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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I just want to be able to sit on grass as long as I want to, without anybody telling me to leave. Everything is so restricted, here, in that you actually have to stand behind a line, you can't go up the Canyon and enjoy the view.

我只是想坐在草地上,想坐多久就坐多久,没有人叫我离开。在这里,一切都受到了限制,你必须站在队伍后面,你不能爬上峡谷欣赏风景。

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.

如果你写作,你总是试图回答的一个问题是,你从哪里得到你的想法?如果你写作,你就会知道这是一个多么没有意义的问题,而且很难回答。

Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.

我们在这些协议背后的想法是,我们希望通用汽车的所有工作都是好工作。

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

我们可以说,一般说来,人类是善变的、虚伪的、贪婪的。

An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.

上诉是指你要求一个法庭表明你对另一个法庭的蔑视。

I was never restricted. I was never told what to do.

我从不受限制。从来没有人告诉我该做什么。