Brush and paint never varied. His figures were roughly a centimetre tall, most made with two deliberate strokes of the brush, and allowed to fade away as his paint ran out, like the trailing tail of a comet.

绘画的子和颜料还和最初用的一样，数字大约一厘米高，其笔法大多数都是笔小过两遍，再轻轻淡出，像彗星的尾巴。

Mr Snyder's book is revisionist history of the best kind: in spare, closely argued prose, with meticulous use of statistics, he makes the reader rethink some of the best-known episodes in Europe's modern history.

用简练而论证严密的笔法，加上统计数据的精妙运用，本书使读者欧洲现代史上最著的一些章节作了一番再。

[Interviewer] Footwork or strokes, which is harder to nail?

- 【采访者】步法和笔法，哪个更难掌握？

He seemed to recognize his own brushwork, and the frame was his own design.

他似乎认得自己的笔法，画框是他自己设计的。

Like you have to learn brush techniques and color theory and everything else.

就像你必须学习笔法、色彩理论以及其他所有知识一样。

This art piece was drawn with repetitive brush touches and fancy color tones.

这幅画用重复的笔法和迷人的色调。

Whether it was the realism of the method, or the mere wonder of your own personality, thus directly presented to me without mist or veil, I cannot tell.

我不知道这是你那种化境的写实笔法，还是你那奇妙人格的直接呈现，它就这样无遮无掩、清晰明了展现在我面前。