Name: 隱私。 第六部 | BBC Learning English (Private Lives. Part 6. | BBC Learning English.)
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I've worked at three of London's major galleries, the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and the Tate Gallery, and

我曾在倫敦三大美術館工作過，國家美術館、國家肖像美術館和泰特美術館，而且

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it seems to me that they provide a very good showcase for showing off this nation's collection of art.

我覺得它們非常適合展示這個國家豐富的藝術收藏。

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And very importantly, they're free to go into, and

而且非常重要的一點是，參觀是免費的，

I think that's a very important thing in private lives.

我認為這對大家的生活來說是很重要的。

今天我們要認識的是 Frances Homan。

Frances is 30 years old and she's a schools officer at the National Gallery in London.

Frances 今年 30 歲，她是倫敦國家美術館的學校官員。

It's her job to introduce students and teachers to one of Britain's most important collections of pictures.

她的工作是向學生和老師介紹英國最重要的畫作收藏之一。

During the programme, Frances takes us on a tour of the National Gallery and shows us some of her favourite paintings.

在節目中，Frances 帶我們參觀國家美術館，並介紹她最喜歡的一些畫作。

She explains how they are being used to inspire new work and to teach many different school subjects, such as history and maths, as well as art.

她會說明這些畫作如何啟發新的創作，以及如何用來教授歷史、數學和藝術等各種不同的學校科目。

Frances also talks about where she lives, what she does on a typical weekend, and

Frances 也會聊聊她住的地方、週末通常會做些什麼，以及

she introduces us to someone she especially admires and likes spending time with.

她會介紹一位她特別欣賞、也很喜歡相處的人。

Frances leads us into the west wing of the National Gallery, where there are European paintings dating from the 16th century.

Frances 帶我們進入國家美術館的西翼，這裡有 16 世紀的歐洲畫作。

We're now standing in front of a painting called the Ambassadors.

我們現在正站在一幅叫做「大使」的畫作前面。

It's by Hans Holbein and he painted it in 1533 in England, which was the year that King Henry VIII made his final break with the Church of Rome.

這幅畫是漢斯·霍爾拜因在 1533 年於英國所繪，那一年亨利八世國王與羅馬教會做了最後的決裂。

It shows two men who came from France as envoys of King Francis I, standing in a very strange space with a green curtain behind them and a very elaborate marble floor with inlaid stone.

畫中描繪了兩位來自法國、法蘭西一世國王的使節，他們站在一個很奇特的空間裡，身後是綠色的簾幕，地上鋪著精緻的鑲嵌石大理石地板。

The Ambassadors stand on either side of an array of astronomical and musical instruments, which tell us a great deal about the intellectual achievements of 16th century Europe.

「大使」們站在一堆天文儀器和樂器旁，這些東西讓我們對 16 世紀歐洲的知識成就有了很多瞭解。

But in front of the two men on the floor is a large, distorted object which has been the inspiration for a stunning new piece of art recently on display in the gallery.

但在兩位男士腳下的地板上，有一個巨大、扭曲的物體，它啟發了美術館最近展出的一件令人驚豔的新藝術創作。

If we move round to the right hand side of the picture, you can see that below the men on the floor is an extraordinary object.

如果我們移到畫面的右側，你會看到在男士們腳下的地板上，有一個非凡的物體。

It's a stretched out skull and if you see it from the right hand side of the picture, it suddenly goes into perspective, into focus.

那是一顆被拉長的頭骨，如果你從畫面的右側看，它突然就有了透視感，變得清晰起來。

So we think this painting was originally meant to be hung perhaps on a staircase, where you could see the skull looking like a real skull, only from the side, a bit like a trick.

所以我們認為這幅畫原本是想掛在樓梯間，從側面看，頭骨就像真的頭骨一樣，有點像個把戲。

So one student took this skull, which he loved, and

所以有一位學生拿了這個他很喜歡的頭骨，

made his own version of a stretched skull, but

做出了他自己的扭曲頭骨版本，但

not thick, two and a half or three feet long as it is here, but

不是像這裡一樣兩英尺半或三英尺那麼厚，而是

probably more like 30 foot long, which was displayed in a recent exhibition here at the gallery in the central hall, which is a very Traditional room with marble pillars and a marble floor, and

可能長達 30 英尺，這件作品最近在這裡美術館的中央大廳展出，那是一個有大理石柱和石地板的非常傳統的房間，

suddenly here was a student's new piece of work.

突然間，這裡出現了一件學生的新作品。

The National Gallery has a special program for art students, allowing them to use certain pictures like the Ambassadors for inspiration.

國家美術館為藝術學生提供特別的計畫，讓他們能從「大使」等畫作中獲得靈感。

And as we walk from room to room, there are copyists at work, art students who are painting copies of masterpieces in order to increase their understanding of the originals.

當我們從一個房間走到另一個房間時，總會看到臨摹者在工作，這些藝術學生正在臨摹大師傑作，藉此加深對原作的理解。

The National Gallery collection is also used to teach many different subjects on the primary school curriculum.

