It is a grotesque misapprehension which sees in art no more than a craft comprehensible perfectly only to the craftsman: art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

老实讲，把艺术看作只有名工巧匠才能完全理解艺术技巧，其实是种谬误解。艺术是什么？艺术是感情表露，艺术使用是种能理解语言。

By international standards America still imprisons a grotesque number of its citizens.

按国际标准来说，美国至今仍收监着很大数量公民。

Some of the shows were grotesque and profane. Others were sanitized.

有些表演怪诞、世俗 其他则被美化了。

Most of those reports were a nightmare—grotesque, circumstantial, eager and untrue.

那些报道大多数是场噩梦——离奇古怪，捕风捉影，煞有介事，而且不真实。

US statements that they are ready to continue improving relations look grotesque.

美国声称他们准备继续改善两国关系，这看起来很。

Those whom Nature had depicted as merely quaint became grotesque, the grotesque became preternatural; for all was in extremity.

本来天生奇特东西，现在变得怪诞，本来怪诞东西，现在变得超自然；切到了极点。

Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations.

然而，孩子就是孩子，古怪滑稽跳跳埚占据了他们想象。

West Egg especially still figures in my more fantastic dreams. I see it as a night scene by El Greco: a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under a sullen, overhanging sky and a lustreless moon.

尤其西卵仍然出现在我做比较梦里。在我梦中，这个小镇就像埃尔·格列柯画幅夜景：上百所房屋，既平常又怪诞，蹲伏在阴沉沉天空和黯淡无光月亮之下。

Speaking for the grotesques, I'd have to disagree.

说到畸形怪胎，不是我多嘴。

He said the fossil fuel industry's grotesque greed was destroying the planet.

他说化石燃料行业贪婪正在摧毁这个地球。

The same disinhibition that allows for moments of great joy can also enable grotesque crimes.

释放压抑，给我们带来巨大快乐，同样也会让我们犯下罪行。

This is a good letter, Dad. - Look, the heels on these shoes are grotesque.

这封信写得很不错，爸爸。- 这双鞋鞋跟形状很奇怪。

By modern standards, the treatment of prisoners was grotesque.

【grotesque】按照现代标准来看，这样对待囚犯很。

On the floor stand some of the near-finished new stone chimeras, the grotesque and menacing beasts installed in the 19th century that look down from the cathedral facade and towers.

地板上立着些即将完工新石雕怪兽，这些怪异而恐怖怪兽于19世纪安置在大教堂上，从正面和塔楼上向下俯瞰。

The Nobel Prize in Literature committee described Krasznahorkai as " a great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterised by absurdism and grotesque excess."

诺贝尔文学奖评委会评价克拉斯诺霍尔卡伊为““伟大史诗作家，延续了从卡夫卡到托马斯·伯恩哈德中欧传统，其作品以诞主义和怪诞夸张为特点。”

Then again, can a more direct depiction, by for example using real footage, be included without it merely creating shock value, without it turning what really happened into some kind of grotesque spectacle?

那么，是否可以使用更直接描述，例如使用真实镜头，而不是仅仅创造冲击价值，不是将真实发生事情变成某种怪诞奇观？

For chapter after chapter, Joseph K tries desperately to find out what he's guilty of, while uncovering all sorts of bizarre figures, grotesque tortures, and strange sexualized rituals happening in secret rooms.

在章又章中，约瑟夫·K拼命地试图弄清自己犯了什么罪，同时揭露了各种奇怪物，可怕折磨，以及发生在秘密房间里奇怪性仪式。

Venice's Chamber of Commerce estimates that 5m visitors a year trail down Murano's Fondamenta dei Vetrai (Glassblower Street), where the shop windows are stacked with glass gondoliers and grotesque glass clowns.

威尼斯商会估算，每年会有500万游客到慕拉诺Fondamenta dei Vetrai2（玻璃吹制工艺街）观光，街道两旁有很多玻璃饰品商店，店外整齐地堆放着威尼斯船夫玻璃像以及各种风格奇异、引发笑玻璃制品。

It is not just the humour of absurdist madness and slapstick torment that hovers between pathos and ridicule, often called the " comedy of the grotesque" .

在哀婉和讥笑之余不仅仅有诞疯狂和打闹戏弄带来幽默，这些通常被称为“怪诞喜剧”。

As though invisible strings were tied to Snape's wrists, neck, and knees, he was pulled into a standing position, head still lolling unpleasantly, like a grotesque puppet.

好像有无形绳子缚在斯内普手腕、脖子和膝盖上，他被拉为站立姿态，仍旧令不愉快地垂着头，像个奇形怪状木偶。