This the Surrealists hoped would help the artist tap into something powerful elemental and something fundamentally unflinchingly human.

超现实主义者希望这能帮助艺术家挖掘出一些强大的元素和一些从根本上坚定人性的东西。

Miss Margitan sat ramrod-straight with her arthritic hands folded in her lap and her gray eyes fixed unflinchingly on my face, and I realized that something about her was different from any other adult I had ever met.

她僵直地坐在那里，害关节炎的双手合在腿上，灰色的眼睛毫不妥协地瞪着的脸，那识到，她什么地方跟之前遇到的大人都不一样。