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The ideal body

 

時興苗條，肌肉男也大有市場，如此審美觀，從何而來？大英博物館最近的展覽《Defining Beauty》，展出古希臘的雕像，對比當年今日，二千五百年過去，我們對完美體態的定義有否轉變？兩位主持大談人體線條的吸引力！

 

以下三句，意思相若，但表達方法卻完全不同，值得參考：

 

Our modern idea of the perfect body is largely unchanged from that of the Ancient Greeks.

 

It is remarkable how familiar the ideas of physical perfection they embody are to us today.

 

The ancient ideas still have an enormous impact on how we view ourselves and our bodies.

 

展覽展出多件藝術品，由史前塑像到亞歷山大大帝時期的雕塑都有：

 

The Defining Beauty exhibition at the British Museum gathers together works of art from prehistoric figurines to breathtakingly realistic sculptures of the age of Alexander the Great.

 

figurine 〔裝飾用的瓷製〕小塑像，小雕像

(noun 名詞)

 

vs sculpture 雕塑

 

breathtaking 令人驚嘆的

(adjective 形容詞)

 

例子：the breathtaking natural beauty of the scene  令人驚嘆的自然美景

例子：he is such a man of quite breathtaking stupidity (= he is extremely stupid)

 

► breathtakingly (adverb 副詞)

 

古希臘人對人體有多著迷？背後又有什麼原因？在展覽走一圈，可能會給你一點啟示：

 

The Ancient Greeks were obsessed with the human body and how they could represent it – as a thing of beauty and a bearer of meaning.

 

be obsessed + with 為…著迷

 

obsession 困擾；癡迷；無法擺脫的念頭；念念不忘的事（或人）

(noun 名詞)

 

例子：He's always wanted to find his natural mother but recently it's become an obsession.

 

the bearer of …

 

… a message

= the person who brings it to you 帶信人

 

例子：I don’t want to be the bearer of bad news (but I have to tell you…).

 

… a document, a right, an official position

= the person who possesses it = holder 〔證件的〕持有者

 

pallbearer 〔葬禮中的〕扶靈人，抬棺者

(noun 名詞)

 

Kevin 教室

 

SCULPTURE 雕刻  vs.  STATUE 雕像

 

A sculpture is a three-dimensional work of art made by shaping stone, wood, metal, etc.

A statue is a sculpture in the shape of a person or animal.

 

A statue is a large sculpture of a person or an animal. It is usually made of stone or any other metal like bronze. (replica of a living creature)

 

= an image of a person or animal that is made in solid material such as stone or metal and is usually large 雕像; 塑像

 

例子：a bronze statue of a horse 一座馬的銅像

例子：Statue of Liberty 自由神像

   
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