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新概念英语第四册课文原文：雕塑家的语言

571. he identifies himself with its centre of gravity, its mass, its weight;

他把自身和物体重心、质量、重量融为一体。

572. he realizes its volume, as the space that the shape displaces in the air.

他能意识到物体的体积，那就是它的形状有空气中所占的空间。

573. And the sensitive observer of sculpture must also learn to feel shape simply as shape, not as description or reminiscence.

因此，敏锐的雕塑观赏者也必须学会把形体作为形体来感觉，不要靠描述和印象去想象。

574. He must, for example, perceive an egg as a simple single solid shape, quite apart from its significance as food, or from the literary idea that it will become a bird.

以鸟蛋为例。观赏者必须感觉到它是一个单一的实体形态，而完全不靠它的食用意义或它会变成鸟这样的文字概念来感觉。

575. And so with solids such as a shell, a nut, a plum, a pear, a tadpole, a mushroom, a mountain peak, a kidney, a carrot, a tree-trunk, a bird, a bud, a lark, a ladybird, a bulrush, a bone.

对于其他实体，如，贝壳、核桃、李子、梨子、蝌蚪、蘑菇、山峰、肾脏、胡萝卜、树干、鸟儿、花蕾、云雀、瓢虫、芦苇以及骨头也应这样来感觉。

576. From these he can go on to appreciate more complex forms of combinations of several forms.

从这些形体出发，观赏者可进一步观察更为复杂的形体或若干形体的组合。