The first sentence of your passage: "There is no art but one delivered to mankind that hath not the works of nature for his principal object."

你们篇子上的第一句话：，“只有一种艺术,当它传播到人间时,不带有自然的痕迹“

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reciting the text, emoting over it, enthusing about it, - and then looking around for something else to say-- it was no longer a question of doing that.

或者只是背诵篇子，装模作样地读一读，假装很感兴趣，然后没话找话的评论一番-,现在意义上的精读可不是这样的了。

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There are episodes of treachery and incest and murder and rape.

有些篇子讲的就是阴险狡诈，乱伦,谋杀，强奸。

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