】various, different
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renowned[rɪ'naʊnd]adj. 著名的
【同替】famous, well-known
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indigenous[ɪn'dɪdʒɪnəs] adj. 当地的
【同替】native, original
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complex['kɒmpleks] adj. 复杂的
【同替】sophisticated, intricate
雅思阅读必备长难句分析
The clash of cultures, as the ceremony showed, is what makes Brazil the complex mosaic that it is.
参考译文
正如仪式所展示的，文化的冲突让巴西成为了现在复杂多样化的样子。
解析
简单的句子中包括三个从句和一个比喻。as引导方式状语从句；what引导宾语从句；that引导定语从句修饰mosaic。句中使用mosaic马赛克比喻巴西社会的多样化。
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