兩岸故宮爭議
Forbidden City Palace Museum Director Shan Jixiang has rejected claims that Taipei’s National Palace Museum houses a significant collection of Imperial Chinese art.
北京故宮博物院院長單霽翔稱台北故宮收藏的中國宮廷藝術文物並不珍貴。
The Palace Museum (北京)故宮博物院house(v.)收藏significant(adj.)重要的、顯著的collection(n.)(一系列的)收藏品Imperial Chinese art中國宮廷藝術
According to a report by a Hong Kong newspaper, the Beijing museum director said that Taiwan had a third-rate collection of art and cultural pieces and that it only accounted for 22% of the original imperial collection.
香港報紙報導，單霽翔稱台灣故宮的文物收藏只是三級品，實際上只有原始收藏的22％。
account for~佔…(比例)=make up=constitute
Even the Jadeite Cabbage and the Meat-shaped Stone are only “third-rate” artifacts, Shan said of the most popular items in the 700,000-piece collection of paintings, calligraphy, statuary, bronzes, and jade at Taipei’s National Palace Museum.
單霽翔稱，台北故宮近70萬件書畫、雕像、銅器、玉器等收藏品中，甚至連最受歡迎的「翠玉白菜」和「肉形石」只能算是「三級品」。
Meat-shaped Stone 肉形石calligraphy(n.)書法statuary(n.)(總稱)雕像，雕塑，塑像
The comments sparked animosity on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
這些言論引發了台灣海峽兩岸的敵意。
spark(v.)激起animosity(n.)仇恨、敵意、憎惡=hostility
The National Palace Museum in Taipei said that it was not appropriate to draw comparisons between the two institutions.
台北國立故宮博物院表示，不宜將兩岸故宮拿來做比較。
appropriate(adj.)適當的、恰當的、合適的draw comparisons between~比較
“Both collections include cultural and artistic artifacts from different eras and backgrounds,” it said, adding that the pieces had different aesthetics to reflect different social conditions.
「各博物館所藏之文物及藝術品具不同時空背景⋯⋯也有不同社會民情的審美喜好。」
era(n.)時代;年代(a)esthetics(n.)美學、審美觀、美感reflect(v.)反映出
Disputes between the two palace museums have been known to occasionally flare up over the past few decades, ever since the National Palace Museum was established to display artifacts that were taken to Taiwan by KMT troops following the Chinese Civil War.
自台灣故宮成立以展示國共內戰後，由國民黨軍隊帶到台灣的文物，這幾十年來，兩岸故宮之間便時常爆發爭議。
flare up(戰況、衝突)惡化display(v.)展示=show(case)