I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

  • -- Victor Hugo 维克多雨果

我给那本旧词典戴上了一顶弗里吉安式的帽子。

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Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

希腊文在很大程度上是一种活的语言,一种仍然没有意识到语法的语言,不像我们的语言那样,由定义主导,并以词典为基础。希腊文在很大程度上是一种活的语言,一种仍然没有意识到语法的语言,不像我们的语言那样,由定义主导,并以词典为基础。

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

例如,上帝就像一个没有胡须,戴着一顶丝棉帽的人向我祈求;神圣是一种燃烧的、令人生畏的东西,一种与火有关的东西,而一天的形状是一个长方形的盒子。

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

一个人推迟写传记就像你推迟死亡一样。写自传就是把这些话刻在自己的墓碑上。

There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.

有一类时装模特体重不过是一本简编字典。

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

讲故事是将想法带入当今世界最有力的方式。