As the painting's biographer, Donald Sassoon, dryly notes, "In reality the effect can be obtained from any portrait."
正如这幅画的传记作者唐纳德·沙逊枯燥无味地指出，“实际上，这种效果可以从任何一幅肖像画中获得。”
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It creates our maps of reality, in effect creating our reality.
它创造了我们现实的地图，影响着现实的创造。
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He thinks we ought to be able to make sense of causation as for example when he says that any cause must have as much perfection or reality as its effect.