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前些天剛有人說完歷史人物可以被刻成雕像，今天有就小夥伴反映，既然「歷史人物」可以變藝術品，那「歷史事件」不也可以巧妙的變成雕像被定格麼!然後大家就各種發散思維，開始回憶上個季度雅思口語裡面historical event自己說過什麼。
還記得那個被大家背的賊溜的「烽火戲諸侯」的雅思語料麼?今天我們讓歷史學家和藝術家一起，把它變成一件work of art吧!
I』d like to talk about a set of marble statues I saw in an art gallery a few months ago. They are husband and wife, actually an emperor and his wife. Both of them are life-size ones that are impeccably carved. We could see their facial expressions clearly. They are laughing hard as if someone has told a hilarious joke. Actually this piece of art is a result of the collaboration of an artist and a historian. For someone who is not familiar with Chinese history, it might be hard to get what the sculptor is trying to express, but for people who are interested in that period of Chinese history, they could tell immediately that the set of statues actually recreates that funny and sad historical event, which is the inspiration of this artwork.
The emperor was quite stupid, but he married a gorgeous wife, as we can tell from the sculpture.
One day, he came up with a ridiculous idea to please his wife. He thought it must be funny if he lit the beacon tower to gather his army, and soldiers arrived only to find out it was a false alarm. Those sculptures just showed their reaction when they saw those solders. But what the sculpture didn’t show is what happened next. Just a few years later, he got overthrown because when he’s truly in danger and lit the beacon asking for help, no one came to his rescue.
So I guess those two sculptures are just like a constant reminder of that painful lesson we learned from history.
語言點解析：
a type of hard stone that is usually white and often has colored lines in it. It can be polished and is used in building and for making statues, etc. 例如：
a slab/ block of marble
a marble floor/ sculpture
piece = ~ (of something) a single item of writing, art, music, etc. that somebody has produced or created例如：
a piece of art/ music/ poetry, etc.
They performed pieces by Bach and Handel.
(formal) They have some beautiful pieces (= works of art, etc.) in their home.
collaboration = the act of working with another person or group of people to create or produce something 例如：
It was a collaboration that produced extremely useful results.
The new plane was a triumph of European industrial and technical collaboration.
She wrote the book in collaboration with one of her students.
The government worked in close collaboration with teachers on the new curriculum.
collaboration between the teachers and the government
beacon = (in the past) a fire lit on top of a hill as a signal
false alarm = a warning about a danger that does not happen; a belief that something bad is going to happen, when it is not 例如：
The fire service was called out but it was a false alarm.
overthrow = to remove a leader or a government from a position of power by force 例如：
The president was overthrown in a military coup.
作者簡介：
朱博，新東方吉林學校雅思口語美女講師，畢業於985院校大連理工大學，碩士保送一等獎學金。在校期間曾遊學美國，任出版社英語出版中心校對四年，工作嚴謹，活潑開朗，讓大家快樂的學習英語。
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