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When the landlord learned that I and my agents were artists, our party rose perceptibly in his esteem；we rose still higher when he learned that we were making a pedestrian tour of Europe.
當旅店老板得知我和我的代理人是藝術家時，我們在他心 中的地位就提升了一大截，得知我們正在徒步旅行歐洲后，我們的地位就更高了。
He told us all about the Heidelberg road, and which were the best places to avoid and which the best ones to tarry at；he charged me less than cost for the things I broke in the night；he put up a fine luncheon for us and added to it a quantity of great light-green plums, the pleasantest fruit in Germany;he was so anxious to do us honor that he would not allow us to walk out of Heilbronn, but called up Gotz von Berlichingen，horse and cab and made us ride.
他向我們介紹了海德堡的路線情況，告訴我們最好繞過哪些地方，最好在哪些地方多逗留些時日；對那晚我所使用的物品， 他只收取了低于成本的費用；還為我們準備了一桌豐盛的午餐，并送了很多德國人最喜愛的嫩綠洋李。為了給我們賞光，他堅決不答應我們步行離開海爾布隆，于是，叫了葛茲封貝利欣根的馬車來載我們離開。
I made a sketch of the turnout.
我用素描的形式把馬車畫了；
It is not a Work, it is only what artists call a "study” —a thing to make a finished picture from.
它算不上是件作品，只是畫家所謂的"習作"一一種能成就完美畫面的東西。
This sketch has several blemishes in it；for instance, the wagon is not traveling as fast as the horse is.
這幅 素描有幾處敗筆，如：馬車的速度與馬的步伐不一致，
This is wrong. Again, the Person trying to get out of the way is too small, he is out of perspective，as we say.
這是不正確的。而且，給馬車讓路的人實在太小了，就是我所說的不符合透視畫法。
The two upper lines are not the horse's back，they are the reins；there seems to be a wheel missing-this would be corrected in a finished Work, of course.
最上邊的兩條線不是馬背的曲線，而是韁繩;似乎還丟了一只車輪一當然完美的畫中，這些敗筆都會被糾正。
That thing flying out behind is not a flag, it is a curtain.
馬車后面飛舞的不是旗幟，而是車上的蓬簾。
That other thing up there is the sun, but I didn't get enough distance on it.
畫中還有太 陽，不過我沒有空出足夠的空間。
I do not remember, now, what that thing is that is in front of the man who is running, but I think it is a haystack or a woman.
現在，我記不清奔跑的那個人前面是什么東西了，不過我想那可一是堆干草，或者是個女人。
This study was exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1879，but did not take any medal；they do not give medals for studies.
1879年的巴黎畫庳上，這搞習作被展覽出來，但韁并沒有獲得任何獎項，因為展覽不為習作設獎。
We discharged the carriage at the bridge.
車到橋頭的時候，我們付了錢打發馬車回去了。
The river was full of logs-long, slender, barkless pine logs-and we leaned on the rails of the bridge, and watched the men put them together into rafts.
河面上漂滿了原木—細長的、沒有樹皮的松樹圓木一我們倚靠在橋欄上，看著人們把這些木頭捆成木筏。
