英语口语畅谈世界文化之荷兰68:Van Gogh曲梵.高mp3

英语口语畅谈世界文化

之荷兰

68 Van Gogh 曲梵•高

D: Darren           C: Craig
D:达伦                C:克雷格

D: Craig, look at this. I'm looking at this website all about famous people who committed suicide. It's really interesting and a little gross.
D：克雷格．看这个。我正上网查看所有自杀而死的名人。真的很有意思，倒真有几个。

C: Check out Van Gogh, I need to do some research about him.
C：查查梵•高吧，我想对他做些调查研究。

D: Van Gogh . .. here we are. Vincent Van Gogh, born 1853 in Holland, died 1890 in France of a self-infliaed gunshot.  He cut his ear off before that, didn't he?
D：梵-高……找到了。文森特•梵•高．1853年生于荷兰．1890年在法国用一把自制手枪自杀。此前他曾割下自己的耳朵，是吧？

C: Yes, he was a troubled genius. His brief, turbulent, and tragic life epitomizes the mad genius legend.What else does it say?
c：是的，他是个麻烦缠身的天才。他那短暂、狂躁而义富有悲剧性的生活就是这位疯狂天才传奇般的缩影。网上还说什么T？

D: Only one of his paintings was sold while he was alive, and his most famous ones were painted during a period of 29 months where he worked and worked, and then became and then become suicidal.
D：说他活着的时候只卖去过一幅画，他最有名的画大多是在29个月里不俘地画出来的，之后就自杀了．，

C: Acmally, one reason he became suicidal was because he was suffering from epilepsy. In his grim struggle Vincent had one constant ally and support. his younger brother Theo.
C：他自杀的一个真正原因是他身患癫痫症。在他挣扎着与疾病抗争时，文森特只有一个永恒的支持者，就是他的小弟弟提奥。

D: He wrote Theo many letters talking of his dreams and aspirations, I think Theo tried to keep him from going insane.
D：他给提奥写过很多信．谈到他的梦想和抱负，我想为了防止他变疯，提奥曾经做出过努力。

C: He didn't succeed ,though. Beforc he became a painter he worked for an art dealer, didn't he?
C：不过，他并没有成功。梵•高在成为画家之前，曾为一个艺术品商人作过，是吧？

D: Yes, but I don't think he enjoyed his job. He antagonised customers until he was dismissed. He then tried preaching, as he was a strong Humanitanan, about the oppression of mining Eamilies.
D：是的，但我认为他并不喜欢那份工作。他对顾客充满敌意，后来就被解雇了。之后他曾尝试过为那些受压迫的矿工家庭讲道，因为他是个人道主义者。

C: No one took him seriously, people just laughed at him. He couldn't get a girlfriend because of the connicts in his personality and he couldn't keep a friend. Most of  his friends ended in bitter arguments.
C：但没人把他当回事，人们只是嘲笑他。因为他自身矛盾的性格，他找不到女朋友，也不能维持友谊。他大部分的友谊最终都以激烈的争吵而宣告结束。

D: He must have been a lonely man.It says here chat he didn't become a painter untill 10 years before his death? I didn't know that.
D：他一定很孤独。这儿说他在生命的最后十年才开始成为画家，是吗？我还不知道呢。

C: Yes, his early paintings during the 1880s showed a use of greens and browns, like in this picture The Potato Eaters. That's an early one.
C：是的，19世纪80年代他早期的绘画作品里采用的是绿色和棕色，如《吃土豆的人》那是他早期的一幅作品。

D: After that his style changed, maybe because he left Paris and nloved to Arles. That's where he painted Sunflowers and when he cut off his ear.
D：之后-他的风格发生了变化，可能是由于他离开巴黎，搬到了阿尔。在那里他画了《向日葵》，也是在那时他割掉了自己的一只耳朵。

C: He was sent to a mental hospital after that, where he painted the swirling Starry Nights, and just a few months later . .
C：后来．他被送进一家精神病院，在那里完成了那幅漩涡状的《星月夜》，几个月之后…

D: Bang!He shot himself
D：砰的一声，他用枪结束了自己的生命。

【单词词组】
A little gross有几个
suffer from…患……病
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antagonise custamer对顾客有敌意

【背景介绍】
文森特·威廉·梵高（Vincent Willem van Gogh，1853－1890），荷兰后印象派画家。他是表现主义的先驱，并深深影响了二十世纪艺术，尤其是野兽派与表现主义。梵高的作品，如《星夜》、《向日葵》与《有乌鸦的麦田》等，现已跻身于全球最著名、广为人知与珍贵的艺术作品的行列。1890年7月29日，因精神疾病的困扰，在法国瓦兹河开枪自杀，时年37岁。