《绝望的主妇》精讲199

Don't get me wrong. You're a fine illustrator, but this isn't what I call art.

别误会 你是名很优秀的插图画家，但这并非我所谓的艺术

Excuse me, but my paintings have been in dozens of books, some of them bestsellers.

什么！ 我可给很多书画过插图呢，其中不少还是畅销书呢

Perhaps you've heard of "Doctor Porcupine¹"?

你听没听说过《刺猬医生》这本书？

He has a very prickly bedside manner.

就是那个老给病人挑刺的刺猬医生

Right. But see, when you say "Art,"you mean a hedgehog with a stethoscope,

知道 。但是对你来说 ，所谓艺术不过是给刺猬戴个听诊器什么的

and to me, art means reaching down your throat, tearing your guts² out, and smearing³ it all over canvas⁴.

对我来说,艺术好比直捣人的深喉，剖心掏肺 ，再血淋淋地涂抹于画布之上

Anger, passion，that's what interests me.

愤怒，激情，这些才能吸引我

Well, uh, "Doctor Porcupine loses a patient and kills a hooker" doesn't have the same ring to it？

好吧，那么“刺猬医生死一个病人就杀一个妓女”还是不能同日而语吗？

I'm looking for serious students of the medium.

我需要的是艺术态度严肃的学生

You're a bored housewife trying to kill time between spin class and driving your kid to soccer practice.

你不过是个无聊的家庭妇女， 一会儿健身一会儿送孩子上足球课，来这儿纯粹是消磨时间

1 porcupine   

n.豪猪， 箭猪

参考例句：

• A porcupine is covered with prickles.箭猪身上长满了刺。
• There is a philosophy parable,call philosophy of porcupine.有一个哲学寓言，叫豪猪的哲学。

2 guts   

v.狼吞虎咽，贪婪地吃，飞碟游戏（比赛双方每组5人，相距15码，互相掷接飞碟）；毁坏（建筑物等）的内部( gut的第三人称单数 )；取出…的内脏n.勇气( gut的名词复数 )；内脏；消化道的下段；肠

参考例句：

• I'll only cook fish if the guts have been removed. 鱼若已收拾干净，我只需烧一下即可。
• Barbara hasn't got the guts to leave her mother. 巴巴拉没有勇气离开她妈妈。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 smearing   

污点，拖尾效应

参考例句：

• The small boy spoilt the picture by smearing it with ink. 那孩子往画上抹墨水把画给毁了。
• Remove the screen carefully so as to avoid smearing the paste print. 小心的移开丝网，以避免它弄脏膏印。

4 canvas   

n.粗帆布，一块油画布

参考例句：

• The times that people used canvas boat have become history.人们用帆船的时代已成为历史。
• Smith painted an oil painting on the canvas.史密斯在画布上画了一幅油画。