Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

  • -- Ferdinand de Saussure 索绪尔

语言学必须认识到在语言中普遍存在的规律,并以严格理性的方式,将普遍现象与局限于语言某一分支的现象区分开来。

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Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way.

现在,在这些原则基础上发展起来并形成自己的语言就是我们所要处理的,问题是把一件艺术作品从那个媒介带到另一个媒介中去,这个媒介是根据不同的原则形成的,以不同的方式去听和理解。

It's interesting that instead of having to get tighter and more restricted for a collaboration, strangely enough, from the beginning, we've actually been more confident that we could handle this.

有趣的是,从一开始,我们并没有因为合作而变得更加紧密和受限制,奇怪的是,我们实际上对自己能够处理这个问题更有信心。

It takes a lot of energy to work, in general, especially if you're the lead in something.

一般来说,工作需要很多精力,尤其是当你是某件事的领导者时。

I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.

我本来会早点给你回信的,但是你没有寄。

The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.

普遍的共识似乎是我根本不采取行动。