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2006年第4篇第1/2句
考研阅读逐句翻译
Many things make peoplethink artists are weird. But the weirdest may be this: artists’ only job is to exploreemotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad.
词汇:
weird //adj. 奇怪的，不同寻常的
结构：
But the weirdest may be this（冒号分开的第一个分句）: //artists’ only job isto explore emotions（第二个分句）, //and yet they choose to focus on the ones（and 连接的并列分句）//that feel bad（that 定语从句）.
译文：
许多事情让人们觉得艺术家都是奇葩。可最奇葩的也许是：艺术家的唯一工作应该是探索情感，而他们则喜欢去关注那些令人不快的情感。
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2006年第4篇第3/4句
考研阅读逐句翻译
This wasn’t always so. Theearliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited for expressing joy.
译文：
情况并非总是如此。艺术的最早形式，像绘画和音乐，都最适合表达快乐。
【作业】：
唐静 考研阅读逐句翻译2006年第4篇第5句
But somewhere from the 19th centuryonward, more artists began seeing happiness as meaningless, phony or, worst of all, boring,as we went from Wordsworth’s daffodils to Baudelaire’s flowers of evil.
唐静 考研阅读逐句翻译2006年第4篇第6句
You could argue that art became moreskeptical of happiness because modern times have seen so much misery.
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