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Winston Churchill on art

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd.

Without innovation, it is a corpse.

缺少傳統,藝術是沒有牧羊人的羊。

缺乏創新,藝術便猶如死屍。

 

Winston Churchill 邱吉爾,英國戰後首相

 

flock  vs.  herd

 

herd

(noun 名詞)

 

1. 一群動物

例子: a herd of cattle/elephants/goats

 

2. (多含貶義) 無獨立精神的群眾

= does what all the other people are doing

 

例子: A herd of shoppers waited anxiously for the store to open.

例子: She just follows the herd.

 

3. herd instinct / herd behaviour 羊群效應、羊群行為

 

例子: Herd behaviour describes how individuals in a group can act together without planned direction.

 

 

sheep

(noun 名詞)

 

1. 羊群

 

2. 溫順、容易受影響的人

例子: The members of the cult were sheep who naively went along with whatever their leader dictated.

 

sheepish (因做錯事而) 尷尬的

(adjective 形容詞)

 

例子: She gave me a sheepish smile and apologized.