And Wyndham's writing expounds an idea that is the template for many a modern film - the ordinary man, and ordinary woman, who have to take on a heroic mantle.

温德汉姆作品中的另一个观念，在许多现代电影中成为了公式：平凡的男女主角套上英雄的斗篷，做出不平凡的英勇之举。

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2: in the AD business good ideas are a dime a dozen. Everybody has them. What you look for is a man or woman who can take an idea and make it come alive in words and pictures.

他说：在广告业中多的是好主意，简直比比皆是、人皆有之。然而难得的却是这样的人才：他采纳一条主意，并能使它活灵活现于言语和图象之中。可见a dime a dozen是“容易得到的、比比皆是的”。

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The clever man and his team found that by using a magnifier the other way around, they could get an idea of how the portrait looked from afar.

这个聪明的人和他的团队发现，用放大镜是另一个办法，他们可以发现这个画像从远处看起来如何。

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