美文赏析 论美 Of beauty

　　In beauty, that of favor, is more than that of color; and that of decent and gracious motion, more than that of favor.

　　That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express; no, nor the first sight of the life.

　　There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.就形貌而言，自然之美要胜于粉饰之美，而优雅行为之美又胜于单纯仪容之美。

　　最高的美是画家所无法表现的，因为它是难于直观的，这是一种奇妙的美。

　　虽然没有完美，但是有一些奇妙的可取点。

　　A man cannot tell whether Apelles, or Albert Durer, were the more trifler; whereof the one, would make a personage by geometrical proportions; the other, by taking the best parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody, but the painter that made them.

　　Not but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was; but he must do it by a kind of felicity (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music), and not by rule.曾经有两位画家--阿皮雷斯和艾伯特丢勒滑稽地认为，可以按照几何比例，或者通过摄取不同人身上最美的特点，用画合成一张最完美的人像.

　　其实像这样画出来的美人，恐怕只表现了画家本人的某种偏爱。

　　美是很难制订规范的(正如同音乐一样)，创造它的常常是机遇，而不是公式。

　　A man shall see faces, that if you examine them part by part, you shall find never a good; and yet altogether do well. If it be true that the principal part of beauty is in decent motion, certainly it is no marvel, though persons in years seem many times more amiable; 有许多的脸型，就它的部分看并不优美，但作为整体却非常动人。

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