Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

  • -- Jerry Saltz 杰瑞·萨特茨

抽象将世界带入更复杂、更多变的关系中;它可以从看似虚无的事物中提取美、另类的地形、丑和强烈的现实。

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At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.

与此同时,新的概念和抽象出现在画面中,承担起描述宇宙而不涉及时间或空间的任务——我们的语言缺乏足够的术语来描述这些抽象。

In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.

在大大小小的事情上,许多人似乎都对粗鲁感到担忧。粗鲁是我们人际关系中的一种丑陋,它似乎在增加而不是减少。

I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.

我讨厌丑陋。你知道我对丑过敏。