When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing.

  • -- Wilfred Owen 威尔弗雷德·欧文

当我开始把那些从财务角度看是不可能的职业和那些我不愿意从事的职业从清单上删除时,什么也没有留下。

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It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.

艺术家的职责不是复制,而是综合:从作为他原材料的现实的混乱中消除任何偶然的、空闲的、无关紧要的东西,并选择只有恰当的和不朽的东西来永存。

Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.

当然,艾滋病毒筛查确实从根本上消除了这种病毒的输血传播。

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

我很反常。如果有人告诉我必须读书,我马上就不愿意去读了。