The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.

  • -- Roman Jakobson 罗曼·雅各布森

寻找音素的符号价值,如果把每个音素作为一个整体来看待,就有可能产生模棱两可和琐碎的解释,因为音素是复杂的实体,是由不同的独特特征组合而成的。

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In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.

事实上,从那时起,学者们就开始玩一种游戏,把印欧语系的不同语言进行比较,最后他们不禁想知道这些联系到底说明了什么,以及应该如何用具体的术语来解释它们。

If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.

如果男人不尊重自己,他们也不尊重别人。那就是时间和个性。并不是所有的都是这样。但是只要一两个人就能把整个人群搞得一团糟。

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.

每个人都有不同的幽默感。只是风格不同而已。

So I've never in my whole life really been teased about my weight.

所以我这辈子从来没有被人取笑过我的体重。