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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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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

委员会的性质是有机的而不是机械的:它不是一个结构，而是一个工厂。它生根、成长、开花、枯萎、死亡，播下的种子将由其他委员会轮流开花。

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Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need to say it out loud if you deal with actors you know very well. And I don't think you really need to be explicit.

有时候你的肢体语言足以让一个演员知道你不开心。如果你和你非常熟悉的演员打交道，你真的不需要大声说出来。我不认为你真的需要明确。

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Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

好的艺术理论必须有工作室的味道，尽管它的语言应该不同于画家和雕塑家的家常便饭。

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Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.

一切都是感官的，我从来没有在任何东西里看到过结构。

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