Picasso's search for monumentality in his own art, whether painting or sculpture, is one of the themes of this book.
本部作品的一个主旨是毕加索不论是在油画或雕塑作品中，他都追求着一种不朽的力量。In the beginning, all you should be trying to do is get a feeling for the main idea. This is called skimming.
你目前不需要担心细节，刚开始的时候，你应该试著抓到主旨在说什么，这就是skimming。They keynote of the code was that the prestige of the white man must be maintained by clean living and honest trading.
这些规范的主旨在于必须维持白人清白地生活与诚实地贸易的声誉。What has not changed is the essence of this publication: predictions, some of which may even turn out to be right.
但是，本网站的主旨不会改变：要知道，我们的某些预测有时会变成现实。He said the goal of the film is the opposite of violence, and the characters are motivated by their desire to end the war.
他说，这部影片的主旨是反对暴力。片中各个人物都期望以自己的行动结束战争。I kind of had forgotten there was a question at the heart of my letter.
我差点忘了，信的主旨包含了一个问题。But the main theme of the speech seemed to be that this bill needed to be passed.
然而演讲的似乎主旨仍围绕着促使该法案获得通过。Each morning, he spent a great deal of time reading these reports and trying to find out what they meant. They had to be studied.
每天早晨他都要花费大量时间来阅读这些报告，并试图领会其主旨，这着实需要一番推敲。But then I spot a sentence that crystallizes for me the point of the passage: "Not a word of unhappiness escaped from his lips. "
可后来，我发现了那个点明文章主旨的句子：“他的唇边并没有溜出一句不悦的话语。”