That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

  • -- Charles Dickens 查尔斯·狄更斯

那种半声叹息,再加上两三个轻微的点头,是怜悯在一般社会中的小小变化。

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Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

语言学必须认识到在语言中普遍存在的规律,并以严格理性的方式,将普遍现象与局限于语言某一分支的现象区分开来。

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

一般来说,男人在餐桌上享用一顿美餐时比他妻子讲希腊语时更高兴。