He wanted the Knights to feel it, not as a painting, but as a living drama going on right in front of them.

他希望骑士团不要把它当作一幅画那样去观看，而是要把它当作一幕活生生发生在眼前的戏剧来欣赏。

We and our leaders are the x and the y of the equation here; all other historic circumstances, be they economical, political, or intellectual, are only the background of occasion on which the living drama works itself out between us.

我们和我们的领导人是这里等式的 x 和 y；所有其他的历史环境，无论是经济的、政治的还是知识的，都只是我们之间上演的活生生的戏剧的背景。