The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

  • -- Manuel Puig 曼努埃尔·普伊格

译者的任务是用自己的语言创造出与原文相同的张力。那是很难的!

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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

语言就像金钱,没有了它,就可能存在特定的相对价值,并被人们所感知,但不能被归结为一个共同的分母。

We've driven teenagers crazy in every language.

我们用各种语言把青少年逼疯了。