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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The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.

教会早期的做法或多或少是在牧师或牧师的主持下进行礼拜,这是会众的礼物。

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

在戏剧中,真实人物的思维和行为方式,与强加于人的戏剧性之间,常常存在一种张力,甚至是一种矛盾。

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.

当人们发现女性可以在那里更好地发号施令时,把女性高高在上的做法开始消失。

After all, every use of language without exception has some, if not all, of the characteristic features of lies.

毕竟,每一种语言的使用无一例外地都有一些(如果不是全部的话)谎言的特征。

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

在我们所有的大众传播发明中,图片仍然是最普遍理解的语言。

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

这有点像爵士乐。你在预测未来,没人相信你。