An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

  • -- Thomas Mann 托马斯·曼

一种以语言为媒介的艺术总是会表现出高度的批判性创造性,因为语言本身就是对生活的一种批判:它通过创造来命名、描述、评判。

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Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.

任何歧视,比如道路上的急转弯,都变得至关重要,因为我们正以惊人的速度进入服务经济的高科技世界。

Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.

球迷们往往会对这两种条纹过于兴奋,我认为媒体也是如此。应该有一个折中的办法。

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

也许黑白是表现风景的最好媒介,我不知道。

I am critical of myself.

我对自己很挑剔。