A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

  • -- Wade Davis 韦德·戴维斯

语言不仅仅是一组词汇或一套语法规则。每一种语言都是心灵的原始森林。

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As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.

由于语言的基本规则必须不断地练习,因此永远不会固定,所以针对不同颜色效果的练习永远不会结束。新的和不同的病例将被发现一次又一次。

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

每个人,任其自行其是,都会对语言中发生的事情形成一种与事实相去甚远的看法。