If, seized by an intolerable boredom, he had determined to be a painter merely to break with irksome ties, it would have been comprehensible, and commonplace; but commonplace is precisely what I felt he was not.
如果他只是无法忍受无聊的生活而决心当一个画家,以图挣脱闷的枷锁,这是可以理解的,也是极其平常的事;但是问题在于,我觉得他绝对是一个平常的人。