Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

  • -- Gustave Flaubert 福楼拜

语言是一只裂开的水壶,我们在上面敲出曲调,让熊跟着跳舞,而我们却时时刻刻想让星星怜悯。

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[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.

如果你仔细想想,语言确实是一项非常了不起的发明。我脑子里有一个非常复杂,混乱,混乱的想法。我坐在这里发出咕哝的声音,希望在你的脑海中构建一个类似的混乱的,混乱的想法,与之类似。

It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them that they are undeniably the work of a single all-knowing master.

可以说,世界上所有的书都是由一个人写的,书中有如此核心的统一性,不可否认,它们都是由一位无所不知的大师所写。

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

我们的所见所闻和其他方面的经历很大程度上和我们一样,因为我们社区的语言习惯倾向于做出某些解释的选择。

There are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

有很多天 当生命停止,停下,坐下 像火车一样在铁轨上等待。

Guys, the most precious gift you can give a girl is the gift of your time and attention.

男孩们,你能给女孩的最珍贵的礼物就是你的时间和注意力。

I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.

在我强烈地从我的工作中找到我的身份的时候,我是对的。