After all, every use of language without exception has some, if not all, of the characteristic features of lies.

  • -- Harry Frankfurt 法兰克福

毕竟,每一种语言的使用无一例外地都有一些(如果不是全部的话)谎言的特征。

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Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music.

说话就像弹琴;把双手放在琴弦上以停止琴弦的振动,与拨弄琴弦以奏出音乐一样重要。

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

诗性语言对散文语言的影响可以看作是一种决定性的鞭策。