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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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That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.

这就是支持国家艺术捐赠基金如此重要的原因。它使那些在商业上不可行的投资成为可能。

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I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

我想学其他语言，也许是法语?我叔叔会说德语，所以可能也会说德语吧?中文似乎太难了。

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Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

电视应该是一个国家公园。相反，它变成了一台赚钱机器。现在它是一种商品，就像猪肉肚一样。

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In my opinion the prevailing systems of education are all wrong, from the first stage to the last stage.

在我看来，现行的教育体制从第一阶段到最后阶段都是错误的。

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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。

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Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

系统将变得更加复杂。

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