A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
抽象
Abstraction
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
抽象是真实的，可能比自然更真实。
I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.
我觉得我的父母总是与抽象有关，我想做一些非常具体的事情。
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
没有抽象的艺术。你必须从某件事开始。之后你就可以移除所有的现实痕迹。
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
抽象是人类有史以来发明的最伟大的幻想工具之一，用来想象、破译和描绘世界。
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.
抽象是我们在试图辨别一个问题的本质或相关内容时所使用的心理过程;它不需要对抽象实体的信仰。
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.
在许多形式的错误文化中，过早地与抽象概念进行对话，很可能对男性智力活力的成长造成致命的影响。
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
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。
Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
一切都会好起来的——你知道什么时候吗?当人们，仅仅是人们，不再认为联合国是毕加索的一个奇怪的抽象概念，而是把它看作是他们自己画的一幅画。
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. [And] if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
男人不为国旗、国家、海军陆战队、荣誉或其他抽象概念而战。他们为彼此而战。如果你经历了这场磨难，你就会有尊严地老去。
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。