On the other hand, works with some taint—the wrong period, wrong colour, wrong size, wrong estimate—have a much tougher time finding buyers.

换言之，那些有点小毛病的作品，要么时机不对，要么色彩欠佳，要么大小不合适，要么估价错误，想得到买家的青睐可就难得多了。

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Colour communicates a meaning and our own assumptions can often be wrong.

颜色传递含义，而我们的假设常常是错误的。

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I did not need Harper Lee to tell me it was wrong to treat people badly because of colour.

我并不需要哈伯.李来告诉我歧视有色人种是不对的。

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Mr Ball next treats us to a brisk description of the human eye (remember rods and cones from school biology?), an explanation of why Newton was right and Goethe wrong about the composite character of white light, and an account of the 19th-century regimentation of the continuous colour spectrum by means of colour wheels and other classifying devices.

ECONOMIST: Science and history of colour