They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.

  • -- Bernard Pivot 贝尔纳·皮沃

他们非常强调语言的明确性,以表达细微差别和显示细微差别。

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The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!

写作的目的是膨胀薄弱的思想,模糊纯粹的推理,抑制清晰。只要稍加练习,写作就会变成一种令人生畏的迷雾!

Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I'm willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I'm willing to have more boring friends, who are sane.

理智和清晰对我来说更重要,我愿意为此放弃很多闪光的东西。我愿意有更多无聊的朋友,他们都很理智。

When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

当一种语言在当下创造出一个共同体时,它只能通过一个介于现在和过去之间的共同体来实现。

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

这是一个奇怪的语言世界,在薄冰上滑冰会让你陷入困境。