National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

  • -- Edward Sapir 爱德华·萨皮尔

民族语言都是既得利益集团的庞大体系,它们阴沉地抵制批判性的探究。

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We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can't break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country.

我们必须强调我们的保守派资历,并强调我们是自由主义者的天然的、全国性的替代品。显然,北约已经表明,它无法打破西方的框框。该联盟在全国四分之三的地区获得了个位数的支持。

You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.

你会高兴地知道,在奏国歌时,我是顺从地站着的,尽管如果你这样决定,我当然会捍卫你继续坐着的权利。

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

电影是三种通用语言之一,另外两种是数学和音乐。

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

我想学几门外语,因此我不得不出国。

Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

物理学家们分析系统。然而,网络科学家可以创建系统。

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

系统将变得更加复杂。