意大利探险家哥伦布受命西班牙国王，四次率领船队探索新世界，但从来没有完成他最初的目标，也就是找到一条向西通往亚洲的海上航线。

Columbus, an Italian explorer sailing under the Spanish flag, led four expeditions to the New World, but never accomplished his original goal — to find a western ocean route to Asia.

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但从来没有人觉得这是一幅未完成的作品。

Yet we never think of the work as unfinished.

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