跟讀練習: How the Mona Lisa became so overrated - 通過影片學習英語口語

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If you want praise of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa as art, you can find it.

Indeed, the interplay of life reflects the duality.

This enigma.

It's even illuminating.

But look at the smile.

But what if you think it's just...fine?

What's the cynics explanation for the Mona Lisa?

Why is the Mona Lisa so, so famous?

Is it really that much better than Da Vinci's Lady with Ermine?

That seems better.

There's one more ermine.

But it's Mona who is so famous that the director of the Louvre,

where Mona Lisa lives, said 80 % of their visitors are only there to see that one painting.

If you don't think Mona Lisa is famous just because she's somehow 10 times better than every other painting, her story reveals something more interesting.

Something about how art breaks into wider culture.

And it might never have happened if the Mona Lisa hadn't disappeared.

Before Mona Lisa became a mass culture star, before she vanished, one critic made her a work of art worth taking.

And he was so over the top, insanely in love with the painting, that he single -handedly made it a masterpiece.

Walter Pater's 1873 book, The Renaissance, was key.

It came out more than 350 years after Leonardo painted Mona Lisa, but it defined the painting for Victorians.

That was key in an age when it was hard to actually see the art, so the words did the work.

Here is the epic, semi -colon, stuffed paragraph at the center of his Ode to Mona Lisa.

Highlights?

The animalism of Greece.

She is older than the rocks among which she sits.

Like the vampire, she has been dead many times.

This was the purplest prose of all time, but people loved this stuff.

Oscar Wilde thought the essay's writing was great.

He praised the musical of the mystical prose, and every general interest profile of the Louvre,

from academic guidebooks to discussion clubs in Paducah, used Pater's words to talk about Mona.

Other critics jumped on.

Mona was a popular, secular painting that they could analyze.

Likewise, unlike Da Vinci's Last Supper, they could supply all the meaning.

But even at her peak, Mona Lisa was just art world famous, not the most famous painting of all time.

In 1907, a vandal at the Louvre targeted a picture by Aang, not Da Vinci.

And in 1910, amidst rumors of theft, papers called Mona just the second most famous painting in the Louvre, after Raphael's Sistina Madonna.

It took a real theft to take Mona from art syllabus highlight to mass culture icon.

These are Vincenzo Perugia's fingerprints.

This is Vincenzo Perugia's mugshot.

He has one because on August 21, 1911, the former Louvre worker lifted the Mona Lisa off the wall and took it home.

It took the Louvre a day to even notice, but the media didn't have as subdued of a reaction.

The painting went missing for two years, and every time the press, often quoting Pater, called it the greatest portrait there ever was.

They speculated that Mona's smile had driven the thief mad, they wrote art thief fan fiction, and they constantly daydreamed about Mona Lisa's whereabouts.

Thousands went to the Louvre just to see empty hooks hanging on the wall.

The robbery and manhunt were like a two -year ad campaign for the painting.

And because you couldn't just google Mona Lisa before it was stolen, it was hard for people to see the actual painting and say, what's the big deal?

When Perugio was caught, he said his goal was to bring Mona back to her native Italy.

By then, she was the most famous painting in the world due, in part, to her absence.

Just as critics could smear prose on her blank face, the press could haine a reputation on those empty hooks in the wall.

When Mona Lisa was stolen, she left a masterpiece.

After her recovery and a two -week tour in Florence, she returned to the Louvre bigger than just art.

She was a story and a legend and prominently shown in every paper that reported her recovery.

It was the big reveal after two years of suspense, now with a story that merited Walter Pater's hyperbole.

From that point on, she attracted presidential speeches and parodies.

We've also come to pay homage to this great creation of the civilization which we share.

The momentum never stopped.

In the end, the cynic's interpretation and the gobsmacked critic's interpretation have something in common.

Mona Lisa isn't a portrait, but.. a blank face, a place for critics to paint meaning, and people to find mystery.

That's why she was so famous, not because of how she's painted, but what we see in her.

If that's not art, then what is?

I found one 1909 description of the Mona Lisa that seemed particularly prescient.

The writer said, Even those whose first expressions is, huh, and proclaim frankly that they cannot see her beauty or her interest,

find themselves disputing hotly over both.

That's probably still the case today.

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這節 B2 級別的口語課以影片“How the Mona Lisa became so overrated”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：Mona, Lisa, painting, Louvre, famous。這段影片共有 64 個句子、840 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 5:33。說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 151 個詞，接近日常對話。只有 75% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，詞彙難度較高。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中最難的 15 個單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
critic 名詞	/ˈkɹɪt.ɪk/	批評家 /批評家, 評論家 /評論家
prose 名詞	/ˈpɹoʊz/	散文
ermine 名詞	/ˈɝmɪn/	白鼬
masterpiece 名詞	/ˈmæstɚˌpis/	傑作 /傑作, 名作
thief 名詞	/ˈθiːf/	賊 /賊, 盜賊 /盜賊
theft 名詞	/θɛft/	盜竊 /盜竊
daydream 動詞	/ˈdeɪdɹiːm/	做白日夢 /做白日夢
enigma 名詞	/ɪˈnɪɡmə/	謎 /謎
fingerprint 名詞	/ˈfɪŋɡɚˌpɹɪnt/	指紋 /指紋
hyperbole 名詞	/haɪˈpɜːbəli/	誇張法 /誇張法
illuminate 動詞	/ɪˈl(j)umɪneɪt/	照亮, 照明
manhunt 名詞	/ˈmænˌhʌnt/	搜捕
prescient 形容詞	/ˈpɹɛʃ(i)ənt/	預知的 /預知的
proclaim 動詞	/pɹəʊˈkleɪm/	宣佈
prominently 副詞	/ˈpɹɑmɪnəntli/	顯著地

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	發音	釋義
come out 動詞	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	出, 出來 /出來

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	was stolen · was caught
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	has been · We've also come

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 6 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 couldn't, didn't, don't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“th” 音: thief /ˈθiːf/, theft /θɛft/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: prescient /ˈpɹɛʃ(i)ənt/, vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/, homage /(h)oʊˈmɑʒ/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
長單詞——注意重音位置: duality /d(j)uːˈælɪti/, hyperbole /haɪˈpɜːbəli/, illuminate /ɪˈl(j)umɪneɪt/, prominently /ˈpɹɑmɪnəntli/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: vandal /ˈvændəl/, vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/, visitor /ˈvɪzɪtɚ/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: critic /ˈkɹɪt.ɪk/, prose /ˈpɹoʊz/, masterpiece /ˈmæstɚˌpis/, thief /ˈθiːf/, theft /θɛft/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: interplay /ˈɪn.tə(ɹ)ˌpleɪ/, proclaim /pɹəʊˈkleɪm/, prominently /ˈpɹɑmɪnəntli/, frankly /fɹæŋkli/

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先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀，熟練之後再回到正常速度。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 critic, prose, ermine 這類單詞。

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