In the summer of 1864, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, aged 24 and a second year student at St.Petersburg Conservatoire, 在1864年的夏天, 24岁的彼得伊里奇柴科夫斯基还是圣彼得堡音乐学院的一位二年级学生, wrote his first full...
Something unsettling happened here in Amsterdam something I find disturbing. 一些不安发生在阿姆斯特丹，我觉得不安的一些事情。 If Vincent's studies weren't going well, he used to punish himself by picking up a cudgel and beatin...
Vincent, remember, spoke four languages fluently, and he decided to produce a translation of the Bible in all of them simultaneously, Dutch, French, German and English. 文森特仍然记得流利的讲4种语言,并且他决定同时开始进行荷兰...
But he never did. Whatever promises he'd made to his new flock in England, his family forced him to break. 但他却从来没有。无论他承诺自己会如何重返英格兰都是如此,他的家人迫使他履行诺言。 Instead of returning to...
Further ahead in our story, after some turbulent religious times the preacher who stood up here and delivered his first sermon was to give up religion rather fiercely and claim to despise it. 在我们的故事的未来往前一点是一些动荡的宗...
We still have it. We know exactly what he said to his first congregation. 我们仍然记得。我们确切知道他在自己的第一次集会上说了什么。 It's an old belief and good belief that our life is a pilgrim's progress that we are str...
This is the minute books of the Turnham Green Congregational Church for 1876. 这是1876年特纳姆格林公理教会的记录薄。 Look who's in them, named as a new church worker and assistant preacher, Mr.Van Gogh. 看看谁在其中,一位新的教...
And did any man ever show as much affection for his trusty boots as Vincent years later went on to show. 而且多年之后，文森特的靴子也被用去展览。 There ain't a lady living in the land. 不是一位女士住在这片土地上。 As...
Stokes turned out to be entirely unreliable. 斯托克斯被证明完全不可靠。 Just two months after he got here, Vincent learned that the school was closing and moving to Isleworth, a London suburb where Stokes promised Vincent a proper job. 在...
He eventually found one, here in Ramsgate, teaching French, German, arithmetic and dictation to young boys at a school opened in this building by a Mr. William Stokes. 他最终找到了一份工作,在拉姆斯哥特，他在这位威廉斯托克斯先...
