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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In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

在英语方面,我有点受限。我把英语作为第二语言,这是一个小小的限制,我必须努力克服,我必须用它来对我有利。所以,是的,这就是为什么我最终想在拉丁美洲做更多的事情。

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

他从抒情诗过渡到史诗,理性而感性地通过人来讲述世界和世界上的痛苦。诗人变成了一个危险。

People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they're still HIV negative.

人们如此关注即时护理,但与此同时,在青少年时期,当他们仍然是艾滋病毒阴性时,需要投资教育他们。

Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.

诗歌不能治愈癌症,但它可以拯救你的生命,直到你死去。

You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time.

你不必总是把自己看得那么严肃。

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

法语是一种把肮脏变成浪漫的语言。