If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

  • -- Joanne Harris 乔安·哈瑞斯

如果你想知道什么对一种文化来说是重要的,那就学习他们的语言。

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I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in ideas, stimulation, entertainment, and mental activity, all helpful to the nurture of an imaginative child who wanted from an early age to be a writer.

我在郊区高学历人群中长大,家里堆满了书。这是一种充满思想、刺激、娱乐和精神活动的文化,所有这些都有助于培养一个从小就想成为作家的充满想象力的孩子。

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

我们不应该诋毁任何其他文化,而应该帮助人们理解自己的文化和主导文化之间的关系。当你理解了另一种文化或语言,并不意味着你必须失去自己的文化。

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

在诗歌语言中,符号本身具有一种独立的价值,这种声音象征成为一种实际的因素,并创造了一种与所指相辅相成的东西。

Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music.

说话就像弹琴;把双手放在琴弦上以停止琴弦的振动,与拨弄琴弦以奏出音乐一样重要。