ETYMFORGEchiaroscuro
The strong contrast of light and shadow, especially in painting
明暗对比
A dark room with one small window. Light falls across a table: a bowl of pears, half gold, half swallowed by shadow. It looks like an old painting.
一个昏暗的房间，只有一扇小窗。光斜斜地落在桌上：一碗梨，一半是金色，一半被阴影吞没。看起来就像一幅古老的油画。
Word parts词的构成
The story词源故事
It's Italian. Chiaro means clear or bright, and scuro means dark.
它来自意大利语。chiaro 是“明亮”，scuro 是“黑暗”。
They come from Latin, the same roots that gave English the words clear and obscure.
它们都来自拉丁语，英语里的 clear（清楚）和 obscure（模糊）也是同样的词根。
Renaissance painters used it to make flat pictures look solid. Caravaggio pushed it so far that his faces seem to burst out of the dark.
文艺复兴时期的画家用它让平面的画显得立体。卡拉瓦乔把它用到了极致，他画里的人脸，仿佛是从黑暗中迸发出来的。
In a sentence用法
The photographer loved the chiaroscuro of late-afternoon light through the blinds.
摄影师很喜欢傍晚的光透过百叶窗时那种明暗交织的效果。
Light needs a little darkness around it. Otherwise, you'd never notice it.
光，需要一点黑暗来衬托。不然，你根本不会注意到它。
Full transcript完整字幕
A dark room with one small window. Light falls across a table: a bowl of pears, half gold, half swallowed by shadow. It looks like an old painting.
That contrast has a name.
Chiaroscuro.
It's Italian. Chiaro means clear or bright, and scuro means dark.
They come from Latin, the same roots that gave English the words clear and obscure.
Renaissance painters used it to make flat pictures look solid. Caravaggio pushed it so far that his faces seem to burst out of the dark.
Here's how it sounds in a sentence.
The photographer loved the chiaroscuro of late-afternoon light through the blinds.
Your turn. Say it with me: Chiaroscuro.
Light needs a little darkness around it.
Otherwise, you'd never notice it.
一个昏暗的房间，只有一扇小窗。光斜斜地落在桌上：一碗梨，一半是金色，一半被阴影吞没。看起来就像一幅古老的油画。
这种明暗对比，有它自己的名字。
Chiaroscuro，明暗对比。
它来自意大利语。chiaro 是“明亮”，scuro 是“黑暗”。
它们都来自拉丁语，英语里的 clear（清楚）和 obscure（模糊）也是同样的词根。
文艺复兴时期的画家用它让平面的画显得立体。卡拉瓦乔把它用到了极致，他画里的人脸，仿佛是从黑暗中迸发出来的。
放进句子里，是这样的：
摄影师很喜欢傍晚的光透过百叶窗时那种明暗交织的效果。
轮到你了，跟我一起说：chiaroscuro。
光，需要一点黑暗来衬托。
不然，你根本不会注意到它。