吉尔·麦吉弗林, 特写:大芬油画村经历环球不景气. BBC Chinese, Oct 27, 2012.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... nting_village.shtml
, which is translated from
Jill McGivering, China's Oil Painting Village Feels Global Shift. BBC, Oct 26, 2012.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-20024706
("Overall figures were hard to verify but one local newspaper report said that exports fell by more than 50% in the first half of this year because of a collapse in Western orders")
Note:
(a) The report mentioned "archly posing Chinese beauties."
archly (adv): "EXTREMELY <archly conservative>"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/d ... =0&t=1351639495
(b) The report said, "An artist could typically paint 10 such copies a day, he said. He could knock out 20."
knock out (vt): "to produce roughly or hastily"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/knock%20out
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