新东方新概念英语四册课堂笔记 Lesson38:The Sculptor Speaks

Lesson 38 The Sculptor Speaks 雕刻家谈话录

Appreciation of sculpture depends upon the abi8lity to respond to form in three dimensions. That is perhaps why sculpture has been described as the most difficult of all arts; certainly it is more difficult than the arts which involve appreciation of flat forms, shape in only two dimensions. Many more people are 'form-blind' than colour-blind. The child learning to see, first distinguishes only two-dimensional shape; it cannot judge distances,depths. Later, for its personal safety and practical needs, it has to develop(partly by means of touch) the ability to judge roughly three-dimensional distances. But having satisfied the requirements of practical necessity, most people go no further. Though they may attain considerable

accuracy in the perception of flat form, they do not make the further intellectual and emotional effort needed to comprehend form in its full spatial existence.

This is what the sculptor must do. He must strive continually to think of , and use, form in its full spatial completeness. He gets the solid shape, as it were, inside his head--he thinks of it, whatever its size, as if he were holding it completely enclosed in the hollow of his hand. He mentally visualizes a complex form from all round itself; he knows while he looks at one side what the other side is like; he identifies himself with its centre of gravity, its mass, its weight; he realizes its volume, as the space that the shape displaces in the air. And the sensitive observer of sculpture must also learn to feel shape simply as shape, not as description or reminiscence. He must, for example, perceive an egg as a simple single solid shape, quite apart from its significance as food,or from 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, a bird, a bud, a lark, a ladybird, a bulrush, a bone. From these he can go on to appreciate more complex forms of combinations of several 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 刻成一些比较可爱的小东西

form-blind a. 行盲的（指空间感不足）

colour-blind a. 色盲的perception n. 知觉

perceptible a. 可感知的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 更加情绪化，由于当时的情况变化而产生情绪的激昂，指一时的冲动

Girls are more or less sentimental when they saw some sad things.

comprehend vt. 理解 comprehension n.

apprehend v. 理解apprehension n.

comprehensibly 好理解地

comprehensive ability 理解综合能力

spatial a. 空间的 temporal 时间的

We all follow spatial and temporal order.我们写作要严循时空顺序。

spacious a.=huge and big 宽敞的

spatial state 空间状态

as it were （虽不可能）但似乎是…

visualize vt. 设想=imagine

visual 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