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再迟疑。我抓起那支最大的画笔，迅猛异常地向我可怜 的牺牲品扑了过去。自那以后，我再也不曾害怕过画布。 ”
Lavery, who later tutored Churchill in his art, said of his unusual pupil's artistic abilities: "Had he chosen painting instead of politics, he would have been a great master with the brush."后来教丘吉尔画画的莱佛利曾经说起过他这位不同寻常的学生的艺 术才能： “如果他当初选择的是绘画而不是政治，他定会成为一位驾驭画 笔的大师。 ”
In painting, Churchill had discovered a companion with whom he was to walk for the greater part of his life. Painting would be his comfort when, in 1921, the death of his mother was followed two months later by the loss of his and Clementine's beloved three-year-old daughter, Marigold.
Overcome by grief, Winston took refuge at the home of friends in Scotland — and in his painting. He wrote to Clementine: "I went out and painted a beautiful river in the afternoon light with red and golden hills in the background. Many loving thoughts.... Alas, I keep feeling the hurt of
Marigold." 在绘画中，丘吉尔发现了一个将陪他走过大半人生的伴侣。1921 年， 他的母亲去世，两个月后，他又失去了他和克莱门泰因的 3 岁爱女玛丽 戈尔德。那时，绘画是他的慰藉。悲痛欲绝的温斯顿住到了苏格兰朋友 们的家中---并在他的绘画中寻得安慰。他写信给克莱门泰因： “我外出画 了一条在午后阳光下的美丽的河流，背景是红色和金黄色的山峦。爱怜 的思绪油然而生??啊，我一直感受到失去玛丽戈尔德的痛楚。 ”
Life and love and hope slowly revived. In September 1922 another child was born to Clementine and Winston: myself. In the same year, Winston bought Chartwell, the beloved home he was to paint in all its different aspects for the next 40 years.生命、爱和希望慢慢地复苏了。1922 年 9 月，克莱门泰因和温斯顿 的另一个孩子出生了：那就是我。同年，温斯顿买下了查特威尔，这是 他将在以后 40 年里画出其所有不同风貌的他所钟爱的家。
My father must have felt a glow of satisfaction when in the mid-1920s he won first prize in a prestigious amateur art exhibition held in London. Entries were anonymous, and some of the judges insisted that Winston's picture — one of his first of Chartwell — was the work of a
professional, not an amateur, and should be disqualified. But in the end, they agreed to rely on the artist's honesty and were delighted when they learned that the picture had been painted by
Churchill.20 世纪 20 年代中期， 我父亲在伦敦举行的一次享有盛名的业余画展 中赢得了一等奖，当时他一定颇为得意。参赛作品不署名，所以一些评 委坚持认为温斯顿的画---有关查特威尔的第一批画作中的一幅---是一位 专业画家而不是一位业余画家的作品，所以应该取消其参赛资格。但最 后，他们同意信赖那位艺术家的诚实，而在得知那幅画为丘吉尔所作时 他们都很高兴。
Historians have called the decade after 1929, when Winston again fell from office, his barren
years. Politically barren they may have been, as his lonely voice struggled to awaken Britain to the menace of Hitler, but artistically those years bore abundant fruit: of the 500-odd Churchill
canvases in existence, roughly half date from 1930 to 1939.史学家们一直把 1929 年温斯顿再次被免职后的 10 年称为他无所作 为的十年。也许政治上那些年（他）的确毫无作为，因为他一个人大声 一份耕耘，一份收获 答案只是参考，请大家努力自学 疾呼，想要唤醒英国人认识到来自希特勒的威胁，然而响应者寥寥无几。 但在艺术上，那些年却硕果累累：现存的 500 多幅丘吉尔的油画中，约 有一半作于 1930 年至 1939 年之间。
Painting remained a joy to Churchill to the end of his life. "Happy are the painters," he had written in his book Painting as a Pastime, "for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day." And so it was for my father.绘画始终是丘吉尔的一种乐趣，直到他生命的结束。 “画家是幸福 的， ”他在他的《作为一种消遣的绘画》一书中写道， “因为他们不会孤 独。光线与色彩，宁静与希望，将终日伴随着他们。”对我的父亲来说,也是这样。
Text B、Little Sister of the Poor
