时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:温馨夜读II


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[00:00.51]11.The Brilliant Lessons of Michelangelo


[00:04.22]The artist Michelangelo often stirred up the opposition 1 of the contemporary artists of his day. 


[00:11.07]Many of them envied his magnificent abilities. 


[00:15.28]One example was the architect Bramante.


[00:18.54]Pope Julius retained Michelangelo to build him a splendid tomb. 


[00:24.32]Michelangelo gladly accepted the project and spent eight months in a marble pit personally cutting and selecting the most perfect stones. 


[00:34.22]When he returned, he found the pope had second thoughts. 


[00:40.22]Bramante had turned Pope Julius against the project. The Pope cancelled it.


[00:45.66]Later the idea for another special project entered the Pope’s mind. 


[00:50.67]Bramante saw the project as a time consuming trap for which there would be little public recognition. 


[00:57.09]Bramante recommended Michelangelo for the job.


[01:01.56]The great artist saw the trap. 


[01:04.61]He knew what Bramante was up to. 


[01:07.22]He wished to turn the project down but did not want to refuse the Pope’s request. 


[01:13.10]So Michelangelo went to work. 


[01:15.93]He spent many years doing the slow and tedious labor 2 the project required. 


[01:21.48]It was the Sistine Chapel 3.


[01:24.75]The inspiration that flowed through Michelangelo can likewise flow through any human being. 


[01:30.96]That is what inspiration wants to do. It cannot be stopped. 


[01:35.85]It is a living, powerful river that easily circumvents 4 all obstacles.


[01:41.52]Michelangelo collected his inner forces for a complete victory. 


[01:46.53]Likewise, we must not fear to face the trickery of some people and expose it for what it is. 


[01:53.28]This is not negative, but intelligent protection and spiritual perception.


[01:59.06]In his many books on inner development author Vernon Howard refers to Michelangelo several times. 


[02:06.28]He quotes him as saying, “The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows.” 


[02:12.95]And, “I released the statue from the stone.” 


[02:17.33]He chiseled 5 away all that was unnecessary, and David emerged.




1 opposition
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
2 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
3 chapel
n.小教堂,殡仪馆
  • The nimble hero,skipped into a chapel that stood near.敏捷的英雄跳进近旁的一座小教堂里。
  • She was on the peak that Sunday afternoon when she played in chapel.那个星期天的下午,她在小教堂的演出,可以说是登峰造极。
4 circumvents
n.设法克服或避免(某事物),回避( circumvent的名词复数 );绕过,绕行,绕道旅行v.设法克服或避免(某事物),回避( circumvent的第三人称单数 );绕过,绕行,绕道旅行
  • It is a living, powerful river that easily circumvents all obstacles. 生活就是如此,强有力的激流才可以轻易的绕过所有的阻碍。 来自互联网
5 chiseled
adj.凿刻的,轮廓分明的v.凿,雕,镌( chisel的过去式 )
  • Woltz had chiseled the guy, given him peanuts for the book. 乌尔茨敲了这个作家的竹杠,用了他的书,却只给微不足道的一点点钱。 来自教父部分
  • He chiseled the piece of wood into the shape of a head. 他把这块木头凿刻成人头的形状。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
-mancer
anagogics
auditory cell
back knee
blast gun
Bowlin, Mount
buy when it snows, sell when it goes
cardiechema
Caribbean Group for Cooperation in Economic Development
cerements
cog-wheel grease
completely compact operator
copocracy
cornucopia sea anchor
courtiouse
crassulaceaes
cut off circuit
daply
dendritic (accessory respiratory) organ
derrick force diagram
domestic-security
double reduction bevel spur gear
dry b.
dummy parameter concatenation
eccentric-strap
electrooptical tuning
equivalent static acceleration
farm-laborer
foh
foreanswer
galvanotaxis
gaultherase
gemel
gesnerias
get into someone's good graces
half-power beamwidth of antenna
hanging matter
in perspective
incompetently
inocubated
inoquiline
intrinsic tracer
introverts
ion-trap
isothermal remanant magnetization
kerolite (cerolite)
knee pad for horse
Kundrat's lymphosarcoma
Lacovia
lesser adjutant
make hay while the sun shines
Malloydium
master traffic count
Mediterranean class
megrahi
member of Christ
mictic
minutum
molecular coil
Monaldi's drainage
mothered
motorcycle battery
movable centre of mass for jib balance
noise control
O-type star
old-country
ombrometry
ooste
organoheterotrophs
orgoraphical rain
orientation of face
papillary tumor of palate
portention
pranab
projected income
Pyrex glass tube
Retków
ring iodination
rogers me
sabkhas
screened grading
settlement system
sidlings
simple message desk interface
sinneresses
soybean situation and outlook
spinning off
stolwijk
stovepipe hats
Streptopus ovalis
succedaneously
table-type record set
tandem trailer
trait
two-handed work
unknown pleasures
usfn
Variable Resistors
Villa-Lobos, Heitor
whc
wish-fulfilments
zimapan