Mystery
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Between the years 1503 and 1506, the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci worked on a painting that would become one of the most famous paintings in the world.
1503至1506年间,意大利艺术家莱昂纳多·达·芬奇(Leonardo da Vinci)致力于一幅会成为世界上最出名的画作之一的画作.
It is called the Mona Lisa.
这叫蒙娜丽莎
Until recently, there were few certain facts known about the woman in the painting— or about her life.
直到最近,关于画中的妇女,或关于她的生活,鲜为人知。
Her real identity had remained unproven.
她的真实身份仍未证实。
Many people thought that she lived in the town of Florence, Italy, where Leonardo also lived.
许多人认为她住在意大利佛罗伦萨的小镇上,莱昂纳多也在那里居住.
Others believed that he painted it by copying the parts of several different people.
其他人认为他通过复制几个不同人的部分来作画.
Some people even thought that the artist just imagined her in his mind.
一些人甚至认为,艺术家只是想象出她在他的脑海中.
Detail of the portrait of the Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo da Vinci between 1503 and 1506 New evidence supports the long-held belief that she was a real person and her name was Lisa.
1503至1506年间由莱昂纳多·达·芬奇所绘的"蒙娜丽莎"肖像细节 新证据支持了长期以来一直认为她是一个真实的人,而她的名字是"丽莎".
The evidence also shows that both Lisa’s family and her husband, a wealthy silk merchant in Florence, knew Leonardo’s father.
证据还表明,莉萨的家人和她的丈夫,佛罗伦萨的一位富裕的丝绸商人都认识莱昂纳多的父亲.
The small painting has been hanging in the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, for over 200 years.
小画被悬挂在法国巴黎的卢浮宫博物馆已超过200年.
Every day, visitors come to stare at her mysterious smile and her eyes.
每天,来访者都来盯着她神秘的微笑和眼睛.
They try to imagine what she was thinking about as she posed.
他们试图想象她所表现的样子。
Artists looked closely to see what special skills Leonardo used to make her hands look so natural.
艺术家们仔细地看着莱昂纳多用什么特殊技能让她的手看起来如此自然.
How did he create the shadowy background behind her?
他是如何创造她背后的阴暗背景的?
Leonardo da Vinci studied anatomy, bones, and muscles and was able to make his figures appear lifelike.
莱昂纳多·达·芬奇研究了解剖学,骨骼和肌肉,并得以使他的人物显得像活生生.
But in 1911, another mystery about the Mona Lisa was created.
但是在1911年,蒙娜丽莎的另一个谜团被创造出来.
One day, the painting disappeared and didn’t come back for over two years.
这幅画消失,
On August 22, 1911, an artist named Louis came to the Louvre Museum to study and copy the Mona Lisa, as artists and students were allowed to do.
1911年8月22日,一位叫路易的艺术家来到卢浮宫博物馆学习并复制了"蒙娜丽莎",作为艺术家和学生被允许这么做.
It was a Tuesday, which is important because on Monday the museum was closed.
这是一个星期二,这很重要 因为星期一博物馆关闭。
Louis entered the room where the Mona Lisa had always hung.
路易进入了蒙娜丽莎一直挂起的房间.
But the painting wasn’t there.
但画没有。
Had someone moved it?
有人动了吗?
He waited for a while.
他等了一会儿
Then he asked a guard to please go and ask about it.
后又请一侍卫请去相问.
When the guard came back, he had very bad news.
警卫回来的时候,他有一个非常坏的消息。
The Mona Lisa was missing.
蒙娜丽莎不见了
The police were called.
报警了
They searched every room.
他们搜查了每个房间。
Soon, they had Clue Number One.
很快,他们就有了克吕一号。
The Mona Lisa’s wooden frame was found near the stairs.
蒙娜丽莎的木制相框被发现于楼梯附近.
The police questioned every person who worked at the museum.
警方询问了博物馆工作的每一个人.
They felt sure that the theft had occurred on Monday, when the museum was closed.
他们确信,盗窃事件发生在博物馆被关闭的星期一。
They guessed that the thief had been a museum laborer.
他们猜想小偷是博物馆工人
Or had he just dressed as one—so no one would notice him?
或者他只是穿成一个人,所以没有人会注意到他?
They thought that when the guard was away, the thief simply had taken the painting off the wall.
他们认为当警卫离开时,小偷只是把画从墙上取出.
He carried it to the stairs.
他把它带到楼梯。
Then he took off the painting’s heavy frame.
之后他取出画作的重相框.
The Mona Lisa is painted on a piece of wood—so it couldn’t be rolled up.
蒙娜丽莎被画在一块木上,
He had put the painting under his work shirt and gone down the stairs.
他把画放在他的工作上衣下,然后下楼梯。
The door was locked.
门被锁了
He knew how to take off the lock, so he did.
他知道怎么把锁脱了 所以他做到了
Then he walked outside and was gone.
后走出外道而去.
The museum closed for a week.
博物馆关闭了一个星期.
The police talked with everyone they could think of.
警察和他们能想到的所有人谈过了
They closed all the border crossings in and out of France.
他们关闭了所有进出法国的过境点。
Fingerprint experts arrived.
指纹专家来了
They fingerprinted people from all over the city and put the fingerprints on file.
他们给全市的人指指印 把指纹放入档案
Every day, people waited to hear what the police had learned.
