I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.

  • -- William Safire 威廉·萨菲尔

我欢迎新单词,或以新方式使用的旧单词,只要结果更精确、更有色彩或更有表现力。

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Tinguely wasn't the first artist to work with machines. But others were more interested in precision, in what machines are meant to do. What made him different was the random element. He introduced the mechanical accident. He was always interested in the immaterial, in sound, smoke, speed, light, shadows.

廷格利并不是第一个使用机器的艺术家。但其他人对精度更感兴趣,对机器的功能更感兴趣。使他与众不同的是随机因素。他介绍了这次机械事故。他总是对非物质感兴趣,对声音、烟雾、速度、光线和阴影。

Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there.

欧洲人在那里提供了很多场地,并向爵士艺术家们致敬,很多音乐家去了那里,在那里呆了很长时间。很多人搬到那里,住在那里,然后死在那里。

This consists of a series of meetings that may last several days through which information is provided that may include reviewing documentaries, news programs, court records and certain reports about the group in question.

这包括一系列可能持续几天的会议,会上提供的信息可能包括审查纪录片、新闻节目、法庭记录和有关该团体的某些报告。

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

专注于精确,就会得到技术,但专注于技术,就不会得到精确。