Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

  • -- W. H. Auden 奥登

艺术是我们与死者共进午餐的主要手段。

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In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it.

在旧的契约中,人们把牛犊的血洒在身体上,以约束他们遵守律法;否则,我们一定会因为破坏了它而受到诅咒。

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

我在你们那里所听见的,比这更美。我与你们所擘开的,比这更美。我既没有你,一切都是荒凉的。曾经那么美丽的一切都已不复存在。

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

人是一种不单单依靠食物生存的生物,主要依靠口头禅生存。

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

有些人为了打破诺言而打破诺言。