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Beauty
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A young man sees a sunset and, unable to understand or to express the emotion that it rouses in him, concludes that it must be the gateway to a world that lies beyond. It is difficult for any of us in moments of intense aesthetic experience to resist the suggestion that we are catching a glimpse of a light that shines down to us from a different realm of existence, different and, because the experience is intensely moving, in some way higher. And, though the gleams blind and dazzle, yet do they convey a hint of beauty and serenity greater than we have known or imagined. Greater too than we can describe; for language, which was invented to convey the meanings of this world, cannot readily be fitted to the uses of another.
年轻人看到日落，无法理解或表达心中被唤起的情感，便认为它必定是通往另一个世界的大门。当我们获得强烈的审美体验时，往往不由得觉得：自己仿佛瞥见了一束从另一个世界照来的光。那个世界不同于眼前的世界；而这种体验如此动人，又让我们觉得它在某种意义上更加崇高。那些微光虽然让人目眩，却的确让我们隐约感受到一种美与宁静，超出了我们以往的体验和想象。它们也超出了我们用语言描述的能力，因为语言原是为传达这个世界的意义而创造的，很难直接用来描述另一个世界。
第2段
That all great art has this power of suggesting a world beyond is undeniable. In some moods, Nature shares it. There is no sky in June so blue that it does not point forward to a bluer, no sunset so beautiful that it does not waken the vision of a greater beauty, a vision which passes before it is fully glimpsed, and in passing leaves an indefinable longing and regret. But, if this world is not merely a bad joke, life a vulgar flare amid the cool radiance of the stars, and existence an empty laugh braying across the mysteries; if these intimations of a something behind and beyond are not evil humour born of indigestion, or whimsies sent by the devil to mock and madden us, if, in a word, beauty means something, yet we must not seek to interpret the meaning. If we glimpse the unutterable, it is unwise to try to utter it, nor should we seek to invest with significance that which we cannot grasp. Beauty in terms of our human meanings is meaningless.
所有伟大的艺术都具备呈现远方世界的魅力，这点毋庸置疑。 在某种状态下，大自然也如艺术这般具有上述魅力。六月蔚蓝的天空难免会昭示更蓝的天空；落日之美丽总会唤起更加美丽的景象，未及饱览便转瞬即逝，并在消逝中留给人们难以名状的渴望和遗憾。世界若不只是拙劣的恶作剧，生命若不只是星辰冰冷光线中微弱的闪烁，存在若不只是对神秘事物的空虚的笑声 ；如果上述联想的这些暗示，并非消化不良引发的负面情绪，亦非魔鬼为了嘲笑和捉弄我们而植入给我们的邪念 ，总之，如果美有某种意义的话，我们万万不要试图阐明。如果我们瞥见了只可意会不可言传的事物，想将其表达出来，实则并不明智；对于我们不理解的事物，我们亦不应赋予其以意义。美，就人类的意义来说，并没有意义。
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