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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The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain factors which bore within them the seeds of instability.

在第二次世界大战结束时建立的国际秩序肯定会更糟。然而,这一秩序确实含有某些因素,在这些因素中埋下了不稳定的种子。

The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.

当然,所谓建构语言在内涵丰富性上不如民族语言,并不是对建构语言思想的批判。

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

每个人,任其自行其是,都会对语言中发生的事情形成一种与事实相去甚远的看法。

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。

If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.

如果这一切都发生在语言上,我害怕知道其他一切的命运。