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New words: discern:v. 看见；辨明；觉察出；识别 discreet:adj. 谨慎的;思虑周全的 rhetorician: 演说家 authentic：adj. 真实的;真正的;可靠的 tribute:n. 致敬;悼念;贡品;体现 incontestable adj. 无可争辩的;毋庸置疑的 grotesque 荒谬的 rub shoulders with sb 与某人交往 notoriety 声誉 faculty 能力 outrageous adj. 粗暴的，无礼的

Long sentence： 1.I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier;that (that greatness) is a quality which belongs to the place he occupied (地位) rather than to the man;and a change of circumstance reduces it to very discreet proportions. （环境的变迁会减少他们的伟大直到很微小的比例，即他们的伟大会黯然失色。）

2.He disturbs and arrests. 他的作品使你不能平静，扣紧你的心弦。

3.but at all events you can hardly refuse it the tribute of your interest.

4.but custom stales(变陈旧) one's admiration for him:the Cretan（出生在Craten的EI Greco）,sensual and tragic,proffers（呈现） the mystery of his soul like a standing sacrifice（永恒的牺牲）. 可是由于所见过多，却使我们感到他的绘画有点乏味。而那位克里特岛的画家的作品却有一种肉欲和悲剧性的美，彷佛作为永恒的牺牲似的把自己的灵魂秘密呈现出来。

5.and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors;but one thing can never be doubtful,and that is that he had genius. 对他的崇拜者的崇拜也许并不比贬低他的批评者所反复无常;但有一件事永远不会令人怀疑，那就是他有天才。

6，it is a riddle which shares with the universe the merit of having no answer.

7.rescued the unknown painter from oblivion and blazed the trail which succeeding writers,with more or less docility,have followed. 将这位不知名的作家从遗忘中解救出来，并为后来的，或多或少都顺从的作家开辟了新道路