The torn portion of the canvas had to be gently coaxed back to its flat state, otherwise it would return to the distortion left by the accident.

画布撕裂的部分要小心地恢复到平整的状态，否则它将会恢复到由于事故造成的扭曲的状态。

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That is, the torn portion of the canvas had to be gently coaxed back to its flat state, otherwise it would have a tendency to return to the distortion left by the accident.

那意味着，画布撕裂的部分要小心地恢复到平整的状态，否则它将会慢慢回复到由于事故造成的扭曲的状态。

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Here, interference from the hair has no effect on the skin-tight fit of the mask, which remains as flat as the painter's plane of canvas.

这里，头发并没有扰乱与皮肤紧贴在一起的面具，后者是那么扁平，宛如画布一样。

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And just as Matisse's paeans to the tension between the three-dimensional world and the flat canvas have been dismissed as "decorative" because of their glorious color and patterning, Veronese's lush figure groups have been similarly labeled, for similar reasons.

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Rousey raised both arms in victory while flat on the canvas after the longest fight of the mixed martial artist's ascendant career.

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The structural members of the building, cool and subdued against the warm pinks and dull gold of the walls, form a warped grid that at once suggests space and reasserts the flat expanse of the canvas.

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