艺术形态（初级）

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你创作艺术吗？

Do you make art?

你会画画、素描或唱歌吗？

Do you paint or draw or sing?

你是为自己做，还是为别人做？

Do you do it for yourself or for other people?

今天的故事里，一位名叫费利西蒂的女性开始为自己创作艺术，但慢慢发现她更擅长为别人创作。

In today's story, a woman called Felicity starts making art for herself, but slowly learns that she's better at making art for others.

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Keep listening to learn English.

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我是Ariel Goodbody，这个节目的主持人。

I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show.

今天的故事是初级水平，叫做《艺术的形状》。

Today's beginner level story is called The Shape of Art.

和往常一样，文字稿和PDF可以在easystoriesinenglish.com找到，链接在描述里。

As always the transcript and PDF are available at easystoriesinenglish.com and you can find the link in the description.

好的，我先解释一下今天故事里的一些单词。

Okay I'll just explain some words that are in today's story.

正方形、三角形和圆形都是形状。

Squares, triangles and circles are all shapes s h a p e s.

形状在数学中非常重要。

Shapes are very important in mathematics.

几何学是研究形状的学科。

Geometry is the study of shapes.

如果一个人身体状态好，那说明他身体健康，身材也不错。

If someone is in shape, then they are fit and they have a nice body.

雕塑就是用木头、金属或黏土做出某物的形状。

A sculpture, s c u l p t u r e, is when someone uses wood, metal or clay to make the shape of something.

比如，古罗马人和古希腊人用大理石制作人物雕塑。

For example, the ancient Romans and ancient Greeks made marble sculptures of people.

他们取来大理石，不断切割，直到雕出人的形状。

They took pieces of marble and cut them until they were in the shape of someone.

世界上最著名的雕塑是米开朗基罗的大卫像。

The most famous sculpture in the world is Michelangelo's David.

雕塑经常出现在花园和公园里。

Sculptures often appear in gardens and parks.

制作雕塑的人被称为雕塑家。

People who make sculptures are called sculptors.

我知道，这很让人困惑。

I know very confusing.

法律，l a w，是政府用来保障人民安全的规则体系。

The law, l a w, is the system of rules that governments use to keep people safe.

比如说，有法律规定你不能杀人，也不能偷东西。

For example, there is a law that says you cannot kill people or you cannot steal things.

学习法律的人通常会成为律师。

People who study law often become lawyers.

律师，l a w y e r s。

L a w y e r s.

律师会辩称某人违反了法律，或者没有违反法律，然后由法官决定这个人应该入狱还是获释。

Lawyers argue that someone has broken the law or that they didn't break the law, and then a judge decides if the person should go to prison or go free.

“错误”可以表示不正确，但也可以表示你感觉不好但不知道为什么。

WRONG can mean not correct, but it can also mean when you feel bad but don't know why.

比如，你可能对朋友或家人有很复杂的感情，但你不理解自己的感受，所以只是觉得不对劲。

For example, maybe you have very complicated feelings about a friend or family member, but you don't understand your feelings, so you just feel wrong.

或者你去上班，有人不在，但你不知道是谁，所以就是感觉不对劲。

Or maybe you go to work and someone isn't there, but you don't know who it is, so something just feels wrong.

美术用品是你用来创作艺术的东西。

Art supplies are things that you use to make art.

例如，美术用品可能是纸、笔、颜料、木头、剪刀、胶水。

For example, art supplies might be paper, pens, paints, wood, scissors, glue.

美术用品的类型取决于所创作的艺术。

The type of art supplies depends on the art being made.

画家买颜料作为他们的用品，雕塑家买大理石、木头或黏土作为他们的用品。

Painters buy paints for their supplies, and sculptors buy marble or wood or clay for their supplies.

当作家容易又便宜，因为你不需要很多用品。

Being a writer is easy and cheap because you don't need a lot of supplies.

风景画是描绘乡村或自然的画。

A landscape painting is a painting of the countryside or nature.

