A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

  • -- Edward Sapir 爱德华·萨皮尔

标准的国际语言不仅要简单、规范、有逻辑,而且要丰富、有创造性。

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During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.

在战后的这两年半中,我们遇到的最紧迫的问题是:激活公共企业,使它们达到国际市场所需要的水平,我们现在正在使它们为私有化作好准备。

Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.

有时我们必须解释一项国际条约- -也许是一项影响航空公司和对乘客受伤或货物损坏的责任的条约。然后,当然,我们必须参照其他会员国在解决问题方面的先例。

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.

正如目前的例子所表明的那样,表面上符合公认的科学标准的人可以从看似简单而错误的理论中获得荣誉,这可能会产生严重的后果。

I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.

我一直有一个标准,当我在做乡村音乐的时候,我总是告诉人们我永远不会录制一首我不会在我父母面前坐下来唱歌的歌。

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。

A language is a dialect with its own army and navy.

一种语言是一种拥有自己的陆军和海军的方言。