No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

  • -- Sam Rayburn 雷伯恩

没有人比沉默寡言的人更能掌握语言。

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We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

我们称失去父亲的人为孤儿;一个失去妻子的鳏夫。但是,这个人知道失去朋友的巨大痛苦,我们用什么名字称呼他呢?在这里,每一种语言都是沉默的,在无能为力中保持着平静。

I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.

我总是说,总有一天晚上,我会发现自己在某个地方的某个田野里,我站在草地上,天在下雨,我和我爱的人在一起,我知道我正处在我梦寐以求的那个时刻。

The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them -- to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.

学习词汇的最后一个动机应该是给人留下深刻印象。语言是需要后天习得的,因为我们迫切需要它们——去传达,去触及,去表达我们内心的某种东西,去理解他人。

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

世俗的面孔从来没有在葬礼上显得那么世俗。它们具有刺耳的不协调的效果,就像一个粗哑的声音打破了夜晚的肃穆寂静。

A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.

一个人如果觉得沉默和孤独无聊,那他自己就是一个无聊的人,没有任何值得考虑的东西。

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

人是一种不单单依靠食物生存的生物,主要依靠口头禅生存。