风景画通常画的是山、森林或田野。

Landscape paintings are usually of mountains, forests or fields.

风景画里通常没有人，或者只有很少的人。

Landscape paintings usually have no people in them or very few people.

画的焦点是自然。

The focus of the painting is on nature.

肖像画，p o r t r a I t，是画或照片中的人物。

A portrait, p o r t r a I t, is a painting or a picture of a person.

在过去，摄影出现之前，肖像画是给某人画像的主要方式。

In the past, before there was photography, portraits were the main way of making a picture of someone.

有钱有势的人会花钱请人给自己画肖像。

Rich and important people paid to have portraits made of them.

《蒙娜丽莎》是世界上最著名的画作之一，它就是一幅肖像画。

Mona Lisa, one of the most famous paintings in the world, is a portrait.

抽象，a b s t r a c t，意思是不清晰、不真实、奇特的。

Abstract, a b s t r a c t, means unclear, not real, fantastic.

通常，画家画真实的东西，比如风景、狗、人，但有时画家会画抽象画。

Normally, painters paint real things, landscapes, dogs, people, but sometimes painters make abstract paintings.

抽象画里有很多形状和颜色，但你不一定知道它是什么。

There are lots of shapes and colors, but you don't really know what it is.

皮特·蒙德里安、杰克逊·波洛克和马克·罗斯科都是著名的抽象艺术家。

Pierre Mondrian, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko are all famous abstract artists.

当你扔掉某样东西时，你通常会把它扔进垃圾桶，b I n。

When you throw something away, you usually throw it in a bin, b I n.

比如，你吃香蕉时，会把香蕉皮，也就是黄色的部分，扔进垃圾桶。

For example, when you eat a banana, you throw the banana peel, the yellow bit, in the bin.

每周你需要把垃圾桶拿到外面，以便它们被收走。

Once a week, you need to take your bins outside so that they can be collected.

在许多国家，有不同种类的垃圾桶，分别用于扔垃圾和回收。

In many countries, there are different bins for rubbish and recycling.

好的，那就好好听吧。

Okay, so listen and enjoy.

艺术之形。

The shape of art.

从前有个女人叫费利西蒂。

Once there was a woman called Felicity.

费利西蒂一直想当艺术家，但她自己从未意识到。

Felicity always wanted to be an artist, but she never knew it.

费利西蒂的父母都是艺术家，她成长过程中，家里一直没什么钱。

Felicity's parents were artists, and when she was growing up, her parents never had any money.

费利西蒂的妈妈做狗雕塑，爸爸做猫雕塑，总的来说，他们赚的钱很少。

Felicity's mother made sculptures of dogs, and her father made sculptures of cats, and generally, they made very little money.

一个夏天，费利西蒂说，妈妈，爸爸，我想要个弟弟。

One summer, Felicity said, mom, dad, I want a brother.

我太无聊了。

I'm so bored.

你总是在做你的雕塑。

You're always making your sculptures.

我已经把家里的书都读完了。

I've read all the books in the house.

我好无聊。

I'm bored.

请给我一个弟弟吧。

Please give me a brother.

费利西蒂的父母看着她。

Felicity's parents looked at her.

亲爱的，她妈妈说。

Darling, said her mother.

我们没有足够的钱。

We don't have enough money.

对不起，但你看，我正在做这些新的京巴犬雕塑。

I'm sorry, But look, I'm making these new Pekingese sculptures.

我觉得这些雕塑会卖得很好。

I think they'll sell really well.

也许明年，我们就有钱了。

Maybe next year, we'll have the money.

费利西蒂上大学时学的是法律，她努力学习，最终成为了一名律师。

When Felicity went to university, she studied law and she worked hard to become a lawyer.

费利西蒂的父母为她感到高兴，但他们不懂法律，也从来不知道怎么跟她聊工作。

Felicity's parents were happy for her, but they didn't know anything about law, They never knew how to talk to her about work.

