The best English passages of "The Moon and Sixpence" are as follows:
1. I tell you I've got to paint. I can't help myself. When a man falls into the water it doesn't matter how he swims, well or badly: he's got to get out or else he'll drown.?
Translation: I tell you I have to paint. I can't help myself. If a man falls into the water, it does not matter whether he is a good swimmer or not; he has to fight his way out or drown. (c12)
2. But a fever in my blood asked for a wilder course.
Translation: But there is a strong desire in my blood for a wilder course. An uninhibited journey.
3. In my heart was a desire to live more dangerously. I was not unprepared for jagged rocks and treacherous shoals if I could only have change-change and the excitement of the unforeseen.
< p>Translation: As long as there is change in my life - change and the excitement brought by the unforeseen future, I am willing to go for it even if it is a jagged mountain cliff and a dangerous beach. .4. that civilized man practices a strange ingenuity in wasting on tedious exercises the brief span of his life. It is puzzling that so much of life is wasted on boring entertainment.
5. He was null. He was probably a worthy member of society, a good husband and father, an honest broker; but there was no reason to waste one's time over him.
Translation: He is an unattractive person. He may be a respectable member of society, an honest agent, a devoted husband and father, but there is no point in wasting your time on him.
Introduction:
"The Moon and Sixpence" is a novel created by the British novelist William Somerset Maugham, written in 1919.
The work is based on the life of French Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin. It describes an originally ordinary London stockbroker, Strickland, who suddenly became obsessed with art and gave up on others. Come to live a prosperous and happy life, go to Tahiti in the South Pacific, and write the story of your own glorious life with a brush.
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