河北 胡金瑩

一張小小的紙片能夠在折紙愛好者的手中變成各種各樣的藝術(shù)品，上海大學(xué)的學(xué)生杜佳磊代表中國隊(duì)參加第九屆 “折紙奧運(yùn)會”（國際折紙奧林匹克競賽）并榮獲季軍。

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1When the list of winners for the ninth International Origami（折紙藝術(shù)） Internet Olympiad (IOIO) was announced, Du Jialei, an undergraduate student from Shanghai University, won third place. Meanwhile, the overall Chinese team ranked second with a total of 16 medals won by the players.

2Founded in 2011 by famous contemporary origami artist, Andrey Ermakov, the IOIO is currently the most influential international origami competition, with a total of 803 players from 59 countries around the world participating in this year's event.

3“You can use only a single piece of paper to create an origami work, and no cutting or joining sections of the paper together should be applied during the process. That's the greatest appeal and also the most arduous part of creating an origami work,” explained Du, who is a student majoring in architecture at the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, the fine arts school of Shanghai University based in east China's Shanghai.

4Du also noted that it is even more difficult to design an artwork from a single piece of paper, as the paper's folds need to be planned out very reasonably, with this effort requiring a lot of theoretical and mathematical knowledge. This also explains why modern origami has a high threshold for new participants, with the number of amateurs remaining relatively small. However, this art form is attracting an increasing number of young enthusiasts.

5The award-winning origami artwork of Du, inspired by the emblem of the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022, was created by the young man based on a quadrate (方形的)paper sheet design. The young artist also added a nautilus (鸚鵡螺) and a sailing ship,which respectively represent the concepts of creativity and hard work for something,among other design features that were added to the main body of the artwork to form an excellent whole upon completion of the piece.

6Du started cultivating an interest in origami early on during his childhood. As a college student, Du said architecture and origami are complementary fields, since origami requires a deeper understanding of spatial design, while the architectural courses that he has taken have aroused even more of his interest in origami-inspired architecture, geometry, and material science.

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Founded in 2011 by famous contemporary origami artist, Andrey Ermakov, the IOIO is currently the most influential international origami competition, with a total of 803 players from 59 countries around the world participating in this year's event. 國際折紙奧林匹克競賽由著名當(dāng)代折紙藝術(shù)家安德烈·葉爾馬科夫于2011年創(chuàng)立，是目前最具影響力的國際折紙比賽，今年共有來自世界59個國家的803名選手參賽。

【點(diǎn)石成金】本句中的Founded in 2011 by famous contemporary origami artist,Andrey Ermakov 為過去分詞作狀語；with a total of 803 players from 59 countries around the world participating in this year's event為with的復(fù)合結(jié)構(gòu)，player和participate構(gòu)成邏輯上的主謂關(guān)系。

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major in 主修

plan out 精心安排；籌劃

have a high threshold for 對……有很高的門檻

an increasing number of 越來越多的

be based on 以……為基礎(chǔ)

cultivate an interest in 培養(yǎng)對……的興趣

early on 在初期