The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

  • -- Tom Wolfe 汤姆·沃尔夫

公众接受或拒绝现代艺术中的任何东西,这种观念仅仅是浪漫主义小说。比赛结束了,奖杯在公众知道发生了什么之前就已经分发出去了。

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He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake.

他有办法对付他。在你有机会说不之前,他就来了。这种事以前只发生过一次,和一位公爵在一起,他真的让我神魂颠倒,在我知道发生了什么之前,我们就这样做了。另一个严重的错误。

I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can be blamed for his doing what the public has no concern in; for if the public be well and faithfully served it has no business to ask by whom.

因此,我看不出这怎么能算作犯罪,也看不出国王的大臣们怎么会因为做了公众毫不关心的事而受到指责;因为,如果公众得到良好和忠诚的服务,它就没有问谁的权利。

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

关于现代科学对人们的生活方式及其文明的影响的确切影响,科学家们很难逃脱无知的指责。

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

现代艺术史也是一部艺术受众逐步流失的历史。艺术越来越受到艺术家的关注和公众的困惑。

There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.

曾经有一段时间,雇主和雇员之间的合同关系被认为与公众无关。那段时间已经过去了。

You really don't always have to be super nice. Sometimes you have to show your bad side so that you can sort out who can accept you at your worst.

你真的不需要总是超级友好。有时候,你必须展现出你不好的一面,这样你才能找出谁能接受你最差的一面。

When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.

当你写东西的时候,它必须达到你认为好的水平。

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

有些人认为他们只是在担心时才会集中注意力。

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

丈夫永远不会变好;他们只是变得熟练。

Some stories are true that never happened.

有些故事是真实的,从未发生过。