The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

  • -- Edward Hopper 爱德华·霍珀

当代艺术运动的某些趋势,但绝不是全部,似乎否定了这一理想,对我来说,似乎导致了一种纯粹装饰性的绘画观念。

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There's no such thing as the contemporary novel. Before I seem the complete reactionary, let me add that I've happily joined in many discussions about 'the contemporary novel' where what that usually, unproblematically means is novels that have appeared recently or may appear soon.

当代小说是不存在的。在我显得完全反动之前,让我补充一句,我很高兴地参加了许多关于“当代小说”的讨论,在这些讨论中,通常毫无疑问的意思是最近或即将出版的小说。

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

从完全“当下”的意义上讲,当代小说是不可能的,因为小说可能要花好几年的时间来写,所以小说开头的“现在”在写完的时候就已经不存在了。

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

一切都取决于你的动作、精准度和时机,这就是体操的意义所在。

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

运动之间的沉默只是为了让对立的两个人走到前面。