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X LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN WHO PROPOSES TO EMBRACE THE CAREER OF ART
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With the agreeable frankness of youth, you address me on a point of some practical importance to yourself and (it is even conceivable) of some gravity to the world: Should you or should you not become an artist? It is one which you must decide entirely1 for yourself; all that I can do is to bring under your notice some of the materials of that decision; and I will begin, as I shall probably conclude also, by assuring you that all depends on the vocation2.
To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful3 epoch4 is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life. These two unknowns the young man brings together again and again, now in the airiest touch, now with a bitter hug; now with exquisite5 pleasure, now with cutting pain; but never with indifference6, to which he is a total stranger, and never with that near kinsman7 of indifference, contentment. If he be a youth of dainty senses or a brain easily heated, the interest of this series of experiments grows upon him out of all proportion to the pleasure he receives. It is not beauty that he loves, nor pleasure that he seeks, though he may think so; his design and his sufficient reward is to verify his own existence and taste the variety of human fate. To him, before the razor-edge of curiosity is dulled, all that is not actual living and the hot chase of experience wears a face of a disgusting dryness difficult to recall in later days; or if there be any exception—and here destiny steps in—it is in those moments when, wearied or surfeited8 of the primary activity of the senses, he calls up before memory the image of transacted
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| ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地 | |
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vocation
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| n.职业,行业 | |
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delightful
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epoch
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| n.(新)时代;历元 | |
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exquisite
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kinsman
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profess
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recording
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vocations
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| n.(认为特别适合自己的)职业( vocation的名词复数 );使命;神召;(认为某种工作或生活方式特别适合自己的)信心 | |
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inditing
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| v.写(文章,信等)创作,赋诗,创作( indite的现在分词 ) | |
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sonnet
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| n.十四行诗 | |
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pigments
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| n.(粉状)颜料( pigment的名词复数 );天然色素 | |
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laborious
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zest
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| n.乐趣;滋味,风味;兴趣 | |
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trifling
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sonata
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implicitly
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quarry
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bosom
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| n.胸,胸部;胸怀;内心;adj.亲密的 | |
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hesitation
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disposition
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| vi.辛劳工作,艰难地行动;n.苦工,难事 | |
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interval
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thronging
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incapable
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incompetent
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baker
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fortress
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| n.实践者,从事者;(医生或律师等)开业者 | |
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joyful
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| 应得某事物( worthy的比较级 ); 值得做某事; 可尊敬的; 有(某人或事物)的典型特征 | |
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tedium
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rebellious
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cramped
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tributary
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| n.支流;纳贡国;adj.附庸的;辅助的;支流的 | |
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| n.仇恨,憎恶( hatred的名词复数 );厌恶的事 | |
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tragic
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| adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的 动词condemn的过去式和过去分词 | |
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accomplishment
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artistic
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| adj.艺术(家)的,美术(家)的;善于艺术创作的 | |
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refinements
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| n.(生活)风雅;精炼( refinement的名词复数 );改良品;细微的改良;优雅或高贵的动作 | |
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proficiency
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ardently
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attain
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| vt.达到,获得,完成 | |
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posterity
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countenance
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followers
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| 追随者( follower的名词复数 ); 用户; 契据的附面; 从动件 | |
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journalism
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wedded
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recondite
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| adj.深奥的,难解的 | |
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tempting
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bourgeois
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| adj./n.追求物质享受的(人);中产阶级分子 | |
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pretension
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| n.要求;自命,自称;自负 | |
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uncommon
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accomplished
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plunge
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eccentricity
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manly
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patronage
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evasion
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practitioners
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livelihood
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condescension
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modesty
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anonymous
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barbarian
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odious
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humiliation
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condemnation
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excellence
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livelihoods
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virtues
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| 美德( virtue的名词复数 ); 德行; 优点; 长处 | |
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steers
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| n.阉公牛,肉用公牛( steer的名词复数 )v.驾驶( steer的第三人称单数 );操纵;控制;引导 | |
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tempted
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ridicule
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