他们问她工作上的问题时，费利西蒂会告诉他们，然后他们就说，哦，我们听不懂你在说什么。

When they asked questions about her job, Felicity told them about it, and then they said, oh, we don't understand what you're talking about.

我们是艺术家。

We're artists.

记得吗？

Remember?

费利西蒂工作很出色，赚了很多钱。

Felicity was good at her job, and she made a lot of money.

25岁时，她已经买了房子。

By the age of 25, she had bought a house.

但总觉得哪里不对劲。

Still, something felt wrong.

她想着也许需要谈恋爱了。

She thought maybe she needed to fall in love.

于是她交了个男朋友，但还是觉得不对劲。

So she got a boyfriend, but that still felt wrong.

她又交了个女朋友，可还是觉得不对劲。

She got a girlfriend, but that also felt wrong.

她的生活中有些东西出了问题。

Something was wrong in her life.

但到底是什么呢？

But what was it?

有一天，费利西蒂路过一家美术用品店。

One day Felicity walked past an art supplies shop.

突然之间，好像有别人在操控她的身体。

Suddenly it was like someone else was moving her body.

她走进店里，买了绘画用品，回家就开始画画。

She went inside, bought painting supplies, went home and started painting.

我为什么要画画？

Why am I painting?

费利西蒂心想。

Thought Felicity.

但她没有停下来。

But she didn't stop.

她画得越多，感觉就越好。

The more she painted, the better she felt.

一直以来，费利西蒂需要的是艺术。

All this time, Felicity had needed art.

她感到的那种不对劲。

The wrongness she felt.

那是因为她需要创作艺术。

It was because she needed to make art.

她请了几个月假，告诉老板她需要休息，然后把所有时间都用来画画。

She took a few months off work and told her boss that she needed a break, and she spent all her time painting.

几个月后，费利西蒂看着自己创作的作品。

A few months later, Felicity looked at what she had made.

她画了风景、山脉、大海，各种各样的地方。

She had painted landscapes, the mountains, the sea, all kinds of places.

她能看到自己起步时的样子，作品有多糟糕，但她从父母那里知道艺术有多难。

She could see where she had started, how bad her work had been, but she knew from her parents how difficult art was.

她知道什么是努力，她最后的风景画很不错。

She knew what hard work was, and her last landscapes were good.

但当费利西蒂回到工作岗位，把她的风景画给朋友们看时，他们并不感兴趣。

But when Felicity got back to work and showed her landscape paintings to her friends, they weren't interested.

哦，那挺好的，安娜贝尔说。

Oh, that's nice, said Annabelle.

我有时候会画杯子。

I sometimes paint mugs.

那真的很让人放松。

It's really relaxing.

你觉得你会卖掉它吗？

Do you think you'll sell it?

她的老板说。

Said her boss.

他脑子里只想着钱。

He could only think of money.

菲丽西蒂感觉糟透了。

Felicity felt awful.

他们难道看不出这有多重要吗？

Couldn't they see how important this was?

她回到家，差点把她的画具扔掉，但首先她决定试试别的东西。

She went home and almost threw away her art supplies, but first she decided to try something else.

费利西蒂开始画肖像画了。

Felicity started painting portraits.

起初，她会在街上找人，问能不能给他们画肖像。

At first, she asked people off the streets if she could paint them.

她不太信任朋友，但随着画技提高，她开始问朋友能不能让她画。

She didn't trust her friends, but as she got better, she asked her friends if she could paint them.

慢慢地，她给所有认识的人都画了肖像，包括她的父母。

Slowly, she painted portraits of everyone she knew, including her parents.

又过了几个月，费利西蒂再次回顾自己的作品，她知道这些肖像画得很好。

Again, several months passed and again, Felicity looked back at her work and knew her portraits were good.

但只有她的父母夸她的画好。

But the only people who said nice things about them were Felicity's parents.

其他人都会说，我的鼻子不是那样的，或者你这里颜色用错了。

Everyone else said things like, that's not how my nose looks, or you've used the wrong color there.

费利西蒂真想尖叫。

Felicity wanted to scream.

