You're so talented.
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    Jack: Those watercolors are really beautiful.
    Caroline: I'm glad you like them. I painted them last year.
    Jack: You painted them yourself? I can't believe it, they're so good.
    Caroline: They're not that good, but I'm glad you like them.
    Jack: You're so talented, I wish I had your skill.
    Caroline: You should try your hand yourself, I'm sure you could do just as well if not better.
    杰克：那些水彩畫畫得真美。
    凱羅蘭：謝謝你的贊賞。這些都是我去年畫的。
    杰克：你自己畫的？真是難以置信。畫得那么好。
    凱羅蘭：也不是很好，但是謝謝你欣賞。
    杰克：你真有才能，我要是有你的本事就好了。
    凱羅蘭：你不妨也動手試畫，我相信你畫得就算沒有我好，也不會比我差。
    杰克稱贊凱羅蘭有才情：You're so talented。Talent一字，《牛津高階英漢雙解詞典》譯作‘天才’，這和同樣可譯做‘天才’的gift、genius有什么分別？Talent所指的才能，是可以努力培養(yǎng)的，常用來說藝術(shù)上的能力；gift強(qiáng)調(diào)天賦的才能，非憑努力可以得到；genius則是罕有的天才，比talent、gift都高得多，例如：(1) He has a talent for acting（他有演戲的才華）。(2) With no gift for foreign languages, I found it extremely difficult to learn French（我沒有外語的天分，所以學(xué)習(xí)法語非常困難）。(3) The teacher recognized van Gogh's artistic genius（老師發(fā)覺了梵谷的藝術(shù)天份）。Talent、gift的形容詞是talented、gifted。Genius則沒有形容詞。凱羅蘭叫杰克試試學(xué)畫畫：You should try your hand yourself, I'm sure you could do just as well if not better。Try one's hand是‘試做（某事）’，其后常用at帶出試做的‘某事’，例如Why don't you try your hand at fencing?（你為什么不試試擊劍？）最后說說if not的用法。這兩字常用來表達(dá)‘甚至可能比上述事情更進(jìn)一步’的意思，例如：(1) Hundreds, if not thousands, of trees were felled in a few days（幾天之內(nèi)，即使沒有幾千株樹被砍倒，至少也有好幾百株）。(2) He is as rich as, if not richer than, Bill Gates（他即使不比蓋茨富有，也在伯仲之間）。