It has a lot to do with who they thought they were, the paintings they bought, the paintings they commissioned, the way they viewed themselves.

也与他们如何认识自己紧密相连,他们买什么样的画 他们委托画什么样的画,他们对自己的看法

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But it's important for those people to know what their rights are,

关键是要让委托人明白他们的权利是什么，

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These are middle-class people commissioning paintings of themselves.

这些是中产阶级委托画家为自己画的肖像

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Actually, his death came rather suddenly and he was working on a requiem that someone had commissioned from him under rather mysterious circumstances and he began to think of it as his own requiem, and indeed, he didn't actually finish it.

其实,他的死来的比较突然,那时他正在谱写,由一个神秘人物委托的《安魂曲》,而且他开始把它当成了自己的安魂曲,而事实是,他其实并没有完成这部作品

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In the grammatical sense, this word is the means or principal of predication whereby we say one thing is another thing: the mare is the female of the horse, for example.

从语法的角度来看，is这个词是,我们声明一个东西是另一个东西的方式或者？委托：,例如说，母马是马中的雌性。

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