It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

  • -- Lily Tomlin 莉莉·汤姆林

我相信,我们之所以会发展语言,是因为我们内心深处有一种抱怨的需求。

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Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.

语言是有生命的东西。我们能感觉到它的变化。它的一部分会变老:它们会脱落并被遗忘。新碎片发芽,蔓延到叶子,成为大树枝,增殖。

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。