The essence of the image of beauty exists , but the essence of beauty does not exist.

美的形象的本质是存在的，“美的本质”是不存在的。

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From childhood we are sold on an ideal image of beauty, one few of us ever see reflected when we look in the mirror.

童年起，当我们照镜子时，我们只看到一个美丽的形象，却很少有人它所反映的东西。

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Can you guess how much money is spent in just one year by advertisers to sell us on the concept of the "ideal" image of beauty?

你能猜出在短短的一年时间里，广告商要花多少钱向我们出售“理想”的美丽形象这个概念的吗？

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Milton's treading an extraordinarily fine line between the tremendous beauty of this image, on the one hand, and its potential impiety or just grotesquery on the other.

弥尔顿踩到了一条极其微妙的分界线上,这幅景象一方面极具美感，另一方面却可能是对上帝不恭甚至荒诞的。

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But what we have here is an image of the beauty of that change, the beauty of the fact that the leaves are falling.

但是我们看到的是一幅美丽的变化的图像，叶子在飘落带来的美丽图画。

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I think it's the imminence of their fallen-ness that lends this image its incredibly powerful emotional intensity and also, I think, its beauty.

这是它们即将堕落的迫切性,使这幅图像有了无穷的情感强度,和无边的美感。

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"There is a danger in being constantly exposed to one image of beauty, " she says.

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Break the image, see the glimmer of beauty in the crevices of the fractioned pieces.

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Mr. Wolfe is the editor of Image journal and the author, most recently, of "Beauty Will Save the World" (ISI Books, 2011).

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