The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them -- to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.

  • -- Vanna Bonta 范娜·邦塔

学习词汇的最后一个动机应该是给人留下深刻印象。语言是需要后天习得的,因为我们迫切需要它们——去传达,去触及,去表达我们内心的某种东西,去理解他人。

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It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.

这对我来说真的很难。语言,很抱歉我没有。我想我总是希望你用一个单词来代替一个单词,当我发现语法有多难,学习语法让我很沮丧。

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.

因此,一个人找不到地方走过地球的宽度不是因为地球不平静,而是因为危险的旅行者的每一步通常在于文字。

For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping ideas in mind, and certainly never with a specific agenda.

对我这个作家来说,故事总是比其他任何事情都重要。我从来没有坐下来写东西的时候脑子里想的都是些宽泛的、包罗万象的想法,当然也从来没有一个具体的议程。

I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time.

现在我明白了,写小说是种下在我灵魂中的种子,虽然在很长一段时间内我都不准备种下这颗种子。

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

我正在写。书页开始堆积起来。我越觉得自己像个作家,我的士气就越高涨。

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

忘记单词就像忘记名字一样。一个人的词汇需要不断地充实,否则就会消亡。

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

当心灵说话时,它的语言在任何纬度下都是一样的。

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.

当我写一本书的时候,我把它变成我能写的最好的书。