If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

  • -- Confucius 孔子

名不正,则言不顺。

相关名言

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

我呆呆地坐着,呆呆地望着,呆呆地望着,茫然不知所措,我在学习一门新的语言,或者更确切地说,是一门用不同方言讲的同一种语言。我坐着的那片大树林依然如此,声音可能还没有诞生。

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.

我们往往只看语言,而没有意识到语言有多大的力量。