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新概念英语第四册句子解析：雕塑家的语言

559. That is perhaps why sculpture has been described as the most difficult of all arts;

雕塑被说成是所有艺术中最难的艺术，可能就是这个道理。

560. certainly it is more difficult than the arts which involve appreciation of flat forms, shape in only two dimensions.

欣赏雕塑品当然比欣赏平面的艺术品要难。“

561. Many more people are 'form-blind' than colour-blind.

形盲”的人数比“色盲”的人数要多得多。

562. The child learning to see, first distinguishes only two-dimensional shape;

正在学看东西的儿童起初只会分辨二维形态，

563. it cannot judge distances, depths. Later, for its personal safety and practical needs, it has to develop (partly by means of touch) the ability to judge roughly three-dimensonal distances.

不会判断距离和深度。慢慢地，由于自身安全和实际需要，儿童必须发展(部分通过触觉)粗略判断三维空间距离的能力。

564. But having satisfied the requirements of practical necessity, most people go no further.

但是。大部分人在满足了实际需要后，就不再继续发展这种能力了。

565. Though they may attain considerable accuracy in the perception of flat form,

虽然他们对平面形的感觉能达到相当准确的程度，

566. they do not make the further intellectual and emotional effort needed to comprehend form in its full spatial existence.

但他们没有在智力和感情上进一步努力去理解存在于空间的整个形态。

567. This is what the sculptor must do. He must strive continually to think of, and use, form in its full spatial completeness.

而雕塑家就必须做到这一点。他必须勤于想像并且利用形体在空间中的完整性。