他们难道不明白吗？

Couldn't they understand?

这是艺术。

This was art.

她并不是想画出完美的肖像。

She wasn't trying to paint perfect portraits.

她只是想让自己内心的那种不对劲消失。

She was trying to make the wrongness inside her go away.

所以费利西蒂决定转向抽象画。

So Felicity decided to go abstract.

她不再画风景和肖像，而是画奇怪的形状。

Instead of landscapes and portraits, she painted strange shapes.

她画愤怒的形状。

She painted angry shapes.

她把不该搭配的颜色放在一起。

She used colors together that shouldn't go together.

她画得太抽象了，自己都不知道在画什么。

She made it so abstract that she didn't know what she was doing.

最后，费利西蒂停下来看着自己的作品，她讨厌这些画。

Finally, Felicity stopped and looked at her work, and she hated it.

她喜欢自己的风景画和肖像画，但这些抽象画呢？

She loved her landscapes and portraits, but this abstract work?

这是什么？

What is this?

费利西蒂想。

Thought Felicity.

我画了这些，却不知道这是什么。

I painted this, and I don't even know what this is.

人们真的喜欢这种东西吗？

Do people actually like this stuff?

这根本没什么意义。

It doesn't mean anything.

费利西蒂把她的抽象画从窗户扔了出去。

Felicity threw her abstract paintings out of the window.

窗户下面有一个大垃圾桶，那些画像小鸟一样飞进了垃圾桶。

Below the window was a large bin, and the paintings flew down to the bin like small birds.

然后费利西蒂上床哭了起来。

Then Felicity got into bed and cried.

第二天，她早早醒来，因为窗外有人大声说话。

The next day, she woke up early because someone was talking loudly outside her window.

你相信吗？

Can you believe it?

他们就这么扔掉了。

They just threw it away.

这幅画挂在我们墙上会很好看的。

This will look great on our wall.

费利西蒂向窗外看去。

Felicity looked out of the window.

楼下，一男一女正从垃圾桶里把她的画拿出来看。

Down below, a man and a woman were pulling her paintings out of the bin and looking at them.

费利西蒂差点就说，嘿，那些是我的。

Felicity almost said, hey, those are mine.

但转念一想，她希望别人知道吗？

But then she thought, did she want people to know?

“我上网查查，”男人说。

I'll search online, said the man.

“也许是个著名画家。”

Maybe it's a famous artist.

“哦，格雷戈里，”女人说。

Oh, Gregory, said the woman.

“我们不卖这些画。”

We're not selling them.

“不卖。”

No.

我很喜欢它们。

I love them.

费利西蒂感到一阵恶心。

Felicity felt sick.

这是第一次有人对她的画作给予这么高的评价，她不知道该如何反应。

This was the first time someone had said something really nice about her art, and she didn't know how to feel.

她觉得自己快要哭了。

She thought she might cry.

嘿，她脱口而出。

Hey, she said before she could stop herself.

那些是我的。

Those are mine.

哦。

Oh.

那对男女抬起头来。

The man and the woman looked up.

你不用付钱，费利西蒂说。

You don't have to pay for them, said Felicity.

真的，如果它们让你开心，就留着吧。

Really, if they make you happy, keep them.

哦，不。

Oh, no.

当然，我们会付钱的，那位女士说。

Of course, we'll pay for them, said the woman.

我真不敢相信你打算把它们扔掉。

I can't believe you were going to throw them away.

给我一分钟，费利西蒂说。

Give me just one minute, said Felicity.

她迅速穿好衣服，下了楼。

She quickly got dressed and went downstairs.

在格雷戈里和迪莱拉的帮助下，那是他们的名字，他们收集了所有抽象画，走进费利西蒂的房子，谈论这些画。

With the help of Gregory and Delilah, that was their names, they collected all the abstract paintings and went into Felicity's house to talk about them.

所以费利西蒂发现有人喜欢她的艺术。

So Felicity found that there were people who liked her art.

