Do you know the difference between naked and nude? I remembe..
Added 2023-07-09 02:00:36 +0000 UTCDo you know the difference between naked and nude? I remember an English teacher explaining these words to me. It stuck in my mind because Chinese doesn’t really have the same distinction, and I love to be… Which do you think this picture is?
Robert Graves
The Naked And The Nude
For me, the naked and the nude
(By lexicographers construed
As synonyms that should express
The same deficiency of dress
Or shelter) stand as wide apart
As love from lies, or truth from art.
Lovers without reproach will gaze
On bodies naked and ablaze;
The Hippocratic eye will see
In nakedness, anatomy;
And naked shines the Goddess when
She mounts her lion among men.
The nude are bold, the nude are sly
To hold each treasonable eye.
While draping by a showman's trick
Their dishabille in rhetoric,
They grin a mock-religious grin
Of scorn at those of naked skin.
The naked, therefore, who compete
Against the nude may know defeat;
Yet when they both together tread
The briary pastures of the dead,
By Gorgons with long whips pursued,
How naked go the sometimes nude!
裸体与裸露
对我而言，裸体与裸露
（如同词典解释的那样
作为表达相同的衣着或遮蔽的不足
而被视为同义词）
就像爱与谎言，真理与艺术
那样截然不同。
毫无指责的恋人会凝视
燃烧的裸体；
医者的眼会在赤裸中
看到解剖学；
女神在凡人间骑狮时
身姿裸露，光芒四射。
裸露者勇敢，裸露者狡猾
他们吸引每一双背叛的眼睛。
而通过操纵术士的手法
用修辞来掩饰他们的衣衫不整，
他们嘲笑那些真正赤裸的人
面带一种嘲讽的虔诚笑容。
因此，裸体者与裸露者相争
可能会遭受失败；
然而当他们一同踏过
荆棘丛生的死亡牧场时，
被长鞭追逐着的蛇女，
有时是裸体的。
