A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
连续
Successive
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
一个人的成长可以从他朋友连续不断的唱诗班中看到。
Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.
为什么没有人看到化石本身就产生了一种关于地球形成的理论呢?如果没有化石,没有人会想到地球的形成会有连续的时代。
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
就像一个跑步者的成千上万个连续的姿势被压缩成一个唯一的象征性姿态,我们的眼睛可以感知到,艺术可以复制,对每个人来说,这就变成了一个跑步者的形象。
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
很少有人能从瞬间的光照中获得完整而惊人的真理。他们中的大多数人都是通过细胞的连续发展,在小范围内,一个片段一个片段地获得它,就像一个费力的马赛克。
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
当你从一幅肖像开始,通过连续的消除,寻找一个纯粹的形式,一个清晰的体积,你不可避免地会到达鸡蛋。同样地,从鸡蛋开始,按照同样的过程反过来,一个人以肖像结束。