格雷戈里和德利拉简短地聊了聊他们喜欢画作的哪些方面，但很快就开始谈钱了。

Gregory and Delilah talked for a short time about what they liked about the paintings, but quickly they started talking about money.

格雷戈里和德利拉收藏艺术品，他们喜欢帮助新艺术家。

Gregory and Delilah collected art and they liked to help new artists.

费利西蒂没有告诉他们，她的房子是自己买的，她不需要经济上的帮助。

Felicity didn't tell them that she bought her house herself and that she didn't need help with money.

事实上，在交谈中，她意识到钱对她来说真的不重要。

In fact, as they talked, she realized that the money really wasn't important to her.

那种不对劲的感觉消失了。

That feeling of wrongness was gone.

当她看到他们多么喜欢她的画时，那种感觉就已经消失了。

It had gone before when she saw how much they liked her paintings.

突然，她明白了为什么她的父母会花那么多时间制作那些猫狗雕塑。

Suddenly, she understood why her parents spent all that time making those dog and cat sculptures.

也许这些并不是他们内心真正想创作的东西，但他们把雕塑做得很好，人们也很喜欢。

Maybe they weren't the things that they wanted to make in their hearts, but they made the sculptures well and people loved them.

费利西蒂想，画肖像画肯定比画那些奇怪的抽象画更容易赚钱。

Surely, Felicity thought, it's easier to make money painting portraits than strange abstract things.

费利西蒂想画肖像画和风景画。

Felicity wanted to paint portraits and landscapes.

她可以想象自己成为那种艺术家。

She could see herself as that kind of artist.

她从不认为自己是个奇怪的人，而搞抽象艺术的人总是很奇怪。

She had never thought of herself as a strange person, and people who did abstract art were always strange.

格雷戈里和迪莱拉买下了那些画，挂在了他们家里。

Gregory and Delilah bought the paintings and hung them up inside their house.

他们给费利西蒂发了照片，看到自己的作品挂在别人家里感觉很好，但画一旦离开她的手，她就不太在意它们怎么样了。

They sent Felicity pictures, and it was nice to see her work in someone's house, but after the paintings left her hands, she didn't really care what happened to them.

她已经在着手创作下一幅作品了。

She was already working on the next thing.

她画了越来越多的抽象画。

She painted more and more abstract paintings.

画完这些画时，她并不觉得难看，但她对抽象作品的喜爱程度远不及对风景画和肖像画的喜爱。

When she finished them, she didn't think this is awful, but she didn't love her abstract works like she loved the landscapes and portraits.

然而，格雷戈里和迪莱拉的朋友们却非常喜欢她的抽象作品。

Gregory and Delilah's friends, however, did love her abstract work.

很快，就有很多人来求她的画，她忙得连画画的时间都没有了，不得不减少做律师的工作时间，以便有更多时间画画。这真是太奇怪了，费利西蒂心想。

Soon she had so many people asking for her work that she didn't have time to paint at all she had to work fewer hours as a lawyer to give her time to paint How strange thought Felicity.

我一直以为爸爸妈妈是为自己而创作艺术，而我刚开始时也只是为自己而画，但现在这就像一份礼物，一份我送给所有人的礼物。

I always thought mum and dad were making art for themselves and when I started I was only making art for myself but now it's like a gift, a gift I'm giving to everyone else.

于是，越来越多的房子里挂满了费利西蒂的画作，每完成一幅画，她的心就更加充实。

And so more and more houses filled up with Felicity's paintings, and with each painting she finished, her heart grew fuller.

有时她无聊了，就会画一幅风景画或肖像画。

Sometimes when she was bored, she painted a landscape or a portrait.

她从未向任何人提起过这些画。

She never told anyone about these.

她把它们挂在家里，从不卖掉。

She hung them up inside her house and never sold them.

说实话，她不知道这些画是好是坏，但这并不重要。

To be honest, she had no idea if they were good or bad, but it didn't matter.

它们是画给她自己的。

They were for her.

