No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

  • -- Robert Burton 罗伯特·伯顿

没有哪条规则如此普遍,也不允许有例外。

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Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

语言学必须认识到在语言中普遍存在的规律,并以严格理性的方式,将普遍现象与局限于语言某一分支的现象区分开来。

The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them.

在这种情况下,指导我们的规则是简单而明显的:我们邻国的全部证词与任何一个邻国的证词一样,都必须符合同样的条件。

Kindness should become the natural way of life, not the exception.

善良应该成为自然的生活方式,而不是例外。

Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.

大多数作家都喜欢他们的编辑,我也不例外。

As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.

一般来说,写作很不方便。