No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

  • -- Edward Sapir 爱德华·萨皮尔

没有哪两种语言有足够的相似性,可以被认为代表了相同的社会现实。

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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

我不禁担心,人们可能会把每一种新理论都看成是一种危险,把每一项创新都看成是一种辛苦的麻烦,把每一项社会进步都看成是走向革命的第一步,而他们可能会完全拒绝前进。

In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.

在家族企业中,你成长过程中与企业有着密切的联系,不管是什么,啤酒企业无疑是一种非常社会化的企业。

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

我相信现实主义不过是对现实的一种分析。电影剧本有一个综合的结构。

I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.

我一点也不确定我能不能跳入漫画书的现实世界。