Sketch is the spark in the life of art and the dialogue between humans and substance.

速写是艺术生命中的火花，是人与物的对话。

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Since no one would understand a word of my stories to Kitty if I were to plunge right in, I'd better provide a brief sketch of my life, much as I dislike doing so.

如果我直接进入主题的话，根本没有人会明白我对凯蒂说的是什么。所以尽管我不喜欢这样，但还是最好简单地介绍一下我的生活吧。

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Yuan of Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province was a great master noted for his huge portraits of great power. It's rare for him to make such a sketch full of life.

袁江是清代的界面高手，其作品气势辉煌，如此轻松的小品真是难得一见。

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He's just released arguably his most commercially accessible disc, The Believer, and "Question" closes the album with a sweet slice-of-life sketch detailing a marriage proposal.

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Historian Shane Bernard says that at the end of his long life, Edmund McIlhenny wrote out a sketch of what he would be remembered for his many accomplishments.

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He wants us to inhabit the ordinariness of life, which is sometimes visionary (the Constable sketch), sometimes banal (the cup of tea, the Old Spice), and sometimes momentous (the death of a parent), but all of it perforce ordinary because it happens in the course of a life, and happens, in different forms, to everyone.

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