今天的这段对话，在讨论莱昂纳多•达•芬奇，
莱昂纳多•达•芬奇是一个怎样的天才
来听今天的讲解:
A: I've just finished reading a great book. The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown.
我刚看完《达•芬奇密码》，这本书不错，是丹•布朗写的。
B: I've read it, too. It got me really interested in Leonardo Da Vinci, so I started doing some.
我也看了。它真的使我对莱昂纳多•达•芬奇产生了兴趣，所以我就开始在这方面做些研究。
A: Mc too! What did you discover?
我也是！你有什么发现？
B: Well, it sounds like he was a strange. but very gifted man He was a painter, inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician and philosopher.
是这样，他看上去很奇怪，但很有天赋。他既是画家，也是发明家、建筑师、工程师、数学家和哲学家。
A: Yes, a genius the world has never seen the like of again so far. He was born in 1452, in Anchiaro, probably in a farmhouse.
是的，一个迄今为止世界上再也找不出来的天才。他1452年生于安基亚诺村，可能是存一个农舍里出生的。
B: But his father didn't marry his mother, because she was the daughter of a farmer and nor from a wealthy family.
但他父亲并没有娶他母亲，因为他母亲是个农夫的女儿，不是富家小姐。
A: Today, all we know about her is her name, Catarina. When he was five years old he moved to a nearby town called "Vinci".
今天我们只知道他妈妈的名字叫凯特暇安。达•芬奇5岁时，他搬到了附近一个叫“芬奇”的小镇。
B: It sounds like he was a precocious child, his teachers despaired about all the questions he asked and doubts about the world.
听起来他好像是个早熟的孩子，他的老师们都被他提出的问题难住了，也无法向他解释他对周围世界的疑惑。．
A: It seems that many geniuses asked too many questions during childhood! When he was fourteen he moved to Florence where he began an apprenticeship in the workshop of Verrocchio.
好像很多天才童年时都喜欢问很多的问题！达•芬奇14岁时，搬到了佛罗伦萨，在那里他开始在韦罗基奥的画室当学徒。
B: At that time Verrocchio was the most gifted artist in Florence. There's no doubt that Verrocchio had a great influence on Leonardo.
那时韦罗基奥是佛罗伦萨最有天份的艺术家。毫无疑问他对达•芬奇产生了巨大影响。
A: He worked with lots of other famous artists, too. Such as Botticelli, Perugino and Lorenzo di Credi..
达•芬奇还跟许多其他有名的艺术家工作过．如波提切剩、佩鲁贾和洛伦佐•迪•克勒迪。
B: Really? So he was definitely in the company of some great people. their talents must have rubbed off on him.
真的吗？那就是说他一定经常接触一些伟人，他们的天才肯定也影响了一他。
A: In 1472 Leonardo became a member of the Painters Guild of Florence, so he ended his apprenticeship. But he continued to work in Verrocchio's workshop.
1472年，莱昂纳多成为了佛罗伦萨画家协会的一员，也因此结束了他的学徒生涯。但他仍然留在韦罗基奥的画室工作。
B: I read that his first known work was a pen and ink drawing of a valley next to the river Arno. It's drawn from an aerial perspective, this style would later become known as "the perspective of disappearance .
我知道他的第一幅名画是关于亚诺河附近一个山谷的钢笔画。这幅画是用空间透视法画的，这种风格就是后来人人皆知的“明暗渐进法”。
A: After c.hat he created many famous works, The Baptism of Christ, The Annunciation and of course The Mona Lisa．
此后，他又创造J，很多有名的作品，如《基督受洗图》，《天使报喜》，当然还有《蒙娜•丽莎》。
B: With all of his paintings and inventions, like the first flying machine, it will take us a long time to research everything!
他所有的绘画作品和发明创造，就像第一架飞行器一样，要想每样都研究得花我们很长时间。
