Lesson 38 The Sculptor Speaks 雕刻家谈话录-第四册笔记新版

1、Lesson 38 The Sculptor Speaks 雕刻家谈话录-第四册笔记新版accuracy in the perception of flat form, they do not make the furtherintellectual and emotional effort needed to comprehend form in itsfull spatial existence.This is what the sculptor must do. He must strive continually tothink of , and use, form in its fu

2、ll spatial completeness. He getsthe solid shape, as it were, inside his head-he thinks of it,whatever its size, as if he were holding it completely enclosed inthe hollow of his hand. He mentally visualizes a complex form fromall round itself； he knows while he looks at one side what the otherside is

3、 like； he identifies himself with its centre of gravity, itsmass, its weight； he realizes its volume, as the space that the shapedisplaces in the air. And the sensitive observer of sculpture mustalso learn to feel shape simply as shape, not as description orreminiscence. He must, for example, percei

4、ve an egg as a simplesingle solid shape, quite apart from its significance as food,orfrom the literary idea that it will become a bird.And so with solids such as a shell, a nut, a plum, a pear, a tadpole,a mushroom, a mountain peak, a kidney, a carrot, a tree-trunk, abird, a bud, a lark, a ladybird,

5、 a bulrush, a bone. From these hecan go on to appreciate more complex forms of combinations ofseveral forms.New words and expressions 生词短语sculpture n, 雕刻人体雕像，大型的雕塑像statuary雕像engrave在一些东西上刻花，刻工艺品，刻字inscribe题字score刻成一些比拟得意的小东西form-blind a.行盲的指空间感缺乏colour-blind a, 色盲的 perception n. 知觉perceptible a. 可感知

6、的 perceptive + to sth. 思维敏感sensitive + to sth. 身体敏感emotional a. 感情的 sentimental 多愁善感emotional更加心情化，由于当时的状况变化而产生心情的激扬，指一时的冲动Girls are more or less sentimental when they saw some sad prehend vt. 理解 comprehension n.apprehend v. 理解 apprehension prehensibly 好理解地comprehensive ability 理解综合力量spatial a, 空间的t

7、emporal 时间的We all follow spatial and temporal order.我们写作要严循时空挨次。spacious a.二huge and big 宽阔的spatial state 空间状态as it were 虽不行能但好像是visualize vt.设想二imaginevisual眼睛的，关于视野的audit听力的audience观众visual and audit lesson 视听课vision 视野 view 观点visible可见的visual effect视觉效果visual mobility视觉动感conceiveenvisagepicture v

8、.I can picture sth. in my mind,我头脑中构思centre of gravity 重心reminiscence n. 回忆，联想remind回忆The fade coloured picture reminds me of my happy childhood.这幅发黄的照片使我回忆起了童年。reminiscent a.The picture is reminiscent of my happy childhood.The picture is a reminiscence of my happy childhood.reminder勾起回忆的物品literary

9、a.文学的literature 文学 literary works 文学作品 literary field 文学界literary criticism文学批判，文学评论literate有学问的，识字的人illiterate不识字的，文盲anti-illiteracy movement 扫盲运动anti-drags movement 禁毒运动literary translation 直译二word to word translationfreetranslation 意译 paraphraseplum n. 李子pear n.梨子peach 桃子，大美人peachblossom 桃花 peach

10、 flower fan/ peachblossom fan 桃花扇tadpole n, 蝌蚪 I m a Tadpole.我是密西西比(Mississippi)人。frog青蛙The tadpole is the larva of the frog.蝌蚪是青蛙的幼体。mushroom n,蘑菇to spring up like mushrooms 如雨后春笋般Individual enterprises are springing up like mushrooms.carrot n. 胡萝卜the stick and the carrot policy 软硬兼施政策parrot n. v.鹦

11、鹉He always parrots.他老是鹦鹉学舌。bud n. 花蕾The flower is in bud,这朵花含苞欲放。nip sth. in the bud 防患于未然lark n, 云雀 二skylark ladybird n, 瓢虫=ladybug litterbug 乱扔垃圾的人bulrush n.芦苇She/He is a bulrush,她/他是墙头草。combination n.结合体My article combines the simplicity and the elegance.我的文章既简洁又美观。sculptor n,雕刻家This article is a

12、bout how to enjoy/appreciate beauty in terms ofsculpture,怎样观赏美的雕塑appreciation of sculpture 观赏，理解雕塑depend upon=depend on口语多用depend on，书面语多用depend uponrespond to对有一种反映力量involve与有关is concerned withdistinguish二differpractical necessity 实际需求strive to 追求solid固定的physical实在的inside his head在他脑子中间whatever its size=no matter what size it is 不管其什么样的外形enclose 包着all round整个四周penetrability 穿透力identify with与等同