It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

  • -- Ferdinand de Saussure 索绪尔

对历史学家和其他人来说,能够看到不同现象的最常见的形式是很有用的,无论是语音的、形态的还是其他的,以及语言如何生存、继续和随着时间的推移而变化。

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The ending is coming. I can feel it. I don’t know if I can take it this time. But then again, I say that every time and yet, every time I take it. And, I come back to her again for more. I will take whatever time I can get with her. I will do that for a lifetime. I will. I know that much about myself.

结局就要来了。我能感觉到。我不知道这次我能不能接受。但话说回来,我每次都这么说。然后,我又回到她身边想要更多。只要能和她在一起,我什么时候都愿意。我会用一生的时间来做这件事。我会的。我很了解自己。

The planets are never the same twice, they're always different, so they could compare the markings I had drawn with their current photographs and they knew that I was drawing what I was really seeing and it wasn't copied from somewhere.

行星从来没有两次是相同的,它们总是不同的,所以他们可以把我画的标记和他们现在的照片进行比较,他们知道我画的是我真正看到的,而不是从哪里复制来的。

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

对我来说,小说是我发现自己脑袋里在想什么的方式。所以当你和我做同样多的其他事情时,这是一件非常有用和关键的事情。

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

离别是家庭生活中最有用的元素之一,正确地对待它是一门艺术,就像其他艺术一样。

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.

如果一个年轻人有任何理想主义,最强烈的时候就是他大学毕业的时候。

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

每个历史学家都有一个非正式的人类学,从未使用过这个词。

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

仔细想想,历史学家的任务就像侦探的任务。

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

恋爱和谈恋爱是两码事。