选择字号:【大】【中】【小】 | 关灯
护眼
|
CHAPTER 14—“Carolus”
关注小说网官方公众号(noveltingroom),原版名著免费领。
In the early seventies a group of students—dissatisfied with the cut-and-dried instruction of the Paris art school and attracted by certain qualities of color and technique in the work of a young Frenchman from the city of Lille, who was just beginning to attract the attention of connoisseurs—went in a body to his studio with the request that he would oversee1 their work and direct their studies. The artist thus chosen was Carolus-Duran. Oddly enough, a majority of the youths who sought him out and made him their master were Americans.
The first modest workroom on the Boulevard Montparnasse was soon too small to hold the pupils who crowded under this newly raised banner, and a move was made to more commodious2 quarters near the master’s private studio. Sargent, Dannat, Harrison, Beckwith, Hinckley, and many others whom it is needless to mention here, will—if these lines come under their notice—doubtless recall with a thrill of pleasure the roomy one-storied structure in the rue3 Notre-Dame des Champs where we established our atelier d’élèves, a self-supporting cooperative concern, each student contributing ten francs a month toward rent, fire, and models, “Carolus”—the name by which this master is universally known abroad—not only refusing all compensation, according to the immutable4 custom of French painters of distinction, but, as we discovered later, contributing too often from his own pocket to help out the massier at the end of a difficult season, or smooth the path of some improvident5 pupil.
Those were cloudless, enchanted6 days we passed in the tumbled down old atelier: an ardent7 springtime of life when the future beckons8 gayly and no doubts of success obscure the horizon. Our young master’s enthusiasm fired his circle of pupils, who, as each succeeding year brought him increasing fame,
点击
收听单词发音

1
oversee
![]() |
|
vt.监督,管理 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
2
commodious
![]() |
|
adj.宽敞的;使用方便的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
3
rue
![]() |
|
n.懊悔,芸香,后悔;v.后悔,悲伤,懊悔 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
4
immutable
![]() |
|
adj.不可改变的,永恒的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
5
improvident
![]() |
|
adj.不顾将来的,不节俭的,无远见的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
6
enchanted
![]() |
|
adj. 被施魔法的,陶醉的,入迷的 动词enchant的过去式和过去分词 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
7
ardent
![]() |
|
adj.热情的,热烈的,强烈的,烈性的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
8
beckons
![]() |
|
v.(用头或手的动作)示意,召唤( beckon的第三人称单数 ) | |
参考例句: |
|
|
9
revelled
![]() |
|
v.作乐( revel的过去式和过去分词 );狂欢;着迷;陶醉 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
10
admiration
![]() |
|
n.钦佩,赞美,羡慕 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
11
overestimate
![]() |
|
v.估计过高,过高评价 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
12
impetus
![]() |
|
n.推动,促进,刺激;推动力 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
13
dozing
![]() |
|
v.打瞌睡,假寐 n.瞌睡 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
14
laurels
![]() |
|
n.桂冠,荣誉 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
15
cloister
![]() |
|
n.修道院;v.隐退,使与世隔绝 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
16
sketches
![]() |
|
n.草图( sketch的名词复数 );素描;速写;梗概 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
17
incisive
![]() |
|
adj.敏锐的,机敏的,锋利的,切入的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
18
renaissance
![]() |
|
n.复活,复兴,文艺复兴 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
19
situated
![]() |
|
adj.坐落在...的,处于某种境地的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
20
toiled
![]() |
|
长时间或辛苦地工作( toil的过去式和过去分词 ); 艰难缓慢地移动,跋涉 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
21
apotheosis
![]() |
|
n.神圣之理想;美化;颂扬 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
22
imprint
![]() |
|
n.印痕,痕迹;深刻的印象;vt.压印,牢记 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
23
scattered
![]() |
|
adj.分散的,稀疏的;散步的;疏疏落落的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
24
hoist
![]() |
|
n.升高,起重机,推动;v.升起,升高,举起 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
25
perpendicular
![]() |
|
adj.垂直的,直立的;n.垂直线,垂直的位置 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
26
permanently
![]() |
|
adv.永恒地,永久地,固定不变地 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
27
tardy
![]() |
|
adj.缓慢的,迟缓的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
28
twilight
![]() |
|
n.暮光,黄昏;暮年,晚期,衰落时期 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
29
commemorate
![]() |
|
vt.纪念,庆祝 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
30
modesty
![]() |
|
n.谦逊,虚心,端庄,稳重,羞怯,朴素 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
31
incense
![]() |
|
v.激怒;n.香,焚香时的烟,香气 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
32
allusion
![]() |
|
n.暗示,间接提示 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
33
proficiency
![]() |
|
n.精通,熟练,精练 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
34
curiously
![]() |
|
adv.有求知欲地;好问地;奇特地 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
35
duel
![]() |
|
n./v.决斗;(双方的)斗争 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
36
lithe
![]() |
|
adj.(指人、身体)柔软的,易弯的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
37
schism
![]() |
|
n.分派,派系,分裂 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
38
salon
![]() |
|
n.[法]沙龙;客厅;营业性的高级服务室 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
39
Mediterranean
![]() |
|
adj.地中海的;地中海沿岸的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
40
expressive
![]() |
|
adj.表现的,表达…的,富于表情的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
41
hoarse
![]() |
|
adj.嘶哑的,沙哑的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
42
retired
![]() |
|
adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
43
monastery
![]() |
|
n.修道院,僧院,寺院 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
44
vitality
![]() |
|
n.活力,生命力,效力 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
45
simplicity
![]() |
|
n.简单,简易;朴素;直率,单纯 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
46
elimination
![]() |
|
n.排除,消除,消灭 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
47
unities
![]() |
|
n.统一体( unity的名词复数 );(艺术等) 完整;(文学、戏剧) (情节、时间和地点的)统一性;团结一致 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
48
nude
![]() |
|
adj.裸体的;n.裸体者,裸体艺术品 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
49
equestrian
![]() |
|
adj.骑马的;n.马术 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
50
epoch
![]() |
|
n.(新)时代;历元 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
51
engrave
![]() |
|
vt.(在...上)雕刻,使铭记,使牢记 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
52
destined
![]() |
|
adj.命中注定的;(for)以…为目的地的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
©英文小说网 2005-2010