He compares the potential within a crystal to a piece of bare wood awaiting its anointment, the moment when it can come alive with colour.

他将一块平凡的木料视作未雕的璞玉，待着色之后这块平凡的木头便拥有了生命。

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It is hard to watch the Bush anointment and not be shocked by the sheer, almost undemocratic nerve of it, and the risk that this could all blow up and leave the party with a choice among broken and, other than Steve Forbes, penniless understudies.

CNN: Who chose George?