"Dream of Red Mansions" is a masterwork .

《红楼梦》是一部鸿篇巨制。

The landscape looks forsaken, with hills, sky and forest forming a single gray meld, like the wash an artist paints on a canvas before the masterwork

四周的景色一片凄凉，小山、天空和森林灰蒙蒙的，就像画家的名作画成之前画布上的底色一般。

We appreciate a masterwork of his.

我们在欣赏他的佳作。

||1: Perhaps more important, “natural science” had not yet become “biology”. ||2: It was practised out of doors rather than in a laboratory, and aside from the classification madness of Linnaeus, it was light on systems and formality. ||3: Its early titans, such as Charles Darwin and Alexander von Humboldt, a Prussian aristocrat whose masterwork , “The Cosmos”, began being published in 1845, “seemed indifferent to drawing lines between art and science,” Mr Leach writes. ||4: “Their prose was often excellent and readable, so much so as to later seem unscientific. They often wrote on behalf of the artistic attractions of nature.” ||5: They led with a sense of curiosity driven by rapture and wonder. ||6: Natural science belonged not to the trained and pedigreed biologist, but to the passionate amateur: they were “naturalists”, not biologists.

||1:或许更重要的是，“自然科学”没有发展为“生物学”。||2:它的研究在户外进行而不是在实验室，不像林奈繁杂的分类法，体系和形式是次要的。||3:有关研究它的早期的泰斗，像查尔斯达尔文，以及亚历山大洪堡特，一位在1845年出版名著《大宇宙》的普鲁士贵族，“似乎对划分科学与艺术的界线漠不关心”，里奇先生写道。||4:“他们写的散文总是出色易懂，以至于对后人来说显得不科学，他们常常为了自然的艺术吸引力而写文章。”||5:他们引领了一种由狂喜和惊奇驱使的好奇感。||6:自然科学不属于受过训练的正统生物学家，但却属于热情激昂的业余爱好者：他们是“博物学家”，而不是生物学家。

Charles Darwin, born in 1809, published his masterwork in 1859.

查尔斯•达尔文诞生于1809年，并于50年后发表了他的巨著。

But first, I am making my masterwork - a woman made of wicker.

但我想要做一件自己的代表作品——一个柳条做成的女人。

Whether Karl Marx would approve of his masterwork being served up as entertainment for China’s new bourgeoisie is a matter of speculation.

问题的关键是：卡尔·马克思是否愿意将他的名著当作娱乐佳肴供奉给中国新兴的布尔乔亚。

I suspect Professor Hills never envisaged his scholarly masterwork as a love token, but I treasure it.

我揣测希尔斯教授永远无法设想他的学术著作会成我们的爱情信物，但是我非常珍爱它。