A painting is more than the sum of its parts.

一幅画不只是各部分之和。

A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.

一幅画对你就像一串珍珠对猿猴一样重要。

A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

从制作成本到售价，一幅画可能是最令人震惊的增值。

A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.

一幅画是一种行为，它与艺术家的生平是分不开的。

A pale woman in Elizabethan dress stood beside my bed and whispered in my ear that the bells would ring.

一位身穿伊丽莎白时代服装的苍白女子站在我床边，在我耳边低声说，钟声就要敲响了。

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.

回文是一个单词或图案，它不是向不同的方向发展，而是向内折叠，使开始和结束相互镜像，它们是相同的。

A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus.

有一次，一个狗仔队从一辆车里跳出来，开始跟我往回跑。出于礼貌，我放慢了速度，因为她开始在街上游荡。我伸出手把她往后挪了挪，这样她就不会被公共汽车撞了。

A paradise that you cannot leave is hell.

不能离开的天堂就是地狱。

A pard-like Spirit, beautiful and swift  A love in desolation masked; a Power Girt round with weakness; it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour; It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow; even whilst we speak Is it not broken?

一种似神的精神，美丽而迅捷，一种爱在荒凉中蒙面;一种被软弱包围的力量;它几乎不能提高附加时间的重量;它是一盏熄灭的灯，一场落下的阵雨，一场破碎的巨浪;我们说话的时候，它不也是坏的吗?

A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn and get a bit angry.

父母可能看起来非常和蔼可亲，但任何孩子都知道，一旦父母感到压力，他们就会突然变得有点生气。

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

我的一部分变得不朽，超出了我的控制。

A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.

一段特别的音乐与我正在写的曲子紧密相连，我再也听不到别的了。每天我都回到同一个地方写作，墙上的音乐和图画都是我的。

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

一个特定的投篮或移动球的方式可以是一个球员的个人签名，但效率的表现是为球队赢得比赛。

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

一个男人的脑袋特别漂亮通常意味着他很愚蠢;特别深刻的哲学家通常是肤浅的思想家;在文学作品中，不高于平均水平的才能通常被同时代的人视为天才。

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

双人舞是爱的对话。如果一个人很笨，怎么可能有对话呢?