每天,人们都等着听到警察学到了什么。
When the museum opened again, people came to stare at the empty space where the Mona Lisa had hung for over 100 years.
当博物馆再次开馆时,人们开始凝视蒙娜丽莎悬挂了100多年的空地.
They just couldn’t believe that the Mona Lisa was gone.
他们无法相信蒙娜丽莎不见了。
Then the police found Clue Number Two.
后来警方发现了"克吕二号".
Clue Number Two was a thumbprint.
颜色 两个是拇指印
It was on the glass of the frame that they found by the stairs.
他们从楼梯上找到的玻璃架上
The experts compared the thumbprint on the glass to all the thumbprints they had put in the file.
专家将玻璃上的拇指印和他们放入文件的所有拇指印作比较.
Would one match?
一个人可以吗?
Would this print solve the crime?
这个指纹能破案吗?
Everyone waited for the fingerprint results.
大家都在等指纹结果
But there was a big problem.
但有一个大问题。
The thumbprint on the glass was from the thief’s left hand.
玻璃上的拇指印出自小偷的左手。
The fingerprint experts had taken prints from people’s right hands.
指纹专家从人们的右手取出指纹。
They couldn’t match the right- hand prints in the file to the thief’s left thumbprint.
他们无法将文件中的右手指纹与小偷的左手拇指指纹相匹配。
Everyone was upset.
大家都很不高兴
No one knew what to do next.
没人知道接下来该做什么
For the next two years, people called the police almost every day.
在接下来的两年里,人们几乎每天都报警.
Everyone had a new theory about what had happened to the Mona Lisa, or where it was.
每个人都有一个新的理论 关于蒙娜丽莎发生了什么, 或者在哪里。
But there were no real clues.
但并没有真正的线索。
The Mona Lisa seemed to have vanished.
蒙娜丽莎似乎消失了
Then came Clue Number Three.
然后是克吕克三号
But perhaps it shouldn’t be called a clue at all, because it was the thief himself who told the police about his motive for taking the painting.
但也许这根本不应该被称为线索, 因为盗贼自己告诉警察他拿走这幅画的动机。
The famous painter of the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci, was Italian.
蒙娜丽莎的著名画家莱昂纳多·达·芬奇是意大利人.
Leonardo had painted the Mona Lisa in Italy.
莱昂纳多在意大利画了"蒙娜丽莎".
But the painting had been hanging in a museum in France for years.
但是这幅画在法国的博物馆挂了好几年.
Can you guess the thief’s motive?
你能猜到小偷的动机吗?
Two years after the theft, on December 10, 1913, a man named Vincenzo walked into an antiques store in Florence, Italy.
被窃后两年,1913年12月10日,一个叫文森佐的人走入了意大利佛罗伦萨的古董店.
“I have the Mona Lisa,” he said.
他说,“我有蒙娜丽莎”。
The owner of the antiques store called the director of a museum in Florence.
古董店老板称佛罗伦萨一家博物馆的馆长.
They both went with Vincenzo to his hotel room.
他们都和文森佐去他的旅馆房间了
Vincenzo opened a trunk and removed a false bottom.
Vincenzo打开了后备箱,取出了一个假底.
There was Leonardo’s Mona Lisa.
有莱昂纳多的"蒙娜丽莎".
Vincenzo admitted to stealing it.
文森佐承认偷的.
He had been a laborer at the museum.
他在博物馆当过工人
He saw the Mona Lisa every day.
他每天都看到蒙娜丽莎
He was sad that it was in a museum in France.
他伤心地看到它出现在法国的一个博物馆里.
His motive for taking it, he said, was to return the Mona Lisa to Italy, where he believed it truly belonged.
他说,他采取这一行动的动机是将蒙娜丽莎送回意大利,他认为它真正属于意大利。
Safely back in Paris, the painting was examined by experts.
平安回巴黎后,这幅画被专家审查.
They wanted to be sure that this was the real painting, and not a forgery.
他们想确定这是真的画 不是伪造的
X-rays and photographs were made.
拍摄了X光和相片。
Was this the same paint and varnish used in other Leonardo paintings?
这是否是其他莱昂纳多画作中所用的同一种颜料和漆?
What about the wood on which it is painted?
画上那块木头呢?
How old was it?
几岁?
The painting was indeed Leonardo’s masterpiece.
这幅画确实是莱昂纳多的杰作。
The Mona Lisa was returned to a special place in the Louvre Museum.
蒙娜丽莎被送回了卢浮宫博物馆的一个特殊场所.
It still hangs there today, and is seen by over fourteen thousand people a day.
它今天仍然挂在那里,每天有超过一万四千人看到.
After only seven months, Vincenzo left jail to cheers.
仅7个月后,文森佐出狱去欢呼.
He was a celebrity.
他是个名人
People sent him wine and flowers.
众人送他酒花.
He married, and then the man who had said that he hated France—moved his family back there!
他结了婚,然后那个说他讨厌法国的人——把他的家人搬回了那里!
Vincenzo Peruggia opened a successful paint and varnish store in a small French town.
Vincenzo Peruggia在法国一个小镇开设了一家成功的油漆和清漆店.
There he lived a quiet and uneventful life until he died in 1947.
他在那里过着平静而平和的生活,直到他于1947年去世.