To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

  • -- Charles Baudelaire 查尔斯·波德莱尔

熟练地运用一门语言是一种召唤的魔法。

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You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.

你不能写教科书之外的人物,你也不能使用术语。你必须用一个六岁的孩子能听懂的语言清晰、简单、纯粹地说;然而,语言的含义和暗示,以及它的含意,都能吸引最高的智力。

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

当我阅读伟大的文学作品、伟大的戏剧、演讲或布道时,我觉得人类的心灵除了通过语言来分享情感和思想外,没有取得任何更大的成就。

Well, you have your regular classes, like three hours every other day, three times a week. You get twice a week to have an ice practice. Once a week you have weight lifting. It was great.

嗯,你有你的常规课程,比如每隔一天三个小时,一周三次。你每周有两次机会练习冰上运动。你每周举重一次。这是伟大的。

I used to believe there were people on Mars, and of course now we know there aren't. Mars held particular interest. I was curious what kind of beings they would look like.

我曾经相信火星上有人类,当然现在我们知道没有了。火星引起了特别的兴趣。我很好奇他们会是什么样的人。

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

人们不明白用你想要的方式记录你想要记录的东西需要怎样的斗争。

I practice a lot.

我经常练习。