Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

  • -- Elizabeth Bowen 伊丽莎白·鲍恩

语言上的机械困难是思想上的内在困难的结果。

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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

委员会的性质是有机的而不是机械的:它不是一个结构,而是一个工厂。它生根、成长、开花、枯萎、死亡,播下的种子将由其他委员会轮流开花。

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.

我不想在我和纸之间有任何机械的东西,包括打字机,我甚至不想在我和纸之间有自来水笔。

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

我们的所见所闻和其他方面的经历很大程度上和我们一样,因为我们社区的语言习惯倾向于做出某些解释的选择。

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

我无法解释;但当困难出现时,我并不感到困惑或怀疑。我知道怎么和他们见面。

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

死人的言语,用火弹出来,比活人的言语更甚。

Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.

对于那些接触到现实的人来说,现实是压力的主要原因。