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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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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.

我父母对动物非常宽容。只要我们赚钱买了它们，建造了它们将要生活的任何结构，我们就可以拥有任何我们想要的宠物。如果我们买得起一头犀牛，他们会让我们养的。

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We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

我们不只是借用词语;有时，英语在小巷里追逐其他语言，把它们打得不省力气，搜刮口袋里的新词汇。

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We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

我们需要创造力，以打破由特定的经验序列所建立的临时结构。

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Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

有时，一个词的成功超出了它的创造者的最疯狂的梦想，就像病毒被送到世界上感染普通的语言。

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