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。

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.

语言的音乐对我来说变得极其重要,而且显而易见。在我七岁的时候,我就开始写作了。我是一个诗人。

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.

我希望我能在你孤独的时候或在黑暗中向你展示你自己惊人的光芒。

Imperfection is not our personal problem, it is a natural part of existing,

不完美不是我们个人的问题,它是存在的自然部分,

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

我凭借自己对英语的熟练掌握,什么也没说。

If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control.

如果你必须摆脱蟑螂,使用机械控制。