她的画是抽象的，但她的心是笑脸和夏天的田野。

The shape of her art was abstract but the shape of her heart was a smiling face and a field in summer.

故事讲完了。

The end.

有时候，我为播客写故事，其实是在写自己。

Sometimes when I write a story for the podcast, the story is really about myself.

今天的故事就是这样。

Today's story is like that.

我做EasyStories in English已经六年多了，这些年来，我对创作故事的感觉变了很多。

I've been making EasyStories in English for over six years now, and over the years, my feelings about making stories have changed a lot.

刚开始做播客的时候，我想为学英语的人创作材料，也想帮助我教的学生。

When I started the podcast, I wanted to create materials for people learning English, and I wanted to help the students I was teaching.

但我也想发挥我的写作才能。

But I wanted to use my writing skills as well.

EasyStoriesInEnglish 似乎是结合这两者的好方法。

EasyStoriesInEnglish seemed like a great way to combine the two.

但随着时间推移，我开始考虑其他项目。

But as I did it for longer, I started to think about other projects.

我还有其他的艺术创作想做。

I had other art I wanted to make.

我想写小说、做电子游戏、演话剧。

I wanted to write novels and make video games and act in plays.

制作 EasyStoriesInEnglish 意味着我做那些事情的时间变少了。

Making EasyStoriesInEnglish meant I had less time to do all those things.

有时我希望能有更多时间做其他工作。

I sometimes wished I had more time for my other work.

我以前没把播客当成真正的艺术，或者觉得它没有我的其他作品重要。

I didn't see the podcast as real art or I thought it was less important than my other work.

但现在我意识到，能拥有这个播客是多么幸运。

But now I realize how lucky I am to have the podcast.

我真的很幸运能有听众，有这么多人喜欢我的作品。

I am so lucky to have an audience, to have so many people who enjoy my work.

当我看到你们的评论，说这个播客帮到了你们，我特别开心，觉得自己在做有意义的工作。

When I read your comments about how the podcast has helped you, it makes me feel so happy and I feel like I am doing important work.

当然，我们可以为自己创作艺术，也可以纯粹为了卖钱而创作。

Of course we can make art for ourselves and we can make art just to sell it.

但往往最好的艺术是走中间路线的。

But often the best art comes in the middle road.

艺术家把自己的热爱投入作品，但他们是针对特定的人群，或者带着特定的目标去创作。

The artist puts their love into the work but they make it for a specific kind of person or they make it with a specific goal.

换句话说，有时候你想擅长的东西并不是你最擅长的，而有时候作为艺术家，最好的做法是为你的听众创作，而不是只为自己。

In other words sometimes the thing you want to be good at isn't the thing you're best at And sometimes as an artist the best thing you can do is to work for your audience and ignore yourself.

所以，是的，这个故事发布后，我很快意识到它其实是在讲我自己，以及这些年我的感受是如何变化的。

So yes this story came out and I quickly saw that it was really about me and how my feelings have changed over the years.

但我相信，我们很多人都会有同感。

But I'm sure it's something many of us can understand.

如果你不是艺术家，你可能在职业生涯或养育孩子方面也有过类似的感受。

If you're not an artist, you may have had the same feelings with your career or with raising children.

当上帝赐予你天赋时，你必须与世界分享。

When God gives you a gift, you have to share it with the world.

如果你不信教，抱歉，我有时候就是忍不住提到上帝。

And sorry if you're not religious I find it hard to not talk about God sometimes.

说到与世界分享天赋，为什么不和朋友分享简单的英语故事呢？

And speaking of sharing gifts with the world, why not share easy stories in english with a friend?

告诉你的父母、表亲、同事，告诉在公交车站站在你旁边的那个人，打个招呼。

Tell your parents, your cousins, your co workers, tell that person you're standing next to at the bus stop hi.

如果你不能告诉别人，那就留下评论和留言吧。

And if you can't tell someone, then leave a review and comment.

这对我来说意义重大。

It means a lot to me.

感谢收听，我们很快再见。

Thanks for listening, and see you soon.