Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!

  • -- Morris West 莫里斯·韦斯特

自希腊人以来,我们就沉醉于语言之中!我们用语言做了一个笼子,把我们的上帝塞了进去!

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The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them -- to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.

学习词汇的最后一个动机应该是给人留下深刻印象。语言是需要后天习得的,因为我们迫切需要它们——去传达,去触及,去表达我们内心的某种东西,去理解他人。

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

好与坏,好与坏,只是简单的帮助或伤害。