#村长听写# April 18 2026 [第5287次]
听写是提高英文综合水平最快的方法！原视频、音频、文本和翻译，请到【近乎免费的听写群】下载 (置顶微博有介绍)，和大家一起坚持更容易成功。
请大家只通过听，写出文本。较长的视频建议只听写一分钟左右，其他的部分泛听。坚持最重要哦！
听写方法：随意暂停，查字典、上网搜，写出文本即可。然后对照我的文本，学习生词和短语。
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A figure perches, hunched in reflection. But this canonical sculpture isn’t just contemplation incarnate. French sculptor Auguste Rodin intended it to represent a specific person—and fit into a much larger piece featuring the fiery pits of Hell—a project that obsessed him during the last decades of his life. So, who was “The Thinker” and what was he actually thinking? Rodin’s path to renown was rocky. He grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Paris, applied to the esteemed school of fine arts, and was rejected three separate times. After several years working as a craftsman, he submitted his first sculpture to Paris’ Salon— and was denied. It wasn’t until 1877, when he was 35 and fresh off a visit to Italy, dazzled by the Renaissance sculptures on display, that Rodin completed his first major work. However, critics accused him of casting the lifelike sculpture directly from the model. But he hadn’t, and other artists vouched for him. As the controversy concluded, however, Rodin drastically shifted his style. Rather than render academically realistic forms, he began creating rougher, more expressive surfaces. Advances in camera technology had recently made it possible to capture perfect likeness, but Rodin argued that artistic renderings, though less precise, 完整文本和翻译在听写群内分享 http://t.cn/AXxhPkJM