History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

  • -- Theodor W. Adorno 狄奥多·阿多诺

历史不仅触及语言,而且发生在语言之中。

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When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

当我们远离全球变暖,京都议定书,当我们不负责任地在向非洲艾滋病迈进的道路上行动迟缓,当我们不推进和实践我们自己的言论和标准时,我们发出了一个可怕的信息,那就是表里不一和伪善。

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

诗歌是一种普遍的语言,它使人的心灵与自然和自身融为一体。一个轻视诗歌的人,不可能对自己或其他任何东西有太多的尊重。

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

也许最明显的意外后果的例子是,每当人类试图改变一个地方的自然生态时,都会发生什么。

Some guys touch the girls they love. Others touch the girls they use. The worst touch girls they hurt.

有些男人触摸他们爱的女孩。其他人则触摸他们使用的女孩。她们伤害过的最糟糕的触摸女孩。

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

正义和真理是如此微妙的点,我们的工具太钝,无法准确地触及它们。

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

表演只不过是一种防止一大群人咳嗽的艺术。

You know that place between sleep and awake. Where you're still dreaming?

你知道那个介于睡眠和清醒之间的地方。你还在做梦吗?

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

丈夫永远不会变好;他们只是变得熟练。