今天的这段对话，在讨论梵•高，
聊一聊梵•高的一生，他自杀的真正原因是什么
来听今天的讲解:
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，看这个。我正上网查看所有自杀而死的名人。真的很有意思，倒真有几个。
B: Check out Van Gogh, I need to do some research about him.
查查梵•高吧，我想对他做些调查研究。
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年生于荷兰．1890年在法国用一把自制手枪自杀。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，他是个麻烦缠身的天才。他那短暂、狂躁而义富有悲剧性的生活就是这位疯狂天才传奇般的缩影。网上还说什么了？
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.
说他活着的时候只卖去过一幅画，他最有名的画大多是在29个月里不停地画出来的，之后就自杀了。
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.
他自杀的一个真正原因是他身患癫痫症。在他挣扎着与疾病抗争时，文森特只有一个永恒的支持者，就是他的小弟弟提奥。
A: He wrote Theo many letters talking of his dreams and aspirations, I think Theo tried to keep him from going insane.
他给提奥写过很多信．谈到他的梦想和抱负，我想为了防止他变疯，提奥曾经做出过努力。
B: He didn't succeed ,though. Beforc he became a painter he worked for an art dealer, didn't he?
不过，他并没有成功。梵•高在成为画家之前，曾为一个艺术品商人作过，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，但我认为他并不喜欢那份工作。他对顾客充满敌意，后来就被解雇了。之后他曾尝试过为那些受压迫的矿工家庭讲道，因为他是个人道主义者。
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.
但没人把他当回事，人们只是嘲笑他。因为他自身矛盾的性格，他找不到女朋友，也不能维持友谊。他大部分的友谊最终都以激烈的争吵而宣告结束。
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.
他一定很孤独。这儿说他在生命的最后十年才开始成为画家，是吗？我还不知道呢。
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世纪80年代他早期的绘画作品里采用的是绿色和棕色，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.
之后他的风格发生了变化，可能是由于他离开巴黎，搬到了阿尔。在那里他画了《向日葵》，也是在那时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 .
后来．他被送进一家精神病院，在那里完成了那幅漩涡状的《星月夜》，几个月之后…
A: Bang!He shot himself
砰的一声，他用枪结束了自己的生命。
