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的艺术技巧，其实是种荒谬的误解。艺术是什么？艺术是感情的表露，艺术使用的是种人人都能理解的语言。

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

按际标准来，至今仍收监着很大数量的公民。

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

有些表演诞、世俗 其他的则被化了。

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

那些报道大多数都是场噩梦——离奇古，捕风捉影，煞有介事，而且真实。

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

声称他们准备继续改善两关系，这看起来很荒唐。

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

本来天生奇特的东西，现在变得诞，本来诞的东西，现在变得超自然；切都到了极点。

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

然而，孩子就是孩子，古滑稽的跳跳埚占据了他们的想象。

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的比较荒唐的梦里。在我的梦中，这个小镇就像埃尔·格列柯画的幅夜景：上百所房屋，既平常又诞，蹲伏在阴沉沉的天空和黯淡无光的月亮之下。

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

到畸形，是我多嘴。

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

他化石燃料行业荒唐的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，给我们带来巨大的快乐，同样也会让我们犯下荒唐的罪行。

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

这封信写得很错，爸爸。- 这双鞋的鞋跟形状很奇。

By modern standards, the treatment of prisoners was grotesque.

【grotesque】按照现代标准来看，这样对待囚犯很荒唐。

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的新石雕兽，这些异而恐怖的兽于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““伟大的史诗作家，延续了从卡夫卡到托马斯·伯恩哈德的中欧传统，其作品以荒诞主义和诞的夸张为特点。”

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的描述，例如使用真实的镜头，而是仅仅创造冲击价值，是将真实发生的事情变成某种诞的奇观？

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，同时揭露了各种奇的人物，可怕的折磨，以及发生在秘密房间里的奇的性仪式。

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500万游客到慕拉诺的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的玻璃像以及各种风格奇异、引人发笑的玻璃制品。

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" .

在哀婉和讥笑之余仅仅有荒诞疯狂和打闹戏弄带来的幽默，这些通常被称为“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.

好像有无形的绳子缚在斯内普的手腕、脖子和膝盖上，他被拉为站立姿态，仍旧令人愉快地垂着头，像个奇形状的木偶。