He was nicknamed "the Sun King" for the vitality and glory of his reign.

他的绰号“太阳王”的活力和荣耀。

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An exhibition at Versailles devoted to the Sun King shows him warts and all, as he insisted the famous painters and sculptors he commissioned reflect his true likeness through the decades.

凡尔赛宫专为这位“太阳王”举办的一场展览毫不遮丑地将其展示了出来，正如他坚持让自己委任的著名画家和雕刻家来反映他在数十年里的真实形象那样。

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If you go down into France, if you go to la belle France, the painting is dominated by nobles who want pictures of themselves, or the tiresome Sun King and all his sort of miserable and all his sort of miserablehangers-on, very rich, miserable hangers-on.

如果你到了法国,"美丽"的法兰西,这些画作被,那些想为自己留像的士绅们所拥有,或者被令人讨厌的"太阳王",以及他可悲的走狗们,富有但却可悲的走狗们所拥有

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