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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Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis.

半个世纪以前,情况完全不同。在经济上,我们实际上是跪着的,在政治上,我们仍然被排除在国际社会之外。今天,在这方面,我们有一个完全不同和稳定得多的基础。

I think we do have to take off the gloves in some areas, but within balance, and at the right time and the right way, and for the right reason and with full understanding of what the consequences of that might be.

我认为我们必须在某些领域脱下手套,但要保持平衡,在正确的时间和正确的方式,在正确的理由下,充分理解这样做的后果。

I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.

我发现北方人是不同的,你不可能让一个北方人与南方人相似。他们是两个不同的世界。

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

科学史学家可能会忍不住惊呼,当范式发生变化时,世界本身也随之发生变化。

Fretting over how life ends, or anything else for that matter, is a complete waste of time.

为生命的终结而烦恼,或者为其他事情而烦恼,完全是在浪费时间。

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

没有什么比思考秩序和有益的安排更令人愉快的了。

I'm giving him a Useful Pot to Keep Things In.

我给了他一个有用的罐子来装东西。