A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
材料
Material
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
我们生活在机器时代。历史上，喜剧演员第一次被迫为自己提供笑话和喜剧素材来与机器竞争。不管他知不知道，这位喜剧演员都在跑步机上逐渐被人遗忘。
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The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.
全世界都知道有大量的史诗材料散布在各个国家;有时，它的艺术价值和考古价值一样非同寻常，但并非总是如此。
I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.
我指控他偷了我最好的材料，他是个很有趣的人。
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
在我看来，艺术作品是物质世界中唯一具有内在秩序的对象，这就是为什么，虽然我不认为只有艺术才重要，但我相信艺术是为了艺术而艺术。
If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.
如果你在演奏曲目，你就卡住了。你能做的不多。
Still, we view that old material very much like we view the new material so if this gives us a chance to go out and promote it then, yes we will go out and do that.
尽管如此，我们对旧材料的看法和我们对新材料的看法非常相似，所以如果这给了我们一个机会去推广它，那么，是的，我们会去做。