Every artist knows in his heart that he

问题单项选择题

Every artist knows in his heart that he is saying something to the public. Not only does he want to say it well, but he wants it to be something which has not been said before. He hopes the public will listen and understand—he wants to teach them, and he wants them to learn from him.
What visual artists like painters want to teach is easy to make out but difficult to explain, because painters translate their experiences into shapes and colors, not words. They seem to feel that a certain selection of shapes and colors, out of the countless billions possible, is exceptionally interesting for them and worth showing to us. Without their work we should never have noticed these particular shapes and colors, or have felt the delight which they brought to the artist.
Most artists take their shapes and colors from the world of nature and from human bodies in motion and repose; their choices indicate that these aspects of the world are worth looking at, that they contain beautiful sights. Contemporary artists might say that they merely choose subjects that provide an interesting pattern, that there is nothing more in it. Yet even they do not choose entirely without reference to the character of their subjects.
If one painter chooses to paint a gangrenous leg and another a lake in moonlight, each of them is directing our attention to a certain aspect of the world. Each painter is telling us something, showing us something, emphasizing something m all of which means that, consciously or unconsciously, he is trying to teach us.

The word "translate" underlined in Paragraph 2 means to ______ .

A．express in another language

B．be capable of being translated in another language

C．express something in another form

D．judge or guess that something has the specified meaning or intention

答案

参考答案：C

解析：

[分析]：词义题型 translate意为：翻译，解释，转化，转变为；而本句意为：因为画家将他们的经历/阅历转化成图形和颜色，而不是文字；因此C(用另外一种方式来表达：用图形和颜色来表达)为答案。