聊一聊梵?高的一生，他自殺的真正原因是什么

今天的這段對話，在討論梵•高，

聊一聊梵•高的一生，他自殺的真正原因是什么

來聽今天的講解:

A: Craig, look at this. I'm looking at this website all about famous people who committed suicide. It's really interesting and a little gross.

克雷格，看這個。我正上網(wǎng)查看所有自殺而死的名人。真的很有意思，倒真有幾個。

B: Check out Van Gogh, I need to do some research about him.

查查梵•高吧，我想對他做些調(diào)查研究。

A: Van Gogh . .. here we are. Vincent Van Gogh, born 1853 in Holland, died 1890 in France of a self-infliaed gunshot.  He cut his ear off before that, didn't he?

梵•高……找到了。文森特•梵•高．1853年生于荷蘭．1890年在法國用一把自制手槍自殺。此前他曾割下自己的耳朵，是吧？

B: Yes, he was a troubled genius. His brief, turbulent, and tragic life epitomizes the mad genius legend.What else does it say?

是的，他是個麻煩纏身的天才。他那短暫、狂躁而義富有悲劇性的生活就是這位瘋狂天才傳奇般的縮影。網(wǎng)上還說什么了？

A: Only one of his paintings was sold while he was alive, and his most famous ones were painted during a period of 29 months where he worked and worked, and then became and then become suicidal.

說他活著的時候只賣去過一幅畫，他最有名的畫大多是在29個月里不停地畫出來的，之后就自殺了。

B: Acmally, one reason he became suicidal was because he was suffering from epilepsy. In his grim struggle Vincent had one constant ally and support. his younger brother Theo.

他自殺的一個真正原因是他身患癲癇癥。在他掙扎著與疾病抗?fàn)帟r，文森特只有一個永恒的支持者，就是他的小弟弟提奧。

A: He wrote Theo many letters talking of his dreams and aspirations, I think Theo tried to keep him from going insane.

他給提奧寫過很多信．談到他的夢想和抱負(fù)，我想為了防止他變瘋，提奧曾經(jīng)做出過努力。

B: He didn't succeed ,though. Beforc he became a painter he worked for an art dealer, didn't he?

不過，他并沒有成功。梵•高在成為畫家之前，曾為一個藝術(shù)品商人作過，是吧？

A: Yes, but I don't think he enjoyed his job. He antagonised customers until he was dismissed. He then tried preaching, as he was a strong Humanitanan, about the oppression of mining Eamilies.

是的，但我認(rèn)為他并不喜歡那份工作。他對顧客充滿敵意，后來就被解雇了。之后他曾嘗試過為那些受壓迫的礦工家庭講道，因為他是個人道主義者。

B: No one took him seriously, people just laughed at him. He couldn't get a girlfriend because of the connicts in his personality and he couldn't keep a friend. Most of  his friends ended in bitter arguments.

但沒人把他當(dāng)回事，人們只是嘲笑他。因為他自身矛盾的性格，他找不到女朋友，也不能維持友誼。他大部分的友誼最終都以激烈的爭吵而宣告結(jié)束。

A: He must have been a lonely man.It says here chat he didn't become a painter untill 10 years before his death? I didn't know that.

他一定很孤獨。這兒說他在生命的最后十年才開始成為畫家，是嗎？我還不知道呢。

B: Yes, his early paintings during the 1880s showed a use of greens and browns, like in this picture The Potato Eaters. That's an early one.

是的，19世紀(jì)80年代他早期的繪畫作品里采用的是綠色和棕色，如《吃土豆的人》那是他早期的一幅作品。

A: After that his style changed, maybe because he left Paris and nloved to Arles. That's where he painted Sunflowers and when he cut off his ear.

之后他的風(fēng)格發(fā)生了變化，可能是由于他離開巴黎，搬到了阿爾。在那里他畫了《向日葵》，也是在那時他割掉了自己的一只耳朵。

B: He was sent to a mental hospital after that, where he painted the swirling Starry Nights, and just a few months later .

后來．他被送進一家精神病院，在那里完成了那幅漩渦狀的《星月夜》，幾個月之后…

A: Bang!He shot himself

砰的一聲，他用槍結(jié)束了自己的生命。