Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

  • -- Russell Hoban 罗素·霍本

语言是一种考古工具……我们所说的语言是人类努力和历史的全部重写本。

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I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.

我有我的全部生活。有一生的经历,一生的道路,音乐和不同的演奏者。它使我成为一个更富有的人。我有更大的信息源可以挖掘,丰富的生活。

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

这是一群涌动着、沸腾着、喃喃低语着的人,他们只是名义上的人,因为在他们的眼睛和耳朵看来,他们不过是些野蛮的动物,被卑鄙的感情、复仇的欲望和仇恨所驱使。