Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

  • -- Ambrose Bierce 比尔斯

绘画,n。字体保护平坦表面不受天气影响,并将其暴露给评论家的艺术。

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She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

她是心灵的朋友。她把我召集起来。我是碎片,她把它们收集起来,按正确的顺序还给我。有个女人是你心灵的朋友,这很好。

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

永不枯竭的善良天性是上天赐予我们的最珍贵的礼物之一,它像油一样在纷乱的思想海洋上喷薄欲出,在最恶劣的天气里也能保持头脑的平静。

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

我已经慢慢地拥有了这样的能力。我接受当时的意见。我不想像他们。但我把它们融入一个生动的头脑。

I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.

我认为我是一个完整的球员。我能在所有的场地上都打得很好。对我来说,粘土可能是最简单的,但我不是粘土方面的专家。

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

一位对我们的制度持严厉但并非不友好批评态度的人士表示,要想欣赏上院,唯一的办法就是去看看它。

He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.

他表现得像一只鸵鸟,把头埋在沙子里,露出了他的思考部分。

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

博物馆里的一幅画听到的荒谬言论比世界上任何东西都多。

Snailie, snailie, shoot out yer horn, and tell us if it'll be a bonny day the morn.

蜗牛,蜗牛,把你的角射出来,告诉我们明天早上天气会不会很好。

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

不,我们的大多数政治精英没有意识到世界是平的。

This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.

这就是我们保护你的方式,把你救出来。

My painting does not come from the easel.

我的画不是来自画架。

My son is a harsh critic.

我儿子是个严厉的评论家。