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And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

  • -- George Chapman 乔治·查普曼

让一个学者携带地球上所有的书籍，他将只是一本活字典:仅仅是一个发音清晰的时钟。

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Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

希腊文在很大程度上是一种活的语言，一种仍然没有意识到语法的语言，不像我们的语言那样，由定义主导，并以词典为基础。希腊文在很大程度上是一种活的语言，一种仍然没有意识到语法的语言，不像我们的语言那样，由定义主导，并以词典为基础。

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Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.

那些知道许多世纪以来的共识已经认可了地球仍然静止在天空中央作为其中心的观点的人，我想，如果我做出地球运动的相反断言，他们会认为这是一个疯狂的声明。

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Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

大多数诗人都是精英主义的渣滓，他们更关心用字典来证明自己的技巧，而不是用影响力来传达思想。

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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

平等也许是一种权利，但世界上没有任何力量能把它变成事实。

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