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A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.

  • -- Edward Sapir 爱德华·萨皮尔

一种共同的创造需要共同的牺牲，也许支持一种建构的国际语言的最有力的论据是，它对所有民族的传统都是同样陌生的，或者显然是如此。

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I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.

我不懂语法规则……如果你试图说服人们做某事，或者买东西，在我看来，你应该使用他们的语言，他们每天使用的语言，他们思考的语言。我们尽量用方言写作。

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The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.

独立对待一种所有说本国话的人都必须采用的建构语言的态度确实是一个很大的优势，因为它往往使人把自己看作是语言的主人，而不是语言的顺从的仆人。

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The Strait of Hormuz is an international waterway, and it is not helpful for any nation to suggest that it would attempt to restrict traffic through the strait.

霍尔木兹海峡是一条国际航道，任何国家提出试图限制通过霍尔木兹海峡的交通都是无益的。

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But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.

但当它成为一场国际性的喧嚣，职业生涯的成败取决于你是否获得奥斯卡奖时，它就失控了。

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One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

一个人不能居住在一个国家里;一个人居住在一种语言中。那是我们的国家，我们的祖国，而不是别的。

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Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

治疗，与分析相反，是一个神话的整体结构，美丽和创造性。

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