Consider what is involved in this matter (so lightly touched upon and dismissed) of music or water-colour painting or fine writing, what years of serious application, of drudgery at the keyboard, the easel, or the writing-desk.

• 我们应该仔细地想一想一首乐曲、一幅水彩功或一篇美妙的文章究竟意味着什么（这一点却被他们轻轻带过或略而不论），这需要很多年专心致志地在键盘上、在画架小或者在写字台主辛勤操作，这样才能有所成就。