No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.

  • -- Edward Sapir 爱德华·萨皮尔

至少在西方世界,没有一种重要的民族语言具有完整的语法结构规律性,也没有一种逻辑范畴在语言象征意义上得到充分而一致的处理。

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Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.

语言无法描述随后的情景;喊声、咒骂声、疯狂的手势、奚落声、答话声和小小的斗殴声;因此,我不打算这样做。

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

权力结构所害怕的是,当我们听到真相时,我们会学着去认识它。

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

有时候用另一种语言来表演是很困难的。

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

信仰、文化、结构和指导都是好东西。