Nature supplies the standards, the materials, the models, for all the later arts, the city being by nature, man by nature, nature provides the standard.

自然提供了标准，物质，模型，为后来产生的艺术，为城市，为人类的存在，是自然提供了一切标准。

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I picked for it two dimensions as the standard way to explain it.

我选取二维的情形作为标准模型来讨论

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