一个男孩说：“我宁愿把精力集中在艺术上，也不愿做拯救世界之类的事情。”

One boy said, "I'd rather be concentrating on artistic efforts than saving the world or something."

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这也让人们重新燃起对一项价值数百万美元，旨在拯救威尼斯艺术和建筑计划的争论。

It also rekindled controversy over a multimillion-dollar scheme to save Venice's art and architecture.

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抱着使我家族收藏的画作增值，并把它们从斧头之下拯救出来的希望，我必须强调一下积极的一面，那就是你从一些艺术品中获得的兴奋感。

The positive, which I should emphasise in hopes of inflating the value of my family's paintings and saving them from the chopper, is the thrill you get from some art.

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Now, on Monday you're going to hear about this novel's confrontation with the idea that art could be saving, that it could somehow be redemptive, but here I think is a hint that it's something that the novel simply laughs at hollowly.

星期一我们将会将到这部小说对,艺术已经被拯救，某种程度已经被救赎这个,观点的对质，但我想提示大家一下,那只是这部小说空洞嘲笑的观点。

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