No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

  • -- Theodore Bikel 西奥多·比凯尔

没有任何一种人类传家宝能像艺术和语言那样捕捉过去。

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I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.

我不懂语法规则……如果你试图说服人们做某事,或者买东西,在我看来,你应该使用他们的语言,他们每天使用的语言,他们思考的语言。我们尽量用方言写作。

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

人类进步了,当它进步的时候,不是因为它清醒、负责和谨慎,而是因为它顽皮、叛逆和不成熟。

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

我们不只是借用词语;有时,英语在小巷里追逐其他语言,把它们打得不省力气,搜刮口袋里的新词汇。

When a story captures me, it comes quickly and easily.

当一个故事抓住我,它来得又快又容易。