在我们这个时代，“描写主义者”和“规定主义者”之间的对立常常变得极端，双方都在描绘对方不真实的一面。

In our own time, the opposition between 'descriptivists' and 'prescriptivists' has often become extreme, with both sides painting unreal pictures of the other.

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在一个艺术被认为应该是描写真人真事的年代，这幅画的诞生让世人感到震惊：它并不单单是对一般恶梦的简单描绘，而是对恶梦体验的一次真实再现。

In an age when art was supposed to depict an actual person or event, it came as a shock that this was a painting not of a nightmare, but of the nightmare as a generalized experience.

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所以，很多浪漫主义诗人和画家开始创作：描写当一方离世后，另一方相思的诗歌；描绘美丽的女人或男人死亡的画作。

So many of these romantic poets and painters started to create paintings of beautiful women or men dying, or writing poetry about the longing that comes when someone is dying.

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Well, if you look at the description, for instance, of Zooey's face, there's a beautiful description of how his face is beautiful, in what way his face is beautiful.

例如，你们看这个左伊脸部的描写，它描绘了左伊的脸是多么多么的漂亮,他的脸是如何的漂亮。

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