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第1段
1 .<-NARRATOR:->Listen to a conversation between a student and his art history professor.
旁白：听一段学生和艺术史教授的对话。
第2段
1 .<-FEMALE PROFESSOR:->How was the museum?
教授：博物馆怎么样？
第3段
1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Great. I hadn't been there for a few years.
学生：棒极了。我已经好几年没去了。
第4段
1 .<-FEMALE PROFESSOR:->Did you enjoy the Van Gogh painting?
教授：你喜欢梵高的画吗？
第5段
1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->That's the thing-looks like I have to change my topic...
学生：这就是问题所在了。看起来我要换课题了。
第6段
1 .<-FEMALE PROFESSOR:->[concerned tone] Hmm, we're getting close to the deadline....
教授：我们离截止日期已经很近了。
2 .You were writing about the theme of night in the paintings of Vincent van Gogh? It-it's a wonderful topic...
你写的是文森特·梵高画作中夜的主题，这个话题很不错。
第7段
1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->I know.... People don't usually think of Van Gogh as an artist of nocturnal themes.
学生：我知道。人们通常不会认为梵高是表现夜色主题的艺术家。
2 .They think of brightness, sunshine... all that yellow and orange.
他们想到的都是明亮的色彩、阳光，黄色和橙色。
第8段
1 .<-FEMALE PROFESSOR:->You're right, of course, about the intense light associated with his daytime paintings, but his night paintings don't exactly lack brightness.
教授：当然了，你说得对，在梵高关于白天的画作中，强烈的光线总是伴随出现，但他关于夜晚的画作实际上也不缺明亮的元素。
第9段
1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->That's the paradox that I really like-the paradox of painting a nighttime scene using so much color and light.
学生：我正是喜欢这种矛盾之处，画的是一个夜晚的场景，但运用了这么多色彩和光线。
2 .So I was planning to focus mostly on his painting Starry Night.
我打算专注于他的画作《星夜》。
第10段
1 .<-FEMALE PROFESSOR:->But?
教授：但？
第11段
1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->When I went to the museum to look at the actual painting, like you told me to, it wasn't there.
学生：和你告诉过我的一样，我去了博物馆看画作真品，但它不在那儿。
第12段
1 .<-FEMALE PROFESSOR:->Really? [surprised tone] Isn't it part of the permanent collection?
教授：真的吗？那不是永久藏品吗？
第13段
1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Yes, but it's on loan right now to a museum in Europe.
学生：是。但这幅画现在借给了欧洲一家博物馆。
第14段
1 .<-FEMALE PROFESSOR:->[disappointed tone] I see. Well, I am strict about having students write about paintings they can observe firsthand.
教授：我懂了，我在这方面要求很严格，坚持让学生写能第一手观察到的画作。
第15段
1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Well, I found another painting I could study instead...
学生：我找到了另一幅我能研究的画。
第16段
1 .<-FEMALE PROFESSOR:->OK...
教授：好。
第17段
1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->I read that there are two paintings called Starry Night.
学生：我看到，原来有两幅画叫《星夜》。
2 .The first one was done by the French Realist painter Millet... It may've been the inspiration for Van Gogh's painting.
第一幅是法国现实主义画家米勒画的。这可能是梵高画作的灵感来源。
3 .Millet's painting is located near my family's house in Connecticut-and I'm going there this weekend, and could study it then.
米勒的画在康涅狄格，离我家很近---我这周会回去，到那时我就能研究这幅画了。
4 .I made sure it's not out on loan...
我确认了，这幅画没被借走。
第18段
1 .<-FEMALE PROFESSOR:->That definitely would work, then.
教授：这绝对行得通。
2 .Van Gogh copied many of Millet's compositions.
梵高模仿了许多米勒的艺术技巧。
3 .We know that he really admired Millet's work.
我们都知道他很喜欢米勒的作品。
4 .And a lot of us think Van Gogh saw this particular painting by Millet in Paris in the late 1700s.
很多人认为，在18世纪晚期，梵高在巴黎看见了这幅米勒的画作。
第19段
1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Yeah. Although Millet was a Realist painter and Van Gogh a Postimpressionist, the two paintings still share lots of features-not just the name.
学生：对。尽管米勒是现实主义画家，梵高是后印象派画家，这两幅画中有很多共同点，不只是名字。
2 .The most striking shared feature has got to be the amazing light effects.
其中最突出的共同特点就是令人惊叹的光效了。
3 .I'm excited to go see it. But, one other thing...
能去看这幅画，我觉得很激动。但还有一件事……
第20段
1 .<-FEMALE PROFESSOR:->Uh-huh?
教授：嗯。
第21段
1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->I was thinking about getting a head start on my next assignment while I'm at the gallery in Connecticut-the assignment on miniatures.
学生：我打算提前开始我下一份作业，关于微缩模型的作业，趁我去康涅狄格美术馆的机会。
2 .They have a lot of miniature portraits of children as part of their permanent collection...
那里有很多儿童的微型肖像，是他们的永久藏品。
第22段
1 .<-FEMALE PROFESSOR:->American miniatures?
教授：美国微缩模型？
第23段
1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Yeah. So I figured I could also get started on that essay... study a few while I'm there.
学生：对，所以我想我也能开始写那篇论文了，在那儿做些研究。
2 .I'd focus on the meaning of the objects that some of the children are holding; some are holding flowers, one child has a rattle, another a toy violin...
我打算集中研究某些儿童所拿物品的意义，一些人拿着花，一个小孩拿着拨浪鼓，另一个拿着玩具小提琴……
第24段
1 .<-FEMALE PROFESSOR:->That would be fine.
教授：这没问题。
2 .Uh, those objects-we call them attributes.
这些物品，我们称为象征物。
3 .The attribute chosen to be included in a particular miniature was often meant to communicate parents' hopes and dreams for their child.
人们选择把这些象征物纳入某幅微型作品中，通常是为了传达父母对孩子的期望。
4 .So I think you'll learn a lot about how people viewed children at the time the miniature paintings were done.
所以我认为，你会学到很多关于人们在微型画所在时期对儿童的看法。