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Vallone, a professor of childhood studies at Rutgers University, combines readings of children’s literature with social history

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问题    Vallone, a professor of childhood studies at Rutgers University, combines readings of children’s literature with social history (she has written a lively book about Queen Victoria’ s girlhood). She gives a bold reading of Tom Thumb’ s multiple appearances in 18th and 19th-century literature.
   【T1】Entering palaces, circuses, music halls and world fairs, Vallone records the ways in which princes, explorers and performers collected people who were physically extraordinary and put them on show for public recreation. In 1626 the Duke of Buckingham staged a banquet for the young queen, Henrietta Maria; its many courses included an enormous pastry from which, just as in "Tom Thumb", a child sprang: Jeffrey Hudson, who, at the age of seven, was 18 inches tall. The queen was pleased with her new toy. 【T2】In Van Dyck’ s painting of them together, on Hudson’ s shoulder perched a pet monkey; the queen, a giantess in a picture hat, absently caresses the animal as she looks out at us loftily. In other portraits of this kind, Vallone writes, a black page plays a similar role as foil and "exotic other", and she suggests that Van Dyck’ s painting "of the pretty dwarf as pet is clearly a portrait of the dwarf as apish or not quite human". 【T3】This doesn ’t convince me: the tiny child, who grew into a tiny man, embodied a singular wonder, and was a collectible just like a seashell, or indeed a white peacock, a gift for someone who has everything.
   Her book is illustrated by good intentions, as it tacks between children’ s books and illustration, art, social history and theories of pedagogy. 【T4】She traverses highly sensitive terrain, where many of today’ s most agitative issues—race, gender, age, reproduction technologies, disability and fatness—lie thornily around. The results are lopsided: at times highly detailed, at others sketchy, at times defiant, at others compliant with current ideas of politeness. 【T5】Tracking the way historical attitudes to bodily difference have changed, she hopes for more tolerance and less mockery of the kind the gang in Mazzetti’ s film so indiferently expressed. But her hopefulness feels strained. Commodifying bodies for entertainment and spectacle hasn ’t come to an end, and the politics of stigmatisation are raging.
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答案在范-戴克的画中，一只宠物猴子栖息在哈德森的肩膀上；女王，一个戴着阔边帽的女巨人，心不在焉地爱抚着这只动物，一边傲慢地看着我们。
解析 本句话前半部分，方位名词提前，句子部分倒装，翻译时调整语序即可；后半部分句子中的giantess意为“女巨人”，可根据giant联想得出释义；a picture hat意为“一顶阔边帽”；absently意为“心不在焉地”。
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