French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

  • -- Edward Sapir 爱德华·萨皮尔

法语和德语也同样说明了明显的语法简单性所具有的误导性。

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All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

所有不受感官幻觉影响的观察者,都同意或能够同意感性经验的事实,这是通过理智只是被动的、个人意志和性格无法控制的证据来实现的。

Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.

阻止为联合国提供资金的立法在概念和实践上存在根本性缺陷,使我们倒退,弄巧成拙,而且不起作用。

Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

好人或坏人,英雄或反英雄;对我来说无所谓,我演什么角色,只有角色才有魔力。

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

从长远来看,品格是个人和国家生活中的决定性因素。

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

朴素中有一种庄严,这远远超过了机智的奇异之处。

God always takes the simplest way.

上帝总是用最简单的方法。