They escaped by artifice.

他们设巧计而逃。

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Olmsted’s works appear so natural that one critic wrote, “One thinks of them as something not put there by artifice but merely preserved by happenstance.”

奥姆斯特德的作品显得如此自然，以至于一位评论家写道：“令人以为这些东西并非人工布置，而是碰巧保存留下的。”

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Olmsted's works appear so natural that one critic wrote, "One thinks of them as something not put there by artifice but merely preserved by happenstance."

奥姆斯特德的作品显得如此自然，以至于一位评论家写道：“令人以为这些东西并非人工布置，而是碰巧保存留下的。”

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The irony is that this too is an illusion, one in which we believe that by deconstructing artifice we are somehow enriched.

FORBES: The Unhidden Machine

The people who managed them were raised by this artifice to the role of national champions and defenders of the national economic faith.

FORBES: We're All Currency Manipulators These Days

Yet the war on artifice inspired by the forces of sincerity seeped into popular culture and commerce anyway.

WSJ: Book Review: Sincerity