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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
他只学了一半的阅读艺术，而没有加上更高雅的跳绳和略读的艺术。
One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
一个人总是认为一个愚蠢的人是完全健康而平凡的，认为一个人的疾病是使他变得文雅、聪明而不寻常的。
I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
我改进了我的技巧，改进了我的音高。我变得更加自信，更加坚定。我更清楚自己在做什么了。
And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.
这让人感到悲哀，因为当艺术家们在一种乐器上得到完善和训练时，这对人们来说就像一个惊喜——几乎是一种反常。这是人们最不愿意考虑的事情。
The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.
中产阶级、稳定的中产阶级生活的好处是，你可以假装自己并不复杂，把自己塑造成一个扎实、简单的人，有精致的生活目标和成就。