Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

  • -- Walter Horatio Pater 佩特

艺术和诗歌作家们曾多次尝试用抽象的方式来定义美,用最普遍的术语来表达美,为美寻找一些普遍的公式。

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The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

你越具体,就越能触及更广泛的普遍真理。

I heard once that the things you own define you and I didn't want to be seen that way.

我曾经听说,你所拥有的东西定义了你,而我不想被人这样看待。

Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal.

还有一个关于不幸爱情的故事。这是普遍的。

You can not define being exactly on time.

你不能确切地定义什么是准时。