But abruptly, fiendishly, the tender pattern of nudity I had adored would be transformed into the disgusting lamp-lit bare arm of a man in his underclothes reading his paper by the open window in the hot, damp, hopeless summer night.

然而突然，糟糕得很，我崇拜的那副美好的裸体,投入了台灯下一双男人赤膊的肩膀，他穿着内衣裤,读着报纸，靠在敞开的窗边，沉浸在,炎热，潮湿，绝望的夏夜里。

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In the eighteenth century, a poet named Mark Akenside wrote a long poem called The Pleasures of the Imagination, and in this poem there is the line "The great creator raised his plastic arm."

在十八世纪，一位名叫马克？阿肯赛德的诗人写了一首长诗,叫《想象的快乐》,诗中有一句是,伟大的造物主举起了他的plastic的手臂“

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