Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

  • -- Robert Benchley 本奇利

我凭借自己对英语的熟练掌握,什么也没说。

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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

语言就像金钱,没有了它,就可能存在特定的相对价值,并被人们所感知,但不能被归结为一个共同的分母。

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

放债的比奴隶主还坏;因为主人只欠你一个人的债,债主却欠你的体面,并且能制伏你。

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

画画就像下棋:你的思维比你最终走的棋快。

Dear is your heart and close your hand, I relinquish all to love's dysmorphic command.

亲爱的是你的心,合上你的手,我把一切交给爱的畸形命令。

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

成功或失败往往是在画板上决定的。

A language is a dialect with its own army and navy.

一种语言是一种拥有自己的陆军和海军的方言。