工匠运刀似笔，纹饰随着刻纹的粗细、宽窄、深浅变化，把图案表现得栩栩如生。

The craftsman knife like a pen, with the decoration groove of the thickness, width and depth change, the pattern was true to life.

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即使在生命的最后一刻，人生的画面还可以因蓦然看到而添上美丽的一笔。

So, even at the last moment of one's life, a sudden seeing can put a nice stroke to his life's picture.

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但是我们可以确信地说，不管是对个人或是对国家而言，恶人猖獗只是一种幻象，因为生命无时无刻不将我们的所作所为一笔一笔记录下来。

But we can say with certitude that, with the individual as with the nation, the flourishing of the wicked is an illusion, for, unceasingly, life keeps books on us all.

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