國家美術館的館藏也用來教授小學課程中的許多不同科目。

With this in mind, Francis leads us to a display of 17th century paintings.

考量到這一點，法蘭西斯帶我們去看17世紀的畫作。

A lot of my work at the National Gallery is taking children round primary school children as young as four, and

我在國家美術館的許多工作，是帶領四歲左右的小學學童參觀，

sitting them down in front of pictures like this and getting them to really look at them and see what they can find and what they can imagine is happening in the picture.

然後讓他們坐在畫作前，引導他們仔細觀察，找出他們看到了什麼，以及想像畫中正在發生的事。

This is actually a very new skill for a lot of them because they spend so much of their time looking at fast moving images on films, television, playing with computer games and using computers.

這對他們來說其實是項很新的技能，因為他們大部分時間都在看電影、電視上快速變動的影像，玩電腦遊戲和使用電腦。

所以一張靜態的圖片對他們來說是個新鮮事。

It's clear that to get to know Francis, we need to appreciate not only the Gallery's collection and activities, but

顯然，要認識法蘭西斯，我們不僅要欣賞美術館的館藏和活動，

The National Gallery was built in the middle of the 19th century during the reign of Queen Victoria.

國家美術館建於19世紀中期，當時是維多利亞女王在位時期。

But recently a new wing was built called the Sainsbury Wing.

但最近新建了一個叫做 Sainsbury Wing 的新翼。

We're now walking through from the old part of the National Gallery, which was built in Victorian times, through over the new bridge to the Sainsbury Wings, the new part, which was finished about five or six years ago, to one of my favourite parts of the gallery.

我們現在正從國家美術館的舊部分，也就是維多利亞時期建造的部分，走過新橋，來到大約五、六年前完工的新部分 Sainsbury Wing，這裡是我最喜歡的美術館區域之一。

In the Sainsbury Wing, there are paintings from 1260 to 1510.

在 Sainsbury Wing 裡，有從 1260 年到 1510 年的畫作。

Frances casts admiring glances at one painting after another, and

then she talks about her childhood and how her interest in art began.

然後她聊起了自己的童年，以及她對藝術的興趣是如何開始的。

my family moved to the south very soon afterwards, to Sussex, just south of London.

我的家人很快就搬到了南部，到了薩塞克斯，就在倫敦的南邊。

And that's where I grew up and went to school.

And when I was at school, I spent more and more time in the art room and I decided to go to college and do fine art and French, because those were my two favourite things and they still are.

我在學校的時候，花越來越多的時間待在美術教室，我決定去上大學，主修藝術和法文，因為那是我最喜歡的兩件事，而且到現在還是。

And so I did that and spent a lot of time doing sculpture and doing painting, doing a little bit of art history and really enjoying that more and more.

所以我做了那樣的決定，花了很多時間做雕塑、畫畫，學了一點藝術史，並且越來越享受其中。

And I still paint now and do a lot of drawing.

我現在仍然畫畫，也畫很多素描。

Next, Frances spent some time showing American high school students around the great art museums of Italy and France.

接下來，Frances 花了一些時間帶美國高中生參觀義大利和法國的偉大美術館。

And she took a further degree in art history, doing a special study of 15th century English staircases.

她進一步攻讀藝術史，並特別研究了15世紀的英國樓梯。

She decided that her ideal job would combine her art history qualifications with her love of introducing art to other people.

她決定，她理想的工作將結合她的藝術史資格以及她對向他人介紹藝術的熱愛。

I really do feel incredibly lucky to work here.

我真的覺得在這裡工作非常幸運。

I mean, I used to come to London and look at the National Gallery and it looked so grand, which it is, in a way.

我是說，我以前來倫敦參觀國家美術館，覺得它看起來非常宏偉，事實上也是如此。

I really, you know, it's a lovely place to work.

我真的，你知道，這裡是一個很棒的工作地方。

And also it's so satisfying because here are all these pictures which people think of as very great things, untouchable, wonderful works of art from the past, which you must stand back from and revere.

而且也很有成就感，因為這裡有這麼多畫作，人們認為它們是偉大的事物，是無法觸碰的、來自過去的精彩藝術品，你必須退後一步去敬畏它們。

And it's so great and rewarding when you get groups of children or students, whatever age, and

當你帶領一群孩子或學生，不論年齡，

you talk to them about pictures and they are reacting and responding to them, and

你跟他們談論畫作，他們對畫作產生反應並回應時，那感覺非常棒且有意義。

you've been the key in helping them, perhaps unlock some of those reactions.

你一直是幫助他們，或許激發出這些反應的關鍵。

Frances loves London because it's where her work is and she says she's very fond of the flat where she lives.

法蘭西絲喜歡倫敦，因為她的工作在這裡，她說她很喜歡她住的公寓。

I live in west London in a very quiet street, in a Victorian house which has three storeys.

我住在倫敦西區一條非常安靜的街道上，在一棟有三層樓的維多利亞式房子裡。

I share it with my sister who works in the film industry.

我和我從事電影業的妹妹一起住。

We've got a little garden at the back, which I love, which we've got lots of herbs and roses and things like that growing in.

