跟读练习: Why is "The Scream" screaming? - Noah Charney - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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An undulating sky melds into the landscape, two silhouettes move along a balustraded walkway, and a ghostly figure’s features extend in agony.
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An undulating sky melds into the landscape, two silhouettes move along a balustraded walkway, and a ghostly figure’s features extend in agony.
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Since Norwegian artist Edvard Munch created “The Scream” in 1893, it’s become one of the world’s most famous artworks.
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But why has its cry traveled so far and endured so long?
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Munch was born in 1863, one of five children.
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Tuberculosis devastated Europe throughout the 1800s, killing almost a quarter of all adults.
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It took Munch’s mother’s life, then his elder sister’s.
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Soon after, Munch had his own bout of the disease.
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Another of his sisters experienced mental illness and lived much of her life in an institution.
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Meanwhile, Munch flitted in and out of school due to illness, often spending days at home, drawing and listening to the ominous stories his father read aloud.
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A devout Lutheran, his father considered Munch’s artistic ambitions unholy.
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“I inherited the seeds of madness,” Munch wrote.
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“The angels of fear, sorrow, and death stood by my side since the day I was born.” Eventually, Munch moved to Berlin, where he frequented creative circles committed to breaking with academic tradition and instead developing their crafts organically.
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While Munch had trained classically, he began immersing himself in what he called “soul painting”— compositions that prized raw, subjective affect over realistic rendering.
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“It’s not the chair that should be painted,” he wrote, “but what a person has felt at the sight of it.” Many of Munch’s works dealt with personal suffering.
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This may have also led to what certain critics observed as unsympathetic portrayals of women in works where Munch represented them as cruel predators victimizing hapless men.
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And death often haunted Munch’s compositions— from a skeleton helming a boat to a morbid self-portrait and his sister's final moments to a mother on her deathbed, her child assuming a now-familiar expression.
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Munch’s art generated controversy— some critics characterizing him as “absolutely demented”— but it also drew acclaim.
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And what would become his most famous work was just around the corner.
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“The Scream” was inspired by a moment that overwhelmed Munch with an acute sense of anguish.
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In a diary entry marked January 22nd, 1892, Munch described walking with two friends along a fjord overlooking what’s now Oslo at sunset.
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He leaned against a fence, exhausted, as he saw the sky change suddenly.
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He described “blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city.” As his friends walked on, Munch wrote, “I stood there trembling with anxiety— and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.” As with other painful experiences, Munch revisited the scene repeatedly.
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First, he depicted it with a more recognizably human subject.
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But the following year, he surrendered it to dramatic, abstracted symbolism, the haunting expression on the figure’s skull-like face meeting the viewer’s gaze directly.
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On this first version, he added a subtle, wry inscription: “Could only have been painted by a madman!” Based on Munch’s account, many think the figure isn’t emitting the shriek but reacting to it.
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Munch eventually made four versions of “The Scream”— all on cardboard, two with pastel, two with paint— and he created numerous prints and lithographs.
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The year following the first “Scream,” he depicted the same setting but featured a collection of despairing faces.
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In late 1893, Munch premiered “The Scream” at a solo exhibit in Berlin.
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The artwork’s bold composition helped fuel the Expressionist movement, which likewise emphasized stark psychological states, mapping the emotional contours of World War I and beyond.
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“The Scream” continued its crescendo.
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When it entered the public domain in the mid-1900s, new renditions and reproductions bolstered its fame.
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It featured in popular films during the 1990s, and both painted versions of “The Scream” were stolen and recovered in separate heists in 1994 and 2004.
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Soon enough, it was a widely accepted archetypal symbol for horror and angst.
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A “Scream”-inspired emoji was eventually implemented.
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And, considering how to mark hazardous sites so far-off future generations could know to avoid them, the US government has considered using “The Scream” expression.
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While its myriad cultural influences may not always reflect the personal agony Munch initially rendered, “The Scream” has certainly found a near universal echo.
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本课介绍
在本节课中，学习者将通过分析爱德华·穆克的名作《呐喊》来提升他们的英语口语能力。此视频带领我们进入穆克的艺术世界，探索其创作背后的情感与故事。这将为学习者提供丰富的语言实践素材，特别是在描述情感和心理状态方面。通过反复的影子跟读练习，学习者能够掌握表述激烈情感的词汇和短语，从而提升他们的英语表达能力和自信心。
关键词汇与短语
- 呐喊 (The Scream)：穆克的代表作品，该画作通过色彩和情感传达了深刻的痛苦。
- 血与火焰 (blood and tongues of fire)：形象的描述了穆克在创作时所感受到的强烈视觉冲击。
- 无尽的呐喊 (infinite scream)：传达了自然界中弥漫的不安与焦虑。
- 艺术家 (artist)：爱德华·穆克，著名的挪威画家，他以表达个人痛苦和心理状态著称。
- 心理状态 (psychological states)：艺术和文学中常用来描述人物的情感及内心冲突。
- 抽象表现主义 (Expressionism)：穆克的艺术风格，重视情感的直接表达。
- 文化影响 (cultural influences)：《呐喊》在全球范围内对文化和艺术产生的深远影响。
- 影子跟读 (shadowspeak)：一种有效的学习英语口语的方法，通过跟随音频来练习发音和语调。
练习提示
在进行影子跟读时，学习者应注意以下几点：
- 语速：此视频的语速相对适中，学习者可以模仿讲者的语调和停顿，在保持理解的基础上加深记忆。
- 情感表现：关注视频中的情感表达，尤其是焦虑和痛苦的语气，这有助于学习者掌握在不同语境下如何用英语表达复杂情感。
- 逐句跟读：选择视频的关键句子进行反复练习，确保每次模仿都能更贴近原声。
- 录音自评：通过录音自己的朗读，与原视频进行对比，找出需要改进的地方。
- 利用社交媒体：通过社交媒体分享你练习的成果，参与相关讨论，增加使用英语的信心和机会。
什么是跟读法？
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。