Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.

-- William Safire 威廉·萨菲尔

有时我知道一个词的意思，但我已经厌倦了它，觉得需要一个不熟悉的，特别精确或诗意的词，也许一个细微的差别，以迎合我的读者细腻的敏感性。

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My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, there's a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.

我的剧本是写给那些喜欢放克音乐的黑人的，属于议会放克乐派。当这些人走出宇宙飞船——黑人来自外太空的想法，有一个诗意的真理。我们是如此广大的人民。

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Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.

今天，即使是一场宇宙之火也不能使我们这个时代汹涌澎湃的诗歌创作消失。但这恰恰是生产的问题，也就是说，手工制作的产品必须符合品味和时尚的规律。

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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.

对不熟悉的事物怀有敌意是内心极度不安的表现。

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