درس اول : جار و جنجال موزه آکروپولیس
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This is going to be a very uncomfortable week for Britain. Greeces Culture Minister, Antonis Samaras, has stoked up the pressure by rejecting what he claimed was an offer by the British Museum to loan some of the sculptures that were hacked from the Parthenon at the turn of the 19th Century
The British Museum said it would consider a three or four month long loan, but only if Greece acknowledged that London was the rightful owner. Mr Samaras said Greece could do no such thing as it would legitimise Lord Elgins theft and vandalism
For years, the unsuccessful efforts to secure the return of the long sculpted frieze have been conducted in polite terms by diplomats and academics. Many Greeks have become tired of what one new movement has described as the Athens governments wishy-washy tactics. Over the past four months 100,000 people have signed up for what promises to be a more dynamic campaign. Some of them will demonstrate outside the new museum the night before the inauguration
The groups leader, Alexis Mantheakis, said that if London could hand back India it should be capable of emptying a room at the British Museum
Malcolm Brabant, Athens
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در اینجا: افزایش داد، فشار بیشتری وارد کرد stoked up
امانت دادن، وام دادن to loan
این اصطلاح برای زمان پایان یک قرن و شروع قرن بعدی به کار برده می شود at the turn of
مالک قانونی بود was the rightful owner
مشروعیت بخشیدن legitimise
نقش برجسته sculpted frieze
شل و ول، مردد، دو دل wishy-washy
در اینجا: تصمیم گرفتند در…….شرکت کنند، تصمیم گرفتند به…..ملحق شوند signed up for
مراسم افتتاح رسمی inauguration
اگر بریتانیا توانسته از کنترل استعماری هند دست بردارد…. hand back