我們後面有個小花園，我非常喜歡，裡面種了好多香草、玫瑰等等。

My favourite room in my flat probably would be the kitchen, which is very light and sunny, overlooks the garden and is decorated with tiles that I painted myself, using actually a lot of the colours that you would see in the paintings in the Sainsbury Wing here.

我最喜歡的公寓房間大概是廚房，它非常明亮且陽光充足，可以俯瞰花園，牆上裝飾著我自己畫的瓷磚，用的顏色其實很多都跟這裡 Sainsbury Wing 的畫作裡看到的顏色很像。

Very bright oranges and blues and pinks and yellows, lots of bright colours, and

非常鮮豔的橘色、藍色、粉紅色和黃色，很多鮮豔的顏色，

At weekends, Frances often entertains friends at her flat, or she might take the chance to visit friends who live outside London.

週末的時候，Frances 常常在家裡招待朋友，或者趁機去拜訪住在倫敦市區以外的朋友。

On a typical weekend, if I was staying in London, which sometimes I'm not, I would probably meet some friends and go shopping, go and see a film, probably go round to supper with some of the friends or maybe have them round to my flats and cook for them.

在一般的週末，如果我待在倫敦，雖然有時候我不會待在倫敦，我可能會約朋友出去逛街、看電影，或者去朋友家吃晚餐，也可能請他們來我這裡，然後我為他們做菜。

And then on Sunday I might well go and see an exhibition, which of course I don't have time to do during the week, and

然後週日的時候，我可能會去看個展覽，這當然是平常上班日沒時間做的事，

maybe go and visit some people who live in London, but further away in Greenwich, perhaps.

然後也許會去拜訪一些住在倫敦但比較遠一點，像是格林威治那邊的朋友。

Takes a while to get there and go for a long walk.

去那裡需要一些時間，然後可以去散散步。

Next, Frances introduces us to someone she especially admires and likes to visit.

接下來，Frances 介紹了一位她特別欣賞、喜歡拜訪的人。

Someone I very much admire is my mother's godmother, who was a hundred two weeks ago, a Hundred years old and she is quite an extraordinary person.

我非常欣賞的一位是我的母親的教母，她兩個禮拜前剛滿一百歲，她是一位非常不平凡的人。

She is fascinated by art and culture and literature and things that are happening today, not just things that happened when she was young in the past.

她對藝術、文化、文學以及當代發生的事情都很有興趣，而不只是對她年輕時發生的事情感興趣。

If you go and see her, she'll say now what about that new exhibition?

如果你去看她，她會問「那新展覽怎麼樣了？」

而且她會把所有的評論都看過了。

She'll always be reading somebody's letters in the original French and she wants to talk to you, you about these things.

她總是會讀法文原文書信，而且她想跟你聊聊這些事。

She's got an incredibly lively mind and I think that she is somebody who is an example to everyone.

她腦袋非常活躍，我覺得她是所有人的榜樣。

As someone who can grow old but still be fascinated by everything.

就像一個能不斷成長、對萬事萬物都充滿好奇的人。

Frances herself has a strong love of learning and teaching.

Frances 本人也非常熱愛學習和教學。

She describes what she thinks is the general attitude towards art in Britain and how she hopes people will visit London's National Galleries since they're free and very user friendly.

她描述了她認為英國大眾對藝術的普遍態度，以及她希望大家能參觀倫敦的國家美術館，因為它們免費又很友善。

They have a lot of events, lectures and holiday activities for children.

他們有很多活動、講座和兒童節日活動。

I think that people in Britain maybe are coming to know more about art.

我想英國人或許越來越瞭解藝術了。

I'd say there's a problem with modern art in Britain.

我認為英國的當代藝術有點問題。

People either laugh at it or say, my five year old grandson could have done that in two minutes.

人們不是嘲笑它，就是說我五歲的孫子兩分鐘就能畫出來。

Older art I think takes some understanding and some explaining, which is tricky, so it just needs time spent on it, which not everyone is able to do.

我認為比較早期的藝術需要一些理解和解釋，這有點棘手，所以需要花時間去研究，但不是每個人都能做到。

And of course not everyone is able to come and visit collections of art like this, but

當然也不是每個人都能來參觀像這樣的藝術收藏，但是

Now we arrive at the last painting on our tour.

現在我們要來到我們導覽的最後一幅畫作了。

A young art student is working in front of it, putting the last brushstrokes on his copy of this 17th century masterpiece.

一位年輕的藝術學生正在畫前面，為這幅17世紀的傑作畫上最後一筆。

We're now standing in front of a self portrait by Rembrandt.

我們現在正站在林布蘭的一幅自畫像前。

He painted it in 1669, which was the last year of his life.

他是在1669年畫的，那也是他生命的最後一年。

He died age 63 the next year and I think it's a wonderful portrait.

他隔年以63歲過世，我認為這是一幅很棒的肖像畫。

He's against a very dark background and his old face, which he's taking no trouble to disguise at all.

他身處非常黑暗的背景中，臉上刻劃著歲月的痕跡，他完全沒有試圖去掩飾。

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