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Winston Churchill — His Other Life 温斯顿·丘吉尔 — 他的另一种生活 by Mary Soames 玛丽·索姆斯 1 My father, Winston Churchill, began his love affair with painting in his 40s, amid disastrous circumstances. As First? Lord of the? Admiralty in 1915, he had been deeply involved in a campaign in the Dardanelles that could have shortened the course of a bloody world war. 我的父亲温斯顿?丘吉尔是在40几岁开始迷恋上绘画的，当时他正身处逆境。1915年，作为海军大臣，他深深地卷入了达达尼尔海峡的一场战役。原本那次战役是能够缩短一场血腥的世界大战的。;But when the? mission failed, with great loss of life, Churchill paid the price, both publicly and? privately: He was removed from the Admiralty and lost his position of political influence. 但那场战役却失败了，人员伤亡惨重，为此丘吉尔作为公务员和个人都付出了代价：他被免去了海军部的职务，失去了显赫的政治地位。;2 Overwhelmed by the disaster – “I thought he would die of?grief,”said his wife, Clementine – he retired with his family to Hoe Farm, a country?retreat in?Surrey. There, as Churchill later recalled, “The muse of painting came to my? rescue!” “我本以为他会因忧伤而死的。”他的妻子克莱门泰因说。被这一不幸压垮的他同家人一起退隐到萨里郡的一个乡间居处耘锄农场。在那儿，正如丘吉尔日后所回忆的，“绘画女神拯救了我!” ;3. One day when he was wandering in the garden, he chanced upon his sister-in-law?sketching with? watercolors. He watched her for a few minutes, then borrowed her brush and?tried his hand – and the muse worked her? magic. From that day forward, Winston was in love with painting. 一天他正在花园里漫步，正巧碰上他的弟妹在用水彩画素描。他观看了她几分钟，然后借过她的画笔，试了一下身手于是缪斯女神施展了她的魔法。自那天以后，温斯顿便爱上了绘画。 ;4 Delighted with anything that?distracted Winston from the dark thoughts that overwhelmed him, Clementine rushed off to buy whatever paints and materials she could find. Watercolours, oil paints, paper,?canvas — Hoe Farm was soon filled with everything a painter could want or need. 任何能让沉浸在忧思中的温斯顿分心的事情都让克莱门泰因高兴。于是，她赶紧去买来她所能找到的各种颜料和画具。水彩颜料、油画颜料、纸张、帆布画布很快耘锄农场里便堆满了一个绘画者可能想要或需要的各样东西。;5 Paintin