大画家詹姆斯·惠斯勒年轻时曾被西点军校录取。那是19世纪50年代,军校的教授为这个固执的“差等生”伤透了脑筋。有位工程学教授让同学们设计一座桥。惠斯勒的设计图上是绿草如茵的河岸,一座充满浪漫色彩的小石桥,还有两个儿童在桥上垂钓。 Great painter James Whistler was admitted to West Point when he was a young man. It was in the 1850s that military academics had broken their brains for this stubborn “poor student.” A professor of engineering lets students design a bridge. Whistler’s plan is a green grassy bank, a romantic little stone bridge, there are two children fishing on the bridge.