I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

  • -- Paul Simon 保罗·西蒙

我想一个艺术家把他生活中的元素重新排列,然后让别人把它们视为他们生活中的元素。

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Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.

许多年前,人们就知道植物和动物是由不同的物质组成的:植物是由三种元素组成的化学物质——碳、氢和氧;四种元素之一的动物,氮被添加到其他三种元素中。

I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture.

我想最近发生的事情已经证实了我在书中所表达的怀疑,我认为我所指出的一些事情已经更清楚了。例如,我在书中有一部分谈到了酷刑的可能性。

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

事物、身体、物质,除了元素的组合——颜色、声音等等——除了它们所谓的属性之外,什么也不是。

I'm a little bit out of it, I suppose; I'm more of the golden oldie type.

我想我有点醉了;我更喜欢金色老歌。