1.我觉得artists carve beautiful things OUT OF soft stones,说明这些艺术家只是把“软石头soft
stones”雕刻成了beautiful things,而这些beautiful things依然是soft stones。2.而statues are carved FROM hard stones. 更侧重指这些“雕像,塑像statues” 外表经过装饰后(如:上了油彩,甚至乎穿上了衣服,等等)就更难看出这些“雕像,塑像statues”还是石头了,你说是吗?...