英语口语畅谈世界文化之意大利55:Leonardo Da Vinci莱昂纳多.达.芬奇mp3

英语口语畅谈世界文化

之意大利

55 Leonardo Da Vinci 莱昂纳多•达•芬奇

J:Jarncs    S：Sophia
J：詹姆斯  S:苏菲娅

J: I've just finished reading a great book.  The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown.
J：我刚看完《达•芬奇密码：》，这本书不错，是丹•布朗写的。 

S: I've read it, too. It got me really interested in Leonardo Da Vinci, so I started doing some
S：我也看了。它真的使我对莱昂纳多•达•芬奇产生厂兴趣，所以我就开始在这方面做些研究。

J: Mc too! What did you discover?
J：我也是！你有什么发现？

S: Well, it sounds like he was a strange. but very gifted man He was a painter, inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician and philosopher.
S：是这样，他看上去很奇怪，但很有天赋。他既是画家，义是发明家、建筑师、T程师、数学家和哲学家‘

J: Yes, a genius the world has never seen the like of again so far. He was born in 1452, in Anchiaro, probably in a farmhouse.
J：是的，一个迄今为止世界上再也找不出来的天才。他1452年生于安基亚诺村，可能是存一个农舍里出生的、，

S: But his father didn't marry his mother, because she was the daughter of a farmer and nor from a wealthy family.
S：但他父亲并没有娶他母亲，因为他母亲是个农夫的女儿，不是富家小姐。

J: Today, all we know about her is her name, Catarina. When he was five years old he moved to a nearby town called "Vinci".
J：今天我们只知道他妈妈的名字叫凯特暇安。达•芬奇5岁时，他搬到了附近一个叫“芬奇”的小镇。

S: It sounds like he was a precocious child, his teachers despaired about all the questions he asked and doubts about the world.
S：听起来他好像是个早熟的孩子，他的老师们都被他提出的问题难住了，也无法向他解释他对周围世界的疑惑。．

J: It seems that many geniuses asked too many questions during childhood! When he was fourteen he moved to Florence where he began an apprenticeship in the workshop of Verrocchio.
J：好像很多天才童年时都喜欢问很多的问题！达•芬奇14岁时，搬到了佛罗伦萨，在那里他开始在韦罗基奥的画室当学徒。

S: At that time Verrocchio was the most gifted artist in Florence. There's no doubt that Verrocchio had a great influence on Leonardo.
S：那时韦罗基奥是佛罗伦萨最有天份的艺术家。毫无疑问他对达•芬奇产生了巨大影响。

J: He worked with lots of other famous artists, too.  Such as Botticelli, Perugino and Lorenzo di Credi..
J：达•芬奇还跟许多其他有名的艺术家工作过．如波提切剩、佩鲁贾和洛伦佐•迪•克勒迪。

S: Really? So he was definitely in the company of some great people. their talents must have rubbed off on him.
S：真的吗？那就是说他一定经常接触一些伟人，他们的天才肯定也影响了一他。

J: In 1472 Leonardo became a member of the Painters Guild of Florence, so he ended his apprenticeship. But he continued to work in Verrocchio's workshop.
J：1472年，莱昂纳多成为了佛罗伦萨画家协会的一员，也因此结束了他的学徒生涯。但他仍然留在韦罗基奥的画室T作。

S: I read that his first known work was a pen and ink drawing of a valley next to the river Arno. It's drawn from an aerial perspective, this style would later become known as "the perspective of disappearance .
S：我知道他的第一幅名画是关于亚诺河附近一个山谷的钢笔画。这幅画是用空间透视法画的，这种风格就是后来人人皆知的“明暗渐进法”。

J: After c.hat he created many famous works, The Baptism of Christ, The Annunciation and of course The Mona Lisa．
J：此后，他又创造J，很多有名的作品，如<基督受洗图》，《天使报喜》，当然还有《蒙娜•丽莎》。

S: With all of his paintings and inventions, like the first flying machine, it will take us a long time to research everything!
S：他所有的绘画作品和发明创造，就像第一架飞行器一样，要想每样都研究得花我们很长时间。

【单词词组】
the world has never seen the like of…  至今世人还没有看到相同的或相似的……
precocious child早熟的孩子   
begin an apprenticeship开始学徒生涯
rub off- on him因接触而对他产生了影响

【背景介绍】
列奥纳多·达·芬奇（1452年（壬申年）4月15日－1519年5月2日；意大利语发音：[leo?nardo da ?vint?i]  pronunciation（帮助·信息）），又译达文西，全名列奥纳多·迪·瑟皮耶罗·达·芬奇（Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci，意为“芬奇城梅瑟·皮耶罗之子──列奥纳多”），是意大利文艺复兴时期的一个博学者：除了是画家，他还是雕刻家、建筑师、音乐家、数学家、工程师、发明家、解剖学家、地质学家、制图师、植物学家和作家。他的天赋或许比同时期的其他人物都高，这使他成为文艺复兴时期人文主义的代表人物，也使得他成为文艺复兴时期典型的艺术家，也是历史上最著名的画家之一，与米开朗基罗和拉斐尔并称文艺复兴三杰。小行星3000被命名为“列奥纳多”以表示人们对列奥纳多·达·芬奇的尊敬和怀念。